1929 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 9 – Heiner Muller (died 1995), German poet
• February 16 – Peter Porter (died 2010), Australian-born British poet. Part of what is referred to in Britain as The Group, he was also recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia.
• February 28 – John Montague, Irish
• March 6 – Gunter Kunert, German
• April 2 – Edward Dorn (died 1999) American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets
• May 16 – Adrienne Rich, American poet
• June 2 – Robert Dana (died 2010) American poet, was the poet laureate for the State of Iowa from 2004-2008
• June 11 – George Garrett (died 2008), American poet and novelist
• August 5 – A. Alvarez, English poet, writer and critic who also publishes under the name Al Alvarez
• August 21 – X. J. Kennedy, American formalist poet, translator, anthologist and writer of children's literature
• August 29 – Thom Gunn, poet
• September 26 – Ned O'Gorman, American poet and educator
• October 13 – Richard Howard, American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator
• October 25 – Peter Rühmkorf (died 2008), German writer and poet
• October 26 – Dane Zajc (died 2005), Slovenian poet
• Oct. 21 – Donald Finkel, 79 (died 2008), American poet and academic, husband of poet and novelist Constance Urdang
• October 28 – John Hollander, American poet and literary critic
• November 11 – Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German

• Also:
  • Anne Beresford, English poet and actress
  • Turner Cassity, American
  • Ursula A. Fanthorpe
  • Don Maclennan, 80 (died 2009), English-born South African poet, critic and academic
  • John Patrick Montague
  • Shamsur Rahman (also spelled "Shamsur Ruhman") (died 2006), Bengali poet, columnist and journalist
  • Peter Dale Scott, Canadian poet and academic