1962 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1962 poetry literature Events May 30 – Composer Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, incorporating settings of Wilfred Owen's poems, is premièred for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral. September – Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath separate. October Beginning this month, Sylvia Plath experiences a great burst of creativity, writing most of the poems on which her reputation will rest in what will be the last few months of her life, including many which will be published in Ariel and Winter Trees. Dame Edith Sitwell reads from her poetry at a concert at Royal Festival Hall in London given in honor of her 75th birthday. Writers in the Soviet Union this year are allowed to publish criticism of Joseph Stalin and are given more freedom generally, although many are severely criticized for doing so. The poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, in the poem, The Heirs of Stalin, writes that more guards should be placed at Stalin's tomb, "lest Stalin rise again, and with Stalin the past". He also condemns anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. His poetry readings attract hundreds and thousands of enthusiastic young people, to the point where police are often summoned to preserve order and disperse the crowds long after midnight. Other young poets also go beyond the previous limits of Soviet censorship: Andrei Voznesensky, Robert Rozhdestvensky, and Bella Akhmadulina (who has divorced Yevtushenko). Aleksandr Tvardovsky, editor of the literary monthly Novy Mir, supports many of the young writers. By the end of the year, the young writers have gained power in the official writers' unions which control much of the literary culture of the Soviet Union, and some publications which had attacked them are printing their work.Britannica Book of the Year 1963, covering events of 1962, published by The Encyclopædia Britannica, 1963. American poet Robert Frost visits Russian poet Anna Akhmatova in her dacha. Michigan Quarterly Review is founded. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australia R. D. Fitzgerald, Southmost Twelve,National Library of Australia - Southmost Twelve Grace Leven Prize for Poetry Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Eight Metropolitan Poems, Adelaide: Australian Letters Canada Earle Birney, Ice Cod Bell or Stone. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart."Earle Birney: Published Works", Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011. Wilson MacDonald, *Pugwash. Toronto: Pine Tree Publishing.Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011. John Newlove, The Things which AreGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books Al Purdy, Poems for All the Annettes James Reaney, Twelve Letters to a Small Town. Governor General's Award 1962. A. J. M. Smith, Collected Poems F. R. Scott, St-Denys Garneau & Anne Hebert: Translations/Traductions. Translated by F. R. Scott. Vancouver: Klanak Press."F.R. Scott: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20130408081000/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/scott_fr/pub.htm 2013-04-08 ", Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Raymond Souster, A Local Pride. Toronto: Contact Press."Notes on Life and Works https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195614/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html 2011-08-17 ", Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Raymond Souster, Place of Meeting Wilfred Watson, The Sea is Also a Garden Anthologies Irving Layton, editor, Love Where the Nights Are Long Editors of the Tamarack Review, a selection from its past issues, The First Five Years, including poetry Biography, criticism and scholarship John Glassco, The Journal of Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau (translation) Canadian critics and poets, Masks of Poetry India, in English Adil Jussawalla, Land's End ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 231, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972") Lawrence Bantleman, Graffiti ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828–1965), p 323, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010 M. P. Bhaskaran, The Dancer and the Ring ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, 0-391-03286-0, 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009 United Kingdom Dannie Abse, Poems, Golders Green, including "The Abandoned", London: HutchinsonM. L. Rosenthal, The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, "Selected Bibliography: Individual Volumes by Poets Discussed", pp 334-340 George Barker, The View From a Blind ICox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Edmund Blunden, A Hong Kong House Ronald Bottrall, Collected Poems Tony Connor, With Love Somehow, London: Oxford University Press Patrick Creagh, A Row of Pharaohs Allen Curnow, A Small Room with Large Windows (Oxford University Press), selected poems by this New Zealand poet published in the United KingdomAllen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008 C. Day-Lewis, The Gate, including "Not Proven" and "The Disabused" T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909–1962 D. J. Enright, Addictions, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press Roy Fuller, Collected Poems 1936-1961, London: André Deutsch Robert Graves, New Poems 1962 Thom Gunn, Fighting Terms, a revision of a collection from the 1950s including "My Sad Captains" Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes, Selected poems by Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes, Faber Richard Kell, Control Tower Thomas Kinsella, Downstream, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Peter Levi, Water, Rock and Sand Norman MacCaig, A Round of Applause, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press Christopher Middleton, Torse 3 Ewart Milne, A Garland for the Green, Irish poet published in the UK Vernon Scannell, A Sense of Danger Dame Edith Sitwell, The Outcasts Stevie Smith, Selected Poems Jon Stallworthy, Out of Bounds R. S. Thomas, The Bread of Truth Anthony Thwaite, The Owl in the Tree J. R. R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, and Other Verses from the 'Red Book''' Charles Tomlinson, A Peopled Landscape Derek Walcott, In a Green Night the "most striking" first collection of poetry of 1962, according to Howard Sergeant, editor of Outposts (writing for publication in 1963). Walcott had already gained recognition with his plays. Vernon Watkins, Affinities T. H. White, VersesAnthologies Al Alvarez, editor, The New Poetry an anthology that provoked controversy with its omissions and inclusions James Reeves, editor, Georgian PoetryUnited States Brother Antoninus (William Everson), The Hazards of Holiness, 1957-1960, Garden City, New York: Doubleday John Ashbery, The Tennis Court OathLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi) Robert Bly, Silence in the Snowy Fields, Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press Kay Boyle, Collected Poems Gregory Corso, Long Live Man Robert Creeley, For Love: Poems 1950-1960, collected lyrics from his seven previous volumes, New York: Scribner'sDavid Perkins, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" https://web.archive.org/web/20080705161256/http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/creeley/life.htm 2008-07-05 at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008 James Dickey, Drowning With Others William Faulkner, Prose and Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, verse Ian Hamilton Finlay, The Dancers Inherit the Party, 2nd edition, Ventura California and Worcester, England: Migrant Press, Scottish poet publishing in the United States Robert Frost, In the Clearing, his first collection of new poems in 15 years Paul Goodman, The Lordly Hudson: Collected Poems, New York: Macmillan Robert Hayden, A Ballad of Remembrance John Hollander, Movie-Going and Other Poems Richard Howard, Quantities Weldon Kees, Collected Poems, published posthumously (poet disappeared 1955) Kenneth Koch, Thank You and Other Poems Denise Levertov, The Jacob's Ladder Hugh MacDiarmid, Collected Poems, New York: Macmillan, Scottish poet publishing in the United States Norman Mailer, Deaths for the Ladies James Merrill, Water Street W. S. Merwin, The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Christopher Middleton, torse 3, New York: Harcourt, Brace Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, novel purporting to be a critical edition of a poem of this title written by the (fictional) American poet John Shade Ogden Nash, Everyone But Thee and Me, light verse Howard Nemerov, The Next Room of the Dream, University of Chicago Press Sylvia Plath, The Colossus and Other Poems, 1st U.S. edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, American poet resident in the United Kingdom Charles Reznikoff, By the Waters of Manhattan: Selected Verse David Ross, Three Ages of Lake Light, his first book of poems Muriel Rukeyser, Waterlily Fire: Poems 1935-1962, James Schevill, Private Dooms and Public Destinations: Poems 1945-1962, Denver: Alan Swallow Winfield Townley Scott, Collected Poems Anne Sexton, All My Pretty Ones, including "The Truth the Dead Know", Boston: Houghton Mifflin Edith Shiffert, In Open Woods, her first book of poems William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark, New York: Harper & Row Diane Wakoski, Coins and Coffins Theodore Weiss, Gunsight, New York University Press Reed Whittemore, The Boy from Iowa William Carlos Williams, Pictures from Brueghel and Other PoemsCriticism, scholarship and biography in the United States Hugh Kenner, editor, T. S. Eliot: A Collection of Critical Essays (Prentice-Hall), Canadian writing published in the United States Karl Shapiro, Prose Keys to Modern PoetryOther in English Eavan Boland, 23 Poems, Ireland Ewart Milne, A Garland for the Green, Irish poet published in the UK Kendrick Smithyman, Inheritance, New Zealand Works published in other languages Listed by language and often by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: French language Canada, in French Gérard Bessette, Poèmes temporels Gilles Hénault, SémaphoreFrance Yves Bonnefoy, Anti-Platon, France André du Bouchet, Dans la chaleur vacante René Char, La Parole en archipelAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 0-394-52197-8 Jean Cocteau, La RequiemBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Jean-Paul de Dadelsen, Jonas, published posthumously (died 1957) Pierre Emmanuel, Evangéliaire André Frénaud, Il n'y a pas de paradis Jean Follain, Poèmes et Pros choisis, displaying some similarities to haiku Jean Grosjean, Apocalypse Pierre Jean Jouve, Moires Stéphane Mallarmé, Pour un tombeau d'Anatole, an abandoned and previously unpublished work, consisting of notes and drafts of an elegy the poet expected to write on his dead son (posthumous); edited by J. P. Richard Robert Marteau, Royaumes Henri Michaux, Vents et poussières, Paris: FlinkerRigaud-Drayton, Margaret, Henri Michaux: Poetry, Painting and the Universal Sign, Bibliography, p 165, Oxford University Press, 2005, retrieved via Google Books on August 10, 2009 Saint-John Perse: Hommage à Rabindranath Tagore, Liège: Editions DynamoWeb page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. 2009-07-24. L'ordre des oiseaux, Paris: Société d'Éditions d'art; republished as Oiseaux, Paris: Société d'Éditions d'art Valéry Larbaud; ou, L'Honneur littéraire, Liège: Editions Dynamo Marcelin Pleynet, Provisoires Amants des nègres Francis Ponge, Le Grand Recueil in three volumes Jean Claude Renard: Incantation du temps Incantation des eaux Michel Sager, XXI poèmes nocturnesCriticism and scholarship J. P. Richard, L'Univers imaginaire de MallarméGermany G. Benn, Lyrik des expressionistischen Jahrzehnts, anthologyPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474 Johannes Bobrowski, Schattenland Ströme (Shadowland), East Germany Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Dein Schweigen-meine Stimmen Hilde Domin, Rückkehr der Schiffe Wilhelm Lehmann, Abschiedslust, Gedichte aus den Jahren 1957-1961, 37 poems Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Viele schöne Kinderreime, 777 poems for children Hebrew Anonymous author from the Soviet Union, Zion Halo Tishali, poems originally written in Russian and clandestinely sent to Israel, edited and translated by A. Shlonsky and M. Sharett Avigdor Hameiri, Belivnat ha-Sapir ("Clear-cut Sapphire"), collected poems Levi Ben-Amittai, Matana Mimidbar ("Gift of the Desert") Yitzahak Ogen, Shirim ("Poems") P. Elad-Lander, Ke'raiah ha-Sadeh ("As the Fragrance of the Field") A. Halfi, Mul Kohavim ve-Afar ("Against Stars and the Dust") A. Meyrowitz, Avnai Bait ("Stones of a House") D. Avidan, Shirai Lahatz ("Poems of Pressure") Uri Bernstein, Beoto ha-Heder Beoto ha-Or ("In the Same Room, In the Same Light") T. Carmi, Nehash ha-Nehoshet ("Brass Serpent") J. Lichtenbaum, Shiratenu ("Our Poetry"), a two-volume anthology of Hebrew poetry from the end of the 18th century J. J. Schwartz, Kentucky, the only volume of Hebrew poetry published in the United States, according to The Britannica Book of the Year 1963 (covering events of 1962) India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Barnardino Evaristo Mendes, also known as B. E. Mendes, Goenchem Git, Konkani Gulzar, Jaanam, New Delhi: Vanagi Publications; UrduWeb page titled "Gulzar" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 10, 2010 Maheswar Neog, Asamiya Sahityar Ruprekha, Assamese-languageDas, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911–1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008 Ratnadhwaj Josi, Hamro Kavya Paramparama Usaiko Lagi ("Our Poetic Tradition"), criticism, Nepali Italy A. Gatto, Carlomagno nella grotta Eugenio Montale, Satura, published in a private edition, Verona: Oficina BodoniEugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, 0-374-12554-6 Cesare Pavese, Poesie edite e inedite, edited by Italo Calvino, Turin: Einaudi (posthumous) Maria Luisa Spaziani, Il gong P. Volponi, MemorialeSpanish language Latin America Roque Dalton, El mar and El turno del ofendido (Salvadoran poet published in Cuba) Alaíde Foppa, Aunque es de noche ("Although it's Night") (Guatemalan poet published in Mexico)Cocco Elisa Alaíde Foppa: una vita da dissidente Alaíde Foppa: a dissident's life Cuadernos del Hipogrifo 2023 20 11–25 https://www.revistaelhipogrifo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/11-25.pdf 2025-05-27 it 2420-918X Héctor Rojas Herazo, Mascando las tinieblas en el odio (Colombia) Alberto Hidalgo, Historia peruana verdadera José Martí, Versos (Cuban), posthumous; with an introduction by Eugenio Florit Pablo Neruda, a bilingual anthology of his selected verse; with an introduction by Louis Monguió Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Fuego de pobres (Mexico) Carlos Pellicer, Material poético (Mexico) Spain Jorge Guillén, Lenguaje y poesía A collaboration of 50 poets and 14 illustrators, Versos para Antonio Machado (published in France) Yiddish Elia Levita, Bovo-bukh ("Buovo d'Antona") (posthumous) a 16th-century epic poem translated into modern Yiddish by Moyshe Knapheys ru Кнапгейс, Мойше Jacob Glatstein, Di freyd fun yidishn vort (The Joy of the Yiddish World) Noyekh Yitskhok Gotlib, a book of poetry Chaim Grade, Der mench fun fayer ("The Man of Fire") Rachel Korn, a book of poetry Kadia Molodowsky, editor, Lider fun khurbn ("Poems of the Catastrophe"), an anthology in which emphasized the theme of the Holocaust Shlomo Shenhod, a book of poetry Abraham Nahum Stencl, a book of poetry I. J. Schwartz, a book of poetry I. Taubes, a book of poetry Meir Ziml Tkatch, a book of poetry Shneyer Vaserman, a book of poetry Avrom Zak, a book of poetry Rajzel Żychlińsky, a book of poetry Other Bella Akhmadulina, Struna ("The String"), Soviet Unionhttp://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15728010&PageNum=0 Poetess Akhmadulina dies in Moscow at age of 73 2010-11-29 2010-11-29 ITAR-TASShttp://english.ruvr.ru/2010/11/29/35906555.html Russia's President and Prime Minister commiserate the death of Bella Akhmadulina 2010-11-29 2010-11-29 The Voice of Russia https://web.archive.org/web/20101201082447/http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/11/29/35906555.html 2010-12-01 dead Ruy de Moura Belo, O problema da habitação—alguns aspectos ("The Quandary of Living: Some Aspects'",da Silva, Jaime H https://books.google.com/books?id=bsvkun_p3SgC Belo, Ruy de Moura 184 Bleiberg, Germán Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian peninsula 1 2011-09-06 9780313287312 1993 Portugal Inger Christensen, Lys: digte ("Light"), Denmarkhttp://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ingerc.htm Inger Christensen Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) Petri Liukkonen Kuusankoski Public Library Finland https://web.archive.org/web/20090123041708/http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ingerc.htm 23 January 2009 dead Wisława Szymborska: Sól ("Salt"), Poland Awards and honors United Kingdom Eric Gregory Award: Donald Thomas, James Simmons, Brian Johnson, Jenny Joseph Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Christopher Fry United States Bollingen Prize: John Hall Wheelock and Richard Eberhart National Book Award for Poetry: Alan Dugan, Poems Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Alan Dugan: Poems Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: John Crowe Ransom Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition: Jack Gilbert: MonolithosAwards in other nations Grand Prix National des Lettres (France): Pierre Jean Jouve Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française (France): Luc Estang, for his work as a whole Australia: Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, Southmost Twelve, R. D. Fitzgerald Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: Twelve Letters to a Small Town and The Winter Sun and Other Plays, James Reaney"Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards https://web.archive.org/web/20110514183017/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf 2011-05-14 ", Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011. http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20110514183017/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf 2011-05-14 Canada: Governor General's Award, Poésie et théâtre: Les insolites et les violons de l'automne'', Jacques Languirand "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards https://web.archive.org/web/20110514183017/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf 2011-05-14 ", Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011. http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20110514183017/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf 2011-05-14 Births May 11 – Joko Pinurbo (died 2024), Indonesian poetList of Works by Joko Pinurbo, Jogja Poet Who Died Today May 13 – Kathleen Jamie, Scottish poet and essayist May 21 – Stacy Doris (died 2012), American poet writing in English and French May 30 – Elizabeth Alexander, American poethttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=82517 Elizabeth Alexander Poetry Foundation 2008-04-24 June 9 – Paul Beatty, African-American poet and author June 25 – Phill Jupitus, born Phillip Swan, English comedian and performance poet July 30 – Lavinia Greenlaw, English poet, librettist and fiction writer October 9 – Durs Grünbein, German poet August 25 – Taslima Nasrin, Bangladeshi-born poet, writer, physician and feminist August 27 – Sjón, born Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson, Icelandic poet, lyricist and novelist October 24 – Nujoom Al-Ghanem, Emirati Arabic poet and film director December 6 – Julia Kasdorf, American poet December 31 – Machi Tawara 俵万智, Japanese writer, translator and poet March 13 – Seyhan Erözçelik, Turkish poet (died 2011)greenintegerblog https://pippoetry.blogspot.com/2011/07/seyhan-erozcelik.html The PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) Blog Seyhan Erözçelik Pippoetry.blogspot.com 2011-07-21 2011-08-26http://www.montevidayo.com/?p=1820 The Death of Seyhan Erözçelik at Age 49 Montevidayo 2011-08-26 Also: Glyn Maxwell, British poet and author"Glyn Maxwell (1962–)" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008 Jean Sprackland, English poet and essayist Virgil Suárez, Cuban American poet and novelist Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 17 – Gerrit Achterberg, 56 (born 1905), Dutch poet Private country houses in the Netherlands https://books.google.com/books?id=yG3qAAAAMAAJ 1997 Waanders 978-90-400-9850-5 167 January 20 – Robinson Jeffers, 85 (born 1887), American poet and playwright March 16 – Dora Adele Shoemaker, 89 (born 1873), American poet, playwright, educatorObituary, Dora Adele Shoemaker https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110342001/obituary-dora-adele-shoemaker/ 28 September 2022 The Philadelphia Inquirer 19 March 1962 24 March 18 – George Sylvester Viereck, 77 (born 1884), American poet and novelist, as well as a pro-German propagandist during both World War I and World War II May 26 – Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, 83 (born 1878), English poet June 2 – Vita Sackville-West, 70 (born 1892), English novelist and poet June 8 – William Stanley Braithwaite (born 1878), American poet June 22 – John Holmes, 58, American educator and poet July 27 – Richard Aldington, 70, English writer and poet August 4 – Veikko Antero Koskenniemi, 77, Finnish poet August 9 – Hermann Hesse, 95, Swiss novelist and poet in German August 18 – Rosemary Carr Benét, 65(?), poet and widow of Stephen Vincent Benét thumb|right|Grave of E. E. Cummings August 29 – Alan Mulgan (born 1881), New Zealand poet September 2 – Natalia Negru, 79 (born 1882), Romanian poet September 3 – E. E. Cummings, 67 (born 1894), American poet, of a stroke; October 3 – Dakotsu Iida 飯田 蛇笏, commonly referred to as "Dakotsu", pen names of Takeji Iida 飯田 武治 (born 1885), Japanese haiku poet; trained under Takahama Kyoshi November 3 – Ralph Hodgson, 91 (born 1871), English poet December 3 – Dame Mary Gilmore, 97, Australian socialist, poet and journalist See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry Notes Category:20th-century poetry *