Births
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- January 8 – Charles Tomlinson, British poet, translator, academic, and artist
- February 1 – Galway Kinnell, American poet
- April 8 – Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
- June 7 – Martin Carter (died 1997), Guyanese poet
- June 26 – Robert Kroetsch (died 2011), Canadian poet and novelist
- July 28 – John Ashbery, American poet, former chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- August 7 – Larry Eigner (died 1996), American poet early in his career was associated with the Black Mountain poets; later was recognized as precursor to other poetic movements, i.e., Language poetry
- September 30 – W. S. Merwin, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- October 16 – Günter Grass, German author and poet
- October 19 – Edwin Brock (died 1997), English poet
- October 20 – Oskar Pastior (died 2006), Romanian-born German poet and translator
- November 20 – Kikuo Takano (died 2006), Japanese poet and mathematician
- December 3 – James Wright, (died 1980), American poet
- Also:
- Henry Coulette
- David Diop
- Molly Holden (died 1981)
- Judson Jerome, American
- Richard Moore, American poet who taught at Boston University and Brandeis University
- Richard Murphy, Irish poet
- John Tripp (died 1986), Anglo-Welsh poet in whose memory the annual John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award is presented.
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (15611626)