Charles Olson

Charles Olson was a second generation modernist American poet who was a link between earlier modernist figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the third generation modernist New American poets. The latter includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, and some of the artists and poets associated with the Beat generation and the San Francisco Renaissance.

27 December 1910

Born on the same birth day (27 December): Cathy Lewis • Chloe Bridges • Claudio Castagnoli • Cole Hamels • Dahntay Jones • David Aardsma • Jamaal Charles • James Riddell (skier) • Jesse Williams (high jumper) • Luka Garza • Mark Lapidus • Michael Turnbull (bishop) • Nolan Richardson • Petar Kanavelić • T. Nadaraja • Willem van Otterloo • Willy Polleunis

Born in the same month (December 1910): Abe Burrows • Billy Williams (singer) • Duncan McNaughton • Eknath Easwaran • Ellen Braumüller • Enrique Maier • Eric Tindill • Freddie Brown (cricketer) • Kurt Meyer • Ramaswamy Venkataraman • Ronald Coase