2004 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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• January 4 – Jeff Nuttall, 70 (born 1933), English poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, and social commentator
• January 8 – Norman Talbot (born 1936), Australian
• January 29 – Janet Frame, 79, English novelist who wrote poetry all her life; she published one collection, The Pocket Mirror, in 1967.
• February 17 – Bruce Beaver (born 1928), Australian
• March 3 – Pedro Pietri 59, Puerto Rican/American poet
• March 12 – Cid Corman, 79, American poet, translator and editor
• August 29 – Donald Allen, influential editor, publisher, and translator of contemporary American literature who edited The New American Poetry 1945-1960, an influential book republished in 1990.
• September 16 – Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet
• October 20 – Anthony Hecht, American poet
• December 2 – Mona Van Duyn (born 1921), American poet
• December 8 – Jackson Mac Low, American poet
• December 26 – Ishigaki Rin 石垣りん (born 1920), Japanese poet, employee of the Industrial Bank of Japan, sometimes called "the bank teller poet"
• date not known – Mary Elizabeth Frye (born 1905), American housewife, florist, author of the poem "Do not stand at my grave and weep"