Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
March – Art student Vachel Lindsay goes into the streets of New York City and tries to sell or give away copies of one of his poems. The take: 13 cents. His reaction: Ecstasy. "Now let there be here recorded my conclusions from one evening, one hour of peddling poetry. I am so rejoiced over it and so uplifted I am going to do it many times. It sets the heart trembling with happiness. The people like poetry as well as the scholars, or better."Ezra Pound presents Hilda Doolittle (the poet "H.D.") with a sheaf of love poems with the collective title Hilda's Book.Wilfred Campbell, The Collected Poems of Wilfred CampbellJames Capon, Roberts and the Influences of His Time, critical work on Charles G. D. RobertsIsabella Valancy Crawford, The Collected Poems of Isabella Valancy Crawford, John W. Garvin ed., posthumously publishedWilliam Henry Drummond, The Voyageur and other PoemsArthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton:Acadian Ballads, and De Soto's Last DreamPoems of the Christian YearDuncan Campbell Scott, New World Lyrics and Ballads, including "The Forsaken", CanadaEdmund Clerihew Bentley, Biography for Beginners with the first publication of the clerihewRobert Bridges, DemeterJoseph Campbell, The Garden of BeesW. H. Davies, The Soul's Destroyer, and Other PoemsErnest Dowson, The Poems of Ernest DowsonR. C. Dutt, editor, Indian Poetry: Selected and Rendered Into English, London: J.M. Dent and Co., 163 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United KingdomViolet Jacob, Verses, Scottish poetAlgernon Charles Swinburne, The Poems of Algernon Charles SwinburneArthur Symons, A Book of Twenty SongsKatharine Tynan, InnocenciesOscar Wilde, "De Profundis" (posthumous)Madison Cawein, Vale of TempePaul Laurence Dunbar, Lyrics of Sunshine and ShadowTrumbull Stickney, PoemsJohn Hall Wheelock, with Van Wyck Brooks, Verses by Two UndergraduatesR. C. Dutt, editor, Indian Poetry: Selected and Rendered Into English, London: J.M. Dent and Co., 163 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United KingdomFrancis Jammes, Tristesses, FranceSarojini Naidu, The Golden Threshold, Indian poet writing in English, published in Britain (text available online)Violet Teague - Night Fall in the Ti-Tree, Australian Artist's book containing poetryIncluding all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Vilasika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)Brij Raj, Vagdevi, Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brij BhashaKavi Dalpatram Nanalal, ' 'Vasantotsav' ', Gujarati language, IndiaPaul Claudel, FrancePoèmes de la Sexagésime"Vers d'Exil", poems published in L'Ermitage magazineGjergj Fishta, Lahuta e Malcís ("The Highland Lute"), begins publication, AlbaniaRainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours (Das Stunden-Buch), GermanyDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 3 – Padraic Fallon (died 1974), IrishJanuary 6 – Idris Davies (died 1956), Welsh poet writing first in that language, later in EnglishJanuary 10 – R. A. K. Mason (died 1971), New ZealanderMarch 2 – Geoffrey Grigson (died 1985), AmericanMarch 9:Peter Quennell (died 1993), EnglishRex Warner (died 1986), IrishMarch 18 – Alfred Bailey (died 1997), Canadian poet, anthropologist, ethno-historian and academic administratorMarch 21 – Phyllis McGinley (died 1978), AmericanApril 10 – Norma Davis (died 1945), AustralianApril 17 – Carlos Oquendo de Amat (died 1936), Peruvian poet, author of 5 Meters of Poems (1927)April 22 – Robert Choquette (died 1991) Canadian novelist, poet and diplomatApril 24 – Robert Penn Warren (died 1989), American poet, critic, novelist and academicMay 15 – Annadashankar Roy (died 2002), Bengali poetJune 8 – Brian Coffey (died 1995), Irish poet and publisherJune 25 – Jun'ichi Yoda 与田凖 (died 1997), Japanese Shōwa period poet and children's book authorJuly 29 – Stanley Kunitz (died 2006), American poetAugust 28 – Len Fox (died 2004), Australian writer, social activist and painterNovember 4 – Xavier Abril (died 1990), Peruvian poet and criticNovember 10 – Kurt Eggers (killed in action 1943), German writer, poet, songwriter and playwrightNovember 13 – Mary Elizabeth Frye (died 2004), American housewife, florist, author of the poem "Do not stand at my grave and weep"December 22 – Kenneth Rexroth (died 1982), American poetDecember 31 – Frank Marshall Davis (died 1987), American poetAlso:Winifred Maitland Shaw, AustralianIbrahim Touqan إبراهيم طوقان (died 1941), Palestinian, Arab-languageJuly 1 – John Hay, 66 (born 1838), American statesman, diplomat, author, poet, journalist and private secretary and assistant to Abraham LincolnSeptember 18 – George MacDonald, 80 (born 1824), Scottish-born author, poet and Christian minister known mostly for his fantasy storiesOctober 13 – Violet Fane (Mary, Baroness Currie, née Mary Montgomerie Lamb), 62 (born 1843), EnglishDecember 29 – Victor Daley, 47 (born 1858), Irish-born Australian 