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

E.E. Cummings, is 5
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
Louis Zukofsky completes "Poem beginning 'The'," incorporating fragments of the writings of Dante, Virginia Woolf, and Benito Mussolini, among others

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
November 24 — Paul Blackburn (died 1971), American poet
December 23 — Robert Bly, American poet, author, and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States
date not known:
- Marya Fiamengo
- Nikos Karouzos, Greek
- 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