It's National Poetry Month in Great Britain!
	Samuel Taylor Coleridge (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan) was born on this day in 1772
	Ursula K. Le Guin (A Wizard of Earthsea) was born on this day in 1929
	J. R. R. Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of The Lord of the Rings, was published in the United States on this day in 1954
	Jack Kerouac (On the Road) died on this day in 1969. King of the beatniks.
	Humorist John Hodgman's satirical almanac More Information Than You Require was published on this day in 2008. If you're unfamiliar with Hodgman as a writer, you may know him in his acting role as the personification of the PC in Apple's TV commercials for the Mac.