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A

Maya Angelou (18)
(1928 - present)

Margaret Atwood (28)
(1939 - present)

Matthew Arnold (45)
(1822 - 1888)

Yehuda Amichai (38)
(1924 - 2000)

Anna Akhmatova (26)
(1889 - 1966)

Ai (1)
(1947 - 2010)

John Ashbery (9)
(1927 - present)

A. R. Ammons (26)
(1926 - 2001)

Jane Austen (13)
(1775 - 1817)

Guillaume Apollinaire (7)
(1880 - 1918)

Dante Alighieri (10)
(1265 - 1321)

Louisa May Alcott (16)
(1832 - 1888)

Richard Aldington (12)
(1892 - 1962)

Lascelles Abercrombie (6)
(1881 - 1938)

Sarah Flower Adams (6)
(1805 - 1848)

Delmira Agustini (1)
(1886 - 1914)

William Allingham (31)
(1821 - 1889)

Deborah Ager (10)
(1971 - present)

Conrad Aiken (64)
(1889 - 1973)

Catherine Anderson (3)
(1954 - present)

Maggie Anderson (1)
(1948 - present)

Ralph Angel (7)
(1951 - present)

Kingsley Amis (1)
(1922 - 1995)

Jean Hans Arp (1)
(1886 - 1966)

Kelli Russell Agodon (6)
(1969 - present)

Julie Hill Alger (4)
(1927 - 1994)

W. Jude Aher (12)
(1952 - present)

Alfred Austin (4)
(1835 - 1913)

Tiel Aisha Ansari (3)
(1964 - present)

Siddharth Anand (5)
(1985 - present)

B

Elizabeth Bishop (64)
(1911 - 1979)

Charles Bukowski (120)
(1920 - 1994)

Gwendolyn Brooks (13)
(1917 - 2000)

William Blake (131)
(1757 - 1827)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (114)
(1809 - 1861)

Robert Burns (579)
(1759 - 1796)

Robert Browning (110)
(1812 - 1889)

Charles Baudelaire (46)
(1821 - 1867)

Jorge Luis Borges (14)
(1899 - 1986)

John Berryman (150)
(1914 - 1972)

Lord Byron (86)
(1788 - 1824)

Hilaire Belloc (62)
(1870 - 1953)

Matsuo Basho (39)
(1644 - 1694)

Richard Brautigan (53)
(1935 - 1984)

Andre Breton (5)
(1896 - 1966)

Eavan Boland (9)
(1944 - present)

Stephen Vincent Benet (32)
(1898 - 1943)

Louise Bogan (22)
(1897 - 1970)

Ambrose Bierce (12)
(1842 - 1914)

Anne Bradstreet (34)
(1612 - 1672)

Wendell Berry (23)
(1934 - present)

Yosa Buson (30)
(1716 - 1784)

Rupert Brooke (102)
(1887 - 1915)

William Cullen Bryant (27)
(1794 - 1878)

David Berman (6)
(1967 - present)

Bertolt Brecht (29)
(1898 - 1956)

Emily Bronte (56)
(1818 - 1848)

Charlotte Bronte (24)
(1816 - 1855)

Imamu Amiri Baraka (1)
(1934 - present)

Thomas Edward Brown (13)
(1830 - 1897)

Gelett Burgess (10)
(1866 - 1951)

Joseph Brodsky (19)
(1940 - 1996)

Aleksandr Blok (13)
(1880 - 1921)

Robert Seymour Bridges (24)
(1844 - 1930)

Anne Bronte (59)
(1820 - 1849)

Marvin Bell (7)
(1937 - present)

William Barnes (12)
(1801 - 1886)

Laurence Binyon (16)
(1869 - 1943)

Erin Belieu (8)
(1965 - present)

April Bernard (2)
(1956 - present)

D. C. Berry (8)
(1942 - present)

Frank Bidart (12)
(1939 - present)

Arna Bontemps (7)
(1902 - 1973)

William Bronk (3)
(1918 - 1999)

Ellis Parker Butler (72)
(1869 - 1937)

Ingeborg Bachmann (15)
(1926 - 1973)

John Betjeman (48)
(1906 - 1984)

Thomas Blackburn (3)
(1916 - 1977)

Yves Bonnefoy (11)
(1923 - present)

Edgar Bowers (5)
(1924 - 2000)

William Lisle Bowles (28)
(1762 - 1850)

George Bradley (1)
(1821 - 1903)

Edwin Brock (1)
(1927 - 1997)

John Burnside (4)
(1955 - present)

William Browne (6)
(1590 - 1645)

John Bodenham (1)
(1600 - present)

Carlos Barbarito (4)
(1955 - present)

Joel Barlow (1)
(1754 - 1812)

William Rose Benet (2)
(1886 - 1950)

Hugh Henry Brackenridge (2)
(1748 - 1816)

Ros Barber (1)
(1964 - present)

Jonathan Bohrn (10)
(1957 - present)

Laure-Anne Bosselaar (6)
(2006 - present)

Luis Benitez (8)
(1956 - present)

Cecilia Borromeo (3)
(1976 - present)

Alain Bosquet (2)
(1919 - 1998)

Robert Bly (3)
(1926 - present)

Michael Burch (34)
(1958 - present)

Bhaskar Roy Barman (10)
(0 - present)

Graham Burchell (5)
(1950 - present)

C

E. E. Cummings (153)
(1894 - 1962)

Billy Collins (42)
(1941 - present)

Lucille Clifton (2)
(1936 - 2010)

John Clare (34)
(1793 - 1864)

Lewis Carroll (73)
(1832 - 1898)

Countee Cullen (15)
(1903 - 1946)

Stephen Crane (95)
(1871 - 1900)

Samuel Coleridge (82)
(1772 - 1834)

Robert Creeley (26)
(1926 - present)

Leonard Cohen (15)
(1934 - present)

Geoffrey Chaucer (14)
(1343 - 1400)

Aleister Crowley (49)
(1875 - 1947)

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (16)
(1861 - 1907)

Gregory Corso (6)
(1930 - 2001)

Hart Crane (13)
(1899 - 1932)

William Cowper (87)
(1731 - 1800)

Raymond Carver (16)
(1938 - 1988)

Thomas Campbell (16)
(1777 - 1844)

Amy Clampitt (14)
(1920 - 1994)

Richard Crashaw (20)
(1613 - 1650)

Arthur Hugh Clough (17)
(1819 - 1861)

Thomas Chatterton (15)
(1752 - 1770)

Li Ching Chao (33)
(1084 - 1151)

G. K. Chesterton (59)
(1874 - 1936)

Jean Cocteau (1)
(1889 - 1963)

Lady Mary Chudleigh (4)
(1656 - 1710)

Jim Carroll (1)
(1950 - present)

Hayden Carruth (2)
(1921 - present)

Martha Collins (1)
(1940 - present)

Geraldine Connolly (3)
(1947 - present)

Thomas Carew (34)
(1595 - 1645)

Constantine P. Cavafy (65)
(1863 - 1933)

Paul Celan (10)
(1920 - 1970)

Andree Chedid (4)
(1920 - present)

Austin Clarke (3)
(1896 - 1974)

Abraham Cowley (1)
(1618 - 1667)

Andrew Crumey (1)
(1961 - present)

Eliza Cook (5)
(1818 - 1889)

Peter Conners (3)
(1970 - present)

Bliss Carman (22)
(1861 - 1929)

Willa Cather (6)
(1873 - 1947)

Craig Erick Chaffin (9)
(1954 - present)

Ivan Donn Carswell (181)
(1945 - present)

Anastasia Clark (2)
(1959 - present)

D

Emily Dickinson (1779)
(1830 - 1886)

Roald Dahl (5)
(1916 - 1990)

John Donne (70)
(1572 - 1631)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (38)
(1872 - 1906)

Hilda Doolittle (20)
(1886 - 1961)

Rita Dove (2)
(1952 - present)

Henry Van Dyke (114)
(1852 - 1933)

John Dryden (25)
(1631 - 1700)

Mark Doty (16)
(1953 - present)

William Henry Davies (48)
(1871 - 1940)

Stephen Dunn (15)
(1939 - present)

Mahmoud Darwish (8)
(1941 - present)

Keith Douglas (5)
(1920 - 1944)

Michael Drayton (80)
(1563 - 1631)

Alan Dugan (6)
(1923 - 2003)

John Davidson (12)
(1857 - 1909)

Robert Desnos (13)
(1900 - 1945)

Mark van Doren (10)
(1894 - 1972)

Annie Dillard (1)
(1945 - present)

Stephen Dobyns (1)
(1941 - present)

Norman Dubie (5)
(1945 - present)

Denise Duhamel (11)
(1961 - present)

Regina Derieva (9)
(1949 - present)

Michael Donaghy (1)
(1954 - 2004)

Ernest Dowson (14)
(1867 - 1900)

William Drummond (6)
(1585 - 1649)

Carol Ann Duffy (4)
(1955 - present)

Helen Dunmore (1)
(1952 - present)

William Dunbar (5)
(1460 - 1520)

James Dickey (3)
(1923 - 1997)

Edward Dorn (2)
(1929 - 1999)

Robert Duncan (3)
(1919 - 1988)

Gary Dodd (1)
(1960 - present)

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T. S. Eliot (45)
(1888 - 1965)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (65)
(1803 - 1882)

Paul Eluard (15)
(1895 - 1952)

Marriott Edgar (33)
(1880 - 1951)

Russell Edson (54)
(1935 - present)

Cornelius Eady (1)
(1954 - present)

James A. Emanuel (21)
(1921 - present)

Maggie Estep (8)
(1962 - present)

Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff (1)
(1788 - 1857)

George Eliot (9)
(1819 - 1880)

Gerald England (6)
(1946 - present)

Ian Emberson (11)
(1936 - present)

Rebecca Elson (2)
(1960 - 1999)

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Robert Frost (180)
(1874 - 1963)

Tu Fu (17)
(712 - 770)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (11)
(1919 - present)

Robert Francis (20)
(1901 - 1987)

Edward Field (6)
(1924 - present)

Nick Flynn (9)
(1960 - present)

Edward Fitzgerald (4)
(1809 - 1883)

Anne Kingsmill Finch (67)
(1661 - 1720)

Jean de La Fontaine (61)
(1621 - 1695)

Carolyn Forche (7)
(1950 - present)

Philip Freneau (14)
(1752 - 1832)

Daisy Fried (1)
(1967 - present)

Thomas Flatman (3)
(1637 - 1688)

John Fletcher (14)
(1579 - 1625)

Eugene Field (148)
(1850 - 1895)

John Gould Fletcher (2)
(1886 - 1950)

Raymond A. Foss (12138)
(1960 - present)

Jessie Redmon Fauset (1)
(1882 - 1961)

Annie Finch (4)
(1956 - present)

Gary R. Ferris (107)
(1965 - present)

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Allen Ginsberg (40)
(1926 - 1997)

Khalil Gibran (51)
(1883 - 1931)

Nikki Giovanni (1)
(1943 - present)

Louise Gluck (48)
(1943 - present)

Robert Graves (74)
(1895 - 1985)

Edgar Albert Guest (9)
(1881 - 1959)

Jack Gilbert (12)
(1925 - present)

Thomas Gray (11)
(1716 - 1771)

Thom Gunn (3)
(1929 - 2004)

Judy Grahn (1)
(1940 - present)

Eamon Grennan (5)
(1941 - present)

Oliver Goldsmith (4)
(1730 - 1774)

Dame Mary Gilmore (11)
(1865 - 1962)

Patricia Goedicke (1)
(1931 - present)

Jorie Graham (13)
(1950 - present)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (283)
(1749 - 1832)

Rafael Guillen (3)
(1933 - present)

Adam Lindsay Gordon (9)
(1833 - 1870)

Maria Mazziotti Gillan (4)
(1940 - present)

Sidney Godolphin (4)
(1645 - 1712)

Thomas Godfrey (2)
(1736 - 1763)

Adrian Green (8)
(1946 - present)

R.George (2)
(1948 - present)

Bernadette Geyer (2)
(1968 - present)

Godfrey Mutiso Gorry (5)
(1976 - present)

Rg Gregory (142)
(1928 - present)

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Langston Hughes (29)
(1902 - 1967)

Ted Hughes (28)
(1930 - 1998)

Thomas Hardy (217)
(1840 - 1928)

Robert Hayden (12)
(1913 - 1980)

Seamus Heaney (30)
(1939 - present)

Robert Herrick (282)
(1591 - 1674)

Donald Hall (14)
(1928 - present)

Alec Derwent Hope (18)
(1907 - 2000)

Gerard Manley Hopkins (84)
(1844 - 1889)

Nazim Hikmet (21)
(1901 - 1963)

Oliver Wendell Holmes (36)
(1809 - 1894)

Tony Harrison (8)
(1937 - present)

A. E. Housman (81)
(1859 - 1936)

George Herbert (78)
(1593 - 1633)

Tony Hoagland (5)
(1953 - present)

James Henry Leigh Hunt (24)
(1784 - 1859)

Edward Hirsch (3)
(1950 - present)

Hermann Hesse (10)
(1877 - 1962)

William Ernest Henley (17)
(1849 - 1903)

Anthony Hecht (18)
(1923 - 2004)

Ho Xuan Huong (1)
(1772 - 1822)

Richard Hugo (6)
(1923 - 1982)

Bob Hicok (7)
(1960 - present)

Geoffrey Hill (7)
(1932 - present)

Thomas Hood (25)
(1799 - 1845)

Andrew Hudgins (3)
(1951 - present)

Marilyn Hacker (12)
(1942 - present)

Victor Hugo (8)
(1802 - 1885)

Kimiko Hahn (1)
(1955 - present)

Forrest Hamer (4)
(1956 - present)

Mac Hammond (2)
(1926 - 1997)

Brooks Haxton (9)
(1950 - present)

Mark Hillringhouse (1)
(1954 - present)

Peter Huchel (4)
(1903 - 1981)

Jupiter Hammon (1)
(1711 - 1806)

Bret Harte (1)
(1836 - 1902)

Julia Ward Howe (5)
(1819 - 1910)

William Dean Howells (1)
(1837 - 1920)

Dale Harcombe (6)
(1947 - present)

Billy Jno Hope (3)
(0 - present)

Joy Harjo (2)
(1951 - present)

Sophie Hannah (9)
(1917 - present)

Suheir Hammad (5)
(1973 - present)

Eileen Carney Hulme (6)
(1953 - present)

Robert M. Hensel (8)
(1969 - present)

I

Kobayashi Issa (50)
(1763 - 1828)

David Ignatow (2)
(1914 - 1997)

Mark Irwin (1)
(1953 - present)

Henrik Ibsen (10)
(1828 - 1906)

J

Randall Jarrell (24)
(1914 - 1965)

Elizabeth Jennings (10)
(1926 - 2001)

James Joyce (51)
(1882 - 1941)

Erica Jong (25)
(1942 - present)

Robinson Jeffers (58)
(1887 - 1962)

Donald Justice (20)
(1925 - present)

Jenny Joseph (2)
(1932 - present)

Samuel Johnson (3)
(1709 - 1784)

Richard Jones (6)
(1953 - present)

Helen Hunt Jackson (39)
(1831 - 1885)

Laura Riding Jackson (7)
(1901 - 1991)

Ben Jonson (41)
(1572 - 1637)

James Lee Jobe (7)
(1956 - present)

Chris Jones (4)
(1969 - present)

David St. John (2)
(2006 - present)

K

John Keats (84)
(1795 - 1821)

Ted Kooser (4)
(1939 - present)

Rudyard Kipling (341)
(1865 - 1936)

Jack Kerouac (3)
(1922 - 1969)

Kenneth Koch (4)
(1925 - 2002)

Stanley Kunitz (21)
(1905 - present)

Jane Kenyon (14)
(1947 - 1995)

Patrick Kavanagh (9)
(1904 - 1967)

Yusef Komunyakaa (3)
(1947 - present)

Joyce Kilmer (59)
(1886 - 1918)

Galway Kinnell (15)
(1927 - present)

Etheridge Knight (7)
(1931 - 1991)

Omar Khayyam (1)
(1048 - 1131)

Charles Kingsley (12)
(1819 - 1875)

Weldon Kees (21)
(1914 - 1955)

Steve Kowit (3)
(1938 - present)

Anne Killigrew (33)
(1660 - 1685)

Francis Scott Key (1)
(1779 - 1843)

Maxine Kumin (4)
(1925 - present)

Dimitris P. Kraniotis (25)
(1966 - present)

Jackie Kay (5)
(1961 - present)

Bob Kaufman (4)
(1925 - 1986)

Carolyn Kizer (13)
(1925 - present)

Faye Diane Kilday (15)
(1973 - present)

Sheema Kalbasi (2)
(1972 - present)

L

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (136)
(1807 - 1882)

Robert Lowell (17)
(1917 - 1977)

Federico Garcia Lorca (34)
(1898 - 1936)

Henry Lawson (123)
(1867 - 1922)

Philip Larkin (96)
(1922 - 1985)

Denise Levertov (54)
(1923 - 1997)

C. S. Lewis (13)
(1898 - 1963)

Edward Lear (18)
(1812 - 1888)

Amy Lowell (152)
(1874 - 1925)

Li-Young Lee (2)
(1957 - present)

David Herbert Lawrence (109)
(1885 - 1930)

Philip Levine (94)
(1928 - present)

Vachel Lindsay (168)
(1879 - 1931)

Emma Lazarus (24)
(1849 - 1887)

Richard Lovelace (7)
(1618 - 1657)

Sidney Lanier (75)
(1842 - 1881)

Thomas Lux (17)
(1946 - present)

Giacomo Leopardi (4)
(1798 - 1837)

Audre Lorde (8)
(1934 - 1992)

Primo Levi (3)
(1919 - 1987)

Larry Levis (3)
(1946 - 1996)

Laurie Lee (6)
(1914 - 1997)

Amy Levy (69)
(1861 - 1889)

Walter Savage Landor (52)
(1775 - 1864)

Louise Labe (1)
(1524 - 1566)

Michael Lally (1)
(1942 - present)

David Lehman (58)
(1948 - present)

Major Henry Livingston, Jr. (23)
(1748 - 1828)

Jiri Mordecai Langer (1)
(1894 - 1943)

Roddy Lumsden (2)
(1966 - present)

John Lindley (4)
(1952 - present)

Sharmagne Leland-St. John (5)
(1953 - present)

Dimitris Lyacos (3)
(1966 - present)

Sharon Esther Lampert (19)
(0 - present)

Yahia Lababidi (10)
(1973 - present)

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Claude McKay (76)
(1889 - 1948)

Roger McGough (14)
(1937 - present)

Spike Milligan (35)
(1918 - 2002)

Walter de la Mare (44)
(1873 - 1956)

Marianne Moore (18)
(1887 - 1972)

Antonio Machado (8)
(1875 - 1939)

John Milton (102)
(1608 - 1674)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (165)
(1892 - 1950)

A. A. Milne (22)
(1882 - 1956)

W. S. Merwin (23)
(1927 - present)

Czeslaw Milosz (33)
(1911 - 2004)

John Masefield (25)
(1878 - 1967)

Edgar Lee Masters (251)
(1868 - 1950)

Louis MacNeice (3)
(1907 - 1963)

William Matthews (10)
(1942 - 1997)

Thomas Moore (144)
(1779 - 1852)

Edwin Muir (14)
(1887 - 1959)

Christopher Marlowe (6)
(1564 - 1593)

Gabriela Mistral (3)
(1889 - 1957)

Archibald MacLeish (10)
(1892 - 1982)

Katherine Mansfield (61)
(1888 - 1923)

Lisel Mueller (21)
(1924 - present)

William Morris (47)
(1834 - 1896)

Andrew Marvell (60)
(1621 - 1678)

John McCrae (28)
(1872 - 1918)

Les Murray (31)
(1938 - present)

Paul Muldoon (17)
(1951 - present)

William Topaz McGonagall (200)
(1830 - 1902)

Edwin Morgan (2)
(1920 - present)

Herman Melville (16)
(1819 - 1891)

George Meredith (69)
(1828 - 1909)

Lucy Maud Montgomery (91)
(1874 - 1942)

Dorothea Mackeller (5)
(1885 - 1968)

Frances Mayes (1)
(1940 - present)

Heather McHugh (8)
(1948 - present)

Alice Duer Miller (1)
(1874 - 1942)

John Montague (5)
(1929 - present)

Christopher Morley (6)
(1890 - 1957)

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(1842 - 1898)

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(1891 - 1938)

Erin Moure (3)
(1955 - present)

Chris Mansell (6)
(1953 - present)

James Merrill (1)
(1926 - 1995)

William Vaughn Moody (6)
(1869 - 1910)

John Matthew (15)
(1958 - present)

Dorothea MacKellar (5)
(1885 - 1968)

Edwin Markham (5)
(1852 - 1940)

Joaquin Miller (3)
(1841 - 1913)

Jonas Mekas (3)
(1922 - present)

Vladimir Mayakovsky (10)
(1893 - 1930)

Shawn McAllister (1)
(1944 - present)

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Pablo Neruda (45)
(1904 - 1973)

Ogden Nash (106)
(1902 - 1971)

Alfred Noyes (1)
(1880 - 1958)

Naomi Shihab Nye (2)
(1952 - present)

Sarojini Naidu (43)
(1879 - 1949)

Oodgeroo Noonuccal (3)
(1920 - 1993)

Howard Nemerov (26)
(1920 - 1991)

Alden Nowlan (4)
(1933 - 1983)

Anais Nin (2)
(1903 - 1977)

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(1913 - 1999)

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(1862 - 1938)

Edith Nesbit (8)
(1858 - 1924)

Claire Nixon (5)
(1973 - present)

Nimah Nawwab (4)
(1966 - present)

Vlanes (Vladislav Nekliaev) (13)
(1969 - present)

Desi Di Nardo (4)
(1972 - present)

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Mary Oliver (87)
(1935 - present)

Sharon Olds (17)
(1942 - present)

Wilfred Owen (30)
(1893 - 1918)

Michael Ondaatje (9)
(1954 - present)

Peter Orlovsky (4)
(1933 - present)

N. K. Osho (1)
(1975 - present)

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Edgar Allan Poe (50)
(1809 - 1849)

Sylvia Plath (121)
(1932 - 1963)

Jack Prelutsky (7)
(1940 - present)

Dorothy Parker (181)
(1893 - 1967)

Octavio Paz (1)
(1914 - 1998)

Ezra Pound (71)
(1885 - 1972)

Andrew Barton Paterson (217)
(1864 - 1941)

Li Po (62)
(701 - 762)

Marge Piercy (23)
(1936 - present)

Alexander Pope (33)
(1688 - 1744)

Linda Pastan (17)
(1932 - present)

Robert Pinsky (8)
(1940 - present)

Alexander Pushkin (35)
(1799 - 1837)

Boris Pasternak (3)
(1890 - 1960)

Kenneth Patchen (17)
(1911 - 1972)

Vasko Popa (32)
(1922 - 1991)

Katherine Philips (20)
(1631 - 1647)

Ron Padgett (1)
(1942 - present)

Grace Paley (2)
(1922 - present)

Katha Pollitt (1)
(1949 - present)

Katherine Anne Porter (1)
(1890 - 1980)

P. K. Page (2)
(1916 - present)

Don Paterson (1)
(1963 - present)

Fernando Pessoa (1)
(1935 - present)

Harold Pinter (6)
(1930 - present)

Matthew Prior (20)
(1664 - 1721)

Wanda Phipps (8)
(1960 - present)

Anna Piutti (2)
(1982 - present)

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