1933 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 25 – Alden Nowlan, (died 1983), Canadian poet
• February 5 – B. S. Johnson (Bryan Stanley Johnson; died 1973), English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic and film-maker
• February 23 – Donna J. Stone née von Schoenweiler (died 1994), American poet and philanthropist, author of Wielder of Words
• April 2 – Konstantin Pavlov (died 2008), Bulgarian poet and screenwriter who was defiant against his country's communist regime; when censors prevented his works from being published officially in the country from 1966 to 1976, his popularity didn't wane, as Bulgarians clandestinely copied and read his poems.
• May 12 – Andrei Voznesensky (died 2010), Russian
• June 21 – Gerald William Barrax, African American
• August 16 – Reiner Kunze, German
• September 11 – Robert Fagles, an American professor, poet, and academic, best known for his many translations of ancient Greek Literature

• Also:
  • Maureen Duffy, British poet, playwright and novelist.
  • Kevin Ireland,
  • John Edward Lucie-Smith
  • Conrad Kent Rivers, African American
  • Joe Rosenblatt,
  • Peter Scupham, English
  • James Simmons (died 2001), Northern Ireland poet, literary critic and songwriter
  • Anne Stevenson, American-British poet
  • Robert Sward, Canadian and American poet, novelist and writer