Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events March 1 – Marianne Lorraine appears with John Serry Sr. at The Town Hall (New York City) in a performance of poetry by Carl Sandburg and Archibald MacLeish as presented by the Free World Association and sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt.Free World Vol. 2 p. 94 "The Free world Association presents Marianne Oswald...John Serry accordionist...Patroness Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt" - Free World Association Eleanor Roosevelt Feb. 1942 on Google BooksFree World - A Monthly Magazine devoted to Democracy, p. 94 "The Free World Association presents...Marianne Oswald...John Serry accordionist...Town Hall, February 28, 1942" Free World Association Marianne Oswald 1942 on Google Books. March 28 – Spanish poet Miguel Hernández dies of tuberculosis as a political prisoner in a prison hospital having scrawled his last verse on the wall. April 3 – French poet Paul Éluard (Eugène Paul Grindel)'s poem "Liberté" is first published in the collection Poésie et vérité ("Poetry and truth") in Paris. In June it is reprinted by the magazine Fontaine, titled "Une seule pensée", to reach Vichy France. It is published by Éditions de Minuit and printed in London by the official Gaullist magazine La France libre. Thousands of copies are parachuted into Occupied France by aircraft of the British Royal Air Force. October – English poet Keith Douglas takes part in the Second Battle of El Alamein (against orders). December – BIM magazine founded in Barbados."Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, , retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 American poet George Oppen forces his induction into the U.S. Army. Preview, a small literary magazine, is founded in Canada (merged with First Statement in 1945 to form Northern Review, which lasts until 1956); it is published by F. R. Scott, A. J. M. Smith, A. M. Klein and P. K. Page, led by English-born poet and travel writer Patrick Anderson.Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, , retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009 First Statement, a mimeographed,Gnarowsky, Michael, "Poetry in English, 1918-1960", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009 small literary magazine, is founded in Canada (merged with Preview in 1945); it is published by John Sutherland; Irving Layton and Louis Dudek are also involved. French poet André Breton delivers a lecture entitled "Situation du surealisme entre les deux guerres" at Yale University.Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982
Works published Listed by the nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Canada Earle Birney, David and Other Poems, the title piece, David, a long, narrative poem, was one of the most frequently taught poems in Canadian schools for decades Governor General's Award, 1942.Neil Besner, "Birney, Alfred Earle ," Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 231 Arthur Bourinot, Canada at Dieppe. Ralph Gustafson ed., Anthology of Canadian Poetry, including work by F. R. Scott, A. M. Klein, A. J. M. Smith, Leo Kennedy , E. J. Pratt, Finch, Dorothy Livesay, P. K. Page and Earle Birney; Penguin Anne Marriott, Salt Marsh, Toronto: Ryerson Press."Anne Marriott (1913-1997)", Canadian Woman Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 21, 2011.
India, in English Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems and Plays (Poetry & Plays in English), in two volumes, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo AshramVinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 313, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 6, 2010 Raul De Loyola Furtado, also known as Joseph Furtado, Selected Poems (Poetry in English), Bombay: published by the author in a limited edition of 100 copies (second edition, revised 1947; third edition, revised 1967)Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, , ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 182 Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972") P. R. Kaikini, The Snake in the Moon (Poetry in English), Bombay: New Book Co.Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 322, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 6, 2010 Poetry in War Time (Poetry in English), London: Faber and Faber; anthology; Indian poetry, published in the United KingdomJoshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies" , "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19. Manjeri Sundaraman, Penumbra
United Kingdom and Ireland Walter de la Mare, Collected Poems Morwenna Donnelly, Beauty and Ashes T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding, long poem, last of his Four Quartets, published in The New English Weekly September Roy Fuller, The Middle of a War W. S. Graham, Cage Without Grievance John Heath-Stubbs, Wounded Thammuz J. F. Hendry, The Bombed Happiness Agnes Grozier Herbertson, This is the Hour: Poems Patrick Kavanagh, The Great Hunger Sidney Keyes, The Iron Laurel Alun Lewis, Raiders' Dawn, and Other Poems, on a soldier's life in the World War II Robert Nichols, Such Was My Singing Leslie Norris, Tongue of Beauty William Plomer, In a Bombed House, 1941: Elegy in Memory of Anthony Butts Poetry in Wartime: An Anthology, edited by Tambimuttu, London: Faber and Faber John Pudney, Dispersal Point, and Other Air Poems, including "For Johnny" Henry Reed, "Naming of Parts", part 1 of his "Lessons of the War" sequence, published in the New Statesman August 8 Stevie Smith, Mother, What is Man? Stephen Spender, Ruins and Visions Dorothy Wellesley, Lost Planet, and Other Poems
United States Conrad Aiken, Brownstone EcloguesLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press Stephen Vincent Benét, They Burned the Books John Berryman, Poems R. P. Blackmur, The Second World John Malcolm Brinnin: The Garden Is Political The Lincoln Lyrics Malcolm Cowley, A Dry Season Robert Frost, A Witness Tree Langston Hughes, Shakespeare in Harlem Randall Jarrell, Blood for a Stranger Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Murder of Lidice Kenneth Patchen, The Teeth of the Lion Muriel Rukeyser, Wake Island Karl Shapiro: Person, Place and Thing The Place of Love Wallace Stevens: Parts of a World, includes "The Poems of Our Climate," "The Well Dressed Man with a Beard," and "Examination of the Hero in a Time of War", KnopfWeb page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04. Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction, Cummington Press Mark Van Doren, Our Lady Peace Margaret Walker, For My People Robert Penn Warren, Eleven Poems on the Same Theme Edmund Wilson, Notebooks of Night
Other in English Louise Bennett, Dialect Verses, Caribbean
Works published in other languages Listed by the nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
France Louis Aragon, Les Yeux d'ElsaBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 René-Guy Cadou: Bruits du coeur Lilas du soir Paul Claudel, Cent phrases pour éventails Robert Desnos, Fortunes Paul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel: Le livre ouvert Poésie et Vérité Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël Mathieu, Cantos Jour de colère Léon-Paul Fargue, Refuges Jean Follain, Canisy Eugène Guillevic, Terraqué Loys Masson, Déliverez-nous du mal, war poems Alphonse Métérié, Prix Lasserre Henri Michaux, Au pays de la magie Saint-John Perse, pen name of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger, ExilHartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967 Francis Ponge, Le parti pris des choses, 32 short to medium-length prose poems Raymond Queneau, Pierrot mon ami Jean Tortel, De mon vivant
Indian subcontinent Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Bengali Birendra Chattopadhyay, GrahacytaDas, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, , retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008 Dinesh Das, Kabita 1343–48 Jibanananda Das, Banalata Sen
Other Indian languages Akhtar Ansari Akbarabadi, Abgine, Urdu Hari Daryani, Koda, Sindhi-language (India) K. S. Narasimha Swami, Mysuru Malige, Indian, Kannada-language, called "the most famous collection of love poems in Kannada" N. Gopla Pillai, Sita-Vicara-Lahari, translation into Sanskrit from the Malayalam of Kumaran Asan's poem Cintavistayaya Sita Pritam Singh Safir, Pap de Sohle, Indian, Punjabi-language Sumitra Kumari Sinha, ' 'Asa Parva' ', Hindi-language (India)
Other languages Chairil Anwar, "Nisan" ("Grave"), Indonesian D. Gwenallt Jones, Cnoi Cil, Welsh poet published in the United Kingdom Erik Lindegren, Manen utan väg ("The Man Without a Way"), Sweden César Moro, pen name of César Quíspez Asín, La tortuga ecuestre, PeruFitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this edition was "Printed in U.S.A."), 1947, p 621 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Versi a Casarsa, Friulian language published in Italy Cesare Pavese, Lavorare stanca ("Hard Work"), expanded version nearly double the size of the first edition published in 1936; ItalyWeb page titled "Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04. Saint-John Perse, Exil: poème, Marseilles: Editions Cahiers du Sud; FranceWeb page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. 2009-07-24. Francis Ponge, Le parti pris des choses, Gallimard; FranceWeb page titled "Francis Ponge (1899 - 1988)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 10, 2009. Archived 2009-05-04. Stella Sierra, Sinfonía jubilosa en doce sonetos ("Joyful Symphony in Twelve Sonnets"), Panama Hannah Szenes, "A Walk to Caesarea", Modern Hebrew poetry
Awards and honors
Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: David and Other Poems, Earle Birney (Canada) "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards ", Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011.
United States Robert Frost Medal: Edgar Lee Masters Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Rose Benét, The Dust Which Is God
Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 17 – Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay), African-American heavyweight boxer and occasional poet (died 2016) January 19 – Pat Mora, female Mexican-American author and poet February 14 – Rafiq Azad, Bengali poet, editor and academic (died 2016)