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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

[edit] 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.

[edit] Works published in English

• 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
• Louis MacNeice - Poems
• John Masefield - Box of Delights
• Wallace Stevens - Ideas of Order
• William Carlos Williams - An Early Martyr and Other Poems
• W. B. Yeats - A Full Moon in March

[edit] Works published in other languages

• Constantine Cavafy - Ποιήματα (Piimata, or 'Poems of C.P. Cavafy') (Greek)
• Federico García Lorca - Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (Spanish for "Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías"), and Seis poemas galegos ("Six Galician poems")
• Giorgos Seferis - Μυθιστόρημα (Tale of Legends) (Greek)

[edit] Subcontinent of India

[edit] Gujarati

• Mansukhlal Jhaveri, Phooldal^[1]
• Jhaverchand Meghani, Yugavandana^[1]
• Balawantrai Thakore, Mharon Sonnet^[1]

[edit] Urdu

• Sir Muhammad Iqbal - Bal-i Jibril ("Wings of Gabriel"), inspired by his 1933 visit to Spain

[edit] Awards and honors

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - Audrey Wurdemann, Bright Ambush

[edit] Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 16 – Inger Christensen, 73 (died 2009), Danish poet, writer, novelist, essayist and children's book author^[2]
• January 18 – Jon Stallworthy, English poet, literary critic and academic
• January 30 – Richard Brautigan, writer and poet (died 1984)
• January 27 – D. 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 – Christoph Meckel, German
• July 29 – Pat Lowther, Canadian poet killed by her husband (died 1975)
• August 12 – A. B. Spellman, African American poet, music critic, music historian, arts administrator and author
• 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
• September 24 – Robert Kelly, American poet associated with the deep image group
• 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:
  • Johari M. Amini (aka Jewel Christine McLawler Latimore and Johari M. Kunjufu), African American
  • James Applewhite, American
  • Michael Benedikt, American poet
  • Sam Cornish, African American
  • Russell Edson, American poet
  • Andrew Hoyem, American a typographer, letterpress printer, publisher, poet, and preservationist; founder and director of Arion Press in San Francisco
  • Desmond O'Grady, Irish poet and translator; former editor of The Transatlantic Review, and organizer of the Spoleto International Poetry Festival
  • David R. Slavitt
  • Jay Wright, African American poet, playwright and essayist
  • Ahmos Zu-Bolton II, African American

[edit] Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• April 6 – Edwin Arlington Robinson (born 1869), American poet and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner
• July 17 – George William Russell (born 1867), 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
• August 11 – Sir William Watson (born 1858), English traditionalist poet popular for the political content of his verse
• September 18 – Alice Dunbar Nelson (born 1875), African American poet, journalist and political activist, and a part of the Harlem Renaissance; her husband Paul Laurence Dunbar was also a poet
• November 30 – Fernando Pessoa (born 1888), Portuguese poet and writer, of cirrhosis
• December 17 – Lizette Woodworth Reese (born 1856), American poet

[edit] See also

Poetry portal

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

[edit] Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c} 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
2. ^ "Poet Inger Christensen dies: Danish poet Inger Christensen dies at 73", Agence France Presse, as published on the Singapore Straits Times website, retrieved January 7, 2008