National Poetry Month: Poetic Names To Name Your Baby

14 Literary Baby Names For Poetic Parents
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It's National Poetry Month, the perfect moment to celebrate the bards and bardesses of the past and present, a surprising number of whom just happen to have been born with birth-certificate-ready surnames. In addition to those below, there are other great choices like Auden, Eliot and Emerson, Lowell, Millay, Nash, Owen, Poe, Reese and Schuyler -- but Nameberry thinks these are the twelve best for now.

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