Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator (born 1934)

Mark Strand was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004. Strand was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University from 2005 until his death in 2014.

November 29 is the 333rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 32 days remain until the end of the year.