1928 in poetry

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Events

* Russian poets Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky found OBERIU (a Russian acronym for "An Association of Real Art"), an avant-garde grouping of Russian post-Futurist poets in the 1920s-1930s
* American poets Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen and Louis Zukofsky meet in New York City; they will become some of the founders of the Objectivist poets group.

Works published

* T. S. Eliot, "For Lancelot Andrewes"
* Robert Frost, "West-Running Brook"
* Federico García Lorca, "Primer romancero gitano" (Spanish for "Gypsy Ballads")
* Thomas Hardy, "Winter Words"
* H. S. Milford, editor, "Romantic Verse", anthology [Preminger, Alex, and Brogan, T.V.F., editors, "The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics", Princeton University Press, 1993, "English Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p353]
* Ezra Pound, "Selected Poems", edited by T. S. Eliot, London [Ackroyd, Peter, "Ezra Pound", Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121]
* Carl Sandburg, "Good Morning America"
* Siegfried Sassoon, "The Heart's Journey"
* Allen Tate, "Mr. Pope and Other Poems", including "Ode to the Confederate Dead"
* W.B. Yeats, "The Tower", including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan"
* Louis Zukofsky completes the original versions of "A" 1, 2, 3 and 4, which have been compared to Pound's Cantos; the fragmentary long poem will be a lifelong project.
* Joseph Moncure March, "The Wild Party"

Awards and honors

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson wins his third Pulitzer Prize for Poetry this decade, this time for "Tristram"

Births

* January 1 — Iain Crichton Smith (died 1998), Scot writing poetry, short stories and novels in both English and Scottish Gaelic
* February 14 — Bruce Beaver (died 2004). Australian poet
* March 4 — Alan Sillitoe, English poet and writer and one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s
* April 4 — Maya Angelou, African-American poet
* May 4 — Thomas Kinsella Irish poet, translator, editor and publisher
* September 20 — Donald Hall, American poet and the U.S. Poet Laureate
* November 9 — Anne Sexton (died 1974), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967
* date not known:
** Carol Bergé
** R. F. Brissenden
** Don Coles
** Peter Davison (poet)
** Irving Feldman
** Hertha Kraftner (died 1951), German [Hofmann, Michael, editor, "Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology", Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006]
** Philip Levine, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Deaths

*January 11 - Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet
*March 18 - Paul van Ostaijen
*March 24 - Charlotte Mew, poet (suicide)
*May 16 - Edmund Gosse, poet and critic
*July 20 — Kostas Karyotakis, Greek
*August 16 - Antonín Sova
*December 16 - Elinor Wylie, poet and novelist

*David McKee Wright

ee also

*Poetry
* List of years in poetry

References