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Born	c.694 • Kūfah • Iraq
Died	c.772 • Kūfah • Iraq

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Abū Tammām

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Helen Archibald Clarke

American writer and editor

Charlotte Endymion Porter

American editor

Paula Gunn Allen

American author and scholar

Mahmoud Darwish

Palestinian poet

Harriet Monroe

American poet

Albert Wendt

Samoan writer

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

Russian author

Fujiwara Sadaie

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Peretz Markish

Russian writer

James Weldon Johnson

American writer

Louis Zukofsky

American poet

Sara Teasdale

American poet

Hugh MacDiarmid

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Robert Pinsky

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Sterling Brown

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