1894 in Poetry - Births

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• January 2 – Robert Nathan (died 1985), American poet and novelist
• January 10 – Bochō Yamamura 山村 暮鳥 (died 1924), Japanese vagabond Christian preacher who gained attention as a writer of tales and songs for children and as a poet
• June 16 – Ogiwara Seisensui 荻原井泉水, pen name of Ogiwara Tōkichi (died 1976), Japanese haiku poet in the Taishō and Showa periods (surname: Ogiwara)
• August 31 – Charles Reznikoff, American poet and part of the Objectivist poetry movement
• October 4 – Jun Tsuji 辻 潤 (died 1944), Japanese author, poet, essayist, musician and bohemian (surname: Tsuji)
• October 14 – E. E. Cummings (died 1962), American
• October 22 – Paul Grano (died 1975), Australian poet and journalist
• December 26 – Jean Toomer, American poet and novelist, part of the Harlem Renaissance

• Also:
  • Eileen Duggan (died 1972), New Zealand
  • W. W. E. Ross (Canada)