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Ahmad Shamlou
2,643 listeners
Ahmad Shamlou (Persian: احمد شاملو) (December 12, 1925 — July 24, 2000) was a Persian poet, writer, and journalist. His poetry was initially very…
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Fabrizio De André
220,016 listeners
Fabrizio De André (18 February 1940 – 11 January 1999) was a leading Italian singer-songwriter. In his works he often told stories of marginalised…
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Tuomas Holopainen
36,411 listeners
Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen (born December 25, 1976, in Kitee, Finland) is a Finnish composer, musician and music producer. Despite being…
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Forough Farrokhzad
591 listeners
Forugh Farrokhzad (Persian: فروغ فرخزاد) (January 5, 1935 — February 14, 1967) was an Iranian poet and film director. Forugh Farrokhzad is…
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Dylan Thomas
11,805 listeners
1) Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into…
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Andrea Gibson
13,142 listeners
Andrea moved from New Orleans to Colorado in 1999, where they began attending weekly poetry readings at Denver's political hub, The Mercury Café.…
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Hossein Panahi
1,130 listeners
Hossein Panahi Dezhkooh (Persian: حسین پناهی دژکوه) (born 28 August 1956, Dezh'kooh, Kohkiloie, Iran - died 7 August 2004, Tehran) was an Iranian…
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Bertolt Brecht
12,115 listeners
Bertolt Brecht (born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht; 10 February 1898–14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.
His…
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Arsen Dedić
7,320 listeners
Arsen Dedić is a Croatian singer-songwriter, musician and composer, a poet.
A native of Šibenik, Arsen Dedić was born to a mixed marriage of a…
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Kenneth Patchen
2,181 listeners
Kenneth Patchen
On December 13, 1911, Kenneth Patchen was born in Niles. A poor boy throughout his childhood, he spent his time playing football and…
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Mahmoud Darwish
275 listeners
Al-Birwa, British Mandate of Palestine (13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008)
Mahmoud Darwish (Arabic: محمود درويش) was a Palestinian poet and author…
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Imants Ziedonis
334 listeners
Imants Ziedonis (May 3, 1933 - February 27, 2013) was a Latvian poet who first rose to fame during the Soviet period of Latvia.
Ziedonis was born…
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حکیم عمر خیام
1 listener
عُمَر خَیّام نیشابوری (نام کامل: غیاثالدین ابوالفتح عُمَر بن ابراهیم خَیّام نیشابوری) (۴۴۰ – ۵۱۷ ه.ق) که خیامی، خیام نیشابوری و خیامی…
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Langston Hughes
11,021 listeners
(February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967)
Born in Joplin, Missouri, James Langston Hughes was a member of an abolitionist family. He was the… -
Ebtehaj
48 listeners
Hushang Ebtehaj (هوشنگ ابتهاج), with the pen name of H. E. Sayeh (ه. ا. سایه, or H. E. Sayeh, lit. Shade) is an eminent Iranian poet of the 20th…
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Shahyar Ghanbari
2,538 listeners
Shahyar Ghanbari (Persian: شهیار قنبری) is the sophisticated lyricist, songwriter and singer from Persia.
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Walt Whitman
6,085 listeners
Walter Whitman (Walt for short) was an American poet. He was born March 31st, 1819, around Huntington, Long Island. Walt Whitman was born the…