Todays-Woman - Article Topic - Famous Poets http://www.todays-woman.net Ms. Rose DesRochers - webmistress@todays-woman.net webmistress@todays-woman.net Today's Woman Writing Community Inc. en-us Biography of Ogden Nash http://www.todays-woman.net/article1667.html Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet best known for writing pithy and funny light verse. Biography of Langston Hughes http://www.todays-woman.net/article1666.html Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and newspaper columnist. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. Biography of Laura Riding Jackson http://www.todays-woman.net/article1665.html Laura Riding Jackson (January 16, 1901 - September 2, 1991) was a United States poet, novelist, essayist and short story writer. Robert Francis (poet) http://www.todays-woman.net/article1664.html Robert Francis (1901-1987) was an American poet who lived much of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Hayden Carruth http://www.todays-woman.net/article1663.html Hayden Carruth (born August 3, 1921 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is an American poet and literary critic. Famous Poet: Li Bai http://www.todays-woman.net/article1651.html Li Bai or Li Po (李白) (701-762) was a Chinese poet who lived during the Tang Dynasty. Famous Poet: Wystan Hugh Auden http://www.todays-woman.net/article1649.html Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973), who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, regarded by many as one of the great writers of the 20th century. Famous Poet: John Ashbery http://www.todays-woman.net/article1647.html John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet who has won nearly every major American award for poetry and is recognized as one of America s most important, though still controversial, poets. Famous Poet: Jean Arp http://www.todays-woman.net/article1646.html (Hans) Jean Arp (September 16, 1896 – June 7, 1966) was a German-French sculptor, painter, and poet. Famous Poet: Archie Randolph Ammons http://www.todays-woman.net/article1645.html A. R. Ammons, or Archie Randolph Ammons, (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an American author and poet. Famous Poet: Kingsley Amis http://www.todays-woman.net/article1644.html Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. Famous Poet: Yehuda Amichai http://www.todays-woman.net/article1643.html Yehuda Amichai (1924 - 2000) was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many to be the greatest modern Israeli poet, and was one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew. Famous Poet William Allingham http://www.todays-woman.net/article1642.html William Allingham (March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889) was an Irish man of letters and poet. Famous Poet Guillaume Apollinaire http://www.todays-woman.net/article1641.html Guillaume Apollinaire (August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918) was a poet, writer, and art critic born in Italy. Biography of Famous Poet: Ingeborg Bachmann http://www.todays-woman.net/article1640.html Ingeborg Bachmann (June 25, 1926 Klagenfurt, Austria - October 17, 1973 Rome, Italy) was an Austrian poet and author. John McCrae - Canadian Author of In Flanders Fields - Biography http://www.todays-woman.net/article1572.html Lt. Col. John McCrae, MD (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, doctor, author and artist and soldier during World War I, who wrote the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". Famous poet: Richard Aldington http://www.todays-woman.net/article1527.html Richard Aldington (July 8, 1892 – July 27, 1962), name at birth Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet. He was best known for his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel Death of a Hero, and the controversy arising from his 1955 Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry. Biography of Famous Poet: Anna Akhmatova http://www.todays-woman.net/article1526.html Anna Akhmatova (Russian: А́нна Ахма́това, real name А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко) (June 23 [O.S. June 11] 1889 — March 5, 1966) was the pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, the leader and the heart and soul of St Petersburg tradition of Russian poetry in the course of half a century. Famous Poet: Conrad Potter Aiken http://www.todays-woman.net/article1525.html Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, born in Savannah, Georgia, whose work includes poetry, short stories and novels. Biography of Delmira Agustini http://www.todays-woman.net/article1524.html Delmira Agustini (October 24, 1886 – July 6, 1914), an Uruguayan poet, is considered one of the greatest female Latin American poets of the early 20th century.