1914 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 14 – Dudley Randall (died 2000) African American poet and poetry publisher, founding Broadside Press in 1965
• February 7 – David Ignatow (died 1997), American poet
• February 14 – Jan Nisar Akhtar (died 1976) Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms and lyricist for Bollywood
• February 24 – Weldon Kees (missing and presumed dead, 1955), American poet, critic, novelist, short story writer, composer and artist.
• March 31 – Octavio Paz (died 1998) Mexican writer, poet, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990
• May 6 – Randall Jarrell, American poet and writer
• June 2 - George Hitchcock (died 2010), U.S. poet, editor and publisher of Kayak magazine and books (1964–1984)
• June 26 – Laurie Lee
• July 30 – Tachihara Michizō 立原道造 (died 1939), poet and architect
• October 25 – John Berryman (born John Allyn Smith) (died 1972) American poet considered one of the founders of the Confessional school of poetry
• October 27 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet
• October 30 – James Laughlin (died 1997), American poet and literary book publisher, founder of New Directions Publishers

• Also:
  • Punkunnam Damodaran, Indian, Malayalam-language poet and playwright
  • Devakanta Barua, Indian, Assamese-language poet
  • G. V. Krishna Rao (died 1979), Indian, Tegulu-language poet and novelist
  • Ghulam Ahmad Fazil Kashmiri (died 2004), also known as "Fazil Kashmiri", Indian, Kashmiri-language poet (surname: Fazil)
  • Kunjabihari Das, Indian, Orissa-language poet, folklorist, travel writer and memoirist
  • Laksmidhar Nayak, Indian, Oriya playwright, novelist, poet and labor leader
  • Narayan Bezbarua, Indian, Assamese-language poet, novelist and playwright
  • Narmada Prasad Khare, Indian, Hindi-language poet and editor
  • Yamazaki Hōdai 山崎方代 (died 1985), Showa period tanka poet (family name: Yamazaki)