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Louis Zukofsky edits the February issue of Poetry magazine. 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".George Oppen and his wife, Mary Oppen found To Publishers in Le Beausset, France; Louis Zukofsky is editor.Beacon magazine founded in Trinidad (lasts until 1933)Wilson MacDonald, A Flagon Of Beauty. Toronto: Pine Tree Publishing.Marjorie Pickthall, The Naiad and Five Other Poems (Toronto: Ryerson)A.R. Chida, editor, An Anthology of Indo-Anglian Verse with an Introductory Note to Each Set of Selections, Hyderabad: A. R. Chida, 113 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in EnglishJohn Betjeman, Mount Zion; or, In Touch with the InfiniteLaurence Binyon, Collected PoemsEdmund Blunden:Themispublishes Wilfred Owen's poemsRobert Bridges, Shorter PoemsRoy Campbell, The Georgiad, a satire openly attacking the Bloomsbury Group; a South African native published in the United KingdomC. Day-Lewis, From Feathers to IronT. S. Eliot:CoriolanTriumphal MarchJohn GawsworthConfession: versesFifteen Poems: Three FriendsSnowballsRobert Graves, Poems 1926–1930Aldous Huxley:The Cicadas, and Other PoemsThe World of Light; A comedy, a verse drama performed March 30John Lehmann, A Garden Revisited, and Other PoemsAE, pen name of George William Russell, Vale, and Other PoemsOsbert Sitwell, The Collected Satires and PoemsWilliam Soutar, ConflictArthur Symons, Jezbel Mort, and Other Poems (sic)Humbert Wolfe, SnowFranklin P. Adams, Christopher ColumbusConrad Aiken:The Coming Forth by Day of Osris JonesPreludes for MemnonE. E. Cummings, W (ViVa)Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Red Roses for BronzeLangston Hughes, The Negro MotherEdna St. Vincent Millay, Fatal InterviewOgden Nash:Free WheelingHard LinesDorothy Parker, Death and TaxesEdward Arlington Robinson, Mathias at the DoorWallace Stevens, Harmonium, including "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle", "The Comedian as the Letter C", "The Emperor of Ice Cream", "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", "Peter Quince at the Clavier", "Sunday Morning", "Sea Surface Full of Clouds" and "In the Clear Season of Grapes"), Knopf, revised from 1923 editionMark Van Doren, Jonathan GentryYvor Winters, The JourneyGamel Woolsey, Middle EarthNorman Cameron, Guianese Poetry: 1831–1931Kenneth Slessor, Harley Matthews and Colin Simpson, Trio: A Book of Poems, Sydney: Sunnybrook Press, AustraliaGertrude Stein, Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded: written on a poem by Georges Hugnet, American poet published in FranceGuillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Le condor et le morpion, posthumously published (died 1918)Louis Aragon:Hourra l'Oural, influenced by the author's conversion to MarxismPersécuté PersécuteurAndré Breton, L'union libreFrancis Jammes, L'Arc-en-ciel des amours, Paris: Bloud et GayPierre Jean Jouve, Les NocesTristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, L'Homme approximatifIncluding all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Atul Prasad Sen, Gitigunja, complete collection of songs by this Bengali poet and composerBal Krisna Rav, Kaumudi, Indian, Hindi-languageBhagavadacharya, Mohanapancadhydyi, Sanskrit poem on Mahatma GandhiChanda Jha, Candra Padyavali, edited by Baladev Mishra, MaithiliD. K. Kelkar, Kavyalocan, a treatise in Marathi on literary theory; discusses the nature of poetry, figures of speech, the nature of poetic pleasure and Indian literary conceptsK. V. Simon, Veda Viharam, long poem based on the book of Genesis; India, Malayalam languageMahjoor, Nav Baharo Myani Locaro Ho, KashmiriMayadhar Mansinha, Dhupa, poems in this collection remained very popular as of the mid-1990s; OriyaMohan Singh Diwana, Jagat Tamasa, Punjabi (a 1927 novel by Charan Singh Sahid has the same title)Raja K. K., Baspanjali, Malayalam work by a poet of the Vallathol schoolSiyaram Sharan Gupta, Atmostsarga, on the self-sacrifice of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi in the cause of communal peace; HindiTallapragada Visvasundaramma, Ratri, including many patriotic poems; TeluguUmashankar Joshi, Vishwashanti, also spelled "Visvasanti" (Indian, writing in Gujarati)V. Seetharamayya, Gitagalu, the author's first book of poetry, with navodaya lyrics more intellectual than most; KannadaFederico García Lorca, Poema del cante jondo ("Poem of Deep Song")Pedro Salinas, Fábula y signo ("Fable and Sign")José Moreno Villa, CarambasEnrique Peña Barrenechea, Cinema de los sentidos puros, PeruVladimir Mayakovsky, Кем Быть (Kem byt'?, "Whom Shall I Become?"), Soviet Russia, published posthumously, for childrenGiorgos Seferis, Στροφή ("Strophe") (Greece)Awards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: Collected PoemsDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 6Juan Goytisolo, Spanish poet, essayist and novelistP. J. Kavanagh (died 2015), English poet, lecturer, actor and broadcasterJanuary 14 – Ahmed Faraz, pseudonym of Syed Ahmad Shah (died 2008), Pakistani Urdu-language poet, son of Agha Syed Muhammad Shah Bark Kohati, a leading traditional poetFebruary 2 – Judith Viorst, American author known for her children's books and poetryFebruary 16 – Makoto Ōoka 大岡信, Japanese poet and literary criticApril 9 – Gerard Benson (died 2014), English poetApril 15 – Tomas Tranströmer (died 2015), Swedish writer, poet and translatorApril 19 – Etheridge Knight (died 1991), African-American poetApril 25 – James Fenton, Irish Ulster Scots dialect poetMay 2 – Ruth Fainlight, American poet, short story writer, translator and librettistMay 16 – Peter Levi (died 2000), professor of poetry at the University of Oxford and an English poet, Jesuit priest, archaeologist, travel writer, biographer, scholar, prolific reviewer and criticMay 27 – O. N. V. Kurup, Indian, Malayalam languageJune 7 – Okot p'Bitek (died 1982), Ugandan poetJune 13 – Jay Macpherson, Canadian lyric poet and scholar; she is a member of the "mythopoeic school of poetry"June 21 – Patricia Goedicke (died 2006), American poetJuly 28 – Alan Brownjohn, English poet and novelistDecember 15 – Shuntarō Tanikawa 谷川 俊太郎, Japanese poet and translator (surname: Tanikawa)Unknown date – Sonja Dunn, Canadian poetBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 16 – Harold Edward Monro, 54, British poet, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in LondonMarch 31 – Puran Singh (born 1881), Indian, writing Indian poetry in EnglishApril 2 – Katharine Tynan, 70 (born 1861), Irish poet, novelist and writer who, after her marriage in 1898, usually wrote under the names "Katharine Tynan Hinkson", "Katharine Tynan-Hinkson" or "Katharine Hinkson-Tynan"April 10 – Khalil Gibran, 48, poet artist, and writer born in Lebanon who spent much of his productive life in the United StatesOctober 5 – Christopher Brennan, 61, Australian poetNovember 19 – Xu Zhimo, 34 (born 1897), Chinese poet, in aviation accidentDecember 5 – Vachel Lindsay (Nicholas Vachel Lindsay), 42 (born 1879), American poet and early advocate of jazz poetry, a suicide by poison 