1937 in poetry

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Events

* Iowa Writers' Workshop founded by Paul Engle at the University of Iowa
* George Hill Dillon becomes editor of "Poetry Magazine" and stays in that job until 1949.
* Summer — In Nazi Germany, Wolfgang Willrich, a member of the SS, lampooned German expressionist poet Gottfried Benn in Willrich's book "Säuberung des Kunsttempels] ; Heinrich Himmler, however, stepped in to reprimand Willrich and defended Benn on the grounds of his pro-Nazi record since 1933 (his earlier artistic output was dismissed as irrelevant).
* William Butler Yeats concludes his recordings of his own verse and his broadcast lectures on the BBC (begun in 1936). [Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, "W. B. Yeats", Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, pp 121-122]

Works published

* Dr. Seuss publishes his first book, "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street"
* John Betjeman, "Continual Dew", including "The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel"
* Allen Curnow, "Enemies: Poems 1934–36" (Caxton), New Zealand
* Robin Hyde, "Wednesday's Children", New Zealand
* David Jones, "In Parenthesis"
* Isaac Rosenberg, "Collected Works", posthumously published

Awards and honors

* Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: W. H. Auden
* Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (the post which was later called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Joseph Auslander appointed this year (he would serve until 1941)
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Edwin Markham

Births

* January 1 — John Fuller (poet), English poet and author
* April 30 — Tony Harrison, English poet
* May 11 — Michael Heller, American poet
* September 14 — Douglas Oliver, British poet
* November 9 — Roger McGough, British poet
* November 19 — Meg Campbell (died 2007), New Zealand, poet and wife of Alistair Campbell
* December 31 — Nicolas Born (died 1979), German poet
* date not known:
** Kurt Bartsch, German [Hofmann, Michael, editor, "Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology", Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006]
** Marvin Bell, American poet
** Susan Howe, Irish-born American poet and critic closely associated with the Language poets
** Glen Sorestad
** Diane Wakoski, an American poet associated with the "deep image" poets and the Beats
** Eleanor Wilner

Deaths

* July 18 — Julian Bell, English poet, and member of a literary and artistic family, who died in the Spanish Civil War
* December 26 — [Ivor* date not known:
** Anna Branch
** Constance Woodrow

ee also

* Poetry
* List of poetry awards
* List of years in poetry

References