1945 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• February 2 – Yoshihiko Funazaki 舟崎 克彦, Japanese novelist, poet, illustrator, manga writer, songwriter, and academic (surname: Funazaki)
• February 23 – Robert Gray, Australian
• April 2 – Anne Waldman, American
• April 30 – Annie Dillard, American poet and 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner
• May 6 – Calvin Forbes, African-American poet
• June 7 – Falguni Ray (died 1981), Bengali poet and youngest member of Hungryalism movement
• June 21 – Adam Zagajewski Polish poet, novelist, and essayist
• July 7 – Ikezawa Natsuki 池澤夏樹, Japanese novelist, essayist, translator and poet who stopped publishing poetry in 1982 (surname: Ikezawa)
• July 21 – Wendy Cope, English
• August 13 – Tom Wayman, Canadian poet and academic
• August 31 – Van Morrison, OBE, Irish poet, singer, songwriter, author, and musician
• Also:
  • Terry Blackhawk
  • Marianne Bluger
  • Syl Cheyney-Coker
  • Dick Davis (poet)
  • W. S. Di Piero
  • Norman Dubie, American
  • Ellen Jaffe
  • Bernadette Mayer, American
  • J.D. McClatchy, gay American poet, literary critic, and editor of the Yale Review.
  • Carol Muske-Dukes, American
  • Alice Notley, American
  • Carolyn M. Rodgers, American
  • Ira Sadoff, American poet and academic
  • Leon Stokesbury, American
  • Clive Wilmer, English poet and academic