This is a list of international dead poet-librarians. Librarians and poets with more names to add to this illustrious list should e-mail barkingbards (at) deadpoes. org (or post it to blog comments) along with the citation showing that the librarian was a poet.
Ancient, Medieval, Pre-1850
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (Ἐρατοσθένης; c. 276 BC – c. 195 BC)
Callimachus
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wilhelm Müller (1794-1827)
Fiedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843)
United States
Henry Longfellow
Samuel Foss
Arna Bontemps
Julia Ripley Dorr
Charles F. Lummis
Mary Wright Plummer
Ina Coolbrith
John Gould Fletcher
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
John Vance Cheney
Archibald MacLeish
Fremont Rider (1885-1962)
Lorine Niedecker
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Anne Spencer (1882-1975)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
Helen Gordon Quigless
Audre Geraldine Lorde (1934 -1992)
Amy Clampitt (1920-1994)
Dudley Felker Randall (1914-2000)
Noel Peattie
Canada
Robin Blaser (1925 - 2009)
UK & Scotland
Coventry Patmore (1823-1896)
Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928)
Lewis Carroll
Philip Larkin
Alexander Anderson
Cuba
Reinaldo Arenas
Ana Rosa Nunez (1926 - 1999)
Uruguay
Francisco Acuna de Figueroa (1790-1862)
Argentina
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (1899 – 1986)
Brazil
Roberto Juarroz (1925-1995)
Sweden
Bengt Hjelmqvist
Germany
Ludwig Bechstein 1801-1860
France
Georges Bataille (1897 - 1962)
Italy
Olindo Guerrini (1845-1916)
Salvatore Di Giacomo (1860-1934)
Eugenio Montale (1896-1981)
Russia/Soviet Union
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
China
Mao Tse-Tung
Nigeria
Christopher Okigbo (1932–1967)
Australia
Marcus Clarke (1846-1881)
