1938 in poetry
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Events

• In Nazi Germany, the Reichsschrifttumskammer (the National Socialist authors' association) banned German expressionist poet Gottfried Benn from further writing.

Works published

• Nathan Alterman, Stars Outside (Israel)
• Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, editors, Understanding Poetry, criticism and anthology, (appearing thereafter in revised editions to 1976)
• Robin Hyde, New Zealand:
  • Nor the Years Condemn
  • The Godwits Fly
• Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Armaghan-i-Hijaz (Gift from Hijaz), philosophical poetry book in Persian
• Nikos Kazantzakis, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
• Louis MacNeice, The Earth Compels
• Poems of Today, British poetry anthology, third series
• Ezra Pound, Guide to Kulchur, dedicated "To Louis Zukofsky and Basil Bunting strugglers in the desert"
• Emil Staiger, Die Zeit als Einbildungskraft des Dichters, Germany (scholarship)^[1]
• William Carlos Williams, The Complete Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938
• W.B. Yeats, New Poems, including "Lapis Lazuli"

Awards and honors

• Hawthornden Prize - David Jones for In Parenthesis
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marya Zaturenska: Cold Morning Sky

Births

• February 22 — Ishmael Reed, American poet, essayist and novelist
• May 9 — Charles Simic, American poet
• May 25 — Raymond Carver (died in 1988), American short-story writer and poet
• June 13 — John Newlove (died in 2003), Canadian poet
• July 19 - Dom Moraes (died in 2004), Indian writer, poet and columnist
• Date not known:
  • Elke Erb, German^[2]
  • Michael Harper (poet)
  • Frances Horovitz English poet, broadcaster and performer of poetry.
  • Keroapetse Kgositsile
  • Deena Linett
  • Leslie Allan Murray
  • George Thaniel

Deaths

The Mausoleum of Muhammad Iqbal in Lahore, Pakistan

• March 1 — Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, writer, novelist, dramatist, daredevil
• April 15 — César Vallejo, Peruvian poet
• April 19 — Sir Henry Newbolt, English author and poet
• April 21 — Sir Muhammad Iqbal (aka "Allama Iqbal" [Urdu], and "Iqbal-e-Lahori" [Persian]) 70, Indian Muslim poet, philosopher and politician, who wrote in Persian and Urdu, and praised as Muffakir-e-Pakistan ("The Thinker of Pakistan"), Shair-i-Mashriq ("The Poet of the East"), and Hakeem-ul-Ummat ("The Sage of Ummah"); his birthday is annually commemorated in Pakistan as "Iqbal Day", a national holiday
• June 26 — James Weldon Johnson African-American author, poet, early civil rights activist, and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance, best known for his writing, including novels, poems, and collections of folklore
• October 27 — Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets".
• December 7 — Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet, essayist and one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets.

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry