Events
Works published
- Anna Akhmatova, Anno Domini MCMXXI
- Mário de Andrade, Paulicéia Desvairada (Hallucinated City)
- Hilda Conkling, Shoes of the Wind
- Thomas Hardy, Late Lyrics and Earlier
- James Weldon Johnson, Book of American Negro Poetry
- Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows
- Hughes Mearns, "Antigonish" (written in 1899, published in 1922)
- Marjorie Pickthall, The Wood Carver's Wife, including "Marching Men"
- Poems of Today, British poetry anthology, second series
- Carl Sandburg, Slabs of the Sunburnt West
- César Vallejo, Trilce
- Sir William Walton's composition, Façade, a musical setting of 21 poems by Edith Sitwell
- William Carlos Williams:
- W.B. Yeats, Later Poems
Awards and honors
Births
- March 12 — Jack Kerouac (died 1969), American novelist, writer, poet, artist, and part of the Beat Generation school of poetry
- April 16 — Kingsley Amis, English writer and poet
- July 17 — Donald Davie, English poet and critic who belonged to the Movement
- August 9 — Philip Larkin (died 1985), English poet, novelist and jazz critic
- August 26 — Elizabeth Brewster, Canadian poet and academic
- September 12 — Jackson Mac Low, (died 2004) American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright
- December 3 — Eli Mandel (died 1992) was a Canadian poet and literary academic
- date not known:
Deaths
- January 21 — John Kendrick Bangs, 59, American author, satirist, poet and the creator of Bangsian fantasy, a school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife
- February 3 — John Butler Yeats, poet
- September 2 — Henry Lawson, 55, Australian writer and poet
- September 10 — Wilfred Scawen Blunt, 62, British poet and writer
- November 27 — Alice Meynell, 75, née Thompson, English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet
- date not known:
See also
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