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

• March – Art student Vachel Lindsay goes into the streets of New York City and tries to sell or give away copies of one of his poems. The take: 13 cents. His reaction: Ecstasy. "Now let there be here recorded my conclusions from one evening, one hour of peddling poetry. I am so rejoiced over it and so uplifted I am going to do it many times. It sets the heart trembling with happiness. The people like poetry as well as the scholars, or better."^[1]
• December 15 – The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.
• Ezra Pound presents H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), fellow American poet, with a sheaf of love poems with the collective title Hilda's Book.

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

• January 3 – Padraic Fallon (died 1974), Irish
• January 6 – Idris Davies (died 1956), Welsh poet writing first in that language, later in English
• January 10 – R. A. K. Mason (died 1971), New Zealander
• February 15 (February 2 O.S.) – Musa Cälil (executed 1944), Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter
• March 2 – Geoffrey Grigson (died 1985), American
• March 9:
  • Peter Quennell (died 1993), English
  • Rex Warner (died 1986), Irish
• March 13 – Brian Howard (suicide 1958), English poet, writer and "bright young thing"
• March 18 – Alfred Bailey (died 1997), Canadian poet, anthropologist, ethno-historian and academic administrator
• March 21 – Phyllis McGinley (died 1978), American
• April 10 – Norma Davis (died 1945), Australian^[12]
• April 17 – Carlos Oquendo de Amat (died 1936), Peruvian poet, author of 5 Meters of Poems (1927)
• April 22 – Robert Choquette (died 1991) Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat
• April 24 – Robert Penn Warren (died 1989), American poet, critic, novelist and academic
• May 15 – Annadashankar Roy (died 2002), Bengali poet
• June 8 – Brian Coffey (died 1995), Irish poet and publisher
• June 25 – Jun'ichi Yoda 与田凖 (died 1997), Japanese Shōwa period poet and children's book author
• July 29 – Stanley Kunitz (died 2006), American poet
• August 28 – Len Fox (died 2004), Australian writer, social activist and painter
• November 4 – Xavier Abril (died 1990), Peruvian poet and critic
• November 10 – Kurt Eggers (killed in action 1943), German writer, poet, songwriter and playwright
• November 13 – Mary Elizabeth Frye (died 2004), American housewife, florist, author of the poem "Do not stand at my grave and weep"
• December 22 – Kenneth Rexroth (died 1982), American poet
• December 31 – Frank Marshall Davis (died 1987), American poet
• Also:
  • Winifred Maitland Shaw, Australian
  • Ibrahim Touqan إبراهيم طوقان (died 1941), Palestinian, Arab-language

• July 1 – John Hay, 66 (born 1838), American statesman, diplomat, author, poet, journalist and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln
• September 18 – George MacDonald, 80 (born 1824), Scottish-born author, poet and Christian minister known mostly for his fantasy stories
• October 13 – Violet Fane (Mary, Baroness Currie, née Mary Montgomerie Lamb), 62 (born 1843), English
• October 28 – Alphonse Allais, 51 (died 1905), French humorist
• December 29 – Victor Daley, 47 (born 1858), Irish-born Australian

• 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