1934 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 6 – John Wieners, American lyric poet (died 2002)
• February 10 – Fleur Adcock, expatriot New Zealand poet and editor who has lived much of her life in England
• February 18 – Audre Lorde, American writer, poet and activist
• February 27 – N. Scott Momaday, Native American poet and writer
• March 31 – Kamala Das, Indian poet and writer in English and Malayalam, her native language
• March 20 – David Malouf, Australian poet and writer
• April 11 – Mark Strand, American poet
• April 12 – Anselm Hollo a Finnish-American poet and translator who also lived for eight years in the United Kingdom, where his poems were included in British poetry anthologies. (He has lived most of his life in the United States.)
• July 13 – Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, poet and playwright who in 1986 was the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
• July 18 – Walt McDonald, American poet and academic
• July 20 – Henry Dumas (died 1968) was an African-American writer and poet
• August 5 – Wendell Berry, American novelist, essayist, poet, professor, cultural critic — and farmer
• August 6 – Diane Di Prima, American poet associated with the Beats
• September 7 – Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian Bengali-language poet
• September 9 – Sonia Sanchez, African-American poet, playwright and children's book author associated with the Black Arts Movement
• September 21 – Leonard Cohen, Canadian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter.
• September 23 – M. Travis Lane, American-Canadian
• October 7 – Amiri Baraka (born "LeRoi Jones"), African-American poet, playwright, essayist, music critic and former husband of poet Hettie Jones
• October 24 – Adrian Mitchell, 74, (died 2008), English poet, playwright, children's author, journalist and political activist, of heart failure
• November 7 – Beverly Dahlen, American poet
• November 15 – Ted Berrigan, (died 1983), American poet and political activist
• November 25 – Shakti Chattopadhyay, Bengali poet
• November 28 – Ted Walker (died 2004) English poet, short story writer, travel writer, television and radio dramatist and broadcaster
• December 17 – Binoy Majumdar (died 2006), Bengali poet
• Also:
  • Jack Agüeros, community activist, poet, writer and translator
  • Stephen Berg, American
  • Hettie Jones, American poet, writer and former wife of Amiri Baraka
  • Sugatha Kumari, Indian, Malayalam-language poet