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1961:Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s ‘‘Babii Yar’’ is

published.

1966:Natasha Trethewey is born in Gulf Port,

Mississippi.

1968:Kathleen Fraser’s ‘‘Poem in Which My

Legs Are Accepted’’ is published.

1973:Adrienne Rich’s ‘‘Diving into the Wreck’’

is published.

1974:Czeslaw Milosz’s ‘‘From the Rising of the

Sun’’ is published.

1976:Muriel Rukeyser’s ‘‘St. Roach’’ is published.

1980:Muriel Rukeyser dies in New York City on

February 12 after a series of strokes.

1980:Lucille Clifton’s ‘‘homage to my hips’’ is

published.

1980:Czeslaw Milosz is awarded the Nobel Prize

for Literature.

1985: Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s ‘‘Pantoun for

Chinese Women’’ is published.

1989:Richard Wilbur is awarded the Pulitzer

Prize in Poetry for New and Collected

Poems.

1997:Allen Ginsberg dies on April 5 from a

heart attack brought on by complications

of liver cancer, in New York City.

2002:Saadi Youssef’s ‘‘America, America’’ is

published.

2004:Czeslaw Milosz dies of undisclosed causes

on August 14 in Krakow, Poland.

2006:Natasha Trethewey’s ‘‘Native Guard’’ is

published.

2007:Natasha Trethewey wins the Pulitzer Prize

for Poetry forNative Guard.

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