- 1942 in poetry
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George Oppen joins the U.S. Army.Works published
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John Berryman , "Poems"
*Earle Birney , "David and Other Poems"
*Walter De la Mare , "Collected Poems"
*T. S. Eliot , "Little Gidding", published inNew English Weekly
*John Heath-Stubbs , "Wounded Thammuz"
*Patrick Kavanagh , "The Great Hunger"
*Alun Lewis , "Raiders' Dawn", on a soldier's life in theWorld War II
*Erik Lindegren , "Manen utan väg" ("The Man Without a Way"), Sweden
*Leslie Norris , "Tongue of Beauty"
*Henry Reed , "The Naming of Parts", published in the "New Statesman "Awards and honors
United States
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Frost Medal :Edgar Lee Masters
*Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :William Rose Benet , "The Dust Which Is God"Births
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March 23 —Ama Ata Aidoo Ghanaian author, poet and playwright
*October 23 —Douglas Dunn , Scottish poet, academic and critic.
*November 9 —Karin Kiwus , German
*November 11 — William Matthews, American poet and essayist
*November 19 —Sharon Olds , American poet* date not known:
**Gladys Cardiff , American poet and academic
**Mahmoud Darwish , Palestinian poet and prose writer
**Stuart Dybek , American poet and author
**Mark DeFoe
**Douglas Eaglesham Dunn
**Jennifer Footman
**Marilyn Hacker , American poet, critic, and reviewer
**David Henderson , poet associated with the Umbra workshop andBlack Arts Movement
**Pat Mora , female Mexican-American author and poet
**Arthur Nortje , South African poet (died 1970)
**Henry Taylor
**Jakob van Hoddis (born 1887), GermanDeaths
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February 2 —Daniil Kharms , 36, early Soviet-erasurrealist and absurdist poet, writer, dramatist, and founder ofOBERIU poetry school, probably of starvation in his cell at a Leningrad asylum, after his arrest
*March 28 —Miguel Hernández , Spanish poet
*April 24 —Lucy Maud Montgomery , known as "L.M. Montgomery", a Canadian poet and author best known for a series of novels beginning with "Anne of Green Gables "
*12 May —Shaw Neilson , Australian poet
*May 26 —Libero Bovio , Italian poet in the Neapolitan dialect
*March 28 —Miguel Hernández , 31, Spanish poet, from tuberculosis in harsh conditions during his imprisonment in Spain
*23 December —Konstantin Bal'mont , Russian poet
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**William Baylebridge , the pseudonym of Charles William Blocksidge, an Australian poet and short story writeree also
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Poetry
*List of poetry awards
*List of years in poetry
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