Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
March 28 – Spanish poet Miguel Hernández dies of tuberculosis as a political prisoner in a prison hospital having scrawled his last verse on the wall.April 3 – French poet Paul Éluard (Eugène Paul Grindel)'s poem "Liberté" is first published in the collection Poésie et vérité ("Poetry and truth") in Paris. In June it is reprinted by the magazine Fontaine, titled "Une seule pensée", to reach Vichy France. It is published by Éditions de Minuit and printed in London by the official Gaullist magazine La France libre. Thousands of copies are parachuted into Occupied France by aircraft of the British Royal Air Force.October – English poet Keith Douglas takes part in the Second Battle of El Alamein (against orders).December – BIM magazine founded in Barbados.American poet George Oppen forces his induction into the U.S. Army.Preview, a small literary magazine, is founded in Canada (merged with First Statement in 1945 to form Northern Review, which lasts until 1956); it is published by F. R. Scott, A. J. M. Smith, A. M. Klein and P. K. Page, led by English-born poet and travel writer Patrick Anderson.First Statement, a mimeographed, small literary magazine, is founded in Canada (merged with Preview in 1945); it is published by John Sutherland; Irving Layton and Louis Dudek are also involved.French poet André Breton delivers a lecture entitled "Situation du surealisme entre les deux guerres" at Yale University.Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Earle Birney, David and Other Poems, the title piece, David, a long, narrative poem, was one of the most frequently taught poems in Canadian schools for decades Governor General's Award, 1942.Arthur Bourinot, Canada at Dieppe.Ralph Gustafson ed., Anthology of Canadian Poetry, including work by F. R. Scott, A. M. Klein, A. J. M. Smith, Leo Kennedy, E. J. Pratt, Finch, Dorothy Livesay, P. K. Page and Earle Birney; PenguinAnne Marriott, Salt Marsh, Toronto: Ryerson Press.Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems and Plays (Poetry & Plays in English), in two volumes, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo AshramRaul De Loyola Furtado, also known as Joseph Furtado, Selected Poems (Poetry in English), Bombay: published by the author in a limited edition of 100 copies (second edition, revised 1947; third edition, revised 1967)P. R. Kaikini, The Snake in the Moon (Poetry in English), Bombay: New Book Co.Poetry in War Time (Poetry in English), London: Faber and Faber; anthology; Indian poetry, published in the United KingdomManjeri Sundaraman, PenumbraWalter de la Mare, Collected PoemsT. S. Eliot, Little Gidding, long poem, last of his Four Quartets, published in The New English Weekly SeptemberRoy Fuller, The Middle of a WarW. S. Graham, Cage Without GrievanceJohn Heath-Stubbs, Wounded ThammuzJ. F. Hendry, The Bombed HappinessAgnes Grozier Herbertson, This is the Hour: PoemsPatrick Kavanagh, The Great HungerSidney Keyes, The Iron LaurelAlun Lewis, Raiders' Dawn, and Other Poems, on a soldier's life in the World War IIRobert Nichols, Such Was My SingingLeslie Norris, Tongue of BeautyWilliam Plomer, In a Bombed House, 1941: Elegy in Memory of Anthony ButtsPoetry in Wartime: An Anthology, edited by Tambimuttu, London: Faber and FaberJohn Pudney, Dispersal Point, and Other Air Poems, including "For Johnny"Henry Reed, "Naming of Parts", part 1 of his "Lessons of the War" sequence, published in the New Statesman August 8Stevie Smith, Mother, What is Man?Stephen Spender, Ruins and VisionsDorothy Wellesley, Lost Planet, and Other PoemsConrad Aiken, Brownstone EcloguesStephen Vincent Benét, They Burned the BooksJohn Berryman, PoemsR. P. Blackmur, The Second WorldJohn Malcolm Brinnin:The Garden Is PoliticalThe Lincoln LyricsMalcolm Cowley, A Dry SeasonRobert Frost, A Witness TreeLangston Hughes, Shakespeare in HarlemRandall Jarrell, Blood for a StrangerEdna St. Vincent Millay, The Murder of LidiceKenneth Patchen, The Teeth of the LionMuriel Rukeyser, Wake IslandKarl Shapiro:Person, Place and ThingThe Place of LoveWallace Stevens:Parts of a World, includes "The Poems of Our Climate," "The Well Dressed Man with a Beard," and "Examination of the Hero in a Time of War", KnopfNotes Toward a Supreme Fiction, Cummington PressMark Van Doren, Our Lady PeaceMargaret Walker, For My PeopleRobert Penn Warren, Eleven Poems on the Same ThemeEdmund Wilson, Notebooks of NightLouise Bennett, Dialect Verses, CaribbeanListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Louis Aragon, Les Yeux d'ElsaRené-Guy Cadou:Bruits du coeurLilas du soirPaul Claudel, Cent phrases pour éventailsRobert Desnos, FortunesPaul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel:Le livre ouvertPoésie et VéritéPierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël Mathieu,CantosJour de colèreLéon-Paul Fargue, RefugesJean Follain, CanisyEugène Guillevic, TerraquéLoys Masson, Déliverez-nous du mal, war poemsAlphonse Métérié, Prix LasserreHenri Michaux, Au pays de la magieSaint-John Perse, pen name of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger, ExilFrancis Ponge, Le parti pris des choses, 32 short to medium-length prose poemsRaymond Queneau, Pierrot mon amiJean Tortel, De mon vivantIncluding all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Birendra Chattopadhyay, GrahacytaDinesh Das, Kabita 1343–48Jibanananda Das, Banalata SenAkhtar Ansari Akbarabadi, Abgine, UrduHari Daryani, Koda, Sindhi-language (India)K. S. Narasimha Swami, Mysuru Malige, Indian, Kannada-language, called "the most famous collection of love poems in Kannada"N. Gopla Pillai, Sita-Vicara-Lahari, translation into Sanskrit from the Malayalam of Kumaran Asan's poem Cintavistayaya SitaPritam Singh Safir, Pap de Sohle, Indian, Punjabi-languageSumitra Kumari Sinha, ' 'Asa Parva' ', Hindi-language (India)Chairil Anwar, "Nisan" ("Grave"), IndonesianErik Lindegren, Manen utan väg ("The Man Without a Way"), SwedenCesare Pavese, Lavorare stanca ("Hard Work"), expanded version nearly double the size of the first edition published in 1936; ItalyCésar Moro, pen name of César Quíspez Asín, La tortuga ecuestre, PeruSaint-John Perse, Exil: poème, Marseilles: Editions Cahiers du Sud; FranceFrancis Ponge, Le parti pris des choses, Gallimard; FranceStella Sierra, Sinfonía jubilosa en doce sonetos ("Joyful Symphony in Twelve Sonnets"), PanamaHannah Szenes, "A Walk to Caesarea", Modern Hebrew poetryAwards and honors
Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: David and Other Poems, Earle Birney (Canada) Robert Frost Medal: Edgar Lee MastersPulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Rose Benét, The Dust Which Is GodDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 17 – Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay, died 2016)), African-American heavyweight boxer and occasional poetJanuary 19 – Pat Mora, female Mexican-American author and poetFebruary 14 – Rafiq Azad (died 2016), Bengali poet, editor and academicFebruary 20 – Hugo Williams, English poet, journalist and travel writerFebruary 23 – Haki R. Madhubuti (born Don Luther Lee), African-American poet, author and academicMarch 13 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet and prose writerMarch 23 – Ama Ata Aidoo Ghanaian author, poet and playwrightMarch 26 – Erica Jong, American author and poetApril 10 – Stuart Dybek, American poet and authorApril 27 – Sadakazu Fujii 藤井 貞和, Japanese poet and literary scholar (surname: Fujii)June 21 – Henry S. Taylor, Pulitzer Prize-winning American poetOctober 5 – Nick Piombino, American poet, essayist and psychotherapist, sometimes associated with Language poets, because of his frequent appearance in the seminal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine early in his poetic careerOctober 23 – Douglas Dunn, Scottish poet, academic and criticNovember 9 – Karin Kiwus, German poetNovember 11 – William Matthews, American poet and essayistDecember 16 – Peter Seaton, American poet associated with the Language poetsNovember 19 – Sharon Olds, American poetNovember 27 – Marilyn Hacker, American poet, critic and reviewerNovember 28 – Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Irish poetDecember 9 – David Harsent, English poet and crime novelistDecember 16 – Arthur Nortje, South African poet (died 1970)Also:Gladys Cardiff, American poet and academicDavid Henderson, American poet associated with the Umbra workshop and Black Arts MovementPat Ingoldsby, Irish television presenter and poetPeter Klappert, American poetSydney Lea, American poetCharles Martin, American poet, critic and translatorMacdara Woods, Irish poetBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 4 – Joan Vincent Murray (born 1917), English-born Canadian American poetFebruary 2 – Daniil Kharms (born 1905) early Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer, dramatist, and founder of Oberiu poetry school, probably of starvation in his Leningrad prison asylum cellFebruary 15 – Marie Heiberg (born 1890), Estonian poet, insaneMarch 28 – Miguel Hernández (born 1910), Spanish poet, from tuberculosis in harsh conditions during imprisonmentApril 19 – José María Eguren (born 1874), Peruvian symbolism poetApril 24 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, known as "L. M. Montgomery" (born 1874), Canadian poet and author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gablesc. Early May – Jakob van Hoddis (born 1887), German-Jewish Expressionist poet, in Sobibór extermination campMay 7 – William Baylebridge, pseudonym of Charles William Blocksidge (born 1883), Australian poet and short story writerMay 11 – Sakutarō Hagiwara 萩原 朔太郎 (born 1886), Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese literary critic and free-verse poet called the "father of modern colloquial poetry in Japan" (surname: Hagiwara)May 12 – Shaw Neilson (born 1872), Australian poetMay 26 – Libero Bovio (born 1883), Italian poet in the Neapolitan dialectMay 29 – Akiko Yosano 与謝野 晶子 pen name of Yosano Shiyo (born 1878), late Meiji period, Taishō period and early Shōwa period Japanese poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist and social reformer; one of the most famous, and most controversial, post-classical woman poets of Japan (surname: Yosano)October 29 – Màrius Torres (born 1910), Catalan Spanish poet, from tuberculosisNovember 2 – Hakushū Kitahara 北原 白秋, pen name of Kitahara Ryūkichi 北原 隆吉 (born 1885), Taishō and Shōwa period Japanese tanka poet (surname: Kitahara)November 4 – Clementine Krämer (born 1873), German poet and short-story writer, in Theresienstadt concentration campDecember 23 – Konstantin Balmont (born 1867), Russian Symbolist poet, in Paris 
