Brooks, Gwendolyn (June 7)
The first African American to win a Pulitzer for poetry
Famous Gemini Poets
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Ginsberg, Allen (June 3)
The Beat-era poet who wrote Howl -
Giovanni, Nikki (June 7)
The poet who wrote "Ego-Tripping" -
Howe, Julia Ward (May 27)
The abolitionist who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic -
Lorca, Federico Garcia (June 5)
Spanish dramatist/poet who wrote Poet in New York -
Pope, Alexander (May 21)
Author of 1733's Essay on Man -
Pushkin, Alexander (June 6)
The author of the verse novel 'Eugene Onegin' -
Roethke, Theodore (May 25)
The Michigan poet who wrote "Elegy for Jane" -
Sayers, Dorothy (June 13)
The creator of Lord Peter Wimsey -
Whitman, Walt (May 31)
The poet who wrote Leaves of Grass -
Yeats, William Butler (June 13)
Irish poet and playwright