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Official Website: <a href="http://www.poetrysociety.org/">http://www.poetrysociety.org/</a> Founding Date: 1910<table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/784/000048640/">John Ashbery</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jul-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/104/000084849/">Gwendolyn Brooks</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jun-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Dec-2000</tt></td> <td>Annie Allen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/536/000031443/">Rita Dove</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Aug-1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>7th US Poet Laureate, 1993-95</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/888/000031795/">Robert Frost</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Mar-1874</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jan-1963</tt></td> <td>Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/036/000068829/">Louise Glück</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Apr-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Wild Iris</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/111/000032015/">Langston Hughes</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Feb-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1967</tt></td> <td>The Negro Speaks of Rivers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/227/000048083/">Stanley Kunitz</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jul-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-May-2006</tt></td> <td>US Poet Laureate, 2000</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/059/000170546/">William Louis-Dreyfus</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Billionaire</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/016/000084761/">Edna St. Vincent Millay</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Feb-1892</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Oct-1950</tt></td> <td>Renascence</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/580/000099283/">Marianne Moore</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Nov-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Feb-1972</tt></td> <td>Collected Poems</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/335/000048191/">Robert Pinsky</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Oct-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Poet Laureate, 1997-2000</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/375/000099078/">Wallace Stevens</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Oct-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Aug-1955</tt></td> <td>Harmonium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/688/000099391/">James Tate</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Dec-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jul-2015</tt></td> <td>The Lost Pilot</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=116882" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2016 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/310/000003301/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/310/3301/s3301.jpg" width=128> Campaigns & economic failures</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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