November 18, 1939

Margaret Atwood, born on November 18, 1939, is a Canadian novelist and poet. She has won many awards and her novels have titles we all recognise, like The Handmaiden's Tale,(1985) and The Cat's Eye (1988). The latter was a Booker Prize (1989) finalist. She is a very prolific and much honored writer. 

We have this excerpt from Margaret Atwood's poem "February":
...
... it's love that does us in. Over and over
Again, He shoots, he scores! and famine
crouches in the bedsheets, ambushing the pulsing
eiderdown, and the windchill factor hits 
thirty below, and the pollution pours 
out of our chimneys to keep us warm.
February, month of despair, 
with a skewered heart in the centre.
I think dire thoughts, and lust for French fries
with a splash of vinegar.
Cat, enough of your greedy whining 
and your small pink bumhole.
Off my face! You're the life principle, 
more or less, so get going
on a little optimism around here. 
Get rid of death. Celebrate increase. Make it be spring.