Overview of the events of 1904 in poetry
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Births
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- January 21 – Richard P. Blackmur (died 1965), American poet and critic
- January 23 – Louis Zukofsky (died 1978), American poet and co-founder and primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets
- February 2 – A. R. D. Fairburn (died 1957), New Zealander[3]
- February 9 – Kikuko Kawakami 川上 喜久子 (died 1985), Japanese Shōwa period novelist, short-story writer and poet, a woman
- March 1 – Margaret Steuart Pollard, née Gladstone (died 1996), English oriental scholar, bard of the Cornish Gorsedd, philanthropist and eccentric[13]
- April 5 – Richard Eberhart (died 2005), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1966 and a National Book Award in 1977
- April 27 – Cecil Day-Lewis (died 1972), Anglo-Irish poet, British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, and mystery writer
- May 13 – Earle Birney (died 1995), Canadian poet and two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature (in 1942 and 1945)
- May 20 – Nagai Tatsuo 永井龍男, used the pen-name of "Tomonkyo" for his poetry (died 1990), Japanese Shōwa period novelist, short-story writer, haiku poet, editor and journalist
- May 26 – Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (died 1983), Turkish
- June 8 – Alice Rahon (died 1987), French-born Mexican surrealist poet and painter
- June 13 – John K. Ewers (died 1978), Australian
- July 5 – Harold Acton (died 1994), Anglo-Italian writer, scholar and dilettante
- July 12 – Pablo Neruda (died 1973), Chilean writer and Communist politician
- August 15 – Subedar Mahmoodmiya Mohammad Imam, popularly known as "Asim Randeri" (died 2009), Indian, Gujarati-language ghazal poet[14]
- October 21 – Patrick Kavanagh (died 1967), Irish poet and novelist
- October 29 – Audrey Alexandra Brown (died 1998), Canadian[3]
- December 21 – Johannes Edfelt (died 1997), Swedish poet
- December 28 – Hori Tatsuo 堀 辰雄 (died 1953), Japanese Shōwa period writer, poet and translator
- December 31 – Fumiko Hayashi 林 芙美子 (born this year or 1903 (sources disagree) – 1951), Japanese novelist, writer and poet (a woman)
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