1944 in poetry

Years in poetry:	1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947
Years in literature:	1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947
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Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years:	1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947

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Canadian poet E. J. Pratt in 1944

Nathan Alterman, Plague Poems (Israel)
W. H. Auden, For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio
Sir John Betjeman, New Bats in Old Belfries
Walter De la Mare, Collected Rhymes and Verses
H.D., "The Walls Do Not Fall", first part of Trilogy (1944–46) on the blitz in war-time London
T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Robert Lowell, Land of Unlikeness
William Meredith, Love Letter from an Impossible Land
Kenneth Rexroth, The Phoenix and the Tortoise
Giorgos Seferis, Ημερολόγιο Καταστρώματος ΙΙ (Deck Diary II)
William Carlos Williams, The Wedge
Crown and Sickle poetry anthology in Britain, featuring poets in the New Apocalyptics movement

Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Robert Penn Warren appointed this year. He would serve until 1945.

February 9 — Alice Walker, African-American novelist, poet, writer and feminist
March 21 — Pedro Pietri, (died in 2004) a Puerto Rican and Nuyorican poet and playwright who co-founded the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
August 31 — Lorenzo Thomas, American poet
September 24 — Eavan Boland, Irish poet
September 25 — B.P. Nichol, Canadian poet who often went by his lower-case initials and last name, with no spaces ("bpNichol")
October 10 — Linda Rogers, Canadian poet and children's writer
December 18 — Michael Davidson, American poet
date not known:
- Sandra Alcosser
- John Donlan
- Paul Duncan
- Susan Ioannou, Canadian poet
- Penn Kemp, Canadian poet, novelist, playwright, and sound poet
- Mary Kinzie, American poet
- Craig Anthony Raine
- John Reibetanz

January 7 — Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek
March 5 — Alun Lewis, Anglo-Welsh school poet and war poet killed in Burma
March 28 — Stephen Leacock, Canadian writer and economist
April 4 — John Peale Bishop, American poet and man of letters
June 9 — Keith Douglas, war poet died in the D-Day invasion of Normandy; he was killed by enemy mortar fire while his regiment was advancing from Bayeux and is buried at the war cemetery at Tilly-sur-Seuilles.
July 3 — A. H. Reginald Buller, a British/Canadian mycologist mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust who also wrote limericks, some of which were published in Punch
July 18 — Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet, author and artist
date not known:
- Olivia Bush
- Joseph Campbell, Irish poet and lyricist
- Olive Custance, poet
- Keith Castellain Douglas, killed in World War II at Normandy;
- Robert Nichols, poet and dramatist
- Frederick George Scott