Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
March – Art student Vachel Lindsay goes into the streets of New York City and tries to sell or give away copies of one of his poems. The take: 13 cents. His reaction: Ecstasy. "Now let there be here recorded my conclusions from one evening, one hour of peddling poetry. I am so rejoiced over it and so uplifted I am going to do it many times. It sets the heart trembling with happiness. The people like poetry as well as the scholars, or better."
December 15 – The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.
Ezra Pound presents H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), fellow American poet, with a sheaf of love poems with the collective title Hilda's Book.
Wilfred Campbell, The Collected Poems of Wilfred Campbell
James Capon, Roberts and the Influences of His Time, critical work on Charles G. D. Roberts
Isabella Valancy Crawford, The Collected Poems of Isabella Valancy Crawford, John W. Garvin ed., posthumously published
William Henry Drummond, The Voyageur and other Poems
Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton:
Acadian Ballads, and De Soto's Last Dream
Poems of the Christian Year
Duncan Campbell Scott, New World Lyrics and Ballads, including "The Forsaken", Canada
Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Biography for Beginners with the first publication of the clerihew
Robert Bridges, Demeter
Joseph Campbell, The Garden of Bees
W. H. Davies, The Soul's Destroyer, and Other Poems
Ernest Dowson, The Poems of Ernest Dowson
R. C. Dutt, editor, Indian Poetry: Selected and Rendered Into English, London: J.M. Dent and Co., 163 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
Violet Jacob, Verses, Scottish poet
Sarojini Naidu, The Golden Threshold
Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne
Arthur Symons, A Book of Twenty Songs
Katharine Tynan, Innocencies
Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis" (posthumous)
Madison Cawein, Vale of Tempe
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
Trumbull Stickney, Poems
John Hall Wheelock, with Van Wyck Brooks, Verses by Two Undergraduates
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