1928 in poetry
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| Years in poetry: | 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 |
| Years in literature: | 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 |
| 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: | 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 |
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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"
[edit] Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson wins his third Pulitzer Prize for Poetry this decade for Tristram
[edit] 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
- date not known:
- Bruce Beaver, Australian poet
- Carol Bergé
- R. F. Brissenden
- Don Coles
- Peter Davison (poet)
- Irving Feldman
- Philip Levine, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
[edit] 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
