1923 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 15 – Ivor Cutler (died 2006), Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist
• January 16 – Anthony Hecht (died 2004), American poet
• February 2 – James Dickey (died 1997), American poet and novelist
• March 21 – Nizar Qabbani, Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher
• March 27 – Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born American poet who won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• March 30 – Milton Acorn (died 1986), Canadian poet, writer and playwright nicknamed "The People's Poet"
• April 3 – Daniel Hoffman, American poet, essayist, and academic who served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress — a position now known as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, from 1973 to 1974
• May 19 – Dorothy Hewett (died 2002), Australian poet and playwright
• July 2 – Wisława Szymborska (died 2012), Polish poet, essayist and translator who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996
• July 16 – Mari Evans, African American poet, author, playwright, academic and television producer
• September 22 – Dannie Abse, British poet and writer
• October 24 – Denise Levertov (died 1997), British-born American poet
• November 9 – James Schuyler (died 1991), American poet and a central figure in the New York School
• December 21 – Richard Hugo (born "Richard Hogan") (died 1982), American poet

• Also:
  • Alan Dugan (died 2003), American poet
  • Cola Franzen
  • David Holbrook, English poet, writer and academic
  • Pinkie Gordon Lane, African American
  • John Logan (poet) (died 1987), American poet
  • Michalis Katsaros, Greek
  • Nanao Sakaki (died 2008), Japanese poet and leading personality of "the Tribe", a counter-cultural group (surname: Sakaki)