1989 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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• January 13 – Sterling Allen Brown, 87 (born 1901), poet, teacher and writer on folklore and of literary criticism
• February 28 – Richard Willard Armour, 82, of Parkinson's disease;
• August 25 – Hans Børli, 70, Norwegian poet, novelist, and writer
• September 15 – Robert Penn Warren (born 1905), poet and writer, former U.S. Poet Laureate, of cancer
• December 4 – May Swenson, American poet and playwright
• December 22 – Samuel Beckett, Irish poet, playwright and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1969