1928 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 1 – Iain Crichton Smith (died 1998), Scot writing poetry, short stories and novels in both English and Scottish Gaelic
• January 10 – Philip Levine, American poet, educator and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• February 2 – Cynthia Macdonald, American
• February 14 – Bruce Beaver (died 2004). Australian poet
• March 4 – Alan Sillitoe, English poet and writer and one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s
• March 28 – Vayalar Rama Varma (died 1975), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriter
• April 4 – Maya Angelou, African-American poet
• April 7 – Gael Turnbull (died 2004), Scottish poet
• May 4 – Thomas Kinsella Irish poet, translator, editor and publisher
• June 27 – Peter Davison (died 2004), American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor, and publisher
• July 4 – Ted Joans (died 2003) African American trumpeter, jazz poet and painter
• September 17 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水 (born 1885), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet
• September 20 – Donald Hall, American poet and the U.S. Poet Laureate
• September 22 – Irving Feldman, American poet and educator
• September 22 – Édouard Glissant, (died 2011) – French-Martiniquan poet and writer.
• November 9 – Anne Sexton (died 1974), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967
• December 10 – Milan Rufus (died 2009), Slovak poet and academic

• Also:
  • Carol Bergé
  • R. F. Brissenden
  • Don Coles, Canadian
  • William Dickey (poet), American
  • Dave Etter, American
  • Gene Frumkin, American
  • Conrad Hilberry, American
  • Hertha Kraftner (died 1951), German
  • Lo Fu (poet) (Luo Fu) (pen name of Mo Luofu), Chinese poet, writer and translator