1944 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 1 & June 5 – The first and (modified) second lines respectively of Paul Verlaine's 1866 poem Chanson d'automne (Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne / Bercent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone.) are broadcast by the Allies over BBC Radio Londres among coded messages to the French Resistance to prepare for the D-Day landings (second broadcast at 22:15 local time).
2005 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). October 7 — Celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the first reading of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" were staged in San Francisco, New York City, and in Leeds in the UK. The British event, Howl for Now, was accompanied by a book of essays of the same name, edited by Simon Warner, reflecting on the piece's enduring power and influence.
1942 in poetryNationality 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.
1883 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). William Allingham, The Fairies, including "Up the airy mountain ..."; reprinted from Poems 1850 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, The Wind and the Whirlwind Robert Bridges, Prometheus the Firegiver Robert Browning, Jocoseria George Meredith, Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Century of Roundels Francis James Child, editor, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, an anthology published in five volumes from this year to 1898 Mary E.
1981 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). American poet Jane Greer launches Plains Poetry Journal, an advance guard of the New Formalism movement. Final issue of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine published in the United States. First issue of Conjunctions literary journal published in the United States. This year, "the word 'Martianism' comes into use, through the verse of Craig Raine and his associates, presenting a vision of life on Earth as seen by a visiting Martian," the 1982 Britannica Book of the Year reports (p.
1874 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1956 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 25 – English poet Ted Hughes and American poet Sylvia Plath meet in Cambridge, England. June 16 – Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath marry at the church of St George the Martyr, Holborn, London and spend the night at his flat at 18 Rugby Street.
2021 in poetryMajor poetry related events taking place worldwide during 2021 are outlined below under different sections. This includes poetry books released during the year in different languages, major literary awards, poetry festivals and events, besides anniversaries and deaths of renowned poets etc. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, India or France). January 5 – An anthology of poems by 157 blind poets from around the world titled Fountain of Light is released in a Braille version at Kolkata.
1943 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). September 12 – Abraham Sutzkever, a Polish Jew writing poetry in Yiddish, escapes the Vilna Ghetto with his wife and hides in the forests. Sutzkever and fellow Yiddish poet Shmerke Kaczerginsky, fight against the Nazis as partisans. During the Nazi era, Sutzkever writes more than eighty poems, whose manuscripts he manages to save for postwar publication.
1917 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January — Philosopher Hu Shih, the primary advocate for the revolution in Chinese literature at this time to replace scholarly language with the vernacular, publishes an article in the magazine New Youth (Xin Qingnian) titled "A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform", in which he originally emphasizes eight guidelines that all Chinese writers should take to heart (next year he will compress the list to four points).
