It's National Poetry Month in Great Britain!
	Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was first published on this day in 1726. In nearly 300 years, it has never gone out of print.
	Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides, The Great Santini) was born on this day in 1945
	Andrew Motion, recent Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (1999 - 2009), was born on this day in 1952
	Tony Hillerman (Sacred Clowns, Anthony Award winner The Mysterious West) died on this day in 2008