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).
1988 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The first annual The Best American Poetry volume is published this year. During a poetry reading in which popular Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky takes written questions from the audience, he reads out two responses: "All of you are Jews or sold out to Jews", one reads. Another only says, "We will kill you".
2015 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). September 8 – In the 2015 edition of Best American Poetry, the inclusion of a poem by Michael Derrick Hudson, a white American poet from Fort Wayne, Indiana, who claims he used the Asian female pseudonym Yi-Fen Chou to get the poem published, causes considerable debate and criticism on the issue of identity politics and cultural appropriation. September 15 – Juan Felipe Herrera, the first Latino to serve as U.
1930 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Samuel Minturn Peck becomes first Poet Laureate of Alabama, a title created for him. Alfred Bailey, Tao: A Ryerson Poetry Chap Book, (Ryerson). Wilson MacDonald, Caw-Caw Ballads Montclair, NJ: Pine Tree Publishing. E. J. Pratt: The Roosevelt and the Antinoe, Toronto: Macmillan. Verses of the Sea, Toronto: Macmillan. intr. by Charles G.D. Roberts. W. W. E. Ross, Laconics.
1863 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 1 – American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorates today's Emancipation Proclamation by composing "Boston Hymn" and surprising a crowd of 3,000 with its debut reading at Boston Music Hall. May 17 – Intimist poet Rosalía de Castro published her first collection in Galician, Cantares gallegos ("Galician Songs"), commemorated every year as the Día das Letras Galegas ("Galician Literature Day"), an official holiday of the Autonomous Community of Galicia in Spain.
1861 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 29 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning dies in the arms of her husband and fellow poet Robert Browning in Florence; on July 1 she is buried in the Protestant cemetery there. Robert leaves the city soon afterwards November 19 – Julia Ward Howe composes "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" Matthew Arnold, On Translating Homer (see also F. W.
2009 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 5 – The Turkish government announces it will posthumously restore the citizenship it had stripped from influential poet Nâzım Hikmet, a Marxist who died in 1963 as an exile in the Soviet Union. January 20 – Poet Elizabeth Alexander reads "Praise Song for the Day" at presidential inauguration of President Barack Obama.
2011 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 19 – Liz Lochhead becomes the second Scots Makar, the official national poet of Scotland. April 4 – Canadian poet Christian Bök announces a significant break-through in his 9-year project to engineer "a life-form so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem, but also an operant machine for writing a poem".
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.
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.
