2002 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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• June 14 – June Jordan, American poet, of breast cancer
• June 27 – Alan Brunton (born 1946), New Zealand poet and scriptwriter
• July 6 – Kenneth Koch, American poet, of leukemia
• July 14 – Nabakanta Barua, also known as Ekhud Kokaideu, (born (1926), Assamese-language Indian novelist and poet
• August 25 – Dorothy Hewett (born 1923), Australian poet and playwright
• September 27 – Charles Henri Ford, 89, American novelist, poet, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist
• October 21 – Harbhajan Singh (born 1920), Punjabi poet, critic, cultural commentator, and translator
• October 28 – Annadashankar Roy (born 1905), Bengali poet
• December 9 – Stan Rice, American painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice