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Events
- George Oppen joins the Communist Party, where his organizing work will increasingly take precedence over his poetry; he writes no more verse until 1958.
Works published
- Constantine Cavafy - Ποιήματα (Piimata, or 'Poems of C.P. Cavafy')
- E.E. Cummings - No Thanks
- Allen Curnow (New Zealand):
- Three Poems (Caxton)
- Poetry and Language, a brief poetry manifesto (Caxton)
- T. S. Eliot - Murder in the Cathedral
- William Empson - Some Versions of Pastoral
- Federico García Lorca - Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (Spanish for "Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías"), and Seis poemas galegos ("Six Galician poems")
- Sir Muhammad Iqbal - Bal-i Jibril (Wings of Gabriel) in Urdu, inspired by his 1933 visit to Spain
- Louis MacNeice - Poems
- John Masefield - Box of Delights
- Giorgos Seferis - Μυθιστόρημα (Tale of Legends)
- Wallace Stevens - Ideas of Order
- William Carlos Williams - An Early Martyr and Other Poems
- W. B. Yeats - A Full Moon in March
Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - Audrey Wurdemann, Bright Ambush
Births
- January 30 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet (died 1984)
- January 27 - died M. Thomas, English novelist, poet, and translator from Cornwall
- March 13 - Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian poet and author whose work combines the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization.
- April 16 — Sarah Kirsch, German
- May 14 - Roque Dalton, leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist who wrote on death, love, and politics (died 1975)
- June 1 - Clayton Eshleman, American poet, translator, and editor
- June 6 - Joy Kogawa, Canadian poet and novelist
- June 12 &mdasah; Christoph Meckel, German
- July 29 - Pat Lowther, Canadian poet killed by her husband (died 1975)
- August 24 - Rosmarie Waldrop, German-born American poet and translator (primary English translator of Edmond Jabès)
- August 25 - Charles Wright, American poet.
- September 10 - Mary Oliver, American poet
- November 15 - Gustaf Sobin, American expatriate poet & novelist (died 2005)
- December 1 - George Bowering, Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer
- December 29 - Yevgeny Rein (Евгений Рейн), Russian poet
- date unknown
- Michael Benedikt
- Russell Edson, American poet
- David R. Slavitt
- Jay Wright, African American poet
Deaths
- April 6 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner (born 1869)
- July 17 - George William Russell, Anglo-Irish supporter of Irish nationalism, critic, poet, and painter who wrote under the pseudonym Æ, mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers of theosophy (born 1867)
- August 11 - Sir William Watson, English traditionalist poet popular for the political content of his verse (born 1858)
- September 18 - Alice Dunbar Nelson, African American poet, journalist and political activist, and a part of the Harlem Renaissance; her husband Paul Laurence Dunbar was also a poet (born 1875)
- November 30 - Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and writer (born 1888)
- December 17 - Lizette Woodworth Reese, American poet (born 1856)
