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2000 Death - Peter Levi, poet, writer, professor of poetry, University of Oxford, Catholic, spent time in the priesthood, dies

1985 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery and Fred Chapell

1983 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht

1981 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to May Swenson and Howard Nemerov

1979 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin

1975 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere)

1974 Death - Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82

1971 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur

1969 Event - Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman and Karl Shapiro

1967 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren

1965 Birthday - John Leonard, born in Australia, poet, editor of poetry journal, 'Overland', 'Unlove', 'Braided Lands', 'Jesus in Kashmir'

1965 Event - Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory

1962 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock

1961 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters

1960 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz

1959 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke

1958 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings

1957 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate

1956 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken

1955 Event - D Shostakovich' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad

1954 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden

1954 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan and Leonie Adams

1953 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish

1952 Birthday - Rita Dove, born in Akron, Ohio, author, poet, won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress 1993

1952 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore

1951 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom

1950 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens

1950 Event - Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry

1950 Event - Dylan Thomas arrives in New York City for his 1st U.S. poetry reading tour

1949 Event - 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound

1939 Birthday - Seamus Heaney, born in Ireland, poet, writer, poetry professor at the University of Oxford, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, wrote play The Cure at Troy, Seeing Things, The Spirit Level, Beowulf: A New Translation

1938 Birthday - Johnny Tillotson, born in Jacksonville, Florida, singer, Gidget, Poetry in Motion

1933 Death - Henry Van Dyke, clergyman, educator, author, wrote poetry, hymns, essays, co-wrote first Presbyterian printed liturgy, 'The Common Book of Worship of 1906', served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg, dies

1933 Birthday - Edward Lucie-Smith, poetry critic

1931 Birthday - Peter Levi, born in Ruislip, England, poet, writer, professor of poetry, University of Oxford, Catholic, spent time in the priesthood

1929 Death - Arno Holz, poet, dramatist, freelance writer, wrote book of poetry 'Phantaesus', dies at 66

1920 Birthday - Harri Webb, Swansea, Wales, journalist, nationalist, poet, volunteered for the Royal Navy, published The Green Desert, a collection of poetry in 1969, Poems and Points in 1983

1912 Death - Georg Heym, poet, writer, wrote, 'Der ewige Tag', poetry considered early Expressionist style, dies at 24 from falling through the ice, trying to save a friend

1900 Birthday - Karin Boye, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, born Karin Maria Boye, poet, novelist, co-founder of poetry magazine Spektrum, introduced T.S. Eliot to Swedish readers, best-known novel 'Kallocain'

1892 Birthday - Victor E van Vriesland, Dutch poet and critic, Mirror of Dutch Poetry

1887 Birthday - Georg Heym, born in Hirschberg, Germany, poet, writer, wrote, 'Der ewige Tag', poetry considered early Expressionist style

1886 Death - Leopold Zunz, German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91

1876 Birthday - Hans Bethge, born in Dessau, Germany, writer, short stories, essays, plays, poetry on love, nature, works include, 'Agyptische Reise' 'Egyptian Journey'

1863 Birthday - Arno Holz, born in Germany, poet, dramatist, freelance writer, wrote book of poetry 'Phantaesus'

1860 Birthday - Harriet Monroe, Chicago, poet/editor of Poetry magazine, You and I

1852 Birthday - Henry Van Dyke, clergyman, educator, author, wrote poetry, hymns, essays, co-wrote first Presbyterian printed liturgy, 'The Common Book of Worship of 1906', served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg

1794 Birthday - Leopold Zunz, German scientist, Synagogical Poetry

1760 Event - Juptier Hammon, New York slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught"

1744 Death - Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry), dies at 28

1715 Birthday - Immanuel J Pyra, German poet, Temple of Real Poetry

1711 Birthday - Jupiter Hammon, 1st American black to publish poetry, Complete Works

1598 Birthday - Georg Stiernhielm, "father of Swedish poetry", Hercules

1597 Birthday - Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry"

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