Summer Poets

  1. Song of Solomon (900 BC)
  2. Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
  3. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
  4. John Donne (1572-1630)
  5. William Blake (1757-1827)
  6. George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
  7. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
  8. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
  9. Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933)
  10. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
  11. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
  12. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
  13. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
  14. Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
  15. Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
  16. Lucille Clifton (1936-2010)
  17. Michael Ondaatje (1943 - )
  18. Gary Soto (1952 - )
  19. Brendan Constantine (1967 - )
  20. Shaindel Beers (1974 - )
  21. Christopher Arigo (?)
  22. Charles Jensen (?)
  23. Derrick Brown (?)

    Note: This is a continuing list. I am always open to suggestions for poets to add!