1943 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• April 22 – Louise Glück, American poet
• May 11 – Michael Palmer, American poet, translator, and winner of 2006 Wallace Stevens Award.
• June 7 – Nikki Giovanni, African American poet, activist and author
• July 21 – Tess Gallagher, American poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright.
• September 12 – Michael Ondaatje, Canadian-Sri Lankan novelist and poet whose Booker Prize winning novel, The English Patient, was adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film
• October 2 – Franklin Rosemont (died 2009), American Surrealist poet, labor historian and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group
• December 8:
  • James Tate, American poet, educator, and man of letters and a winner of the Pultizer Prize, National Book Award
  • Jim Morrison (died 1971), American singer, songwriter, poet; best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors
• December 9 – Michael Krüger, German poet, writer, publisher and translator

• Also:
  • Bert Almon
  • John Balaban, American poet and translator
  • Alan Bold (died 1998), Scottish
  • Charles E. Cobb, Jr., African-American
  • Alfred Corn, American poet and essayist
  • Emanuel di Pasquale
  • Sarah Getty
  • Maureen Harris
  • Tridib Mitra, Bengali poet associated with the 1961–1965 Hungryalism (or "Hungry Generation") movement
  • Ron Smith, Canadian poet, author, playwright and publisher
  • Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr., African-American
  • Frederick Turner (poet), English poet, critic and academic in the United States; former editor of The Kenyon Review
  • Ellen Bryant Voigt, American
  • Bill Zavatsky