1935 in poetry

1935 in poetry

Events

* 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

* 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")
* Sir Muhammad Iqbal - "Bal-i Jibril" ("Wings of Gabriel") in Urdu, inspired by his 1933 visit to Spain
* 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

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - Audrey Wurdemann, "Bright Ambush"

Births

* 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, Ghanaian poet and author whose work combines the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa 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 and translator (primary English translator of Edmond 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 poet

Deaths

* April 6 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner (born 1869)
* July 17 - George William Russell, Anglo-Irish supporter of Irish nationalism, critic, poet, and painter who wrote under the pseudonym Æ, mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers of theosophy (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 the Harlem Renaissance; her husband Paul 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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