Births
- August 10 – Christian Bök, Canadian experimental poet
- October 7 – Sherman Alexie Native American poet and author
- Also:
- Maurice Manning (Poet)
- Constance Merritt (poet)
- Michael Redhill
- Todd Swift
- Natasha Trethewey
- Christian Wiman (poet)
- Dimitris P. Kraniotis, Greek
- Dimitris Lyacos, Greek
- Woeser (also written Öser; full name: Tsering Woeser) Tibetan: ཚེ་རིང་འོད་ཟེར་; Wylie: tshe-ring 'od-zer; simplified Chinese: 唯色; pinyin: Wéisè, Tibetan poet and essayist
- Volker Sielaff, German
- Yi Sha, China
- December 20 – Joseph Woods (poet)
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