January 20 – Robert Frost recites his poem "The Gift Outright" at the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy as President of the United States.February – American poet in London Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage. Several of her poems, including "Parliament Hill Fields", address this event.Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop buy a secondhand printing press and start Burning Deck magazine in the United States.Tish literary magazine, founded in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was published intermittently until 1969. Poets associated with the magazine include Frank Davey, Fred Wah, George Bowering, and, briefly, pbNichol when he lived in Vancouver.Kyk-over-al magazine in Guyana ceases publicationListed 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, Ice Cod Bell on StoneArthur Bourinot, Poems: Paul Bunyan, Three Lincoln Poems and Other VerseLeonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of EarthRobert FinchDover Beach Revisited, a meditation on the significance of Matthew ArnoldAcis in Oxford and Other PoemsRalph Gustafson, Rivers Among RocksDaryl Hine, The Devil's Picture BooksD. G. Jones, The Sun is AxemanIrving Layton, The Swinging FleshEli Mandel and Jean Guy Pilon, Poetry 62, an anthologyGwendolyn MacEwen:Selah. Toronto: Aleph Press.The Drunken Clock. Toronto: Aleph Press.D. Pacey, Creative Writing in Canada, revised edition (scholarship)Dorothy Roberts, Twice to FlameIreland
Austin Clarke, Later Poems, Dublin: Dolmen Press, IrelandThomas Kinsella:Downstream, Dublin: Dolmen PressPoems and Translations, New York: AtheneumLila Ray, Entrance( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Masks and Farewells, Bombay: AsiaIra De, The Hunt and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India. (revised edition 1968)Sarojini Naidu, The Feather of the Dawn, posthumously published (died in 1949), edited by her daughter, Padmaja NaiduTrilok Chandra, A Hundred and One FlowersJames K. Baxter, Howrah Bridge and Other Poems, London: Oxford University Press, New Zealand poet published in the United KingdomThomas Blackburn, A Smell of BurningAlan Brownjohn, The RailingsCharles Causley, Johnny AlleluiaJack Clemo, The Map of ClayPadraic Colum, Irish ElegiesDonald Davie, New and Selected Poems, Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University PressIan Hamilton Finlay, Glasgow Beasts, An a Burd, Edinburgh: Wild Flounder PressRoy Fisher, CityJohn Fuller, Fairground MusicRobert Graves, More Poems 1961Thom Gunn, My Sad Captains, and Other Poems, London: Faber and Faber; University of Chicago PressRalph Hodgson, Collected PoemsDavid Holbrook, ImaginingsGraham Hough, Legends and PastoralsElizabeth Jennings, Song for a Birth or a Death, and Other PoemsJenny Joseph, "Warning"Edward Lucie-Smith, A Tropical Childhood, and Other Poems, including "The Witnesses", "The Fault", and "On Looking at Stubb's Anatomy of the Horse"Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christohper Murray Grieve, The Kind of Poetry I WantLouis MacNeice, SolsticesJohn Masefield, Bluebells, and Other VerseJohn Montague, The Nature of Cold Weather, London: MacGibbon and KeePeter Porter, Once Bitten, Twice Bitten, by an Australian living in England, Northwood, Middlesex: Scorpion PressPeter Redgrove, The Collector, London: Routledge and Kegan PaulSiegfried Sassoon, Collected PoemsC. H. Sisson, The London ZooIain Crichton Smith, Thistles and RosesJon Stallworthy, The Astronomy of LoveGillian Stoneham, When That AprilR.S. Thomas, Tares, WelshMarina Tsvetayeva, The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva, translated by Elaine Feinstein, Oxford University Press, first of four editions (and a much-revised fifth edition)John Wain, Weep Before God, including "Time Was", which won second prize in the international Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards competition, London: MacmillanCriticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
William Empson, Milton's GodDoris Landley Moore, The Late Lord ByronLee Anderson, Nags HeadHelen Bevington, When Found, Make a Verse OfPaul Blackburn, The NetsHarold Bloom, John Hollander, editors, The Wind and the RainPhilip Booth, The IslandersJoseph Payne Brennan, The Wind of Time, Hawk & Whippoorwill Press August DerlethJohn Ciardi, In the StoneworksLeonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of EarthDonald Davidson, The Long StreetAugust Derleth, editor, Fire and Sleet and CandlelightHilda Doolittle (H.D.), Helen in Egypt, a long retelling of the tale in lyrical prose and verse of the Helen of Troy taleEd Dorn, The Newly Fallen, Totem PressAlan Dugan, PoemsAbbie Houston Evans, Fact of CrystalLawrence Ferlinghetti, Starting from San FranciscoArthur Freeman, Apollonian PoemsGeorge Garrett, Abraham's KnifeAllen Ginsberg:Empty Mirror: Early Poems, New York: Totem/CorinthKaddish and Other Poems, San Francisco: City Lights BooksHorace Gregory, Medusa in Gramercy ParkThom Gunn, My Sad Captains, London: Faber and Faber; University of Chicago Press BritonDaryl Hine, HeroicsJohn Hollander, The Untuning of the Sky (also see Harold Bloom/John Hollander item above)John Holmes, The Fortune TellerDavid Ignatow, Say PardonLeRoi Jones, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide NoteCarolyn Kizer, The Ungrateful Garden, Bloomington: Indiana University PressMaxine Kumin, HalfwayDenise Levertov, The Jacob's Ladder, New York: New DirectionsPhilip Levine, On the EdgeRobert Lowell, ImitationsW. S. Merwin:Translator, Some Spanish Ballads, London: Abelard (American edition: Spanish Ballads, 1961, New York: Doubleday Anchor)Editor, West Wind: Supplement of American Poetry, London: Poetry Book SocietyPablo Neruda, Odas elementales, translated by C. Lozano and with an introduction by Fernando AlegríaLorine Niedecker, My Friend Tree (published with help from Ian Hamilton Finlay)John Nist, editor, Modern Brazilian PoetryCharles Olson:The Maximus PoemsThe DistancesHyam Plutzik, Horatio, a narrative monologue basically in blank verseTheodore Roethke, I Am! Says the LambMay Sarton, Cloud, Stone, Sun, VinePeter Viereck, The Tree WitchJohn Hall Wheelock, The GardenerRichard Wilbur, Advice to a ProphetJames Wright and Robert Bly, translators, Twenty Poems of Georg Trakl (Austrian poet writing in German), The Sixties PressCriticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
Roger Asselineau, The Evolution of Walt WhitmanWalter Lowenfels, editor, Walt Whitman's Civil War, Whitman's writing about the warEdwin Haviland Miller, The Correspondence of Walt Whitman (1842–1875, in two volumes)Archibald MacLeish, Poetry and Experience (autobiography)James K. Baxter, Howrah Bridge and Other Poems, London: Oxford University Press, New Zealand poet published in the United KingdomAllen Curnow, editor, Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse,A. D. Hope, Poems (Australia)Kenneth Slessor, The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse, Melbourne, Australia, anthologyListed by language and often by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Rina Lasnier, Mémoire sans jourPaul Marie Lapointe, Choix de poèmesJean-Guy Pilon:La Mouette et le largeRecours au pays, Montréal: l'HexagoneAndre du Bouchet, Dans la chaleur vacanteAimé Césaire,Cadastre, Martinique author published in France; Paris: Editions du SeuilJean Cocteau, Le Cérémonial espagnol de PhoenixMichel Deguy, Poemes de la presqu'ileMax Pol Fouchet, Demeure le SecretEugène Guillevic, CarnacHenri Michaux, Connaisance par les gouffres (Life Through Darkness: Exploration Through Drugs"), Paris: GallimardMarie Noël, Chants d'arrière-saisonFrancis Ponge, Le Grand Recueil, three volumesRaymond Queneau, Cent mille milliards de poèmesGeorges Schéhadé, NocturnesLéopold Sédar Senghor, NocturnesJean Tardieu, Choix de poèmesCriticism, scholarship and biography in France
André Berry, editor, Anthologie de la poésie occitaneYves Bonnefoy, RimbaudSaint-John Perse, Poésie: allocution au Banquet Nobel du 10 décembre 1960, Paris: GallimardClemens Hesselhaus, editor, Deutsche Lyrik der Moderne: von Nietzsche bis Yvan Goll Düsseldorf: August Bagel an anthologyCriticism, scholarship and biography in Germany
Wilhelm Emrich, Protest und Verheissung (criticism)Walter Jens, Deutsche Literatur der Gegenwart (criticism)J. Akavyahu, Manginot Hazot ("Midnight Music")Anonymous poet from a Soviet Bloc country, Behilokah Halail ("As the Night Is Taken"), the poems were clandestinely smuggled into Israel and publishedK. A. Bertini, Shevil Kahol ("Blue Path")A. Broides, El ha-Shahar ha-Gonuz ("Toward the Hidden Dawn")Yonah David, Shirim Le-lo Ahava ("Poems on Nonlove")Israel Efros, Bain Hofim Nistarim ("Among Hidden Shores")Hayim Guri, Shoshanat ha-Ruhot ("Rose of the Winds")Yosef Lichtenbaum, ba-Mishor ha-Govoha ("On a High Plain")E. Lisitzky, Kemo ha-Yom Rad ("As the Day Wanes") published in the United StatesAnda Pinkerfield-Amir, Gadish ve-Omer ("Sheaf and Measure")Gabriel Preil, Mapat Erew ("Map of Evening"), published in the United StatesT. Ribner, Shirim Limzo Et ("Poems in Search of Time")Rena Shani, Ir Zara ("Strange City")Nathan Zakh, Shirim Shonim ("Various")Criticism, scholarship and biography in Hebrew
B. Kurzweil, Bialik ve- Tchernichovsky — Mehkarim be-Shiratam, about aspects of the works of two important poets of the Hebrew literary renaissanceListed in alphabetical order by first name:
Akhtarul Imam, Yaden, Urdu-languageAyyappa Paniker, Kurukshetram (written 1952–1957), Malayalam-languageNirendranath Chakravarti; Bengali-language:Prothom Nayok, Kolkata: Surabhi ProkashoniOndhokar Baranda, Kolkata: Krittibaash ProkashoniKunwar Narain, Parivesh Hum Tum, Allahabad: Bharti Bahandar, Leader Press; Hindi-languageAttilio Giuliani, editor, Novissimi, an anthology-cum-manifesto of five poets which, by 1965, was "increasingly regarded as the principal event in Italian poetry in recent times"Ruy de Moura Belo, Aquele grande rio Eufrates ("That Great River, the Euphrates")Herberto Hélder, A Colher na Boca ("The Spoon in the Mouth")Mário Cesariny:PoesiaPlanisfério e Outros PoemasMaría Victoria Atencia, Cañada de los inglesesMiguel Hernández, a "complete" collection of poems (posthumous)Gerardo Diego, Glosa a VillamedianaAnthologies in Spain
Jimenez Martos, editor, Nuevos poetas españoles, mostly on the work of the "Generation of '54"Rafael Montesinos, editor, Poesía taurina contemporánea, including verse by Miguel Hernández, Diego and García LorcaRoque Dalton, La ventana en rel rostro (El Salvador)Hernando Domínguez de Camargo, Obras de Hernando Domínguez de Camargo (posthumous)Octavio Paz, Libertad bajo palabra collected poems previously published from 1935 to 1958 in a volume using the title of an earlier book of hisCarlos A. Velazco, El corazón de silencioAnuario del cuento mexicano (Mexico)Antonio Cisneros, Destierro, the author's first volume of poetry; PeruGinés de Albareda and F. Garfias, editors, Antología de la poesía hispanoamericana, Volume 8, devoted to Chilean poetryY Fridman, Di legende fun Neyakh Grin ("The Legend of Noah Green")L. Fuks, editor, Schemuelbuch, a scholarly edition of this old Yiddish epicAvrom Lev, a book of poetryLeyb Olitsky, a book of poetryY Papernikov, a book of poetryRikude Potash, a book of poetryArye Shamri, Funken fun tikun ("Sparks of Salvation")Avrom Sutzkever, Di gaystike erd ("The Spiritual Soil")Efrayim Oyerbakh, Di vayse shtot ("The White City")I. L. Kalushiner, a book of poetryYisroel Emiot, In nigun ayngehert ("Listening to the Melody")David Sfard, A zegl in vint ("A Sail in the Wind") (Poland)Dritëro Agolli, Hapat e mija në asfalt ("My steps on the pavement"), AlbaniaSimin Behbahani, Marmar ("Marble"), PersiaSyed Shamsul Haque, Ekoda Ek Rajje ("Once upon a time in a kingdom"), Bengali published in East PakistanAlexander Mezhirov, Ветровое стекло ("Windshield" or "Windscreen"), Russia, Soviet UnionNizar Qabbani, My Beloved, Syrian poet writing in ArabicKlaus Rifbjerg, Camouflage, DenmarkEric Gregory Award: Adrian Mitchell, Geoffrey HillConsultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Louis Untermeyer appointed this year.Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Phyllis McGinley: Times Three: Selected Verse From Three DecadesBollingen Prize: Yvor WintersNational Book Award for Poetry: Randall Jarrell, The Woman at the Washington ZooFellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Horace GregoryLenin Prize (Soviet Union): Alexander Tvardovsky for Za Dalyu dal ... ("Space Beyond Space")Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: Acis in Oxford, Robert FinchDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
May 2 – Lisa Bellear (died 2006), Australian indigenous poetMay 17 – Han Dong 韩东, Chinese poet and novelistAugust 14 – Steven Heighton, Canadian novelist and poetSeptember 13 – Tom Holt, English historical and comic novelist and poetNovember 9 – Jackie Kay, Scottish poet and novelistDecember 20 – Sion Sono 園 子温, Japanese controversial avant-garde poet and filmmakerAlso:Ifor ap Glyn, Welsh-language poetGitaujali BadruddinChen Kehua, Chinese poet and ophthalmologist in TaiwanDenise Duhamel, AmericanMaggie Helwig, English-born Canadian novelist, poet and Anglican priestSwadesh Roy, Bengali journalist, essayist, poet, novelist and short-story writerBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
April 30 – Jessie Redmon Fauset, 79 (born 1885), American novelist and poetJune 26 – Kenneth Fearing, 58 (born 1902), American poet and writerSeptember 27 – Hilda Doolittle, aka "H.D.", 75 (born 1886), American poet, novelist and memoirist, of a heart attackDecember 24 – Robert Hillyer, 66 (born 1895), American poet 