1

Maya Angelou (1928-2014)

2

ClickForTaz, 27

3

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

4

Amanda Gorman, 23

5

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

6

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

7

Rupi Kaur, 28

8

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

9

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

10

Robert Francis (1901-1987)

11

Ashley Dun, 30

12

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

13

Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)

14

Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889)

15

Nostradamus (1503-1566)

16

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

17

May Swenson (1913-1989)

18

Rumi (1207-1273)

19

Uuno Kailas (1901-1933)

20

Alfa, 54

21

Alice Walker, 77

22

David Jones (1895-1974)

23

Karen Swenson, 84

24

Gary Soto, 69

25

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

26

Benjamin Zephaniah, 63

27

Jane Wilde (1821-1896)

28

GS Fraser (1915-1980)

29

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

30

Tomas Rivera (1935-1984)

31

Mattie Stepanek (1990-2004)

32

Sarah Kay, 32

33

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

34

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

35

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

36

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

37

Nikki Giovanni, 77

38

Margaret Atwood, 81

39

Carol Ann Duffy, 65

40

Lord Byron (1788-1824)

41

John Agard, 71

42

FT Prince (1912-2003)

43

Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

44

Banjo Paterson (1864-1941)

45

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)

46

Oscar Williams (1900-1964)

47

EE Cummings (1894-1962)

48

Billy Collins, 80