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1940:Joseph Brodsky is born on May 24 in

Leningrad, Russia.

1942:Wallace Steven’s poem ‘‘Of Modern Poetry’’

is published.

1942:Pat Mora is born on January 19 in El Paso,

Texas.

1943:Robert Frost is awarded the Pulitzer Prize

for Poetry forA Witness Tree.

1943:Nikki Giovanni is born on June 7 in

Knoxville, Tennessee.

1944:Susan Mitchell is born in New York,

New York.

1955:Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘‘I’m Nobody!

Who Are You?’’ is published.

1955:Wallace Stevens is awarded the Pulitzer

Prize for Poetry forCollected Poems.

1955:Wallace Stevens dies of cancer on August 2

in Hartford, Connecticut.

1959:Pablo Neruda’s poem ‘‘Sonnet LXXXIX’’

is published.

1963:Pak Tu-Jin’s poem ‘‘River of August’’ is

published.

1963:Robert Frost dies of complications from

prostate surgery on January 29 in Boston,

Massachusetts.

1971:Pablo Neruda is awarded the Nobel Prize

in Literature.

1972: Joseph Brodsky’s poem ‘‘Odysseus to

Telemachus’’ is published.

1973:Pablo Neruda dies of heart failure on

September 23 in Santiago, Chile.

1978:Nikki Giovanni’s poem ‘‘Winter’’ is published.

1980:Galway Kinnell’s poem ‘‘Blackberry Eating’’

is published.

1980:Czeslaw Milosz is awarded the Nobel Prize

in Literature.

1983:Galway Kinnell is awarded the Pulitzer

Prize for Poetry forSelected Poems.

1983:Susan Mitchell’s poem ‘‘The Dead’’ is

published.

1987:Joseph Brodsky is awarded the Nobel

Prize in Literature.

1991:Czeslaw Milosz’s poem ‘‘In Music’’ is

published.

1996:Joseph Brodsky dies of a heart attack on

January 28 in New York, New York.

1998:Charles Wright is awarded the Pulitzer

Prize for Poetry forBlack Zodiac.

1998:Pak Tu-Jin dies on September 16.

2001:Pat Mora’s poem ‘‘Uncoiling’’ is published.

2004:Charles Penzel Wright’s poem ‘‘Words and

the Diminution of All Things’’ is published.

2004: Czeslaw Milosz dies on August 14 in

Krakow, Poland.

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