1928 IN POETRY

Contents

Events

Works published

Awards and honors

Births

Deaths

See also

Events

★ Russian poets Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky found OBERIU (a Russian acronym for "An Association of Real Art"), an avant-garde grouping of Russian post-Futurist poets in the 1920s-1930s

★ American poets Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen and Louis Zukofsky meet in New York City; they will become some of the founders of the Objectivist poets group.

Works published

★ T.S. Eliot, ''For Lancelot Andrewes''

★ Robert Frost, ''West-Running Brook''

★ Federico García Lorca, ''Primer romancero gitano'' (Spanish for "Gypsy Ballads")

★ Thomas Hardy, ''Winter Words''

★ Carl Sandburg, ''Good Morning America''

★ Siegfried Sassoon, ''The Heart's Journey''

★ Allen Tate, ''Mr. Pope and Other Poems'', including "Ode to the Confederate Dead"

★ W.B. Yeats, ''The Tower'', including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan"

★ Louis Zukofsky completes the original versions of "A" 1, 2, 3 and 4, which have been compared to Pound's Cantos; the fragmentary long poem will be a lifelong project.

★ Joseph Moncure March, "The Wild Party"

Awards and honors

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson wins his third Pulitzer Prize for Poetry this decade for ''Tristram''

Births

★ January 1 — Iain Crichton Smith (died 1998), Scot writing poetry, short stories and novels in both English and Scottish Gaelic

★ March 4 — Alan Sillitoe, English poet and writer and one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s

★ April 4 — 'Maya Angelou', African-American poet

★ May 4 — Thomas Kinsella Irish poet, translator, editor and publisher

★ September 20 — 'Donald Hall', American poet and the U.S. Poet Laureate

★ November 9 — 'Anne Sexton' (died 1974), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967

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★ Bruce Beaver, Australian poet

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★ Carol Bergé

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★ R. F. Brissenden

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★ Don Coles

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★ Peter Davison (poet)

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★ Irving Feldman

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★ Philip Levine, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Deaths

★ January 11 - Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet

★ March 18 - Paul van Ostaijen

★ March 24 - Charlotte Mew, poet (suicide)

★ May 16 - Edmund Gosse, poet and critic

★ July 20 — Kostas Karyotakis, Greek

★ August 16 - Antonín Sova

★ December 16 - Elinor Wylie, poet and novelist

★ David McKee Wright

See also

★ Poetry

★ List of years in poetry