21st Century Famous Poets

Abani, Chris - December 27, 1966 – Present
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Agarwal, Kedarnath - 1911 – 2000
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Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Riaz - 1941 – 2001
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Akhmadulina, Bella - 1937 – 2010
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Ali, Muhammad - January 17, 1942 – Present
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Amichai, Yehuda - 1924 – 2000
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Ammons, A R - February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001
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Amor, Pita - May 30, 1918 – May 8, 2000
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Anderson, Catherine - 1954 - Present
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Angelou, Maya - April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014
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Aquilina, Pawlu - 1929 – 2009
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Ashbery, John - July 28, 1927 – Present
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Atwood, Margaret - November 18, 1939 – Present
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Avison, Margaret - 1918 – 2007
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Aygi, Gennady - 1934 – 2006
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Ayres, Pam - March 14, 1947 – Present
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Azmi, Kaifi - January 14, 1919 – May 10, 2002
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Baraka, Imamu Amiri - October 7, 1934 – Present
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Berman, David - January 4, 1967 – Present
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Berry, Wendell - August 5, 1934 – Present
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Bevington, Helen - 1906 – 2001
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Bhaskaran, P. - April 21, 1924 – February 25, 2007
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Birsa, Nevin - 1947 – 2003
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Boland, Eavan - September 1944 – Present
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Bosselaar, Laure-Anne - 1943 – Present
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Bowers, Edgar - March 2, 1924 – February 4, 2000
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Boyd, Alex - 1969 – Present
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Bradley, George - 1953 – present
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Brewer, Ken - 1941 – 2006
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Brooks, Gwendolyn - June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000
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Brown, Fleda - 1944 – Present
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Burnshaw, Stanley - 1906 – 2005
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Carroll, Jim - August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009
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Carruth, Hayden - 1921 – 2008
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Causley, Charles - August 24, 1917 – November 4, 2003
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Cavalieri, Grace - Present
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Cesariny, Mário - 1923 – 2006
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Charles, Craig - July 11, 1964 – Present
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Chatterton, Thomas - 20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770
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Chaturvedi, Shail - 1936 – 2007
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Chávez, Susana - 1974 – 2011
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Chopin, Henri - 1922 – 2008avant – garde poet and musician
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Cisneros, Sandra - December 20, 1954 – Present
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Clifton, Lucille - June 27, 1936 – Present
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Cohen, Leonard - September 21, 1934 – Present
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Collins, Billy - March 22, 1941 – Present
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Corso, Gregory - March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001
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Creeley, Robert - May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005
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Curnow, Allen - 1911 – 2001
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Cutler, Ivor - January 15, 1923 – March 3, 2006
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Daniels, David - 1933 – 2008
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Darwish, Mahmoud - 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008
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Davison, Peter - 1928 – 2004
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Dent, Tory - 1958 – 2005
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Dillard, Annie - April 30, 1945 – Present
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Dimitrova, Blaga - 1922 – 2003
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Donaghy, Michael - May 24, 1954 – September 16, 2004
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Dove, Rita - August 28, 1952 – Present
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Duffy, Carol Ann - December 23, 1955 – Present
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Dugan, Alan - February 12, 1923 – September 3, 2003
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Dunn, Stephen - June 24, 1939 – Present
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Eady, Cornelius - January 7, 1954 – Present
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Eberhart, Richard - 1904 – 2005
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Emanuel, James A - 1921 to present
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Esteban, Claude - 1935 – 2006
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Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - March 24, 1919 – Present
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Fisher, Antwone - August 3, 1959 – Present
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Fletcher, John Gould - January 3, 1886 – May 20, 1950
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Fotev, Hristo - 1934 – 2002
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Frame, Janet - 1924 – 2004
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Frumkin, Gene - 1928 – 2007
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Frye, Mary Elizabeth - November 13, 1905 - September 15, 2004
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Gascoyne, David - 1916 – 2001
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Giovanni, Nikki - June 7, 1943 – Present
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Goedicke, Patricia - June 21, 1931—July 14, 2006
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Gregory, Rg - 1928 - present
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Griffiths, Bill - 1948 – 2007
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Guest, Edgar Albert - August 20, 1881 – August 5, 1959
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Guillen, Rafael - April 27, 1933 – May 4, 2023
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Gupt, Jagdish - 1924 – 2001
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Haines, John - 1924 – 2011
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Hall, Donald - September 20, 1928 – Present
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Hamilton Finlay, Ian - 1925 – 2006
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Heath-Stubbs, John - 1918 – 2006
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Hébert, Anne - 1916 – 2000
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Hegley, John - October 1, 1953 – Present
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Henri, Adrian - 1932 – 2000
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Hesketh, Phoebe - 1909 – 2005
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Hewett, Dorothy - 1923 – 2002
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Jac, FP - 1955 – 2008
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Jafri, Ali Sardar - November 29, 1913 – August 1, 2000
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Jeffers, Robinson - January 10, 1887 – January 20, 1962
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Jordan, June - 1936 – 2002
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Joshi, Prasoon - September 16, 1971 – Present
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Jwalamukhi, - 1938 – 2008
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Kavanaugh, James - September 17, 1928 - December 29, 2009
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Kay, Jackie - November 9, 1961 – Present
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Kinnell, Galway - February 1, 1927 – Present
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Kivikk'aho, Eila - 1921 – 2004
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Kunitz, Stanley - July 29, 1905 – May 14, 2006
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