1940 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• April 16 – Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (died 1975), German
• May 24 – Joseph Brodsky (died 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky in Russia, a Russian-American poet and essayist who won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature and was Poet Laureate of the United States (1991–1992)
• September 8 – Jack Prelutsky, American poet noted for his children's poems
• October 15 – Fanny Howe, American poet, novelist and short story writer and recipient of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
• October 20 – Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States (1997–2000)
• November 1 – William Heyen, American poet, editor, and literary critic
• December 14 – Carolyn Rodgers, (died 2010), American poet and a leading participant of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and founded one of the country's oldest and largest black-owned book publishers

• Also:
  • Douglas Barbour
  • Michael Dennis Browne, American (a native Englishman naturalized as a United States citizen in 1978 and living in the U.S.), poet and academic
  • Peter Cooley, American poet and academic
  • Martha Collins, American
  • Angela De Hoyos
  • Gary Hyland
  • Ronald Koertge, American
  • Paul Mariani, American poet and academic
  • David W. McFadden
  • Sterling D. Plumpp, African-American
  • Pattiann Rogers, American
  • Andrew Waterman, English poet and academic