Births
- May 30 – Elizabeth Alexander, American poet
- October 9 – Durs Grunbein, German
- December 6 – Julia Kasdorf, is an American poet
- December 31 – Machi Tawara 俵万智, Japanese writer, translator and poet
- March 13 – Seyhan Erözçelik, a Turkish poet (died 2011)
- Also:
- Paul Beatty, African-American poet and author
- Stacy Doris
- Glyn Maxwell, British poet
- Virgil Suárez, Cuban American poet and novelist
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)