1889 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• March 1 – Okamoto Kanoko 岡本かの子, pen name of Ohnuki Kano (died 1939), Japanese, author, tanka poet, and Buddhist scholar in the Taishō and early Shōwa periods; mother of artist Tarō Okamoto
• April 27 – Arnulf Øverland (died 1968), Norwegian poet
• June 23 – Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (died 1966), Russian
• June 28 – Abbas Al Akkad عباس محمود العقاد (died 1964), Egyptian, Arabic-language writer and poet, a founder of the Divan school of poetry
• July 30 – Dorothy Wellesley (born "Dorothy Violet Ashton"; died 1956), styled Lady Gerald Wellesley between 1914 and 1943, English socialite, author, poet and literary editor
• August 5 – Conrad Aiken
• August 19 – Arthur David Waley
• September 13 – Pierre Reverdy (died 1960), French
• September 15 – Claude McKay, Jamaican
• October 31 – Napoleon Lapathiotis (died 1944), Greek
• November 11 – Mantarō Kubota 久保田万太郎 (died 1963), Japanese author, playwright and poet (surname: Kubota)

• Also:
  • James Alexander Allan (died 1956), Australian poet and local historian
  • William Hervey Allen
  • Harley Matthews (died 1968), Australian
  • V. C. Balakrishna Panikker (died 1915), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
  • Vasilis Rotas (died 1977), Greek
  • Acharya Ramlochan Saran (died 1971), Indian, Maithili-language poet literateur, grammarian, publisher and poet