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Events
- The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I (1918) at the age of 28 and originally buried in a mass grave, are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France.
- Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, closes
Works published
- W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, A Treasury of New Zealand Verse, revised version (without preface) of New Zealand Verse, published in 1906, anthology1
- E.E. Cummings, is 5
- Federico García Lorca, Oda a Salvador Dalí ("Ode to Salvador Dalí"), Spain
- Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues, including "The Weary Blues"
- Krishnala M. Jhaveri, Further Milestones in Gujarati Literature written in English and translated into Gujarati; scholarship and criticism in (India)2
- Hugh MacDiarmid, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
- Archibald MacLeish, Streets in the Moon, including "The End of the World"
- Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope
- Ezra Pound, Personae
- Louis Zukofsky completes "Poem beginning 'The'," incorporating fragments of the writings of Dante, Virginia Woolf, and Benito Mussolini, among others
Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, What's O'Clock
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 5 – W. D. Snodgrass, pseudonym S. S. Gardons, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1960
- February 18 – A. R. Ammons (died 2001), American author and poet
- March 3 – James Merrill (died 1995), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1977
- May 21 – Robert Creeley (died 2005), American poet, author and usually associated with the Black Mountain poets
- May 26 – Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian science fiction novelist and poet
- June 3 – Allen Ginsberg (died 1997), American Beat poet
- June 5 – David Wagoner, American poet and novelist
- June 25 – Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973) Austrian poet and author
- June 27 – Frank O'Hara (died 1966), American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry.
- June 29 – James K. Baxter (died 1972), New Zealand poet
- July 18 – Elizabeth Jennings (died 2001), English poet
- August 15 – Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali
- September 1 – James Reaney (died 2008, Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic
- November 23 – Christopher Logue, English poet, playwright, screen writer and actor associated with the British Poetry Revival
- November 24 – Paul Blackburn (died 1971), American poet
- December 23 – Robert Bly, American poet, author, and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States
- December 26 – Nabakanta Barua, also known as Ekhud Kokaideu, (died 2002), Assamese-language Indian novelist and poet
- Date not known:
- Russell Atkins, African American
- Marya Fiamengo
- Nikos Karouzos (died 1990), Greek poet
- Francis Edward Sparshott
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 30 – Perceval Gibbon Welsh poet, author and journalist
- July 19 – Ada Cambridge (married name was Cross, but she kept her maiden name as her pen name), 81 (born 1844), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
- August 1 - Israel Zangwill, English poet
- November 17 – George Sterling (born 1869, American
- December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, 51, German poet, from leukemia
- Date not known:
- Charles Montagu Doughty, (born 1843), English poet, writer, and traveller
- Eva Selena Gore-Booth
- Francis Joseph Sherman
Notes
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
- ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
See also
