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Events
Works published
- G. K. Chesterton, Collected Poems
- Robert Desnos, La liberté ou l'amour! (French for "Liberty or Love!")
- T. S. Eliot, "The Journey of the Magi"
- Federico García Lorca, Canciones (Spanish for "Songs")
- Muhammad Iqbal, Zabur-i-Ajam ("Persian Psalms") including the poems "Gulshan-i Raz-i Jadid" ("New Garden of Secrets") and "Bandagi Nama" ("Book of Slavery")
- James Weldon Johnson, God's Promises
- James Joyce, Pomes Penyeach
- J.L. Lowes, The Road to Xanadu, a book on the composition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"
- Ezra Pound, Exile
- Charles Reznikoff, Five Groups of Verse self-published in 375 copies and containing material from his earlier "Uriel Accosta: A Play" and A Fourth Group of Verse (1921)
- Charles Vildrac, Prolongements (France)
- W.B. Yeats, October Blast, including "Among School Children"
Popular literature
- Don Marquis, archie and mehitabel, presented fictionally as a collection of vers libre poems typed by a former-poet-turned-cockroach who jumps on the keys of a typewriter
Children's poetry
Awards and honors
Births
- January 8 — Charles Tomlinson, British poet, translator, academic, and artist
- February 1 — Galway Kinnell, American poet
- April 8 — Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
- June 7 — Martin Carter (died 1997), Guyanese poet
- July 28 — John Ashbery, American poet, former chancellor of the Academy of American Arts and Letters and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- September 30 — W. S. Merwin, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- October 16 — Gunter Grass, German author and poet
- October 20 — Oskar Pastior (died 2006), Romanian-born German poet and translator
- December 3 — James Wright, (died 1980), American poet
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Deaths
See also
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