# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1409
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28164 "2014-08-09T02:45:23Z")
American poets 1. Edna St. Vincent Millay 2. Emily Dickinson 3. James Whitcomb Riley 4. Walt Whitman 5. Dorothy Parker 6. Robert Frost 7. Lawrence Ferlinghetti 8. Robert Creeley ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28165 "2014-08-09T03:06:55Z")
American poets 1. Edna St. Vincent Millay 2. Emily Dickinson 3. James Whitcomb Riley 4. Walt Whitman 5. Dorothy Parker 6. Robert Frost 7. Lawrence Ferlinghetti 8. Robert Creeley 9. Edgar Allan Poe ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28166 "2014-08-09T03:09:18Z")
American poets 1. Edna St. Vincent Millay 2. Emily Dickinson 3. James Whitcomb Riley 4. Walt Whitman 5. Dorothy Parker 6. Robert Frost 7. Lawrence Ferlinghetti 8. Robert Creeley 9. Edgar Allan Poe 10. Allen Ginsberg ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28167 "2014-08-09T03:13:32Z")
American poets 1. Edna St. Vincent Millay 2. Emily Dickinson 3. James Whitcomb Riley 4. Walt Whitman 5. Dorothy Parker 6. Robert Frost 7. Lawrence Ferlinghetti 8. Robert Creeley 9. Edgar Allan Poe 10. Allen Ginsberg 11. Langston Hughes ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28168 "2014-08-09T03:41:46Z")
American poets 1. Edna St. Vincent Millay 2. Emily Dickinson 3. James Whitcomb Riley 4. Walt Whitman 5. Dorothy Parker 6. Robert Frost 7. Lawrence Ferlinghetti 8. Robert Creeley 9. Edgar Allan Poe 10. Allen Ginsberg 11. Langston Hughes 12. Sylvia Plath ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28169 "2014-08-09T04:47:21Z")
American poets 1. Edna St. Vincent Millay 2. Emily Dickinson 3. James Whitcomb Riley 4. Walt Whitman 5. Dorothy Parker 6. Robert Frost 7. Lawrence Ferlinghetti 8. Robert Creeley 9. Edgar Allan Poe 10. Allen Ginsberg 11. Langston Hughes 12. Sylvia Plath 13. Joseph Auslander The first U.S. Poet Laureate, appointed in 1937. Next category: Poets of other nations (no repeats as to countries, please) 1. Ted Hughes, Great Britain ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28170 "2014-08-09T05:03:42Z")
Poets of other nations (no repeats as to countries, please) 1. Ted Hughes, Great Britain 2. Matsuo Basho, Japan “A flute with no holes, is not a flute. A donut with no hole, is a Danish.” ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28171 "2014-08-09T08:40:26Z")
Poets of other nations (no repeats as to countries, please) 1. Ted Hughes, Great Britain 2. Matsuo Basho, Japan 3. Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australia ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28172 "2014-08-09T13:02:45Z")
Poets of other nations (no repeats as to countries, please) 1. Ted Hughes, Great Britain 2. Matsuo Basho, Japan 3. Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australia 4. Dante Alighieri, Italy ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28173 "2014-08-09T13:08:01Z")
Poets of other nations (no repeats as to countries, please) 1. Ted Hughes, Great Britain 2. Matsuo Basho, Japan 3. Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australia 4. Dante Alighieri, Italy 5. Janet Frame, New Zealand ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28174 "2014-08-09T13:30:23Z")
Poets of other nations (no repeats as to countries, please) 1. Ted Hughes, Great Britain 2. Matsuo Basho, Japan 3. Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australia 4. Dante Alighieri, Italy 5. Janet Frame, New Zealand 6. Charles Baudelaire, France ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28175 "2014-08-09T13:35:43Z")
Poets of other nations (no repeats as to countries, please) 1. Ted Hughes, Great Britain 2. Matsuo Basho, Japan 3. Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australia 4. Dante Alighieri, Italy 5. Janet Frame, New Zealand 6. Charles Baudelaire, France 7. Seamus Heaney, Ireland ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28176 "2014-08-09T14:24:07Z")
Poets of other nations (no repeats as to countries, please) 1. Ted Hughes, Great Britain 2. Matsuo Basho, Japan 3. Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australia 4. Dante Alighieri, Italy 5. Janet Frame, New Zealand 6. Charles Baudelaire, France 7. Seamus Heaney, Ireland 8. Rabindranath Tagore, India ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28177 "2014-08-09T14:39:48Z")
Poets of other nations (no repeats as to countries, please) 1. Ted Hughes, Great Britain 2. Matsuo Basho, Japan 3. Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australia 4. Dante Alighieri, Italy 5. Janet Frame, New Zealand 6. Charles Baudelaire, France 7. Seamus Heaney, Ireland 8. Rabindranath Tagore, India 9. Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28178 "2014-08-09T15:15:56Z")
Poets of other nations (no repeats as to countries, please) 1. Ted Hughes, Great Britain 2. Matsuo Basho, Japan 3. Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australia 4. Dante Alighieri, Italy 5. Janet Frame, New Zealand 6. Charles Baudelaire, France 7. Seamus Heaney, Ireland 8. Rabindranath Tagore, India 9. Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina 10. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spain ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28179 "2014-08-09T15:16:19Z")
1. Ted Hughes, Great Britain 2. Matsuo Basho, Japan 3. Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australia 4. Dante Alighieri, Italy 5. Janet Frame, New Zealand 6. Charles Baudelaire, France 7. Seamus Heaney, Ireland 8. Rabindranath Tagore, India 9. Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina 10. Luis de Camoes, Portugal ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28180 "2014-08-09T15:37:45Z")
1. Ted Hughes, Great Britain 2. Matsuo Basho, Japan 3. Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australia 4. Dante Alighieri, Italy 5. Janet Frame, New Zealand 6. Charles Baudelaire, France 7. Seamus Heaney, Ireland 8. Rabindranath Tagore, India 9. Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina 10. Luis de Camoes, Portugal 11. Alexander Pushkin, Russia ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28181 "2014-08-09T15:51:04Z")
Poets of other nations (no repeats as to countries, please) 1. Ted Hughes, Great Britain 2. Matsuo Basho, Japan 3. Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australia 4. Dante Alighieri, Italy 5. Janet Frame, New Zealand 6. Charles Baudelaire, France 7. Seamus Heaney, Ireland 8. Rabindranath Tagore, India 9. Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina 10. Luis de Camoes, Portugal 11. Alexander Pushkin, Russia 12. Ferreira Gullar, Brazil ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28182 "2014-08-09T16:02:48Z")
Poets of other nations (no repeats as to countries, please) 1. Ted Hughes, Great Britain 2. Matsuo Basho, Japan 3. Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australia 4. Dante Alighieri, Italy 5. Janet Frame, New Zealand 6. Charles Baudelaire, France 7. Seamus Heaney, Ireland 8. Rabindranath Tagore, India 9. Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina 10. Luis de Camoes, Portugal 11. Alexander Pushkin, Russia 12. Ferreira Gullar, Brazil 13. Johann Wolfgang van Goethe, Germany New! TV private eyes 14. Magnum, P.I. ---
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