1899 in Poetry - Births

Births

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• January 26 – May Miller (died 1995) African American poet, playwright and educator
• February 17 – Jibananda Das (died 1954), popular Bengali poet
• March 7 – Jun Ishikawa 石川淳 pen name of Ishikawa Kiyoshi, Ishikawa (died 1987), Japanese, Showa period modernist author, translator and literary critic
• March 25 – Jacques Audiberti (died 1965), French playwright, poet, novelist and exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd
• March 27 – Francis Ponge (died 1988), French academic, journalist and poet
• May 24 – Henri Michaux (died 1984), Belgian, French-language artist, writer and poet who became a French citizen
• May 25 – Kazi Nazrul Islam (died 1976), Bengali poet and composer best known as the Bidrohi Kobi ("Rebel Poet"), popular among Bengalis and considered the national poet of Bangladesh
• June 6 – Hildegarde Flanner (died 1987) American poet, author and activist
• June 8 – Kaoru Maruyama 丸山 薫 (died 1974), Japanese
• July 4 – Benjamin Péret (died 1959), French poet and writer
• July 7 – Margaret Larkin (died 1967), American poet
• July 21 – Hart Crane (died 1932), American poet
• August 1 – F.R. Scott (died 1985), Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert
• August 5 – Sakae Tsuboi 壺井栄 (died 1967), Japanese novelist and poet
• November 19 – Allen Tate (died 1979), American poet and member of the Fugitive Poets and later the Southern Agrarians.
• December 9 – Léonie Adams (died 1988) American poet and Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress
• Date not known:
  • Leonie Adams, American
  • Jammuneshwar Khataniyar (died 1920), Indian, Assamese-language poet; a woman
  • Raymond Knister died (1932), Canadian poet, novelist and short story writer
  • Dimbeshwar Neog (died 1966), Indian, Assamese-language poet
  • Constance Woodrow