1926 in poetry

Years in poetry:	1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
Years in literature:	1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
Decades in poetry:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Centuries in poetry:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years:	1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929

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The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France.
Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, closes

Federico García Lorca, Oda a Salvador Dalí (Spanish for "Ode to Salvador Dalí")
Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues, including "The Weary Blues"
Hugh MacDiarmid, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
Archibald MacLeish, Streets in the Moon, including "The End of the World"
Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope
Ezra Pound, Personae

January 5 — W. D. Snodgrass, pseudonym S. S. Gardons, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1960
February 18 — A. R. Ammons (died 2001), American author and poet
March 3 — James Merrill (died 1995), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1977
May 21 — Robert Creeley (died 2005), American poet, author and usually associated with the Black Mountain poets
May 26 — Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian science fiction novelist and poet
June 3 — Allen Ginsberg (died 1997), American Beat poet
June 27 — Frank O'Hara (died 1966), American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry.
June 29 — James K. Baxter (died 1972), New Zealand poet
July 18 — Elizabeth Jennings (died 2001), English poet
September 1 — James Reaney, Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic
November 23 — Christopher Logue, English poet, playwright, screen writer and actor associated with the British Poetry Revival
December 23 — Robert Bly, American poet, author, and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States
date not known:
- Marya Fiamengo
- Francis Edward Sparshott
- David Wagoner

May 30 — Perceval Gibbon Welsh poet, author and journalist
July 19 — Ada Cambridge, 81, July 19, 1926), English writer and poet
August 1 - Israel Zangwill, English poet
December 29 — Rainer Maria Rilke, 51, considered by many to be the greatest Twentieth century poet in German, from leukemia
date not known:
- Charles Montagu Doughty, English poet, writer, and traveller
- Eva Selena Gore-Booth
- Francis Joseph Sherman