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1938:Ogden Nash’s ‘‘The Hippopotamus’’ is

published.

1939:Edward Taylor’s ‘‘Huswifery’’ is published.

1940:Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘‘The Fish’’ is published.

1942:Margaret Walker’s ‘‘Lineage’’ is published.

1944:Eavan Boland is born on September 24, in

Dublin, Ireland.

1945:Randall Jarrell’s ‘‘Losses’’ is published.

1950:Edna St. Vincent Millay dies of heart fail-

ure after a fall on October 19, at her home,

Steepletop, in Austerlitz, New York.

1954:Edna St. Vincent Millay’s ‘‘An Ancient

Gesture’’ is published.

1956:Elizabeth Bishop is awarded a Pulitzer Prize

for Poetry forPoems:North&South—A

Cold Spring.

1965:Randall Jarrell dies on October 14, in

Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

1966:Robert Hayden’s ‘‘Runagate Runagate’’ is

published.

1967:Jean Toomer dies on March 30, in a nur-

sing home in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

1970: Denise Levertov’s ‘‘A Tree Telling of

Orpheus’’ is published.

1971:Ogden Nash dies of heart failure on May

19, in Baltimore, Maryland.

1979:Elizabeth Bishop dies on October 6, in

Boston, Massachusetts.

1979:Mary Oliver’s ‘‘The Black Snake’’ is

published.

1980:Robert Hayden dies on February 25, in

Ann Arbor, Michigan.

1984:Mary Oliver is awarded the Pulitzer Prize

for Poetry forAmerican Primitive.

1990: Eavan Boland’s ‘‘Outside History’’ is

published.

1993: Wisl⁄awa Szymborska’s ‘‘Some People

Like Poetry’’ is first published in Polish

and will be published in English in 1996.

1997:Denise Levertov dies on December 20, at

her home in Seattle, Washington.

1998: Margaret Walker dies of cancer on

November 30, in Chicago, Illinois.

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