Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
A small plaque is set on the Statue of Liberty to display Emma Lazarus' 1883 poem, "The New Colossus"
The first Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Sully Prudhomme, a French poet and essayist.
Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States
William Henry Drummond, Johnnie Courteau and other Poems.
Charles Mair, Tecumseh: A Drama, and Canadian Poems, published in Toronto
Jane Barlow, Ghost-Bereft, with Other Stories and Studies in Verse
C. S. Calverley, Complete Works (posthumous)
John Davidson
The Testament of a Man Forbid
The Testament of a Vivisector
Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present (published November 1901; book states "1902")
Laurence Hope, The Garden of Kama (U.K. title), India's Love Lyrics (U.S. title).
George Meredith, A Reading of Life with Other Poems
Lady Margaret Sackville, Poems
Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States
Nina Davis, translator, Songs of Exile by Hebrew Poets, English translator of medieval Hebrew poetry published in the United States
Edwin Markham, Lincoln and Other Poems
William Vaughn Moody, Poems
George Santayana, A Hermit of Carmel and Other Poems
Joseph Furtado, Poems, Bombay; India, Indian poetry in English
Louise Mack, Dreams in Flower, Australia
Hayim Nahman Bialik, שירים, Hebrew published in Warsaw
José Santos Chocano, El fin de Satán y otros poemas (The End of Satan' and Other Poems), Peru
Stefan George, Die Fibel, poems written from 1886 to 1889; German
Francis Jammes, Le Deuil des primevères, France
Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Kavyarasika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)
Beheramji Malabari, Kavyarasika, (Indian writing in Gujarati)
Vazha-Pshavela, The Snake-eater, Georgian
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 16 – Laura Riding Jackson (died 1991), American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
January 29 – Heinrich Anacker (died 1971), German
January 30 – Hans Erich Nossack (died 1977), German
March 4? – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo or Rebearivelo (died 1937), Madagascar native and French-language poet
March 5 – Yocheved Bat-Miriam (died 1979), Russian-born, Israeli, Hebrew-language poet
March 27 – Kenneth Slessor (died 1971), Australian newspaper journalist and poet
April 20 – Michel Leiris, French author and poet
April 29 – Hirohito (died 1989), Emperor of Japan and poet
May 1 – Sterling Brown (died 1989) African-American teacher, poet, writer on folklore and literary critic
May 30 – Itsik Manger (or "Itzig Manger") איציק מאַנגער (died 1969), Yiddish poet and playwright born in Ukraine, a resident in Romania and Poland, then an immigrant to Israel
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