On August 13, 1950 the steamer Mayakovsky (named for Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky) sank at around 12:00pm local time due overloading the vessel with too many people.
 Mayakovsky sank in the center of Riga, just 12–15 meters from the present day site of the Stone Bridge.
 A total of 147 people died, including 48 children.
 It was the deadliest peacetime disaster in Soviet Latvian history.
Before Women Had Wings is a 1997 television film, based on the story by Connie May Fowler about a mother whose abusive husband commits suicide.
 She then starts to violently abuse her two daughters.
 It is only then that a kindly black woman becomes good friends with her youngest daughter and helps the daughter escape her tortured life.
 The film stars Ellen Barkin, Oprah Winfrey, Tina Majorino, and Julia Stiles.
 Barkin won an Emmy for her role.
The Lady and the Hooligan (original title: ) is a 1918 Russian silent film co-directed by Vladimir Mayakovsky and Yevgeni Slavinsky.
 The script, written by Mayakovsky, is based on the play "La maestrina degli operai" (The Workers' Young Schoolmistress) by Edmondo De Amicis.
Backbone Flute (Флейта-позвоночник, Fleita-pozvonochnik) is a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky written in the autumn of 1915 and first published in December of that year in "Vzyal" (Взял, Took) almanac, heavily censored.
 Its first unabridged version appeared in March 1919, in "Vladimir Mayakovsky's Collected Works 1909-1919".
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky ( ; Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский ; 19 July [O.S. 7 July] 1893 – 14 April 1930) was a Russian Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor.
Mayakovsky Theater (Russian: Театр Маяковского; Московский академический театр имени Вл.
 Маяковского ) is a theater in Moscow, Russia, founded in 1920, first as "Terevsat" (Theater of Revolutionary Satire, 1920-1922), then "Revolution Theater" (1922-1943) and "Drama Theater" (1944-1953).
 In 1954 it was renamed after Vladimir Mayakovsky.
On August 13, 1950 the steamer Mayakovsky (named for Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky) sank at around 12:00 pm local time due to overloading the vessel with too many people.
 "Mayakovsky" sank in the center of Riga, just 12 to 15 meters (38 to 49 feet) from the present day site of the Stone Bridge.
 A total of 147 people died, including 48 children.
 It was the deadliest peacetime disaster in Soviet Latvian history.
Mystery-Bouffe (Russian: Мистерия-Буфф ; Misteriya-Buff) is a socialist dramatic play written by Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1918/1921.
 Mayakovsky stated in a preface to the 1921 edition that "in the future, all persons performing, presenting, reading or publishing "Mystery-Bouffe" should change the content, making it contemporary, immediate, up-to-the-minute."
Connie May Fowler (born January 3, 1960 to parents of multi-cultural backgrounds) is an American novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter, and poet.
 Her semi-autobiographical novel, "Before Women had Wings", received the 1996 Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Buck Award (League of American Pen Women).
 She adapted the novel for Oprah Winfrey and the subsequent Emmy-winning film starred Winfrey, Ellen Barkin, Julia Stiles, and Tina Majorino.
 "Remembering Blue" received the Chautauqua South Literary Award.
 Three of her novels were Dublin International Literary Award nominees.
 Her other novels include "Sugar Cage" and "River of Hidden Dreams".
 "The Problem with Murmur Lee" was Redbook’s premier book club selection.
 Her memoir, "When Katie Wakes", explores her family’s generational cycle of domestic violence.
 "How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly", a novel oft compared to Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" in term of its structure, was published in 2010.
 Her latest book, a memoir titled "A Million Fragile bones," will be published April 20, 2017 by Twisted Road Publications.
 It explores her life on an isolated barrier island and the horrific impact and aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill.
 Her books have been translated into eighteen languages (http://www.conniemayfowler.com/about.html).
Vladimir Mayakovsky is a tragedy in verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky written in 1913, premiered on December 2 of that year and published in 1914 by the "First Futurists' Journal", later to be included into the "Simple as Mooing" collection.
 An avant-garde verse drama, satirizing the urban life and, at the same time, hailing the up-and-coming revolution of the industrial power, it featured a set of bizarre, cartoonish characters and a poet protagonist.

Question: Are Connie May Fowler and Vladimir Mayakovsky both poets?
Answer: yes