1939 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 10 - Jared Carter, American poet, winner of the 1980 Walt Whitman Award
• January 23 – Fred Wah Chinese-Canadian poet, novelist, and scholar
• February 5 – Siv Cedering, Swedish-American poet, painter, sculptor, illustrator, and author
• March 26 – Patrick Lane, Canadian poet
• April 13 – Seamus Heaney, Irish writer and lecturer from Northern Ireland who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995
• April 16 – Diane Wood Middlebrook, née Helen Diane Wood, (died 2008), American poet, academic and biographer
• April 25 – Ted Kooser, American poet and 13th Poet Laureate of the United States, serving two terms from 2004 to 2006
• May 7 – Volker Braun, German
• May 31 – Al Young, American poet, novelist and writer of musical memoirs named poet laureate of California in 2005
• June 30 – José Emilio Pacheco Mexican poet, essayist, translator, novelist and short story writer
• July 22 – Quincy Troupe, American poet, editor, journalist, and academic
• July 27 – Michael Longley, Northern Irish poet
• August 31 – Dennis Lee Canadian children's writer and poet
• October 24 – Paula Gunn Allen, Native American poet, literary critic, activist and novelist
• November 18 – Margaret Atwood, novelist and poet
• November 23 – bill bissett Canadian poet famous for his anti-conventional style who does not capitalise his name

• February 26 – Clark Coolidge, American poet
• August 8 –Dick Allen American poet born in Troy, NY

• Also:
  • Frank Bidart, American
  • Charles Boer, American
  • Philip Dacey, American
  • Stephen Dunn, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  • Lee Harwood, British
  • James McMichael, American
  • Heather Ross Miller, American poet, author and academic
  • Stanley Plumly, American poet and academic
  • Primus St. John