1919 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 7 – Robert Duncan (died 1988), American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets and the beat generation, and a key player in the San Francisco Renaissance.
• January 9 – William Meredith, American poet
• February 12 – Subhash Mukhopadhyay (died 2003), Bengali poet and Marxist (surname: Mukhopadhyay)
• March 24 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born "Lawrence Ferling"), American beat poet, painter, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
• May 28 – May Swenson, (died 1989, American poet and playwright
• July 19 – Miltos Sachtouris, Greek
• September 3 - Edwin Honig, (died 2011), American poet, critic, and translator known for his English renditions of seminal works of Spanish and Portuguese literature
• September 7 – Louise Bennett-Coverley, aka "Miss Lou" (died 2006), Jamaican folklorist, writer, and poet
• September 26 – Matilde Camus, Spanish poet, and researcher.
• November 4 – Patricia Beer (died 1999), English poet and critic

• Also:
  • Joan Brossa, Spanish Catalan poet
  • Ruth Dallas, New Zealander
  • Madeline DeFrees
  • Gevorg Emin (Karlen karapetian), Armenian
  • M. Govindan (died 1988), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
  • Emyr Owen Humphreys, Welsh novelist, playwright and poet
  • Lance Jeffers (died 1985), African American
  • Kuroda Saburu, Japanese (surname: Kuroda)
  • Jiri Orten (Czechoslovakia)
  • Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, (died 1978), Argentine author and poet
  • Amrita Pritan, Punjabi poet and novelist; a woman
  • Bani Ray, Bengali writer, novelist, poet and critic, a woman
  • Binod Chandra Nayak, Oriya-language poet
  • Buddhidhari Singha, Maithili-language poet and fiction writer
  • G. D. Madgulkar (died 1978), Indian, Marathi-language poet, song writer and short-story writer
  • Girija Kumar Mathur (died 1994), Indian, Hindi-language poet
  • M. Govindan, Indian, Malayalam-language poet, short-story writer, playwright and essayist
  • Syed Abdul Malik, Indian, Assamese-language short-story writer and poet
  • Abdurrahman Pazhwak, Afghan poet, novelist and playwright
  • Yoshioka Minoru, Japanese (surname: Yoshioka)