1934 in poetry

Years in poetry:	1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937
Years in literature:	1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937
Decades in poetry:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Centuries in poetry:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years:	1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937

[edit] Events

T. S. Eliot, The Rock
George Oppen, Discrete Series
Dylan Thomas, Eighteen Poems, including "The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower"
William Carlos Williams, Collected Poems
W. B. Yeats, The King of the Great Clock Tower

February 10 - Fleur Adcock, poet
February 18 — Audre Lorde, American writer, poet and activist
February 27 — N. Scott Momaday, Native American poet and writer
March 31 — Kamala Das, Indian poet and writer in English and Malayalam, her native language
March 20 — David Malouf Australian poet and writer
April 11 — Mark Strand, American poet
July 13 — Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, poet and playwright who in 1986 was the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
July 20 — Henry Dumas (died 1968) was an African-American writer and poet
August 5 — Wendell Berry, American novelist, essayist, poet, professor, cultural critic — and farmer
August 6 — Diane Di Prima American poet associated with the Beats
September 9 — Sonia Sanchez, African-American poet, playwright and children's book author associated with the Black Arts Movement
September 21 — Leonard Cohen, Canadian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter.
September 23 — M. Travis Lane American-Canadian poet
October 7 — Amiri Baraka, African-American poet, playwright, essayist, music critic and former husband of poet Hettie Jones
November 15 — Ted Berrigan, (died 1983) American poet and political activist
date not known:
- Jack Agüeros
- Hettie Jones, American poet, writer and former wife of Amiri Baraka
- Walt McDonald