1926 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 5 – W. D. Snodgrass (died 2009), American poet, academic and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1960
• February 18 – A. R. Ammons (died 2001), American author and poet
• March 3 – James Merrill (died 1995), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1977
• May 21 – Robert Creeley (died 2005), American poet, author and usually associated with the Black Mountain poets
• May 26 – Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian science fiction novelist and poet
• June 3 – Allen Ginsberg (died 1997), American Beat poet
• June 5 – David Wagoner, American poet and novelist
• June 25 – Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973) Austrian poet and author
• June 27 – Frank O'Hara (died 1966), American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry.
• June 29 – James K. Baxter (died 1972), New Zealand poet
• July 18 – Elizabeth Jennings (died 2001), English poet
• August 15 – Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali
• September 1 – James Reaney (died 2008, Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic
• November 23 – Christopher Logue, English poet, playwright, screen writer and actor associated with the British Poetry Revival
• November 24 – Paul Blackburn (died 1971), American poet
• December 23 – Robert Bly, American poet, author, and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States
• December 26 – Nabakanta Barua, also known as Ekhud Kokaideu, (died 2002), Assamese-language Indian novelist and poet

• Also:
  • Russell Atkins, African American
  • Marya Fiamengo
  • Nikos Karouzos (died 1990), Greek poet
  • Francis Edward Sparshott