1925 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 14 – Yukio Mishima 三島 由紀夫. pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka 平岡 公威 (died 1970), Japanese author, poet and playwright (Surname of this pen name: Mishima)
• February 8 – Francis Webb (died 1973) Australian poet
• February 22 – Gerald Stern, American
• February 27 – Kenneth Koch (died 2002) American poet, playwright, professor and prominent poet of the "New York School" of poetry
• March 10 – Manolis Anagnostakis (died 2005) Greek poet and critic
• March 13 – Inge Muller (died 1966) East German
• March 14 – John Wain (died 1994) English poet, novelist, and critic associated with the literary group The Movement.
• April 18 – Bob Kaufman (died 1986), American Beat poet and surrealist
• June 6 – Maxine Kumin, American poet and author; appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981-1982
• August 1 – Ernst Jandl (died 2000), Austrian poet, author and translator
• August 12 – Donald Justice (died 2004), American poet and writing teacher
• August 16 – Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh (died 2009), Azerbaijani poet, philologist
• September 16 – Samuel Menashe (died 2011), American poet and the first poet to receive "The Neglected Masters Award", given by the The Poetry Foundation of America, which he received in 2004.
• October 8 – Philip Booth (died 2007), American poet and educator
• October 28 – Ian Hamilton Finlay (died 2006), Scots poet, writer, artist — and gardener
• December 10 – Carolyn Kizer, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1985

• Also:
  • Theodore Enslim
  • Heinz Piontek (died 2003), German