1996 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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• January 28 – Joseph Brodsky, 55 (born 1940), a Russian-American poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States (1991–1992), of a heart attack
• February 11 – Amelia Rosselli, 66 (born 1950), Italian poet and ethnomusicologist, from suicide, on the same date Sylvia Plath killed herself.
• March 18 – Odysseus Elytis, Greek
• April 13 – George Mackay Brown, 74, Scottish poet, author and dramatist
• May 11 – Sam Ragan (born 1915), American poet, journalist; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 1982–1996
• August 18 – Geoffrey Dearmer, 103, British poet
• September 25 – Mina Loy, 83, an artist, poet, Futurist, actor
• December 10 – Dorothy Porter, 54, Australian poet
• Date not known:
  • Hermann Kesten (poet) (born 1900), German
  • Larry Levis, 49, American poet, of a heart attack
  • Gaston Miron, Canada
  • Constance Urdang, American poet and novelist, wife of Donald Finkel