Literary Chronology

c. 1498: Mirabai (sometimes written as Mīrā Bāī) is born into a minor royal family in Merta, in northwestern India.
1530:: Mirabai's "All I Was Doing Was Breathing" is published.
1546:: Mirabai dies, although some scholars consider 1547 or 1550 to be a more likely date.
1757:: William Blake is born on November 28 in London.
1793:: William Blake's "A Poison Tree" is published.
1809:: Oliver Wendell Holmes is born on August 29 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1827:: William Blake dies on August 12 in London and is buried in an unmarked grave in Bun-hill Fields, a Dissenters' cemetery.
1858:: Oliver Wendell Holmes's "The Chambered Nautilus" is published.
1880:: Guillaume Apollinaire is born (most likely with the name Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky) on August 26 in Rome.
1889:: Conrad Aiken is born on August 5 in Savannah, Georgia.
1894:: Oliver Wendell Holmes dies of respiratory failure on October 7 in Boston.
1918:: Guillaume Apollinaire dies of influenza on November 9, two days before Armistice Day, which will end World War I.
1918:: Guillaume Apollinaire's "Always" is published.
1921:: Marie Ponsot is born in Queens, a borough of New York City.
1924:: Yehuda Amichai is born on May 3 in Wurzburg, Germany. He will come to be considered one of Israel's greatest poets.
1930:: Conrad Aiken's "The Room" is published.
1934:: Jean Valentine is born on April 27 in Chicago, Illinois.
1939:: Ted Kooser is born in April in Ames, Iowa.
1945:: Carol Muske-Dukes is born on December 17 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
1948:: Sherod Santos is born on September 9 in Greenville, South Carolina.
1948:: Heather McHugh is born on August 20 in San Diego, California.
1950:: Dana Gioia is born (Michael Dana Gioia) on December 24 in Los Angeles, California.
1952:: Dorianne Laux is born on January 10 in Augusta, Maine.
1952:: Naomi Shihab Nye is born on March 12 in St. Louis, Missouri.
1958:: Yehuda Amichai's "Not like a Cypress" is published.
1968:: Sue (Suji) Kwock Kim is born.
1973:: Conrad Aiken dies on August 17 in Savannah at the age of eighty-four.

1980:: Naomi Shihab Nye's "Kindness" is published.
1990:: Jean Valentine's "Seeing You" is published.
1994:: Dorianne Laux's "For the Sake of Strangers" is published.
1998:: Marie Ponsot's "One Is One" is published.
1999:: Sherod Santos's "Portrait of a Couple at Century's End" is published.
1999:: Heather McHugh's "Three To's and an Oi" is published.
2000:: Yehuda Amichai dies on September 25 in Jerusalem.
2001:: Dana Gioia's "The Litany" is published.
2003:: Sue (Suji) Kwock Kim's "Monologue for an Onion" is published.
2003:: Carol Muske-Dukes's "Our Side" is published.
2004:: Ted Kooser's "At the Cancer Clinic" is published.