(1894-1962) Born in Cambridge Mass, as Edward Estlin Cummings. His liberal-minded parents encouraged him from a young age to write. He went to Harvard, and then, like Hemingway volunteered as an ambulance driver. During the war, he also spent 3 months in a french detention camp. He returned to the US in 1924, where he published his first book of poetry "Tulips and Chimneys." He's famous for mussing about with punctuation and language. I really enjoy his poems. They're funny and clever and insightful. I put a poem of his called "you shall above all things be glad and young" in a little poetry book I made for my boyfriend. The last line: "I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing/ than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."
more info on cummings:
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cummings/cummings.htm