Eric Boucher was born in Boulder, Colorado, to parents Stanley Boucher, a psychiatric social worker and poet, and Virginia Boucher, a librarian.

* 1995 – Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor ( b. 1924 )

Invented by a poet and a local newspaper columnist Eric Kosciuszko in the 1920s, it has since been adopted by state and local government as well as the residents, and has taken on the sense of a general spring celebration.

Essayist and poet Eric Blair adopted the pseudonym George Orwell for most of his books, including Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

* Eric Wilkinson, ( 1976 –), poet / musician who wrote Black Through A Distortion Pedal ( San Francisco Bay Press ) and started indie, social theoretical hip-hop band, The Dialectics, noted for their EP " Bicycle: A Transportation Communique ," which advocates bicycle riding as a form of social justice.

Count Eric Stanislaus ( or Stanislaus Eric ) Stenbock ( 12 March 1860 – 26 April 1895 ) was a Baltic German poet and writer of macabre fantastic fiction.

The book's central protagonist is a poet and friend of Bobbi Anderson, named James Eric Gardner, who goes by the nickname " Gard ".

Many of its members played leading roles in Australian cultural life, such as the novelists Katharine Susannah Prichard, Judah Waten, Frank Hardy, Eric Lambert and Alan Marshall, the painter Noel Counihan and the poet David Martin.

She worked with British poet, critic, and musician Eric Walter White on several films, and he wrote the early book-length essay on her work – Walking Shadows: An Essay on Lotte Reiniger's Silhouette Films, ( London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf, 1931 ).

Eric Mottram was a central figure on the London scene, both for his personal and professional knowledge of the Beat generation writers and the US poets linked with the New American Poetry more generally, and his abilities as a promoter and poet.

In the early 1970s, as a visiting poet at Kent State University, Dorn, along with British poet and editor Eric Mottram, was a mentor and supporter of the musical group Devo, and its founders Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis.

Eric Mottram ( December 29, 1924 – January 16, 1995 ) was a teacher, critic, editor and poet who was one of the central figures in the British Poetry Revival.

The best known literary figures from modern Orkney are the poet Edwin Muir, the poet and novelist George Mackay Brown and the novelist Eric Linklater.

* Eric Ormsby ( b. 1941 ), US poet and a man of letters

In 1963 Eric Johnson ( 1937 – 2004 ), a US ballet dancer and later a renowned poet in contemporary Latin poetry, read the memoir My Happy Days in Hell, became enchanted with the author, and traveled to Hungary in search of Faludy.

The town has been transformed from a region recognized around the world since the 19th century for its natural springs and healing environment, as eloquently described in the book ' Rustenburg Romance ' by author and poet Eric Rosenthal into one of the most polluted environments in the late 20th and early 21st century South Africa.

Reviewing Beyond Silence in The New York Times Book Review in 2003, Eric McHenry found Hoffman a poet of remarkable consistency, " no less joyful or engaged at 80 than he was at 25.

Eric Alfred Burns ( born January 27, 1968 ) is an American critic, writer, poet, columnist and Role Playing Game developer who lived in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.

Fargnoli's books of poetry include Necessary Light ( Utah State University Press, 1999 ), winner of the May Swenson Book Award ; Lives of Others ( Oyster River Press, 2001 ); Small Songs of Pain ( Pecan Grove Press, 2003 ); Duties of the Spirit ( Tupelo Press, 2005 ) which won the Jane Kenyon Literary Award for Outstanding Poetry by a New Hampshire poet, and most recently, Then, Something, ( also from Tupelo Press, 2009 ) which won the 2009 Foreword Review Best of the Year Silver Award in Poetry, and was an Honorable Mention for the 2009 Eric Hoffer Award in Poetry.

Eric Nord ( 1919 – 1989 ), also known as Eric " Big Daddy " Nord, was a Beat Generation-era nightclub owner, poet, actor, and hipster.

* Robert Anton Wilson, polymath, author, philosopher, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian, ( edu.

* 1766 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator ( d. 1813 )

* Scottish poet Rab Wilson published a version in Scots in 2004.

Robert Anton Wilson ( born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007 ), known to friends as " Bob ", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic.

Wilson married freelance writer and poet Arlen Riley in 1958 ; they had four children.

* March 23 – T. P. Cameron Wilson, English poet and novelist ( b. 1888 )

Mary Wilson became a published poet.

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson ( 2 October 1878 – 26 May 1962 ) was a British Georgian poet, associated with World War I but also the author of much later work.

The village of Homer City was laid out in 1854 by William Wilson, who named it after the ancient Greek poet, Homer.

Enright and Freedman find a new contestant in Columbia University instructor Charles Van Doren ( Ralph Fiennes ), son of the renowned poet and intellectual Mark Van Doren ( Paul Scofield ) and the novelist Dorothy Van Doren ( Elizabeth Wilson ).

Peter Lamborn Wilson ( born 1945 ) ( pseudonym Hakim Bey ), is an American political writer, essayist, and poet, known for first proposing the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone ( TAZ ), based, in part, on a historical review of pirate utopias.

* May 26-Wilfred Wilson Gibson, poet

* April 3-John Wilson, poet and journalist ( born 1785 )

* October-Arthur Wilson, playwright, historian, and poet ( born 1595 )

Wilson MacDonald was a top selling Canadian poet of the time.

* Robert Burns Wilson ( 1850 – 1916 ), American painter and poet

* Nanai female shaman Tchotghtguerele Chalchin performed an incantation recorded in Siberia for the song " The Lighthouse " ( an adaptation of the poem " Flannan Isle " by English poet Wilfred Wilson Gibson ) on French producer Hector Zazou's 1994 album Chansons des mers froides ( Songs from the Cold Seas ).

Artists who recorded for Musicraft include singer Mel Torme, vocalist Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington, bebop comic Harry " the Hipster " Gibson, pianist Teddy Wilson, blues pioneer Leadbelly, poet Carl Sandburg, Dizzy Gillespie, Georgie Auld, Artie Shaw, Buddy Greco, Billie Rogers, and others.

* Mary Wilson, Lady Wilson of Rievaulx ( born 1916 ), British poet, widow of former British prime minister Harold Wilson

Gladys Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx ( born 12 January 1916 ) is an English poet, best known as the widow of former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson.