1924 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• February 8 – Lisel Mueller, American poet
• March 2 – Edgar Bowers (died 2000) American poet
• March 22 – Michael Hamburger (died 2007) British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic
• April 2 – Lauris Edmond (died 2000), New Zealand poet
• April 21 – P. Bhaskaran, Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriter
• May 3 – Yehuda Amichai יהודה עמיחי (died 2000) Israeli poet and one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew
• May 12 – Claribel Alegria Nicaraguan native and novelist, poet and writer in Nicaragua and El Salvador
• June 7 – Edward Field, American poet and author
• June 29 – Cid Corman (died 2004), American poet, translator and editor
• July 19 – Vassar Miller (died 1998), American poet
• August 28 – Janet Frame (died 2004) New Zealand poet, writer and novelist
• October 29 – Zbigniew Herbert (died 1998) Polish poet, essayist, moralist and member of the Polish resistance during World War II; perhaps the most famous and most translated of Polish writers
• November 25 – Takaaki Yoshimoto 吉本隆明, also known as "Ryūmei Yoshimoto", Japanese poet, literary critic, and philosopher; father of the writer Banana Yoshimoto and cartoonist Haruno Yoiko (surname: Yoshimoto)
• November 28 – Dennis Brutus, (died 2009), South African poet and anti-Apartheid activist. He was imprisoned and incarcerated in the cell next to Nelson Mandela's on Robben Island from 1963 to 1965. Earned the Lifetime Honourary Award by the South African Department of Arts and Culture for his lifelong dedication to African and world poetry and literary arts
• December 20 – Friederike Mayrocker, Austrian
• December 24 – Nissim Ezekiel (died 2004), Indian poet, playwright and art critic writing in English .

• Also:
  • Elizabeth Bartlett
  • Jane Cooper
  • David Ferry, American poet and translator
  • John Haines, American poet
  • Matthew Mead, English poet and editor
  • Robert Peters, American poet, critic, scholar, playwright and editor