1909 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• February 14 – A.M. Klein (died 1972) Ukrainian-born Canadian poet, essayist and author of short stories
• February 28 – Stephen Spender (died 1995), English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle
• May 1 – Yannis Ritsos (died 1990), Greek
• May 9 – Robert Garioch (died 1981), a Scots-language poet, translator, and key member in the literary revival of the language in the mid-20th century
• July 18 – Bishnu Dey (died 1982) Bengali poet, prose writer and movie critic
• July 19 – Balamani Amma, Indian, Malayalam-language poet, a woman
• July 27 – Charles Brasch (died 1973), a New Zealand poet, literary editor, arts patron and founding editor of the literary journal Landfall
• October 4 – P. Kunhiraman Nair (died 1978), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
• October 12 – Dorothy Livesay (died 1996), Canadian poet
• November 16 – Michio Mado, Japanese poet who worked for the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan
• December 15 – John Glassco (died 1981) Canadian poet, memoirist, and pornographer

• Also:
  • Beatrice Davis (died 1992), Australian
  • John Glassco (died 1981), Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist
  • Elder Olson, American
  • Edappalli Raghavan Pillai (died 1936), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
  • W. R. Rodgers (died 1969), Irish poet, essayist, book reviewer, radio broadcaster, script writer, lecturer, teacher and Presbyterian minister