1947 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 2 –
  • Ai, born "Florence Anthony", an American poet who legally changed her name
  • David Shapiro, an American poet, literary critic, and art historian
• January 18 – Takeshi Kitano 北野 武, Japanese filmmaker, film editor, screenwriter, comedian, actor, author, poet and painter (surname: Kitano)
• April 13 – Rae Armantrout, American poet
• March 3 – Clifton Snider, American poet, novelist, literary critic, scholar, and educator
• May 6 – Jerry Estrin (died 1993), American poet
• May 13 – Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali
• May 23 – Jane Kenyon, American poet and translator (died 1995)
• July 25 – Leslie Scalapino, American poet
• August 8 – Alurista (nom de plume of Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia), American Chicano poet and activist
• October 13 – Joe Dolce, Australian poet and musician
• October 20 – Mikirō Sasaki 佐々木幹郎, also known as "Mikio Sasaki", Japanese poet and travel writer (surname: Sasaki)
• November 13 – John Steffler, Canadian poet and novelist
• November 30 – Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet and dramatist
• December 26 – Liz Lochhead Scottish poet and dramatist

• Also:
  • Michael Casey, American
  • Cheryl Clarke, American poet and academic
  • Gloria Frym, American poet, fiction writer, and essayist
  • Reginald Gibbons, American
  • Yusef Komunyakaa, American poet, academic and recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  • Al Moritz
  • Molly Peacock, American poet of the New Formalist school and nonfiction writer
  • Bin Ramke, American
  • Michael Schmidt, English poet, academic, founder, editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press and founder of PN Review
  • Robert B. Shaw, American
  • Penelope Shuttle, British poet
  • Charlie Smith
  • Rosemary Sullivan, Canadian poet, biographer, and anthologist
  • Robert Wells (poet), British poet