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Events

• Iowa Writers\' Workshop founded by Paul Engle at the University of Iowa
• George Hill Dillon becomes editor of Poetry Magazine and stays in that job until 1949.

Works published

• Dr. Seuss publishes his first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
• John Betjeman, Continual Dew, including "The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel"
• David Jones, In Parenthesis
• Isaac Rosenberg, Collected Works, posthumously published

Awards and honors

• Queen\'s Gold Medal for Poetry: W. H. Auden
• Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (the post which was later called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Joseph Auslander appointed this year (he would serve until 1941)
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Edwin Markham

Births

• January 1 — John Fuller (poet), English poet and author
• April 30 — Tony Harrison, English poet
• September 14 — Douglas Oliver, British poet
• November 9 — Roger McGough, British poet
• date not known:
  • Marvin Bell, American poet
  • Susan Howe, Irish-born American poet and critic closely associated with the Language poets
  • Glen Sorestad
  • Diane Wakoski, an American poet associated with the "deep image" poets and the Beats
  • Eleanor Wilner

Deaths

• July 18 — Julian Bell, English poet, and member of a literary and artistic family, who died in the Spanish Civil War
• December 26 — Ivor Gurney, English composer and poet
• December 29 — Don Marquis, American poet, artist, newspaper columnist, humorist, playwright and author best known for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel"
• August 11 — Edith Wharton American novelist, short story writer, designer and poet
• date not known:
  • Anna Branch
  • Constance Woodrow

See also

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry

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