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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Awards and honors 3.1 United States 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 See also

Events

• George Oppen joins the U.S. Army.

Works published

• John Berryman, Poems
• Earle Birney , David and Other Poems
• Walter De la Mare, Collected Poems
• T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding", published in New English Weekly
• John Heath-Stubbs, Wounded Thammuz
• Patrick Kavanagh, The Great Hunger
• Alun Lewis, Raiders' Dawn, on a soldier's life in the World War II
• Erik Lindegren, Manen utan väg ("The Man Without a Way"), Sweden
• Leslie Norris, Tongue of Beauty
• Henry Reed, "The Naming of Parts", published in the New Statesman

Awards and honors

United States

• Frost Medal: Edgar Lee Masters
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Rose Benet, The Dust Which Is God

Births

• March 23 — Ama Ata Aidoo Ghanaian author, poet and playwright
• October 23 — Douglas Dunn, Scottish poet, academic and critic.
• November 9 — Karin Kiwus, German
• November 11 — William Matthews, American poet and essayist
• November 19 — Sharon Olds, American poet

• date not known:
  • Gladys Cardiff, American poet and academic
  • Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet and prose writer
  • Stuart Dybek, American poet and author
  • Mark DeFoe
  • Douglas Eaglesham Dunn
  • Jennifer Footman
  • Marilyn Hacker, American poet, critic, and reviewer
  • David Henderson, poet associated with the Umbra workshop and Black Arts Movement
  • Pat Mora, female Mexican-American author and poet
  • Arthur Nortje, South African poet (died 1970)
  • Henry Taylor
  • Jakob van Hoddis (born 1887), German

Deaths

Daniil Kharms

• February 2 — Daniil Kharms, 36, early Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer, dramatist, and founder of OBERIU poetry school, probably of starvation in his cell at a Leningrad asylum, after his arrest
• March 28 — Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet
• April 24 — Lucy Maud Montgomery, known as "L.M. Montgomery", a Canadian poet and author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables
• May 26 — Libero Bovio, Italian poet in the Neapolitan dialect
• March 28 — Miguel Hernández, 31, Spanish poet, from tuberculosis in harsh conditions during his imprisonment in Spain
• date not known:
  • Konstantin Balmont, poet
  • William Baylebridge, the pseudonym of Charles William Blocksidge, an Australian poet and short story writer
  • John Straw Nielson

See also

Poetry portal

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

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