The Resume

(January 6, 1878-July 22, 1967)
Wrote 'Fog,' 'Chicago Poems,' 'Pigeons,' 'Remembrance Rock' and 'Smoke and Steel'
Won a Pulitzer prize for 'Abraham Lincoln' The War Years' (1940) and 'Complete Poems' (1951)
Recorded 'The American Songbag'

Why he might be annoying:

He left school at thirteen years old.
He failed math and grammar on his West Point entrance tests.
The F.B.I. thought he was a security risk, because he was a socialist and journalist.

Why he might not be annoying:

He enlisted in the 6th Illinois Infantry during the Spanish-American War (1898).
When he dropped out of school, he worked hard, delivering milk and being a janitor.
His free verse poetry is written in common vocabulary and was written for the working man.

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 20th Century Poets
• Celebrity Civil War Buffs
• Ed Sullivan Show Guests
• Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album (Ranked: 1960)
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [R-T]
• I Did Not Graduate High School [N-S]
• I Died in 1967 (Ranked: 89)
• I Earned a High School Equivalency Diploma
• I Write Bildungsroman
• Poets
• Poets.org's Top 20 Poets [Spring 2007] (Ranked: 18)
• Poets.org's Top 25 Historical Poets [Fall 2009] (Ranked: 23)
• Profiles 1751-2000 (Ranked: 1878)
• U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 19670722)
• What's My Line - Mystery Guests [1950-1967]
• Writers Featured in the Barnes & Noble Authors Mural

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 8 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 9 Votes: 88.89% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 19 Votes: 31.58% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 24 Votes: 54.17% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 30 Votes: 36.67% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 42 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 80 Votes: 45.00% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 124 Votes: 43.55% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 216 Votes: 45.37% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 243 Votes: 46.91% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 594 Votes: 44.11% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 1617 Votes: 46.26% Annoying
In 2001, Out of 6376 Votes: 37.01% Annoying