Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1891–1893 –The Rhymers Club gathers at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, London, including John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, W. B. Yeats, and others.
c. Late June – In a meeting of decadent poets in London, Oscar Wilde is first introduced to Lord Alfred Douglas by Lionel Johnson at Wilde's Tite Street home.
Approximate date – Edmund Clerihew Bentley, G. K. Chesterton and fellow pupils of St Paul's School, London, compose the first pseudo-biographical comic verses which become known as clerihews.
John Frederic Herbin, Canada, and Other Poems, Canada
Seranus, Pine, Rose and Fleur De Lis, (Toronto: Hart).
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Light of the World; or, The Great Consummation
Alfred Austin, Lyrical Poems
John Davidson, In a Music Hall, and Other Poems
James Joyce, Et tu, Healy, Irish poet published in Ireland
Arthur Clark Kennedy, Pictures in rhyme
William McGonagall, Poetic Gems (second series)
William Morris, Poems by the Way
May Sinclair, Essays in Verse
James Kenneth Stephen:
Lapsus Calami
Quo Musa Tendis
Katharine Tynan, Ballads and Lyrics
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Sisters' Tragedy
Nathaniel Ames, The Essays, Humor, and Poems of Nathaniel Ames, published posthumously
Emily Dickinson, Poems: Second Series
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, fiction, nonfiction and poetry
Herman Melville, Timoleon
Harriet Monroe, Valeria and Other Poems
Frank Norris, Yvernelle: A Tale of Feudal France
Lizette Woodworth Reese, A Handful of Lavender
Henry Lawson, Australia:
"Freedom on the Wallaby"
"The Babies of Walloon"
Stefan George, Pilgerfahrten, limited private edition; German
Francis Jammes, Six Sonnets, France
Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (Mary MacPherson), Gaelic Songs and Poems, Scottish Gaelic published in the United Kingdom
Guido Mazzoni, Poesie, Italy
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 15 – Osip Mandelstam (died 1938), Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school
April 9 – Lesbia Harford (died 1927), Australian
May 15 – David Vogel (killed in concentration camp, 1944), Russian-born Hebrew poet
May 21 – John Peale Bishop (died 1944), American poet and writer
May 22
Johannes R.