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Also Known As	Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Qurayb al-Aṣmaʿī
Born	c.740 • Basra • Iraq
Died	828 • Basra • Iraq

Ḥammād al-Rāwiyah

Iraqi scholar

Abū Tammām

Syrian poet

Helen Archibald Clarke

American writer and editor

Charlotte Endymion Porter

American editor

Adamántios Koraïs

Greek scholar

Ezra Pound

American poet

Terry McMillan

American author

Ted Hughes

British poet

Paula Gunn Allen

American author and scholar

Langston Hughes

American poet

Mahmoud Darwish

Palestinian poet

Guo Moruo

Chinese scholar

Harriet Monroe

American poet

N.F.S. Grundtvig

Danish bishop and poet

Albert Wendt

Samoan writer

David Sedaris

American humorist and essayist

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

Russian author

Scott Turow

American author

Fujiwara Sadaie

Japanese poet

Peretz Markish

Russian writer

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