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

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
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"
William Carlos Williams, The Complete Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938
W.B. Yeats, New Poems, including "Lapis Lazuli"

Nathan Alterman, Stars Outside (Israel)
Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Armaghan-i-Hijaz ("Gift from Hijaz"), philosophical poetry book in Persian
Nikos Kazantzakis, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (Greek)
Ramanayan Pathak, Sheshnan Kavyo (Indian, writing in Gujarati)^[1]
Emil Staiger, Die Zeit als Einbildungskraft des Dichters, Germany (scholarship)^[2]

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

February 22 – Ishmael Reed, American poet, essayist and novelist
March 18 – Michael S. Harper, African American
March 24 – Ian Hamilton (died 2001), English literary critic, reviewer, biographer, poet, magazine editor and publisher
April 18 – Jwalamukhi జ్వాలాముఖీ , pen name of Veeravalli Raghavacharyulu (died 2008), Indian, Telugu-language poet, novelist, writer and political activist
May 9 – Charles Simic, American
May 25 – Raymond Carver (died in 1988), American short-story writer and poet
June 13 – John Newlove (died in 2003), Canadian
July 19 – Dom Moraes (died in 2004), Indian writer, poet and columnist
Date not known:
- Betty Adcock, American
- Tajal Bewas, pen name of Taj Mohammed Samoo, 70 (died 2008), bucolic Sufi poet, novelist, short-story writer, teacher and Pakistani government official^[3]
- Peter Dale, English poet and translator
- Elke Erb, German^[4]
- Julia Fields, African American
- Brendan Galvin, American
- Frances Horovitz English poet, broadcaster and performer of poetry.
- Keroapetse Kgositsile
- Deena Linett
- Leslie Allan Murray
- Nabaneeta Dev Sen (Bengali) writer and poet
- Robert Phillips (poet), American poet and academic
- George Thaniel
- Askia Muhammad Toure, African American

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

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.

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^ 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
^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474
^ Khaskheli, Jan, id=151776 "Tajal Bewas passes away", The News of Karachi, Pakistan, December 14, 2008, retrieved same day
^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006