Born on this day – Yves Jean Bonnefoy:

Yves Jean Bonnefoy

Writer

Poet

Art historian

June 24, 1923 – July 1, 2016

Credits:

Books:

Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of His Work (1993); Beginning and End of the Snow (2012); In the Shadow's Light (1991); Mythologies (1991); On the Motion and Immobility of Douve (1968); Poems: 1959-1975 (1985); Second Simplicity: New Poetry and Prose, 1991-2011 (2011); Shakespeare and the French Poet (2004); The Anchor's Long Chain (2015); The Curved Planks (2007); The Digamma (2014); The Lure and the Truth of Painting: Selected Essays on Art (1995); The Present Hour (2013); Together Still (2017).

Movies and television:

Feu! Chatterton - Avant qu'il n'y ait le monde (Live acoustique) (2021); Hamlet, Prince de Danemark (1960); Le Louvre imaginaire (1993); Le roi Lear (1965); Les Nuits de France Culture (1994); Qu'est-ce que la poésie? (2018); Un siècle d'écrivains (1995).

Born on this day – William Jay Smith:

William Jay Smith

Writer

April 22, 1918 – August 18, 2015

Credits:

Alain Bosquet (1995); Army brat: a memoir (1980); Around My Room (2000); Boy Blue's Book of Beasts (1957); Celebration at Dark (1950); His Collected Poems: 1939–1989 (1990); Ho for a Hat! (1964 / revised edition published in 1989); Laughing Time (1955); Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense (1980); My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams (2012); Poems (1947); Poems of a Multimillionaire by Valéry Larbaud (1955); Selected Writings of Jules Laforgue (1956); Songs of C, Federico García Lorca (1994); The Cherokee Lottery: A Sequence of Poems (2000); The Straw Market (2006); The streaks of the tulip: selected criticism (1972); The Tin Can and Other Poems (1966); The World Below the Window: Poems 1937–1997 (1998); Two Plays by Charles Bertin: Christopher Columbus and Don Juan (1970); Typewriter Town (1960).

Born on this day – William Wordsworth:

William Wordsworth

Writer

April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850

Credits:

A Letter to A Friend of Robert Burns (1816); An Evening Walk (1793); Descriptive Sketches (1793); Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822); Lyrical Ballads (1798); Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth (1820); Peter Bell (1819); Poems (1807); Poems (1815); Poems of Wordsworth (1879); Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth (1831); Thanksgiving Ode (1816); The Cornell Wordsworth (1975); The Excursion (1849); The Poems of William Wordsworth (1845); The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (various editions 1824–1854); The Prelude 1799, 1805, 1850 (1979); The Prelude, Or Growth of a Poet's Mind (1850); The Prose Works of William Wordsworth (1876); The Prose Works of William Wordsworth (1974); The Recluse (1888); The River Duddon (1820); The Sonnets of William Wordsworth (1838); The Waggoner (1819); The White Doe of Rylstone: or The Fate of the Nortons (1815); Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland (1818); William Wordsworth: Selected Poems and Prefaces (1965); William Wordsworth: The Poems (1981); Wordsworth's Literary Criticism (1905).

Born on this day – Maya Angelou:

Maya Angelou

Writer

April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014

Credits:

Including titles with Steven Spielberg, Langston Hughes and Mary Ellen Mark:

Angelina of Italy (2004); Izak of Lapland (2004); Mikale of Hawaii (2004); Renee Marie of France (2004); Cedric of Jamaica (2005); Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie (1971); Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well (1975); And Still I Rise (1978); Now Sheba Sings the Song (1987); I Shall Not Be Moved (1990); On the Pulse of Morning (1993); Soul Looks Back in Wonder (1993); The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (1994); The Complete Collected Poems (1994); Maya Angelou: Poems (1994); Phenomenal Woman (1995); A Brave and Startling Truth (1995); Black Pearls (1998); Van Gogh's Ear (2005); Amazing Peace (2005); Celebrations (2006); Poetry for Young People (2007); Love's Exquisite Freedom (2011); Mrs. Flowers (1986); Life Doesn't Frighten Me (1993); My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me (1994); Kofi and His Magic (1996); I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969); Gather Together in My Name (1974); Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976); The Heart of a Woman (1981); All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986); A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002); Mom & Me & Mom (2013); Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? (1983); Letter to My Daughter (1987); Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993); Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1996); The Voyage of the Amistad (1997); Making Magic in the World (1998); Amistad (1998); Mary Ellen Mark (1999); Graduation (2000); Hallelujah! The Welcome Table (2004); Mother (2006); Great Food, All Day Long (2010); His Day Is Done (2014); Rainbow in the Cloud (2014); Understanding Aspergers (2014); Strategies of Abundance (2014); The Weary Blues (1926); The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (1932); The Ways of White Folks (1934); Selected Poems (1959); Ask Your Mama (1961); Poems from Black Africa (1963); The Panther and the Lash (1967); Soul Looks Back in Wonder (1993); The Poems 1921-1940 (2001); The Poems: 1941-1950 (2001); The Poems: 1951-1967 (2001); Let America Be America Again (2004); Poetry for Young People (2006); Jim Crow's Last Stand (2007); The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (2022); Fine Clothes to the Jew: Poems of Black America in the 1920s (2023); An Earth Song (2023); I Am the Darker Brother (1968); Growing Up in the South (1991); Quartet Of Stories (1993); Writing Women's Lives (1994); The Little Big Book of California (2005); 40 Model Essays (2005); Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female (2006); What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self (2006); Made With Love: The Meals On Wheels Family Cookbook (2012); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World (2019).

Born on this day – Jack Kerouac:

Jack Kerouac

Writer

March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969

Credits:

Books:

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (1945); Atop an Underwood (1987); Beat Generation (1992); Big Sur (1962); Book of Blues (1995); Book of Dreams (1960); Book of Haikus (2003); Book of Sketches (1957); Collected Poems (1971); Dear Carolyn (1983); Departed Angels (2004); Desolation Angels (1965); Door Wide Open (2000); Dr. Sax (1959); Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers (2002); Field of Fantasies (2014); Good Blonde & Others (1993); Heaven and Other Poems (1977); Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (2010); Lonesome Traveler (1960); Mexico City Blues (1959); Old Angel Midnight (1973); On the Road (1957); Orpheus Emerged (2002); Pic (1971); Piers of the Homeless Night (2018); Pomes All Sizes (1992); Reel Verse: Poems about the Movies (2019); San Francisco Blues (1991); Satori in Paris (1966); Scattered Poems (1971); Selected Letters, 1940-1956 (1995); Selected Letters, 1957-1969 (1999); Some of the Dharma (1997); The Dharma Bums (1958); The Haunted Life (2014); The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960); The Sea Is My Brother (1942); The Subterraneans (1958); The Town and the City (1950); The Unknown Kerouac (2016); Trip Trap (1973); Tristessa (1960); Vanity of Duluoz (1967); Visions of Cody (1960); Visions of Gerard (1963); Wake Up (2008); Windblown World (1947); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing Los Angeles (2002).

Movie:

On the Road (2012).

Born on this day – Anaïs Nin:

Anaïs Nin

Writer

February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977