National Poetry Month

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By Akindman

Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now held every April, when publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools and poets around the country band together to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture. Thousands of businesses and non-profit organizations participate through readings, festivals, book displays, workshops, and other events.

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Greatest Poets of All Time (http://shareranks.com/1328,Greatest-Poets-of-All-Time):

1. Goethe -
2. King David
3. King Solomon
4. Friedrich Schiller
5. Friedrich Holderlin
6. Heinrich Heine
7. Shakespeare
8. Firdawsi
9. Rainer Maria Rilke
10. Molavi(Rumi)
11. Omar Khyyam
12. Hafiz
13. Heinrich von Kleist
14. Eduard Moricke
15. Theodor Fontane
16. Johann Gottfried Herder
17. Dante
18. Theodor Storm
19. Alexander Pushkin
20. E.T.A. Hoffman
21. Franz Kafka
22. Hermann Hesse
23. Christian Hebbel
24. Friedrich Klopstock
25. Kurt Tucholsky
26. Homer
27. Achim von Arnim
28. Gottfried Benn
29. Friedrich Brecht
30. Hugo von Hoffmansthal
31. Lord Byron
32. Edgar Allan Poe
33. Alan Demeule
34. Gertrude Stein –
35. Friedrich Durrematt
36. Robert Frost
37. James Douglas Morrison (Jim Morrison)
38. Keats
39. Anna Akhmatova
40. Vladimir Mayakovsky
41. Emily Dickinson
42. T.S. Eliot
43. William Blake
44. Sappho
45. John Donne
46. Pindar
47. Walt Whitman
48. Alfred Tennyson
49. Alexander Blok
50. Oscar Wilde
51. Pablo Neruda
52. W.B. Yeats
53. William Wordsworth
54. John Milton
55. Langston Hughes
56. Ezra Pound
57. Bob Dylan
58. William Blake
59. Chaucer
60. Alexander Pope
61. Fernando Pessoa
62. Arthur Rimbaud
63. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
64. Rudyard Kipling
65. Sergei Yesenin
66. Emily Dickerson
67. Daniil Kharms
68. Sylvia Plath
69. Christina Rossetti
70. Charles Bukowski
71. Hart Crane
72. Mihai Eminescu
73. Dylan Thomas
74. Edmund Spenser
75. Tupac Shakur
76. Czeslaw Milosz
77. Wole Soyinka
78. Wallace Stevens
79. Federico Garcia Lorca
80. Percy Bysshe Shelley
81. Allen Ginsberg
82. Swinburne
83. Robert Browning
84. Mikhail Lermontov
85. Andrew Marvell
86. John Lennon
87. Phillip Larkin
88. Evan Boland
89. Boris Pasternak
90. William Carlos Williams
91. Christopher Marlowe
92. Ivan Bunin
93. Rudyard Kipling
94. Joseph Brodsky
95. Dorothy Parker
96. Sylvia Plath
97. Hesiod
98. Fyodor Tyutchev
99. Marina Tsvetaeva
100. A.A. Milne
101. Ezra Pound
102. Robert Burns
103. Thomas Trnstomar
104. Salvatore Quasimodo
105. Dimitris Layacos
106. Les Murray
107. Wilfred Owen and Crew
108. Odgen Nash
109. Charlotte Mew
110. Dorothy Parker
111. Patrick Kavanagh
112. Nazim Hikmet Ran
113. Ana Blandiana
114. Kazi Nazrul Islam
115. Theodore Roethke
116. Mirza Ghalib
117. Frank O’Hare
118. Robert W. Service
119. Maia Angelo
120. A.E. Cioran
121. Allama Muhammad Iqbal
122. Jack Prelutsky
123. Vicente Pio Marcelino
124. Nina Cassian
125. Ileana Malanciouiu
126. Marin Sorescu
127. Brian John Evans
128. Derek Mahon
129. Mosabine Alharassees
130. Radek Ozog 

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Who are your favorite Poets?

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