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Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy was born March 31, 1936 in Detroit into a family that had been, like many others, affec..
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist..
Jack Prelutsky
Jack Prelutsky (born September 8, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet. He attended New Y..
Ruth Padel
Ruth Padel is a British poet, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has won the UK Nation..
Matthew Prior
Matthew Prior, poet and diplomat, was born near Wimborne Minster, Dorset. His family moved to London..
Don Paterson
Poet, writer and musician Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He won an Eric Gregory..
Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt (born 1949) is an American feminist writer. She is best-known for her column "Subject..
Katherine Philips
Katherine Fowler was born on New Year’s day, 1631 in London, England. Her father, John Fowler, was a..
Boris Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960), born in Moscow, was the son of talented artists: his father..
Linda Pastan
Linda Pastan, poet laureate of Maryland from 1991 to 1995, has published 10 volumes of poetry. Her m..
Li Po
Li Po was born in what is now Sichuan Province. At 19 he left home and lived with a Taoist hermit. A..
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz was born in Mexico City in 1914 to a family of Spanish and native Mexican descent. He wa..
Sylvia Plath
Born to middle class parents in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath published her first poem..
Diane di Prima
Diane di Prima was born August 6, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, a second generation American of Italia..
Anna Piutti
Born and raised in Vicenza, Italy, I am currently a student of Foreign Languages and Literature at t..
Harold Pinter
Playwright Harold Pinter was born in Hackney, London, on 10 October 1930. He was educated at Hackney..
P. K. Page
P. K. Page (Mrs. W.A. Irwin) was born in England and brought up on the Canadian prairies. She was ou..
Grace Paley
Grace Paley was born Grace Goodside in the Bronx, New York, in 1922. Her parents, Russian-Jewish imm..
Vasko Popa
Vasko Popa born June 29, 1922, Grebenac, Serbia, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes [later Yugos..
Alexander Pushkin
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin was born in Moscow on May 26, 1799 (Old Style). In 1811 he was selected..
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