John Malcolm Brinnin (September 13, 1916 – June 26, 1998[1]) was a Canadian-born American poet and literary critic.
Brinnin went to the University of Michigan for his undergraduate studies where he won three Hopwood Awards in 1938, 1939 and 1940.
During part of this time (1936–1938), Brinnin served as the editor of the journal Signatures.
While he was there, he raised the center to national attention as a focal point for poetry in the United States.
These collections include The Garden is Political (1942), The Sorrows of Cold Stone (1951), and Skin Diving in the Virgins, and Other Poems, his last publication in 1970.