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Robert Frost(191 poem) March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963

Maya Angelou(52 poem) 4 April 1928 - 28 May 2014

William Shakespeare(403 poem) 26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616

Shel Silverstein(223 poem) September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999

Langston Hughes(100 poem) 1 February 1902 – 22 May 1967

Emily Dickinson(1232 poem) 10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886

Pablo Neruda(143 poem) 12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973

Edgar Allan Poe(69 poem) 19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849

William Wordsworth(386 poem) 1770-1850

Rabindranath Tagore(215 poem) 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941

William Blake(139 poem) 28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827

Derek Walcott(28 poem) 23 January 1930

Benjamin Zephaniah(20 poem) 15 April 1958

Roger McGough(17 poem) November 9 - 1937

Roald Dahl(27 poem) 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990

Michael Rosen(3 poem) 7 May 1946

Walt Whitman(392 poem) 31 May 1819 - 26 March 1892

Spike Milligan(51 poem) 16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002

John Keats(218 poem) 31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821

Sarojini Naidu(51 poem) 13 February 1879 - 2 March 1949

Edgar Albert Guest(974 poem) 20 August 1881 - 5 August 1959

Sylvia Plath(250 poem) October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963

Robert Louis Stevenson(239 poem) 1850-1894

Wilfred Owen(82 poem) 1893-1918

Rudyard Kipling(546 poem) 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936

Phillis Wheatley(41 poem) 1753 – 5 December 1784

Billy Collins(52 poem) 22 March 1941 -

Kahlil Gibran(81 poem) January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931

Nikki Giovanni(43 poem) June 7, 1943

Charles Bukowski(151 poem) 16 August 1920 – 9 March 1994

Dylan Thomas(100 poem) 27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953

Robert Burns(512 poem) 1759-1796

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(529 poem) 27 February 1807 – 24 March 1882

Lewis Carroll(80 poem) 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898

Jessie Pope(56 poem) 18 March 1868 - 14 December 1941

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi(149 poem) 1207 - 1273

Mary Elizabeth Frye(1 poem) 13 November, 1905 - 15 September 2004

Gwendolyn Brooks(39 poem) 7 June 1917 – 3 December 2000

Henry Lawson(501 poem) 17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922

Christina Georgina Rossetti(320 poem) 5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894

Alice Walker(27 poem) 9 February 1944 -

Ogden Nash(126 poem) August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971

Matsuo Basho(114 poem) 1644 - 1694

Anonymous(135 poem)

Margaret Atwood(30 poem) 18 November 1939

Percy Bysshe Shelley(324 poem) 1792-1822

Robert Browning(147 poem) 1812-1889

Jack Kerouac(27 poem) 12 March 1922 - 21 October 1969

Kabir(75 poem) 1440 - 1518

William Butler Yeats(399 poem) 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939

Robert William Service(836 poem) 16 January 1874 - 11 September 1958

Jack Prelutsky(16 poem) 8 September 1940

Judith Wright(32 poem) 1915 - 2000

Sara Teasdale(316 poem) August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933

Carl Sandburg(457 poem) 6 January 1878 – 22 July 1967

Kalidasa(21 poem) 4th Century - 5th Century

James Weldon Johnson(63 poem) 1871-1938

Thomas Hardy(326 poem) 2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928

Edna St. Vincent Millay(169 poem) 22 February 1892 – 19 October 1950

Rainer Maria Rilke(127 poem) 4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926

Paul Laurence Dunbar(424 poem) 1872-1906

Anne Sexton(187 poem) 9 November 1928 – 4 October 1974

Alfred Lord Tennyson(193 poem) 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892

A B Banjo Paterson(284 poem) 17 February 1864 – 5 February 1941

Countee Cullen(28 poem) 30 May 1903 – 9 January 1946

John Clare(175 poem) 13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864

Elizabeth Bishop(72 poem) 8 February 1911 – 6 October 1979

Claude McKay(80 poem) 15 September 1889 – 22 May 1948

John Milton(115 poem) 9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674

Sayeed Abubakar(297 poem) 21 September 1972

Gwen Harwood(12 poem) 8 June 1920 – 4 December 1995

Oscar Wilde(110 poem) 1854-1900

Ezra Pound(250 poem) 30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972

Wislawa Szymborska(46 poem) 2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012

Nazim Hikmet(38 poem) 1902-1963

Louise Gluck(75 poem) 22 April 1943

Simon Armitage(11 poem) 26 May 1963

Rupert Brooke(118 poem) 1887-1915

Lawrence Ferlinghetti(33 poem)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning(236 poem) 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861

Anne Bradstreet(62 poem) 1612 – 16 September 1672

Robert Graves(141 poem) 1895 - 1985

Du Fu(54 poem) 712 - 770

John Donne(190 poem) 24 January 1572 - 31 March 1631

Ted Kooser(11 poem)

Les Murray(59 poem) 17 October 1938

Siegfried Sassoon(166 poem) 1886 - 1967

Sappho(90 poem) c. 600 BCE

Allen Ginsberg(48 poem) 3 June 1926 – 5 April 1997

James Whitcomb Riley(449 poem) 7 October 1849 - 22 July 1916

William Stafford(39 poem) January 17, 1914 – August 28, 1993

Naomi Shihab Nye(46 poem) 12 March 1952

Dorothea Mackellar(12 poem) 1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968

Jacques Prevert(29 poem) 4 February 1900 – 11 April 1977

Kamala Das(22 poem) 31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009

Ted Hughes(29 poem) 1930 - 1998

Mary Oliver(92 poem)

Charles Dickens(10 poem) 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870

Robert Gray(16 poem) 23 February 1945 -

Philip Larkin(94 poem) 9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985

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Ekaterina Yossifova

Ekaterina Yossifova was born in Kjustendil, Bulgaria, and studied Russian Philology at Sofia University. She has worked as a teacher, journalist and literary editor. She has published twelve collections of poetry.

Ekaterina Yossifova has also written books for children. In 2004 she was awarded the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture's Book of the Year Award for Upside Down. She has also received the Ivan Nikolov Award for her life's work.

Up Above, The Wind

fills the ears with windborne deafness dries up the eyes, pulls at the clothes the hair flaps I have no other flag.

Childhood: Memories

A memory of passenger trains A long journey She is only five, six, seven years old

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