Help us find and improve next week's Connection Finder profiles: Poets

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We're feeling pastoral with spring fully sprung, so we're looking at poets in the Connection Finder next week.

Here are some of the folks we're considering:

Who else should we feature? We have room for 12 individuals. We can't feature everyone who is nominated, but if we don't feature a profile you work on, we may use it sometime in the future. And, of course, all contributions help improve our shared tree.

Our choice of features will depend partly on the notable person's CC7, i.e. their connection count within seven degrees. The more connections they have, the more likely it is for all WikiTree members to find a close and interesting connection to them. So, if you nominate someone, please help grow their CC7.

Suggestions are more likely to be considered if you provide a link to the person on WikiTree, some information about who they were or why you're nominating them, and if their profile is in good condition with a connection, image, and well-written and well-sourced biography.

We'll make a final decision on which ones to feature early next week.

Please reply here with what you're working on so that we don't duplicate our efforts. Thank you!

Take note that this is not the place to discuss why you think we shouldn't feature someone if those reasons are due to politics, actions, or opinions of those being suggested. Mentioning things like their not being connected, their biography still needing work, erroneous information, etc. are all suitable for discussion here and an opportunity to correct those situations.

Help us choose themes for 2024 Connection Finder themes here. 

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William Topaz McGonagall, one of Scotland's premier poets.

by Robert Struthers G2G3 (3.7k points)
Thanks, Robert. Hopefully, he can be connected by the next time we use a poetic theme.
+7 votes

Here are a few:

I thought of a few others like Derek Walcott, Rabindranath TagoreKahlil GibranFrederico García Lorca, and Octavio Paz, but they are virtually or completely unconnected.

We're completely missing William Carlos Williams, which seems surprising given how often he seems to come up in genealogy conversations: whenever someone mentions it's shocking how many people used to die of diphtheria.

by Regan Conley G2G6 Mach 4 (49.5k points)
Thanks, Regan.
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Anne Dudley Bradstreet --[[Dudley-318|Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet (1612-1672)]]--would be a good choice!  

Her profile is in good shape, although it could use a little love.  It would be nice to hear more about her first publication and significance to world literature. 

 She has  114,516 connections

by Kimberly Latta G2G6 (9.3k points)
Thanks, Kimberly.
+4 votes
Eugene Field Sr., Field-1801 (1850-1895) was an American writer best known for his children's poetry. Among the most famous are "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" and "Little Boy Blue." He was known as the "poet of childhood."
by Mildred Wheeler G2G6 Mach 8 (88.3k points)
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Thanks, Mildred.
+6 votes

So many great French poets to propose. Just a few with a decent profile :

by Bernard Vatant G2G6 Pilot (176k points)
+2 votes

Were the Male poets abandoned in favor of the female poetslaugh? https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1738171/which-female-poet-are-you-most-closely-connected-to

by Patrick Holland G2G6 Mach 5 (56.9k points)
We had to find a way to narrow the numbers, and the Team went with female poets. We plan to feature some of the others in a later poets theme.

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