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-1930sAmerican 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 EnglishJoseph Furtado, A Goan FiddlerShyam Sunder Lal Chordia, Chitor and Other Poems, Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala Sons and Co.Rupert Brooke, Collected Poems, see also 1946Roy 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 thereW. H. Davies, Collected PoemsT. 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, anthologyThomas Hardy, Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres, (posthumous)D. H. Lawrence, Collected PoemsJohn Masefield, Midsummer Night, and Other Tales in VerseLaura Riding, Love as Love, Death as DeathSiegfried Sassoon, The Heart's JourneyA. J. A. Symons, An Anthology of 'Nineties' VerseHumbert Wolfe:The Silver Cat, and Other PoemsThis Blind RoseW.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom):The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan", IrishThe Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary (poetry)W. H. Auden, PoemsStephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's BodyE. E. Cummings, Christmas TreeJohn Gould Fletcher, The Black RockRobert Frost, West-Running BrookRobert Hillyer, The Seventh HillRobinson Jeffers, Cawdor and Other PoemsWilliam Ellery Leonard, A Son of EarthArchibald MacLeish, The Hamlet of A. MacLeishEdgar Lee Masters, Jack Kelso: A Dramatic PoemJoseph Moncure March, "The Wild Party"Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Buck in the SnowDorothy Parker, Sunset GunEzra Pound:Selected Poems, edited by T. S. Eliot, London, American poet living in EuropeA Draft of the Cantos 17–27Edward Arlington Robinson, Sonnets, 1889–1927Carl Sandburg, Good Morning, AmericaAllen Tate, Mr. Pope and Other Poems, including "Ode to the Confederate Dead"Amos Wilder, Arachne: poems, Yale University PressElinor Wylie, Trivial BreathLouis 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 projectJohn Le Gay Brereton, Swags Up, AustraliaRoy Campbell, The Wayzgoose: A South African Satire, South AfricaW.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan", IrishThe Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary (poetry)René Char, Les Cloches sur le coeurLéon-Paul Fargue:BanalitéVulturneFrancis Jammes, DianePierre Jean Jouve, Les NocesAlphonse Métérié, NocturnesBenjamin Péret, Le grand jeuPierre Reverdy, La Balle au bondTristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Indicateur des chemins de coeurIncluding 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 poetNalini Bala Devi, Sandhiyar Sur, AssamesePeer Ghulam Mohammad Hanafi, Bagh-O Bahar, tales in verse in the Kashmiri language, derived from Urdu talesSri Sri, Prabhava, TeluguVakil Ghulam Ahmad Shah Qureshi, Pani Gulzar, KashmiriVicente Aleixandre, Ambito ("Milieu"), the author's first book of poemsFederico 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, PeruNellie Campobello, Yo, MexicoJosé Varallanos, El hombre del Ande que asesinó su esperanza, PeruNérée Beauchemin, Patrie intime; French language;, CanadaAaro Hellaakoski, Jääpeili, FinlandStefan George, Das neue Reich ("The New Reich"); GermanEugenio 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; ItalyTakahashi 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 TristramDeath 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 GaelicJanuary 10 – Philip Levine (died 2015), American poet, educator and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryFebruary 2 – Cynthia Macdonald, AmericanFebruary 14 – Bruce Beaver (died 2004). Australian poetMarch 4 – Alan Sillitoe, English poet and writer and one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950sMarch 28 – Vayalar Rama Varma (died 1975), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriterApril 4 – Maya Angelou (died 2014), African-American poetApril 7 – Gael Turnbull (died 2004), Scottish poetMay 4 – Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet, translator, editor and publisherJune 27 – Peter Davison (died 2004), American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor, and publisherJuly 4 – Ted Joans (died 2003) African-American trumpeter, jazz poet and painterSeptember 20Alberto de Lacerda (died 2007), Mozambique-born Portuguese poetDonald Hall, American poet and the U.S. Poet LaureateSeptember 22 – Irving Feldman, American poet and educatorSeptember 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 1967December 10 – Milan Rufus (died 2009), Slovak poet and academicDecember 15 – William Dickey (died 1994), AmericanAlso:Carol Bergé (died 2006), AmericanR. F. BrissendenDave Etter, AmericanGene Frumkin (died 2007), AmericanConrad Hilberry (died 2017), AmericanHertha Kraftner (died 1951), GermanLo Fu (poet) (Luo Fu) (pen name of Mo Luofu), Chinese poet, writer and translatorDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 11 – Thomas Hardy (born 1840), English novelist and poetFebruary 5 – David McKee Wright (born 1869), Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and AustraliaFebruary 19 – Ina Coolbrith (born 1841), American poet, writer and librarianMarch 18 – Paul van Ostaijen (born 1896), Belgian poetMarch 24 – Charlotte Mew (born 1869), English poet, from suicideMay 16 – Edmund Gosse (born 1849), English poet and criticJuly 20 – Kostas Karyotakis (born 1896), Greek poetAugust 16 – Antonín Sova (born 1864), Czech poet and librarianSeptember 17 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水 (born 1885), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poetDecember 16 – Elinor Wylie (born 1885), American poet and novelist 
