Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
John Haines

Born: June 29, 1924
Died: March 2, 2011 (aged 86)
Bio: John Meade Haines was an American poet and educator who had served as the poet laureate of Alaska.
Known for:
- The stars, the snow, the fire (1989)
- The owl in the mask of the dreamer (1993)
- At the end of this summer (1997)
- Fables and distances (1996)
- For the century's end (2001)