1928 in poetry

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^[1]
• Ezra Pound, Selected Poems, edited by T. S. Eliot, London^[2]
• 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^[3]
  • 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

See also

Poetry Portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

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