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Brian Teare (USA) 1974
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Djuna Barnes (USA) 1892-1982
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (USA) 1892-1950
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Paul Bogaert (Belgium / writes in Dutch) 1968
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David Shapiro (USA) 1947
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Naja Marie Aidt (b. Greenland / Denmark) 1963
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Robert Glück (USA) 1947
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Gentian Çoçoli (Albania) 1972
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Orhan Veli (Kanik) (Türkiye) (1914-1950)
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