1901 in poetry

Events

A small plaque is set on the Statue of Liberty to display Emma Lazarus' 1883 poem, "The New Colossus"

The first Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Sully Prudhomme, a French poet and essayist.

Canada

Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States

William Henry Drummond, Johnnie Courteau and other Poems.

Charles Mair, Tecumseh: A Drama, and Canadian Poems, published in Toronto

United Kingdom

Jane Barlow, Ghost-Bereft, with Other Stories and Studies in Verse

C. S. Calverley, Complete Works (posthumous)

John Davidson

The Testament of a Man Forbid

The Testament of a Vivisector

Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present (published November 1901; book states "1902")

George Meredith, A Reading of Life with Other Poems

Adela Florence Nicolson writing as "Laurence Hope", India's Love Lyrics (U.K. title), The Garden of Kama (U.S. title).

United States

Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States

Edwin Markham, Lincoln and Other Poems

William Vaughn Moody, Poems

George Santayana, A Hermit of Carmel and Other Poems

Other in English

Joseph Furtado, Poems, Bombay; India, Indian poetry in English

Louise Mack, Dreams in Flower, Australia

Works published in other languages

Hayim Nahman Bialik, שירים, Hebrew published in Warsaw

José Santos Chocano, El fin de Satán y otros poemas (The End of Satan' and Other Poems), Peru

Stefan George, Die Fibel, poems written from 1886–1889; German

Francis Jammes, Le Deuil des primevères, France

Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Kavyarasika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)

Beheramji Malabari, Kavyarasika (Indian writing in Gujarati)

Births

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

January 16 – Laura Riding Jackson (died 1991), American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer

January 29 – Heinrich Anacker (died 1971), German

January 30 – Hans Erich Nossack (died 1977), German

March 4? – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo or Rebearivelo (died 1937), Madagascar native and French-language poet

March 5 – Yocheved Bat-Miriam (died 1979), Russian-born, Israeli, Hebrew-language poet

March 27

Ruth Lechlitner (died 1989), American

Kenneth Slessor (died 1971), Australian newspaper journalist and poet

April 20 – Michel Leiris, French author and poet

April 29 – Hirohito (died 1989), Emperor of Japan and poet

May 1 – Sterling Brown (died 1989) African-American teacher, poet, writer on folklore and literary critic

May 30 – Itsik Manger (or "Itzig Manger") איציק מאַנגער (died 1969), Yiddish poet and playwright born in Ukraine, a resident in Romania and Poland, then an immigrant to Israel

June 10 – Eric Maschwitz (died 1969), English entertainer, writer, broadcaster, broadcasting executive and poet

June 13 – J. C. Beaglehole (died 1971), New Zealand historian and poet

July 1 – Vladimir Lugovskoy (or "Lugovskoi") (died 1957), Russian Constructivist poet

July 26 – Nina Berberova, Нина Николаевна Берберова (died 1993), Russian-born poet, novelist, playwright, critic and academic who lived in Europe from 1922 to 1950, then in the United States

August 5 – Margarita Abella Caprile (died 1960), Argentine poet

August 12 – Robert Francis (died 1987), American

August 20 – Salvatore Quasimodo (died 1968), Italian poet

September 2 – Andreas Embirikos (died 1975), Greek

September 23 – Jaroslav Seifert (died 1986), Czech, Nobel Prize-winning poet and journalist

September 29 – Lanza del Vasto (died 1981), French poet and novelist

October 2 – Roy Campbell (died 1957), South African poet and translator

October 4 – Adrian Bell (died 1980), English rural writer and crossword compiler

Also:

Heinz Helmerking (died 1964), German writer

Kilian Kerst (died 1981), German

Sankara Kurup (died 1978), Indian, Malayalam-language poet

Hans Lorber (died 1973), German

T. Inglis Moore (died 1979), Australian

Amin Nakhla (died 1976), Lebanese, Arabic language poet

Irina Odoyevtseva, also "Odoevtseva" also "Iraida Gustavovna Beinlke Ivanova" (more probably born 1895; died 1990), Russian

Louis Paul, born Leroi Placet (approximate date of birth; died 1970), American fiction writer

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Smolensky or "Smolenskii" (died 1961), Russian

Shinkichi Takahashi (died 1987), Japanese Dadaist poet

Deaths

June 10 – Robert Williams Buchanan, 59, Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist

July 20 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, 61 (born 1840), English poet and critic

July 23/24 – Andreas Laskaratos (born 1811), Greek poet

October 18 – Nicholas Flood Davin, 61 (born 1840), Irish-born Canadian lawyer, journalist, politician and poet

November 10 – Sarah Carmichael (born 1838), American poet

December 23 – William Ellery Channing, 73, American Transcendentalist poet

Also:

Albery Allson Whitman (born 1851), African American poet and orator