1980 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Mark Jarman and Robert McDowell start the small magazine The Reaper to promote narrative and formal poetry. Conjunctions literary magazine gets its start one afternoon late this year when founding editor Bradford Morrow sits in Beat poet Kenneth Rexroth's library in Santa Barbara, California talking over the idea of assembling a publication to celebrate James Laughlin, editor of New Directions Publishing.
1952 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). August 12 — Night of the Murdered Poets, the execution of thirteen Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, Soviet Union, including several poets. November — The Group British poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s begins at Downing College, University of Cambridge: Philip Hobsbaum along with two friends – Tony Davis and Neil Morris – dissatisfied with the way poetry has been read aloud in the university, decides to place a notice in the undergraduate newspaper Varsity for people interested in forming a poetry discussion group.
1918 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 23 — English poet Robert Graves marries the painter Nancy Nicholson in London. Wedding guests include Wilfred Owen, who will be killed by the end of the year, and whose first nationally published poem appears 3 days later ("Miners" in The Nation). April — Hu Shih, chief advocate of the revolution in Chinese literature at this time, publishes an essay, "Constructive Literary Revolution - A Literature of National Speech" in New Youth proposing a four-point reform program.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich, née le à Baltimore dans le Maryland et morte le à Santa Cruz, est une poétesse, essayiste, professeure d'université et théoricienne féministe américaine. À partir des années 1970, une part importante de son œuvre est consacrée à son lesbianisme et à son engagement contre l'hégémonie de l'hétérosexualité comme seule norme sociale de la sexualité. Adrienne Cecile Rich est née le 1929, à Baltimore, dans le Maryland.
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.
1892 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). William Butler Yeats founds the National Literary Society in Dublin. A. C.
1887 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Henry Lawson, "A Song for the Republic", English, the author's first published poem, in The Bulletin, October 1 issue; Australia Narsinhrao Divetia, Kusumamala, Gujarati, his first collection of poems, "considered a definite advance in modern Gujarati poetry because of its novel use of poetic diction", according to A handbook of Indian Literature" Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Narada Samvadam, Telugu long poem condemning banal, rule-minded poetry George Frederick Cameron, Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death, English, posthumously published (by his brother).
