Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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• Times Literary Supplement begins publication^[1]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 10 – Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (d. 1980)
• February 1 – Langston Hughes (died 1967), African-American jazz poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer and newspaper columnist best known for his role in the Harlem Renaissance
• February 19 – Kay Boyle (died 1992, award-winning American poet, writer, educator and political activist
• February 22 – R. D. Fitzgerald (died 1987), Australian
• April 1 – Maria Polydouri (died 1930), Greek
• May 12 – Clementina Suárez (died 1991), Honduran
• July 3 – Yoshino Hideo (吉野秀雄) (died 1967), Japanese Shōwa period tanka poet
• July 19 – Ada Verdun Howell (died 1981), Australian
• July 28 – Kenneth Fearing (died 1961), American poet and writer
• August 19 – Ogden Nash (died 1971), American poet best known for pithy and funny light verse.
• August 24 – Felipe Alfau (died 1999), Spanish-American poet, translator and author
• September 20 – Stevie Smith (died 1971), British poet and novelist
• September 25 – Chen Xiaocui (suicide 1967), Chinese poet, fiction writer, translator and painter
• October 13 – Arna Bontemps (died 1973), American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance
• November 1 – Nordahl Grieg (killed in action 1943), Norwegian poet and author.
• November 8 – A. J. M. Smith (died 1980), Canadian
• November 20 – Nazim Hikmet (died 1963), Turkish poet, dramatist and Communist
• December 6 – Michael Roberts (died 1948), English poet, writer, critic, broadcaster and teacher
• December 10 – Dulce María Loynaz (died 1997), Cuban
• December 22 – Evelyn Eaton (died 1983), Canadian novelist, short-story writer, poet and academic

• January 20 – Aubrey Thomas De Vere, 88, Irish poet and critic
• April 1 – Thomas Dunn English (born 1819), American politician, poet, author, songwriter who was elected to the United States House of Representatives and had a feud with Edgar Allan Poe
• May 6 – Bret Harte, 66, American author and poet, best remembered for accounts of pioneering life in California
• June 29 – Brunton Stephens (born 1835), Australian
• September 6 – Philip James Bailey, 86, English poet
• September 19 – Masaoka Shiki (正岡 子規), pen-name of Masaoka Tsunenori (正岡 常規), who changed his name to Noboru (升) (born 1867), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, journalist and, early in his life, a baseball player
• September 29 – William McGonagall, Scottish weaver, actor, and poet comically renowned as one of the worst poets in the English language
• October 4 – Lionel Pigot Johnson, 35 (born 1867), English poet, essayist, and critic

• 20th century in poetry
• 20th century in literature
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• French literature of the 20th century
• Silver Age of Russian Poetry
• Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
• Poetry