1920 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 24 – Keith Douglas (died 1944), English poet
• February 21 – Ishigaki Rin 石垣りん (died 2004), Japanese poet; she was an employee of the Industrial Bank of Japan, sometimes called "the bank teller poet"
• February 29 – Howard Nemerov American (died 1991), United States Poet Laureate from 1963 to 1964, and from 1988 to 1990
• March 11 – Dennis Joseph Enright (died 2002) English academic, poet, novelist and critic
• April 27 – Edwin Morgan Scotts poet and translator
• June 15 – Amy Clampitt (died 1994), American poet and author
• June 18 – Rosemary Dobson, Australian poet
• August 16 – Charles Bukowski (died 1994), American poet, novelist, and short-story writer
• August 18 – Harbhajan Singh (died 2002), Indian, Punjabi poet in the Sahajvadi tradition, also a critic, cultural commentator, and translator
• September 6 – Barbara Guest née Barbara Ann Pinson (died 2006), American poet and critic
• November 3 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal (died 1993), Australian poet, actress, writer, teacher, artist and campaigner for Aboriginal causes
• November 23 – Paul Celan (died 1970), German-language poet born to a German-speaking Jewish family in a place then part of Romania, now part of Ukraine
• date not known – Alexander Scott (Scotland)
  • V. A. Anandakkuttan (died 1969), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and author of humorous essays and farces
  • Balachandra Rajan (died 2009), Indian critic, novelist and writer of in Indian poetry in English
  • Bernardino Evaristo Mendes, also known as B. E. Mendes, Indian, Konkani-language poet known for philosophical and theosophical writing
  • Birendra Chattopadhyay (died 1985), Bengali-language poet and Marxist
  • Jayant Pathak, Indian, Gujarati-language poet and critic
  • K. B. Nikumb, Indian, Marathi-language poet
  • Kaifi Azmi (died 2002), Indian, Hindi- and Urdu-language poet lyricist and songwriter
  • Manmohan Misra, Indian poet and essayist in Orissa
  • Natvarlal Kuberdas Pandya (pen name, "Usanas"), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and critic
  • Okiyuma Gwaynn, Indian poet who wrote Indian poetry in English and then in Nepali; born in Hong Kong to a Japanese father and Tibetan mother, he settled in Darjeeling in 1946
  • Ram Lal Papiha, Indian, Dogri-language poet
  • Rentala Gopalakrishna, Indian, Telugu-language poet and playwright
  • Santokh Singh Dheer, Indian, Punjabi poet and fiction writer in the largely romantic and progressive-in-outlook Amrita-Mohan Singh tradition of Punjabi
  • Madhunapantula Satyanarayanashastri, Indian, Telugu-language poet (surname: Satyanarayanashastri)
  • Tulasibahadur Chetri, nicknamed "Apatan", Indian, Nepali-language poet and playwright