1937 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 1:
  • John Fuller (poet), English poet and author
  • Dilwar Khan, Bengali poet
• April 30 – Tony Harrison, English poet and playwright
• May 11 – Michael Heller, American poet
• June 8 – Gillian Clarke, native Welsh, English-language poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator (from Welsh)
• June 10 – Susan Howe, American poet and critic closely associated with the Language poets
• September 14 – Douglas Oliver, British poet
• October 11 – R. H. W. Dillard, American poet, author, critic, and translator
• November 9 – Roger McGough, British poet
• November 11 – Alicia Ostriker, American poet and academic
• November 19 – Meg Campbell (died 2007), New Zealand, poet and wife of Alistair Campbell
• December 31 – Nicolas Born (died 1979), German poet
• Also:
  • Coleman Barks, American poet who, although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, is nonetheless renowned as a translator of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia
  • Kurt Bartsch, German
  • Marvin Bell, American poet
  • Eugene B. Redmond, African American
  • John Riley (died 1978), English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival
  • Glen Sorestad
  • Dabney Stuart, American
  • Diane Wakoski, an American poet associated with the "deep image" poets and the Beats
  • Eleanor Wilner