- 1935 in poetry
Events
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George Oppen joins the Communist Party, where his organizing work will increasingly take precedence over his poetry; he writes no more verse until 1958.Works published
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Constantine Cavafy - "Ποιήματα (Piimata, or 'Poems of C.P. Cavafy')"
*E.E. Cummings - "No Thanks "
*Allen Curnow (New Zealand):
**"Three Poems" (Caxton)
**"Poetry and Language", a brief poetry manifesto (Caxton)
*T. S. Eliot - "Murder in the Cathedral"
*William Empson - "Some Versions of Pastoral"
*Federico García Lorca - "Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías" (Spanish for "Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías"), and "Seis poemas galegos" ("Six Galician poems")
* SirMuhammad Iqbal - "Bal-i Jibril" ("Wings ofGabriel ") in Urdu, inspired by his 1933 visit toSpain
*Louis MacNeice - "Poems"
*John Masefield - "Box of Delights"
*Giorgos Seferis - "Μυθιστόρημα (Tale of Legends)"
*Wallace Stevens - "Ideas of Order"
*William Carlos Williams - "An Early Martyr and Other Poems"
*W. B. Yeats - "A Full Moon in March"Awards and honors
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry -Audrey Wurdemann , "Bright Ambush"Births
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January 30 -Richard Brautigan , writer and poet (died 1984)
*January 27 -died M. Thomas , English novelist, poet, and translator from Cornwall
*March 13 -Kofi Awoonor ,Ghana ian poet and author whose work combines the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depictAfrica during decolonization.
*April 16 —Sarah Kirsch , German
*May 14 -Roque Dalton , leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist who wrote on death, love, and politics (died 1975)
*June 1 -Clayton Eshleman , American poet, translator, and editor
*June 6 -Joy Kogawa , Canadian poet and novelist
*June 12 &mdasah;Christoph Meckel , German
*July 29 -Pat Lowther , Canadian poet killed by her husband (died 1975)
*August 24 -Rosmarie Waldrop , German-born American poet andtranslator (primary English translator ofEdmond Jabès )
*August 25 - Charles Wright, American poet.
*September 10 -Mary Oliver , American poet
*November 15 -Gustaf Sobin , American expatriate poet & novelist (died 2005)
*December 1 -George Bowering , Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer
*December 29 -Yevgeny Rein (Евгений Рейн), Russian poet
* "date unknown"
**Michael Benedikt
**Russell Edson , American poet
**David R. Slavitt
** Jay Wright, African American poetDeaths
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April 6 -Edwin Arlington Robinson , American poet and three-timePulitzer Prize winner (born 1869)
*July 17 -George William Russell ,Anglo-Irish supporter of Irish nationalism, critic, poet, and painter who wrote under thepseudonym Æ, mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers oftheosophy (born 1867)
*August 11 - Sir William Watson, English traditionalist poet popular for the political content of his verse (born 1858)
*September 18 -Alice Dunbar Nelson , African American poet, journalist and political activist, and a part of theHarlem Renaissance ; her husbandPaul Laurence Dunbar was also a poet (born 1875)
*November 30 -Fernando Pessoa , Portuguese poet and writer (born 1888)
*December 17 -Lizette Woodworth Reese , American poet (born 1856)
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