It's National Poetry Month in the USA and Canada!
	John Milton, blind and impoverished, sold the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10 on this day in 1667
	Mary Wollstonecraft, early feminist writer (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman) and mother of Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), was born on this day in 1759
	Ralph Waldo Emerson (Nature, The Transcendentalist) died on this day in 1882
	George Alec Effinger (When Gravity Fails) died on this day in 2002