1915 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 3 – James Elroy Flecker (born 1884), English poet, novelist and playwright
• January 15 – Chaganti Somayajulu (died 1994), Indian, Tegulu-language short-story writer and poet
• January 31 – Thomas Merton (died 1968), American poet, author and monk
• March 12 – José Luis Rodríguez Vélez (died 1984), Panamanian composer, orchestra director, saxophonist, clarinetist and guitarist.
• April 21 – John Manifold (died 1985), Australian
• April 22 – Hem Barua (died 1977), Indian, Assamese-language poet and politician
• May 28 – Dorothy Auchterlonie (died 1991), Australian
• May 30 – Michael Thwaites (died 2005), Australian poet, academic, intelligence officer, and activist
• May 31 – Judith Wright (died 2000), Australian
• June 8 – Ruth Stone, American poet, recipient of the 2002 National Book Award and the 2002 Wallace Stevens Award
• July 1 – Alun Lewis, Welsh war poet
• July 7 – Margaret Walker, poet and novelist
• July 16 – David Campbell (died 1979), Australian
• August 4 – Patrick Anderson (died 1979), English-born Canadian
• August 28 – Claude Roy, pen name of Claude Orland (died 1997), French poet, novelist, essayist, art critic and journalist; an activist in the Communist Party until his expulsion in 1956
• November 8 – G. S. Fraser, poet and critic
• December 8 – Nikos Gatsos (died 1992), Greek
• December 22 – David Martin (died 1997), Australian
• December 27 – John Cornford
• December 31 – Sam Ragan (died 1996), American poet, journalist; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 1982–1996

• Also:
  • Nanina Alba, African American
  • Margaret Esse Danner, African-American
  • Akhtarul Imam, Indian, Urdu-language poet in the "Halqa-i-Arba-i Zauq" movement
  • Bawa Balwant (died 1973), Indian, Punjabi poet
  • K. S. Narasimha Swami, better known as "K.S. NA", Indian, Kannada-language poet
  • Manmohan, pen name of Gopal Narhar Natu, Indian, Marathi-language poet
  • Nand Lal Ambardar (died 1973), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
  • Palagummi Padmaraju (died 1983), short-story writer, poet, film-industry writer
  • Prabhu Chugani, "Wafa", Indian, Sindhi-language poet
  • Rameshvar Shukla, pen name: Anchal, wrote in Khadi Boli and Braj Bhasa dialects of Hindi, poet, short-story writer and novelist
  • Sumitra Kumari Sinha, Indian, Hindi-language poet and short-story writer