Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
September 21 – The Gorseth Kernow is set up at Boscawen-Un in Cornwall by Henry Jenner ("Gwas Myghal") and others.
November 6 – Xu Zhimo writes his poem 再別康橋 (simplified Chinese 再别康桥, Zài Bié Kāngqiáo, "On Leaving Cambridge Once More").
Russian poets Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky found OBERIU (a Russian acronym for "An Association of Real Art"), an avant-garde grouping of Russian post-Futurist poets in the 1920s-1930s
American poets Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen and Louis Zukofsky meet in New York City; they will become some of the founders of the Objectivist poets group.
The clerihew, the comic pseudo-biographical verse form associated with Edmund Clerihew Bentley, is mentioned in print for the first time.
Dorothy Livesay, Green Pitcher. Toronto: Macmillan.
Seranus, Later Poems and New Villanelles (Toronto: Ryerson).
Arthur Stringer, A Woman At Dusk and Other Poems. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
V. N. Bhusan, Silhouettes, Masulpatam: Youth of Asia Society; India, Indian poetry in English
Joseph Furtado, A Goan Fiddler
Shyam Sunder Lal Chordia, Chitor and Other Poems, Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala Sons and Co.
Rupert Brooke, Collected Poems, see also 1946
Roy Campbell, The Wayzgoose, a lampoon, in rhyming couplets, on the cultural shortcomings of South Africa; South African native published in the United Kingdom, and at this time living there
W. H. Davies, Collected Poems
T. S. Eliot:
"Perch' Io non Spero" (later to become part I of Ash-Wednesday, published in 1930) was published in the Spring, 1928 issue of Commerce along with a French translation.
A Song for Simeon printed in September by Faber & Gwyer as part of its Ariel poems series.
H. S. Milford, editor, The Oxford Book of English Verse of the Romantic Period, 1798-1837: 1798-1837, Clarndon Press, anthology
Thomas Hardy, Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres, (posthumous)
D. H. Lawrence, Collected Poems
John Masefield, Midsummer Night, and Other Tales in Verse
Laura Riding, Love as Love, Death as Death
Siegfried Sassoon, The Heart's Journey
A. J. A. Symons, An Anthology of 'Nineties' Verse
Humbert Wolfe:
The Silver Cat, and Other Poems
This Blind Rose
W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom):
The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan", Irish
The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary (poetry)
W. H. Auden, Poems
Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body
E. E. Cummings, Christmas Tree
John Gould Fletcher, The Black Rock
Robert Frost, West-Running Brook
Robert Hillyer, The Seventh Hill
Robinson Jeffers, Cawdor and Other Poems
William Ellery Leonard, A Son of Earth
Archibald MacLeish, The Hamlet of A. MacLeish
Edgar Lee Masters, Jack Kelso: A Dramatic Poem
Joseph Moncure March, "The Wild Party"
Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Buck in the Snow
Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun
Ezra Pound:
Selected Poems, edited by T. S. Eliot, London, American poet living in Europe
A Draft of the Cantos 17–27
Edward Arlington Robinson, Sonnets, 1889–1927
Carl Sandburg, Good Morning, America
Allen Tate, Mr. Pope and Other Poems, including "Ode to the Confederate Dead"
Amos Wilder, Arachne: poems, Yale University Press
Elinor Wylie, Trivial Breath
Louis Zukofsky completes the original versions of "A" 1, 2, 3 and 4, which have been compared to Pound's Cantos; the fragmentary long poem will be a lifelong project
John Le Gay Brereton, Swags Up, Australia
Roy Campbell, The Wayzgoose: A South African Satire, South Africa
W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan", Irish
The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary (poetry)
René Char, Les Cloches sur le coeur
Léon-Paul Fargue:
Banalité
Vulturne
Francis Jammes, Diane
Pierre Jean Jouve, Les Noces
Alphonse Métérié, Nocturnes
Benjamin Péret, Le grand jeu
Pierre Reverdy, La Balle au bond
Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Indicateur des chemins de coeur
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Cherian Mappila, also known as "Cheriyan Mappila", Shri Yesu Vijayam (also spelled "Sriyesuvijayam"), long poem about the life of Jesus, India, Malayalam language; a poem on a Christian theme; called the first major contribution to Indian literature by a Christian poet
Nalini Bala Devi, Sandhiyar Sur, Assamese
Peer Ghulam Mohammad Hanafi, Bagh-O Bahar, tales in verse in the Kashmiri language, derived from Urdu tales
Sri Sri, Prabhava, Telugu
Vakil Ghulam Ahmad Shah Qureshi, Pani Gulzar, Kashmiri
Vicente Aleixandre, Ambito ("Milieu"), the author's first book of poems
Federico García Lorca, Primer romancero gitano ("Gypsy Ballads")
Jorge Guillén, Cántico, first edition, with 75 poems in five sections (enlarged edition, with 125 poems, 1936)
Martín Adan, La case de cartón, a novel in verse, Peru
Nellie Campobello, Yo, Mexico
José Varallanos, El hombre del Ande que asesinó su esperanza, Peru
Nérée Beauchemin, Patrie intime; French language;, Canada
Aaro Hellaakoski, Jääpeili, Finland
Stefan George, Das neue Reich ("The New Reich"); German
Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia ("Cuttlefish Bones"), second edition, with six new poems and an introduction by Alfredo Gargiulo (first published in 1925; third edition, 1931), Lanciano: Carabba; Italy
Takahashi Shinkichi, Takahashi Shinkichi shishu ("Poetical Works by Takahashi Shinkichi"), Tokyo: Nanso Shoin, Japan (Surname: Takahashi)
Awards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson wins his third Pulitzer Prize for Poetry this decade, this time for Tristram
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Iain Crichton Smith (died 1998), Scot writing poetry, short stories and novels in both English and Scottish Gaelic
January 10 – Philip Levine (died 2015), American poet, educator and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
February 2 – Cynthia Macdonald, American
February 14 – Bruce Beaver (died 2004). Australian poet
March 4 – Alan Sillitoe, English poet and writer and one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s
March 28 – Vayalar Rama Varma (died 1975), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriter
April 4 – Maya Angelou (died 2014), African-American poet
April 7 – Gael Turnbull (died 2004), Scottish poet
May 4 – Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet, translator, editor and publisher
June 27 – Peter Davison (died 2004), American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor, and publisher
July 4 – Ted Joans (died 2003) African-American trumpeter, jazz poet and painter
September 20
Alberto de Lacerda (died 2007), Mozambique-born Portuguese poet
Donald Hall, American poet and the U.S. Poet Laureate
September 22 – Irving Feldman, American poet and educator
September 22 – Édouard Glissant (died 2011), French-Martiniquan poet and writer.
November 9 – Anne Sexton (died 1974), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967
December 10 – Milan Rufus (died 2009), Slovak poet and academic
December 15 – William Dickey (died 1994), American
Also:
Carol Bergé (died 2006), American
R. F. Brissenden
Dave Etter, American
Gene Frumkin (died 2007), American
Conrad Hilberry (died 2017), American
Hertha Kraftner (died 1951), German
Lo Fu (poet) (Luo Fu) (pen name of Mo Luofu), Chinese poet, writer and translator
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 11 – Thomas Hardy (born 1840), English novelist and poet
February 5 – David McKee Wright (born 1869), Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia
February 19 – Ina Coolbrith (born 1841), American poet, writer and librarian
March 18 – Paul van Ostaijen (born 1896), Belgian poet
March 24 – Charlotte Mew (born 1869), English poet, from suicide
May 16 – Edmund Gosse (born 1849), English poet and critic
July 20 – Kostas Karyotakis (born 1896), Greek poet
August 16 – Antonín Sova (born 1864), Czech poet and librarian
September 17 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水 (born 1885), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet
December 16 – Elinor Wylie (born 1885), American poet and novelist
