1942 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• February 23 – Haki R. Madhubuti (born "Don Luther Lee"), African-American poet, author and academic
• March 13 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet and prose writer
• March 23 – Ama Ata Aidoo Ghanaian author, poet and playwright
• March 26 – Erica Jong, American author and poet
• October 5 – Nick Piombino, American poet, essayist, and psychotherapist. Sometimes associated with Language poets, because of his frequent appearance in the seminal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine early in his poetic career
• October 23 – Douglas Dunn, Scottish poet, academic and critic.
• November 9 – Karin Kiwus, German
• November 11 – William Matthews, American poet and essayist
• December 16 – Peter Seaton, American poet associated with the Language poets
• November 19 – Sharon Olds, American poet
• December 9 – David Harsent, English poet and crime novelist

• Also:
  • Gladys Cardiff, American poet and academic
  • Stuart Dybek, American poet and author
  • Mark DeFoe
  • Douglas Eaglesham Dunn
  • Ebon (poet) / Leo Thomas Hale / Ebon Dooley, African American
  • Jennifer Footman
  • Marilyn Hacker, American poet, critic, and reviewer
  • David Henderson, poet associated with the Umbra workshop and Black Arts Movement
  • Everett H. Hoagland III, African-American
  • Peter Klappert, American
  • Sydney Lea, American
  • Susan Ludvigson, American
  • Charles Martin, American poet, critic and translator
  • Pat Mora, female Mexican-American author and poet
  • Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Irish poet
  • Arthur Nortje, South African poet (died 1970)
  • Henry S. Taylor, Pulitzer Prize-winning American
  • Tom Weatherly, American
  • Hugo Williams, English poet, journalist and travel writer