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Famous Poets and dancers


alvin ailey, jr.
 
 
"He made us believe that we were gods and goddesses, but also individuals," says Judith J...
ray bolger
 
 
Name: Ray Bolger Birth na...
michael flatley
 
 
Born July 16, 1958 , Michael is the second of five children. He has a brother and thre...
geeta dutt
 
 
A voice full of vivacity and spontaneity made Geeta Dutt an evergreen singer of her times. Her uni...
oliver cromwell
 
 
2439 O liver Cromwell (April 25, 1599 - September 3, 1658) was an English military leader and po...
pandit bhimsen joshi
 
 
P andit Bhimsen Joshi is generally acknowledged to be the foremost living vocalist of Hindustani mu...
ram sahai
 
 
B anaras Gharana is one of the five Gharanas of Tabla and the founder of it was Pandit Ram Sahai. T...
sonal mansingh
 
 
A n unparalleled representative of the ancient as well as new dance Traditions in India is Sonal Ma...
william shakespeare
 
 
63c4 S hakespeare’s literary achievement is not confined to his mastery of the poetic and ...
ai
 
 
Name: Ai ...
paula gunn allen
 
 
Paula Gunn Allen (1939 --), a poet, novelist, and editor, was born in Albuquerque...
w. h. auden
 
 
W. H. Auden Born 21 F...
mikhail baryshnikov
 
 
Mikhail Baryshnikov ...
eavan boland
 
 
Eavan Boland was born in Dublin in 1944 and lived in Ireland until she was six years old....
anne bradstreet
 
 
Anne Bradstreet was born in Northampton, England, in the year 1612, daughter of Thomas Du...
fernando bujones
 
 
Name: Fernando Bujones ...
leslie caron
 
 
Her mother danced, perhaps part of her gift is genetic. She studied from chi...
cyd charisse
 
 
Cyd Charisse was born Tula Ellice Finklea on March 8, 1922, in Amarillo, Texas. Holly...
billy collins
 
 
Billy Collins, a current teacher at Lehman College, was born in 1941 and has lived in...
gregory corso
 
 
Gregory Corso was born in New York City on 26 March 1930. His mother, sixteen years ol...
hart crane
 
 
Harold Hart Crane ("Hart" was his mother’s maiden name) was born in ...
merce cunningham
 
 
MERCE CUNNINGHAM, born in Centralia, Washington, received his first formal dance and the...
rita dove
 
 
Name: Rita Frances Dove Bor...
isadora duncan
 
 
Born in 1878 in San Francisco, Isadora Duncan grew up in a childhood filled with imaginati...
nikki giovanni
 
 
NIKKI GIOVANNI was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an a...
louise glück
 
 
Louise Glück was born in New York City in 1943 and grew up on Long Island. She is th...
robert graves
 
 
Robert Graves, poet, novelist, biographer, mythographer, classical scholar and t...
chuck green
 
 
Name: Charles Green Born: Novem...
jupiter hammon
 
 
Jupiter Hammon is considered the first Black writer to publish in America; his religiou...
robert hass
 
 
Robert Hass is the author of three books of poems, Field Guide (1973), Praise (1979), and Hum...
gregory hines
 
 
Gregory Hines (14 February 1946-9 August 2003), jazz tap dancer, singer, actor, ...
john hollander
 
 
John Hollander's most recent collections, Tesserae and Other Poems and Selected Poetry,...
julia ward howe
 
 
Julia Ward Howe, who is best known for her literary and woman suffrage work, was born...
langston hughes
 
 
Name: Langston Hughes B...
david ignatow
 
 
David Ignatow was born in Brooklyn on February 7, 1914, and spent most of his li...
michio ito
 
 
patrick kavanagh
 
 
Patrick Kavanagh was born in October 1904 in Mucker, Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan. His f...
thomas kinsella
 
 
Thomas Kinsella was born on 4th May 1928 in Inchicore, Dublin, the eldest child of John K...
edward lear
 
 
Edward Lear was born in Highgate, 12 May. He was the twentieth child of Jeremiah ...

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