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): Barbara Olson • Cyrus S. Eaton • David Shepherd (umpire) • Fumiko Orikasa • Giovanni Antonio Viscardi • Jay Ellis • Jay Hill (politician) • Jerome Courtland • Ok Taec-yeon • Timothée Chalamet • Willy Polleunis

Born in the same month (December 1910): Alicia Markova • Kurt Meyer • Max Miedinger • Paul Bowles • Vere Bird