1911 in poetry

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

Events

 * Britain establishes six copyright libraries to which copies of all books published in the country must be sent: Bodleian Library (Oxford); British Library (London); National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh); National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth); Trinity College, Dublin; and Cambridge University Library.
 * Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, who wrote under the pen name "Guillaume Apollinaire" was suspected in the theft of the Mona Lisa and imprisoned for six days

Canada

 * J.D. Logan, Songs of the Makers of Canada, and Other Homeland Lyrics
 * Arthur Stringer, Irish Poems. New York: Mitchell Kennerley.

United Kingdom

 * Rupert Brooke, Poems 1911
 * G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse
 * Elizabeth Daryush, Charitesse
 * E. V. Knox, The Brazen Lyre
 * Patrick MacGill, Songs of a Navvy
 * John Masefield, Jim Davis; or, The Captive of Smugglers (for children)
 * Stephen Phillips, The New Inferno
 * Ezra Pound, Canzoni, London; American author published in the United Kingdom
 * Katharine Tynan, New Poems

United States

 * Franklin P. Adams, Tobogganing on Parnassus
 * Ezra Pound, Canzoni, London; American author published in the United Kingdom
 * George Sterling, The House of Orchids
 * Sara Teasdale, Helen of Troy

Other in English

 * Victor Daley, Wine and Roses, posthumously published, Australia
 * J. N. Gupta, The Life and Works of Romesh Chunder Dutt, (Dutt [ 1848–1920] was an Indian poet who wrote in English), published in New York and London this year

France

 * Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée, Paris: Deplanche; his first book of poetry (see also "Events" section, above)
 * Paul Claudel:
 * L'Otage, France
 * Chemin de Croix
 * Léon-Paul Fargue, Tancrède
 * Francis Jammes, Les Géorgiques chrétiennes ("Christian Georgics"), three volumes, published from this year to 1912
 * Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Les Éléments
 * Saint-John Perse, Éloges, Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française; France

Indian subcontinent
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
 * Devendranath Sen, Indian, Bengali-language poet:
 * Golap Guccha
 * Sisu Mangal
 * Apurba Naibedya
 * Gurajada Appa Rao, Lavanaraju Kala, Telugu-language narrative poem written in a new, four-line stanzaic form (surname: Gurajada)
 * S.G. Narasimhachar, Presita Priya Samagama translation from the original English of The Hermit by Oliver Goldsmith, Indian, Kannada language
 * Tirupathi Venkata Kavulu, Pandavodyoga Vijayam, Telugu-language verse drama based on the Mahabharatha tales (surname: Tirupathi)

Other languages

 * Constantine P. Cavafy, Itaka and The Gods Abandon Antony, Greece
 * José María Eguren, Simbólicas,, Peru

Awards and honors

 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist

United States

 * American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: James Whitcomb Riley

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 1 – Audrey Wurdemann (died 1960), American poet, youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * January 7 – Faiz Ahmed Faiz (died 1984), Pakistani poet
 * February 1 – Robert Gittings (died 1992), English writer, biographer, radio producer, playwright and poet
 * February 8 – Elizabeth Bishop (died 1979), American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner
 * February 16 – Hal Porter (died 1984), Australian writer, novelist, playwright and poet
 * March 1 – Ian Mudie (died 1976), Australian
 * April 7 – Hervé Bazin, full name: Jean-Pierre Hervé-Bazin (died 1966), French novelist and poet
 * May 2 – Ben Belitt (died 2003), American poet
 * May 29 – Leah Goldberg (died 1970), Israeli poet writing in Hebrew
 * June 11 – Josephine Miles (died 1985), American poet and literary critic
 * June 17 – Allen Curnow (died 2001), New Zealand poet
 * June 20 – Sufia Kamal (died 1999), Bengali poet, writer, organizer, feminist and activist
 * June 30 – Czesław Miłosz (died 2004), Polish poet, prose writer and translator.
 * July 12 – Umashankar Joshi (died 1988), Indian, Gujarati-language novelist, poet, critic, short-story writer, playwright, travel writer and academic
 * July 19 – Mervyn Peake (died 1968), writer, artist, illustrator and poet
 * August 25 – J. V. Cunningham (died 1985), American poet, literary critic, and teacher
 * September 9 – Paul Goodman (died 1972), American poet
 * October 26 – Sorley Maclean (died 1996), Scottish poet
 * November 2 – Odysseus Elytis (died 1996), Greek
 * November 5 – Vailoppilli Sreedhara Menon (died 1985), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
 * November 23 – William Hart-Smith (died 1990), Australian
 * December 13 – Kenneth Patchen, (died 1972) American poet and novelist
 * Also:
 * C. B. Christesen (died 2003), Australian
 * Robert Clark, Australian
 * Patrice de La Tour du Pin (died 1975), French
 * Ernst Meister (died 1979), German
 * Sreedhara Menon, Vailoppillil (died 1985), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
 * Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (died 1948), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and translator
 * Samsher Bahadur Singh (died 1993), Indian, Hindi-language poet, essayist and artist
 * Tenneti Suri (died in 1959), Indian, Telugu-language poet, novelist, translator and journalist

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * April 11 – Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (born 1835), English civil servant, literary historian and poet
 * August 7 – Elizabeth Chase Allen (born 1832), American author, journalist and poet
 * Also:
 * Jwala Prasad Barq (born 1863), Indian, Urdu-languagepoet and translator
 * Eknath Ganesh Bhandare (born 1863), Indian, Marathi-language poet and translator and a station-master
 * Abdul Ahad Nadim (born 1840), Indian, Urdu-language poet who wrote "nats" (devotional lyrics addressed to the Prophet) in the traditional variety of the Kashmiri '"Vatsun"
 * Frances Watkins