1937 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

  • January 1:
    • John Fuller (poet), English poet and author
    • Dilwar Khan, Bengali poet
  • April 30 – Tony Harrison, English poet and playwright
  • May 11 – Michael Heller, American poet
  • June 8 – Gillian Clarke, native Welsh, English-language poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator (from Welsh)
  • June 10 – Susan Howe, American poet and critic closely associated with the Language poets
  • September 14 – Douglas Oliver, British poet
  • October 11 – R. H. W. Dillard, American poet, author, critic, and translator
  • November 9 – Roger McGough, British poet
  • November 11 – Alicia Ostriker, American poet and academic
  • November 19 – Meg Campbell (died 2007), New Zealand, poet and wife of Alistair Campbell
  • December 31 – Nicolas Born (died 1979), German poet
  • Also:
    • Coleman Barks, American poet who, although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, is nonetheless renowned as a translator of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia
    • Kurt Bartsch, German
    • Marvin Bell, American poet
    • Eugene B. Redmond, African American
    • John Riley (died 1978), English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival
    • Glen Sorestad
    • Dabney Stuart, American
    • Diane Wakoski, an American poet associated with the "deep image" poets and the Beats
    • Eleanor Wilner

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