29 de January

Thursday

6 Born on this day 12 Died on this day
Poem of the day

Grass

Carl Sandburg
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work
-I am the grass; I cover all.

And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and the passengers ask the conductor:

What place is this?
Where are we now?

I am the grass.
Let me work.
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Born on this day

6

Died on this day

12
Egito Gonçalves

Egito Gonçalves

25 years since death · 2001

Egito Gonçalves was an Angolan poet, short story writer, and essayist, a prominent figure in African Portuguese-language literature. His work, marked by strong social and political…

Alexandre Pushkin

Alexandre Pushkin

189 years since death · 1837

Alexander Pushkin is widely regarded as the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. His work spans a vast range of genres, including lyric, epic, narrat…

António Gomes Leal

António Gomes Leal

105 years since death · 1921

António Gomes Leal was a Portuguese poet, a prominent figure in 19th-century poetry. His work is marked by intense lyricism, often egocentric and melancholic in nature, exploring t…

Reis Ventura

Reis Ventura

38 years since death · 1988

Reis Ventura was a Portuguese poet whose work is mainly situated within the context of Neorealism and Social Poetry. Characterized by strong civic intervention and the denunciation…

Robert Frost

Robert Frost

63 years since death · 1963

Robert Frost was an American poet whose work is often associated with the rural life of New England. His poetry is characterized by its accessible language, conversational tone, an…

Francisco José Lahmeyer Bugalho

Francisco José Lahmeyer Bugalho

77 years since death · 1949

Francisco José Lahmeyer Bugalho was a Portuguese poet, diplomat, and jurist, whose lyrical work is marked by erudition and a profound reflection on identity, history, and memory. H…

Jaime Reyes

Jaime Reyes

27 years since death · 1999

Jaime Reyes is a Mexican poet whose work is characterized by the exploration of language and reflection on identity and memory. His poetry moves between personal lyricism and the o…

Martín Adán

Martín Adán

41 years since death · 1985

Martín Adán, whose real name was Rafael de la Fuente Benavides, was an influential Peruvian poet, recognized as one of the most original and complex voices in 20th-century Hispano-…

Edward Lear

Edward Lear

138 years since death · 1888

Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author, and poet, celebrated primarily for his nonsense poetry. His distinctive style, characterized by limericks and whim…

Sarah Teasdale

Sarah Teasdale

93 years since death · 1933

Sara Teasdale was an influential American lyric poet celebrated for her emotionally resonant and accessible verse. Her work often explores themes of love, nature, loss, and the inn…

Josep Vicenç Foix

Josep Vicenç Foix

39 years since death · 1987

Josep Vicenç Foix was a Spanish poet, writer, and literary critic, one of the most unique and representative figures of 20th-century Catalan literature. His poetic work, marked by …

Janet Frame

Janet Frame

22 years since death · 2004