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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 2.1 Popular literature 2.2 Children's poetry 3 Awards and honors 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 See also

Events

• T. S. Eliot enters the Church of England and assumes British citizenship

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

• A.A. Milne, Now We are Six

Awards and honors

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell

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
• date not known:
  • Henry Coulette
  • David Diop
  • Larry Eigner, American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets
  • Richard Murphy, Irish poet and winner of many awards
  • John Tripp, Anglo-Welsh poet in whose memory the annual John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award is presented.

Deaths

• July 5 - Lesbia Harford, Australian poet
• September 14 - Hugo Ball, 41, German author and poet.
• October 8 - Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentine novelist and poet
• date not known:
  • Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian poet
  • Emma Marie Caillard
  • Charles Mair, Canadian poet

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry