1990 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Allen Ginsberg crowned "Majelis King" in Prague on May Day. Jason Shinder, an American poet, expands a New York City Y.M.C.A. writing education program nationwide, thereby founding the Y.M.C.A. National Writer's Voice program, one of the country's largest networks of literary-arts centers, with 24 locations by 2008. Writers who teach in the program include poets Adrienne Rich and Galway Kinnell, novelists Michael Cunningham and E.
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.
1915 in poetryIn Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
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.
1911 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). c. April 8 – English poet Lascelles Abercrombie and his family move to live near Dymock in rural Gloucestershire, first of the Dymock poets c. August – Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, who writes under the pen name "Guillaume Apollinaire", is suspected in the theft of the Mona Lisa from The Louvre museum in Paris and imprisoned for six days December 16 – The Copyright Act in the United Kingdom consolidates copyright law in the British Empire and confirms the six libraries in each of which a copy of every book published in the U.
1909 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February – Founding of the Poetry Recital Society, later the Poetry Society, in London. July 1 – English poets F. M. Cornford and Frances Darwin marry. T. E. Hulme leaves the Poets' Club, and starts meeting with F. S. Flint and other poets in a new group which Hulme refers to as the 'Secession Club'; they meet at the Eiffel Tower restaurant in London's Soho district to discuss plans to reform contemporary poetry through the introduction of free verse, tanka and haiku, and the removal of all unnecessary verbiage from poems.
1992 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The Forward Prizes for Poetry in the U.K. are initiated and The Forward Book of Poetry, an associated annual anthology of best British poems, is published for the first time by the Forward Poetry Trust. By 2003, the publication is selling 5,000 to 7,000 copies a year. Each year, 50 to 80 poems are selected. The first wall poems in Leiden are installed.
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.
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).
1991 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Forward Poetry Prize created Dana Gioia, writing in The Atlantic Monthly suggests (in an article titled "Can Poetry Matter?") that poets recite the works of other poets at public readings. Joseph Brodsky, the United States poet laureate, suggests in The New Republic that an anthology of American poetry be put beside the Bible and telephone directory in every hotel room in the country.
