1957 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• April 23 – Bruce Meyer, Canadian poet and educator
• August 19 – Li-Young Lee, American poet born in Jakarta, Indonesia to Chinese parents.
• Also:
  • Cyrus Cassells
  • Afua Cooper, Jamaican-born Canadian dub poet, sociologist, and historian who migrated to Canada in 1980.
  • Claudia Emerson, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  • Martín Espada, poet and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches creative writing and Latino poetry.
  • Essex Hemphill (died 1995), gay American poet and activist
  • Michael Hofmann, German-English poet and translator from German
  • Uwe Kolbe, German
  • Brenda Marie Osbey, American
  • Anthony Molino
  • Sayed Hasmat Jalal, Bengali poet, short-story writer and journalist
  • Haris Vlavianos, Greek