Events
Works published
- John Betjeman, Mount Zion
- Edmund Blunden publishes Wilfred Owen's poems
- E.E. Cummings, ViVa
- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Red Roses for Bronze
- T. S. Eliot, Coriolan
- Federico García Lorca, Poema del cante jondo (Spanish for "Poem of Deep Song")
- Giorgos Seferis, Strophe (Στροφή)
- Louis Zukofsky edits the February issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. The issue eventually will be recognized as the founding document of the Objectivist poets. It features poetry by Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, George Oppen, Basil Bunting, William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, and many others. Also in the issue: Zukofsky's essay "Sincerity and Objectification".
Awards and honors
Births
- February 2 — Judith Viorst, American author known for her children's books and poetry
- April 19 — Etheridge Knight, (died 1991), an African-American poet
- May 16 — Peter Levi, (died 2000), professor of poetry at Oxford University and an English poet, Jesuit priest, archaeologist, travel writer, biographer, scholar, prolific reviewer and critic
- June 13 — Jay Macpherson, Canadian lyric poet and scholar; she is a member of the "mythopoeic school of poetry"
- June 21 — Patricia Goedicke, poet
- July 28 — Alan Brownjohn, English poet and novelist
- date not known:
Deaths
- March 16 — Harold Edward Monro, 54, British poet, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London
- April 2 — Katharine Tynan, 70, Irish poet, novelist and writer
- April 10 — Khalil Gibran, 48, poet artist, and writer born in Lebanon who spent much of his productive life in the United States
- October 5 — Christopher Brennan, 61, Australian poet
- December 5 — Vachel Lindsay (Nicholas Vachel Lindsay), 42, American poet and early advocate of jazz poetry, a suicide by poison
- date not known:
See also
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