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.
1986 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March 4 — Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, publicly recites from memory lines from Robert W. Service's The Cremation of Sam McGee (1907) December 18 — Pforzheimer Collection of the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his circle donated to the New York Public Library John Montague becomes the first occupant of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Dissident Russian poet Dmitri Prigov is arrested by the K.
1928 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 16 – English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy's ashes are interred in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey in London; pallbearers at the ceremony include Stanley Baldwin, J. M. Barrie, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, A. E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Ramsay MacDonald and George Bernard Shaw. At the same time, Hardy's heart is interred where he wished to be buried, in the grave of his first wife, Emma, in the churchyard of his parish of birth, Stinsford ("Mellstock") in Dorset.
1929 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The Little Review, edited by Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, ceases publication The Dial ceases publication Arthur Bourinot, Ottawa Lyrics and verses for children. Frederick George Scott, New Poems.
1919 in poetry—From A Prayer for My Daughter by W. B. Yeats, written on the birth of his daughter Anne on February 26 Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April 2 — Vladimir Nabokov, novelist and poet, leaves Russia with his family. October — W. B. Yeats travels to the United States and begins a lecture tour lasting until May, 1920. December — The Egoist, a London literary magazine founded by Dora Marsden which published early modernist works, including those of James Joyce, goes defunct.
1931 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Louis Zukofsky edits the February issue of Poetry magazine. The issue eventually will be recognized as the founding document of the Objectivist poets. It features poetry by Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, George Oppen, Basil Bunting, William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, and many others. Also in the issue: Zukofsky's essay "Sincerity and Objectification".
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.
1923 in poetry—From Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", first published this year in his collection New Hampshire Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). In Paris, Basil Bunting meets Ezra Pound, whose poems will have a strong influence on Bunting throughout his career. E. C. McFarlane and others found the Jamaican Poetry League. Xu Zhimo founds the Crescent Moon Society in China.
1922 in poetry— Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 2 Who Goes with Fergus? by W. B. Yeats (first published in 1892) is the song that haunts James Joyce's autobiographical character Stephen Dedalus in the novel Ulysses, first published complete in book form today. Stephen sings it to his mother as she lies dying, and her ghost returns to taunt him with it.
1913 in poetry— Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), "Trees", first published this year Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. — Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), from "Sacred Emily", written this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January and March – Three poems by H.D. appear in the January issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, submitted by Ezra Pound, the magazine's "foreign editor" and a close associate of Doolittle.
