1927 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 8 – Charles Tomlinson, British poet, translator, academic, and artist
• February 1 – Galway Kinnell, American poet
• April 8 – Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
• June 7 – Martin Carter (died 1997), Guyanese poet
• June 26 – Robert Kroetsch (died 2011), Canadian poet and novelist
• July 28 – John Ashbery, American poet, former chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• August 7 – Larry Eigner (died 1996), American poet early in his career was associated with the Black Mountain poets; later was recognized as precursor to other poetic movements, i.e., Language poetry
• September 30 – W. S. Merwin, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• October 16 – Günter Grass, German author and poet
• October 19 – Edwin Brock (died 1997), English poet
• October 20 – Oskar Pastior (died 2006), Romanian-born German poet and translator
• November 20 – Kikuo Takano (died 2006), Japanese poet and mathematician
• December 3 – James Wright, (died 1980), American poet

• Also:
  • Henry Coulette
  • David Diop
  • Molly Holden (died 1981)
  • Judson Jerome, American
  • Richard Moore, American poet who taught at Boston University and Brandeis University
  • Richard Murphy, Irish poet
  • John Tripp (died 1986), Anglo-Welsh poet in whose memory the annual John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award is presented.