1949 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 25 – Tom Paulin, Northern Irish poet and critic of film, music and literature
• January 27 – Bruce Weigl, American poet and academic
• February 6 – Eliot Weinberger, American essayist & principal translator of Octavio Paz into English
• March 14 – Lynn Emanuel, American poet
• April 13 – Marilyn Bowering, Canadian poet and novelist
• April 25 – James Fenton English journalist, poet, critic and academic
• May 13 – Christopher Reid, English poet, essayist, cartoonist, writer and exponent of Martian poetry
• June 21:
  • John Agard playwright, poet, and children's writer from Guyana, who moved to England in 1977
  • Jane Urquhart, Canadian poet and author
• July 5 – Pier Giorgio di Cicco Italian-Canadian poet
• August 1 – Jim Carroll, American poet, author and musician.
• August 2 – Bei Dao, (北島, literally meaning "Northern Island"), the pseudonym of Chinese poet Zhao Zhenkai, the most notable representative of the Misty Poets, a group of Chinese poets who reacted against the restrictions of the Cultural Revolution
• Also:
  • Agha Shahid Ali, English poet (died in 2001)
  • Michael Blumenthal (poet)
  • David Bottoms
  • Cathy Smith Bowers, American poet, teacher; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2010–2012
  • Olga Broumas Greek-born and raised, English-language poet in the United States
  • Ralph Burns (poet)
  • Victor Hernandez Cruz, African-American
  • Gil Scott-Heron, African-American poet, musician, and author
  • Denis Johnson, American
  • Alice Major, Canadian poet
  • Mary di Michele, Canadian poet and writer
  • Bob Orr, New Zealand
  • Barbara Ras
  • Liam Rector, American poet, essayist and academic
  • David St. John, American poet and academic
  • Robyn Sarah
  • Michael Waters, American
  • C. D. Wright, pen name of Carolyn D. Wright, American poet