UnPoetia/Did you know

• Only 76.2% of all poets, living or dead, are gay.

16.7% are bisexual, 5.4% are in denial about it, and 1.7% are asexual. The remainder are, in fact, straight.

• If dark Romantic poetry were 60's and 70's American politics, Nathaniel Hawthorne would've been Lyndon Johnson, Poe would've been JFK, and Herman Melville would've been Dick Nixon.

• Haiku means urinal cake in French and Mexican.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem She Came & Went is about a dead baby.

His daughter, but a dead baby none-the-less.

• At the age of 12, Charles Dickens used to work in a boot-blacking factory.

Charles Dickens is the one who looks like Tim Burton.

• A "huckleberry finn" is a type of berry bush native only to Missouri.

• Geoffrey Chaucer was born on Retrocession Day (Taiwan).

• Don't Say Goodbye by Edmund Spenser is the longest haiku ever written, at a whopping total of four lines.