Calendar of Literary Facts

May 12...

1634: George Chapman dies

1903: Lorine Niedecker is born

1921: Farley Mowat is born

1924: Claribel Alegría is born

1925: Amy Lowell dies

1933: Andrei Voznesensky is born

1944: Frederick Schiller Faust dies

1978: Louis Zukofsky dies

1985: Josephine Miles dies