1946 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• February 8 – Gert Jonke (died 2009), Austrian novelist, playwright, screenwriter and poet
• August 5 – Ron Silliman, American
• October 28 – Sharon Thesen, Canadian
• December 20 – Andrei Codrescu, a Romanian-born American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for NPR
• December 30 – Patti Smith, American poet and musician

• Also:
  • Alan Brunton (died 2002), New Zealand poet and scriptwriter
  • Amulya Barua (born 1922), Assamese poet first published posthumously in 1964, killed in communal violence
  • Larry Levis (died 1996), American
  • Tom Pickard, English poet, radio broadcaster, film maker and an initiator of the British Poetry Revival movement
  • Peter Reading, English poet
  • Joachim Sartorius, German
  • Maura Stanton, American
  • Marilyn Nelson Waniek, American
  • Dale Zieroth, Canada