1961 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• May 2 – Lisa Bellear (died 2006), Australian indigenous poet
• Also:
  • Gitaujali Badruddin
  • Chen Kehua, Chinese poet and ophthalmologist in Taiwan.
  • Denise Duhamel
  • Han Dong, Chinese
  • Steven Heighton, Canadian novelist and poet
  • Maggie Helwig, Canadian novelist and poet
  • Jackie Kay, Scottish poet and novelist
  • Swadesh Roy, Bengali journalist, essayist, poet, novelist and short-story writer
  • Sion Sono 園 子温, Japanese controversial avant-garde poet and filmmaker