1969 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1969 poetry literature Events March 23 – German-born writer Assia Wevill, a mistress of English poet Ted Hughes (and ex-wife of Canadian poet David Wevill), gasses herself and their daughter at her London home. FIELD magazine founded at Oberlin College. Charles Bukowski quits his day job as a Post Office clerk in Los Angeles to embark on a writing career after being promised a $100 stipend from Black Sparrow Press. He said at the time: "I have one of two choices — stay in the post office and go crazy ... or stay out here and play at writer and starve. I decided to starve." Poets Graves Web site, Web page titled "Charles Bukowski", accessed November 11, 2006. Howard Nemerov named Edward Mallinckrodt Distringuished University Professor of English and Distinguished Poet in Residence at Washington University in St. Louis, posts which he will hold until his death in 1991. The Kenyon Review is closed by Kenyon College after 30 years; it will be restarted by the college in 1979 Sir Arthur Bliss writes a cantata "The world is charged with the grandeur of God", from Gerard Manley Hopkins' sonnet of the same first line. Louise Bogan retires after 38 years as poetry critic for The New Yorker. Tish literary magazine, founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1961 and published intermittently thereafter, prints its last issue. Poets associated with the magazine included Frank Davey, Fred Wah, George Bowering, and, briefly, bpNichol when he lived in Vancouver.Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 978-1-4051-1361-8, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009. First issue of poetry magazine The Lace Curtain founded and edited by Michael Smith and Trevor Joyce under their New Writers Press imprint in Dublin. It will publish six issues until 1978 Alexander Tvardovsky, editor of Novy Mir, a Soviet literary magazine, is under attack this year and threatened with dismissal for "spreading cosmopolitan ideas", for "mocking the Soviet peoples' most sacred feelings" and for "denigrating Soviet patriotism". He responds that he was the "real patriot" and was opposed to "reactionary, nationalistic, neo-Slavophil" literary currents1970 Britannica Book of the Year, covering events of 1969, "Literature" article, "Soviet" section, p. 485. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Canada Milton Acorn, I've Tasted My Blood Earle Birney. The poems of Earle Birney: a New Canadian Library selection. (New Canadian library original N06.) Toronto: McClelland and Stewart."Earle Birney: Published Works https://web.archive.org/web/20110313081519/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/birney/pub.htm 2011-03-13 ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011. George Bowering, The Gangs of Kosmos Phyllis Gotlieb, Ordinary, Moving Ralph Gustafson, Ixion's Wheel Irving Layton, Selected Poems. Wynne Francis ed. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Irving Layton, The Whole Bloody Bird: Obs, Aphs & Pomes. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart."Irving Layton: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110714042105/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/layton/pub.htm 2011-07-14 ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Shadow Maker Tom Marshall, The Silences of Fire Alden Nowlan, The Mysterious Naked Man Michael Ondaatje, The Man with Seven Toes, Toronto: Coach House PressWeb page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008 Raymond Souster, So Far So Good: Poems, 1938/1968. Ottawa: Oberon Press."Notes on Life and Works https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195614/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html 2011-08-17 ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Miriam Waddington, Say Yes India, in English P. Lal, editor, Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology and Credo, Calcutta, Writers Workshop, India, anthology (second, expanded edition, 1971, however, on page 597 of the second edition, an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972")Mehrotra Arvind Krishna https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780231128100 registration A History of Indian literature in English 246 Columbia University Press 2003 0-231-12810-X July 18, 2010Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 597, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972") Daisy Aldan, editor, Poems of India; New York, United States.Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 594, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972") United Kingdom W. H. Auden, City Without WallsCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Alan Bold, A Perpetual Motion Machine Alan Brownjohn, Sandgrains on a Tray Basil Bunting, Collected Poems Charles Causley, Figure of 8 Barry Cole, Moonsearch Donald Davies, Essex Poems 1963–67 Douglas Dunn, Terry Street James Fenton, Put Thou Thy Tears Into My Bottle, poetry Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 Padraic Fiacc, Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom: By the Black Stream (edited) The Wearing of the Black Roy Fisher, Collected Poems Thom Gunn, Poems 1950–1966 David Harsent, A Violent Country Seamus Heaney, Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom: Door into the Dark, Faber & Faber A Lough Neagh Sequence, Phoenix Adrian Henri, Tonight at Noon John Hewitt, Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, Collected Poems, 1932-1967 Molly Holden, To Make me Grieve Anselm Hollo, The Coherences Elizabeth Jennings, The Animals' Arrival Tom Leonard, Scottish dialect poet, Six Glasgow Poems Laurence Lerner, Selves Christopher Logue New Numbers The Girls Michael Longley, No Continuing CityCulture Northern Ireland The 1960s Revival http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article/1721/the-1960s-revival 2012-07-26 2012-09-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20120908035536/http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article/1721/the-1960s-revival dead Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, A Clyack-Sheaf Roger McGough, Watchwords Brian Patten, Notes to the Hurrying Man J. H. Prynne, The White Stones Iain Crichton Smith, From Bourgeois Land Jon Stallworthy, Root and Branch Edward Storey, North Bank Night David Sutton, Out on a Limb Charles Tomlinson, The Way of a World Sydney Tremayne, The Turning Sky Vernon Watkins, Uncollected Poems, introduction by Kathleen Raine; Welsh poet, posthumous Kenneth White, translator, Selected Poems, translated from the original French of André Breton; publisher: Jonathan CapeAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 0-394-52197-8 Children of Albion poetry anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain, edited by Michael Horovitz, was the first anthology to present a wide-ranging selection of the new British Poetry Revival movement. Poems from these writers were included in it: John Arden Peter Armstrong Pete Brown Jim Burns Johnny Byrne Charles Cameron David Chaloner Barry Cole John Cotton Andrew Crozier Dave Cunliffe Felix de Mendelssohn Raymond Durgnat Paul Evans Ian Hamilton Finlay Roy Fisher Harry Guest Lee Harwood Michael Hastings Spike Hawkins Geoffrey Hazard Piero Heliczer Pete Hoida Anselm Hollo Frances Horovitz Michael Horovitz Libby Houston Mark Hyatt John James Roger Jones David Kerrison Seymour King Bernard Kops David Kozubei Herbert Lomas Anna Lovell Paul Matthews Michael McCafferty John McGrath Tom McGrath Stuart Mills Ted Milton Adrian Mitchell Edwin Morgan Tina Morris Philip O'Connor Neil Oram Tom Pickard Paul Potts Tom Raworth Carlyle Reedy Bernard Saint Michael Shayer David Sladen Tom Taylor Barry Tebb Chris Torrance Alexander Trocchi Gael Turnbull Patrick Waites Nicholas Snowden Willey William Wyatt Michael X United States W. H. Auden, City without Walls Ted Berrigan, Peace: Broadside John Berryman: The Dream Songs (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux) His Toy, His Dream His Rest (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) Paul Blackburn, Two New Poems Louise Bogan, The Blue Estuaries Lucille Clifton, Good Times, selected as one of the year's best books by The New York Times Robert Creeley, PiecesEverett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" https://web.archive.org/web/20080705161256/http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/creeley/life.htm 2008-07-05 at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008 Ed Dorn: Gunslinger: Book II, Black Sparrow PressWeb page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008 The Midwest Is That Space Between the Buffalo Statler and the Lawrence Eldridge, T. Williams The Cosmology of Finding Your Spot, Cottonwood Twenty-four Love Songs, Frontier Press Ed Dorn and Gordon Brotherston, translators, Jose Emilio Pacheco, Tree Between Two Walls, Black Sparrow Press LeRoi Jones, editor, Black Magic: Poetry, 1961-1967 Hugh Kenner, The Invisible Poet: T. S. Eliot (revised from the 1959 edition), Canadian writing and published in the United States (criticism) James Merrill, The Fire Screen W. S. Merwin: Animae, San Francisco: KayakWeb page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Translator, Transparence of the World, poems by Jean Follain, New York: Atheneum (reprinted in 2003, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press) Translator, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda; London: Cape (reprinted in 2004 with an introduction by Christina Garcia, New York: Penguin Books) Translator, Voices: Selected Writings of Antonio Porchia, Chicago: Follett (reprinted in 1988 and 2003, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press) Vladimir Nabokov, Poems and Problems, 0-07-045724-7 Lorine Niedecker, T & G: Collected Poems, 1936-1966 Ron Padgett, Great Balls of Fire, Holt, Rinehart & Winston Charles Reznikoff, By the Well of Living & Seeing and The Fifth Book of the Maccabees Aram Saroyan, Pages, Random House James Schuyler, Freely Espousing Charles Simic, Jim Harrison, George Quasha, Dan Gerber, J.D. Reed, Five Blind Men, (Sumac Press) Gary Snyder, Smokey the Bear Sutra Louis Zukofsky, in collaboration with his wife, Celia, publishes an experimental Latin translation Catullus Other English language James K. Baxter, Rock Woman, New Zealand Charles Brasch: Not Far Off: Poems, Christchurch: Caxton Press, New ZealandWeb page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" https://web.archive.org/web/20060928202053/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/brasch.htm September 28, 2006 at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Edward Brathwaite, Islands, third part of his The Arrivants trilogy, which also includes Rights of Passage (1967) and Masks (1968), Caribbean"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 Sam Hunt, From Bottle Creek: Selected Poems 1967–69 New Zealand Donagh MacDonagh, A Warning to Conquerors, Ireland Les Murray, The Weatherboard Cathedral, Australia https://web.archive.org/web/20071013031215/http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216 2007-10-13 Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007 Wole Soyinka, Poems from Prison (Nigeria) Derek Walcott, The Gulf, Caribbean Works published in other languages Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: French language Canada, in French André Major, Poèmes pour durer Pierre Chatillon, Soleil de bivouac Jean-Guy Pilon: Comme Eau retenue (Paris), a republishing of all of his previous books of poems in one volume Saisons pour la continuelle, Paris: SeghersWeb page titled "Jean-Guy Pilon" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164351/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/jeanguy_pilon.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Guy Robert, five books of poems Jean Royer, Nos corps habitables, Sillery: Éditions de l'ArcWeb page titled "Jean Royer" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164236/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/jean_royer.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 André Saint-Germain, Sens unique Gemma Tremblay, Les Seins gorgés France Louis Aragon, Les ChambresBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 M. Beguey, La Rose ardente G. Belloni, La Route du feu Luc Bérimont, Un Feu vivant M. Berry, Isabelle Philippe Chabaneix, Les matins et les soirs René Char, La Pluie giboyeuse Andrée Chedid: Contre-chat Seul le Visage Michel Deguy, Figurations P. Dumaine, Inscriptions Jacques Dupin, L'embrasure Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël Mathieu, Notre Père Gérard Genette, Figures II, one of three volumes of a work of critical scholarship in poetics – general theory of literary form and analysis of individual works — the Figures volumes are concerned with the problems of poetic discourse and narrative in Stendhal, Flaubert and Proust and in Baroque poetry (see also Figures I 1966, Figures III 1972) Eugene Guilleveic, Ville R. Houdelot, Amour en profil perdu Philippe Jaccottet: Leçons L'Entretien des muses, a prose account of poetry writing Edmond Jabès, Elya Michel Leiris, Note sans mémoire, Gallimard Loys Masson, La Croix de rose rouge (posthumous) Saint-John Perse, Chanté par celle qui fut là [...], Paris: privately printed by Robert BlanchetWeb page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. 2009-07-24. Raymond Queneau, Fendre les flots Jean-Claude Renard, La Braise et la Rivière S. de Ricard, Les Chemins perdus Robert Sabatier won the Grand Prix de Poésie for: Les Poisons délectables Les Châteaux des millions d'années Anthologies Marc Alyn, editor, La Nouvelle Poésie française J. Loisy, editor, Un Certain Choix de poèmes Germany Hilde Domin, editor, de Doppelinterpretationen: Das zeitgenössische deutsche Gedicht zwischen Autor und Leser, Frankfurt and Bonn: Athenaum (scholarship)Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474; Source states "1969" but sources on the Web state the first edition was in "1966" and a paperback edition was published in 1969 H. Lamprecht, editor, Deutschland, Deutschland: Politische Gedichte, anthologyPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474 Albrecht Schöne, Über politische Lyrik im 20. Jahrhundert, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (scholarship) Hebrew P.Naveh, editor, Lol Shirai Yaakov Frances, the works of a seventeenth-century Italian Hebrew poet Rachel u-Michtaveha, Shirai Rachel u-Michtaveha (posthumous) A. Broides, Mivhar Shirim D. Chomsky, ba-Et u-Veona K. A. Bertini, Bakbuk Al Pnai ha-Mayim Y. Amichai, Ahshav be-Raash Y. Mar, Panim le-Kan (posthumous) D. Ravikovich, ha-Sefer ha-Shelishi N. Stuchkoff, compiler, Otzar ha-Safa ha-Ivrit (United States) G. Churgin, Ojkai Mahshava (United States) R. Ben-Yosef, (An American Jew living in Israel) Derech Eretz India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak, Amrutham Kurisina ratri, ("The Night When Nectar Rained"); Telugu-language, posthumously published, it became the author's best-known work, called a "milestone in modern Telugu" by Sisir Kumar DasDas, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008 Nirendranath Chakravarti; Bengali-language: Kolkatar Jishu, Kolkata: Aruna Prokashonihttp://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11144 Nirendranath Chakravarti Poetry International July 15, 2010 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120214214239/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11144 February 14, 2012 Nirendranath Chakravarti, Nokhotro Joyer Jonno, Kolkata: Surabhi Prokashoni Thangjam Ibopishak Singh, Apaiba Thawai ("The Hovering Soul"), Imphal: Naharol Sahitya Premee Samiti; Meitei languageWeb page titled "Thangjam Ibopishak Singh" https://web.archive.org/web/20110920032931/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=6290 2011-09-20 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 29, 2010 Italy Guido Ceronetti, Poesie, frammenti, poesie separate Giuseppe Favati, Controbuio Albino Pierro, Eccò 'a morte ("Why Death?"), in the Tursi language (Lucania) Other Miguel de Unamuno, edited by Roberto Paoli, Poesie, scholarly survey of his verse, with a selection of his Spanish poems with Italian translations Norway Paal Brekke, editor, Norsk lyrikk nå (anthology of Norwegian poetry of the 1960s) Tarjei Vesaas, collected poems Georg Johannesen, collected poems Poland Edward Balcerzan – Granica na moment Stanisław Grochowiak - Nie było lata Zbigniew Herbert – Napis Tadeusz Różewicz - Regio Portuguese Brazil Gregório de Matos (1633–1696), edited by James Amado, Obras Completas Décio Pignatari, Exercicio Findo Portugal Ruy de Moura Belo, Homem de palavra[s] ("A Man of [His] Word[s]")da Silva, Jaime H., "BELO, Ruy de Moura", article, p 185, Bleiberg, Germán, Dictionary of the literature of the Iberian peninsula, Volume 1, as retrieved from Google Books on September 6, 2011 Russia Evgeni Vinokurov, Selected Poems Vladimir Sokolov, Snow in September Konstantin Vanshenkin, Experience Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Lyrical Poems Andrei Voznesensky, "I Can't Write" a poem published in Phoenix, a broadsheet newspaper Robert Rozhdestvenski, Poem About Different Points of View, a long poem published in Yunost Spanish poetry Spain Matilde Camus: Voces (Voices) Vuelo de estrellas (Stars flight) Latin America Mexico Octavio Paz, Ladera Este R. Bonifaz Nuño, El ala del tigre Rosario Castellanos, Materia memorable Carlos Pellicer, Antología Efraín Huerta, a collection M. Michelena, a collection M. Guardia, a collection Gabriel Zaid, a book of new poetry Homero Aridjis, a book of new poetry M. A. Montes de Oca, a book of new poetry Juan Bañuelos, a book of new poetry José Emilio Pacheco, a book of new poetry Other Latin America Jorge Luis Borges: Nueva antología personal Elogio de las sombras A. Pizarnik, Extracción de la piedra de la locura F. Urondo, Adolecer Pablo Neruda, Fin de mundo Luis Cardoza y Aragón, Dibujos de ciego (Guatemala) Ernesto Cardenal, Homenaje a los indios americanos (Nicaragua) P. A. Cuadra, Poesía escogida (Nicaragua) César Velejo, Obra poética completa (Peru) Roque Dalton, Taberna y otros lugares (El Salvador) Sweden Lars Norén, Revolver Majken Johansson, Omtal Elsa Grave, Vid nödläge Reidar Ekner, Andhämtning, builder Yiddish Abraham Sutzkever, Poems from the Dead Sea Chaim Grade, On My Way to You Moyshe Knapheys ru Кнапгейс, Мойше, a new collection Leyb Morgentoy he לייב מורגנטוי, a new collection Chaim Leib Fox, a new collection Israel Emiot, a new collection Jacob Glatstein in an essay, said the poet should be a spokesman for his generation, and his poetry should be a poetry of involvement. Leon Kusman, a new collection Yitskhok Elkhonen Rontsh, a new collection M. M. Shafir, a new collection Other Inger Christensen, it (det, later translated into English by Susanna Nied); Denmarkhttp://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ingerc.htm Inger Christensen Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) Petri Liukkonen Kuusankoski Public Library Finland https://web.archive.org/web/20090123041708/http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ingerc.htm 23 January 2009 dead Syed Shamsul Haque, Boishekhe Rochito Ponktimala ("Verses of Boishakh") and Birotihin Utsob ("The ceaseless festival"), Bengali published in East Pakistan Kurt Marti, Leichenreden (Switzerland) in German, a collection of humorous verse variations of death notices and conventional funeral orations. Kirsten Thorup, Love from Trieste; Denmark Awards and honors Canada See 1969 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. United Kingdom Bollingen Prize: John Berryman and Karl Shapiro Cholmondeley Award: Derek Walcott, Tony Harrison Eric Gregory Award: Gavin Bantock, Jeremy Hooker, Jenny King, Neil Powell, Landeg E. White Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Stevie Smith United States National Book Award for Poetry: John Berryman, His Toy, His Dream, His Rest Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Oppen: Of Being Numerous Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Richard Eberhart and Anthony Hecht Births March 14 – Murray Lachlan Young, American-born British poet and performer March 29 – Ranjit Hoskote, Indian poet April 18 – C. Dale Young, American poet July 28 – Anthony Butts, American poet Stephanie Bolster, Canadian poet Matthias Goritz, German poet Hauke Huckstadt, German poet Davis McCombs, American poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 19 – Kazimierz Wierzynski, 74, Polish poet March 12 – André Salmon, 87, French poet, critic and novelist March 25 – Max Eastman, 86, American poet and editor April 22 – Rolfe Humphries, 74, American poet, of emphysema May 4 – Sir Osbert Sitwell, 76, English writer, of a heart attack May 26 – Henry Rago, 53, American poet and editor of Poetryhttp://www.henryrago.com Henry Rago 1915-1969 Poet and Professor 2017-02-18 July 11 – Guilherme de Almeida, 78, "prince of Brazilian poetry" July 23 – Floyd Bell, 82, of a heart ailment July 27 – Vivian de Sola Pinto, 73, British poet, memoirist, literary critic and historian August 18 – Humayun Kabir (Bengali: হুমায়ুন কবির), 63 (born 1906), Bengali poet, educationist, politician, writer and philosopher October 21 – Jack Kerouac, 47, influential American Beat Generation poet, writer and novelist, of internal hemorrhage and cirrhosis Also: Loys Masson (born 1915), French poet W. R. Rodgers (born 1909), Irish poet, essayist, book reviewer, radio broadcaster, script writer, lecturer, teacher and Presbyterian minister See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry Notes 30em Category:20th-century poetry