1928 in poetry

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

Events

 * Russian poets Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky found OBERIU (a Russian acronym for "An Association of Real Art"), an avant-garde grouping of Russian post-Futurist poets in the 1920s-1930s
 * American poets Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen and Louis Zukofsky meet in New York City; they will become founders of the Objectivist poets group.

Canada

 * Dorothy Livesay, Green Pitcher. Toronto: Macmillan.
 * Seranus, Later Poems and New Villanelles'' (Toronto: Ryerson).
 * Arthur Stringer, A Woman At Dusk and Other Poems. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.

Indian poetry in English

 * V.N. Bhusan, Silhouettes, Masulpatam: Youth of Asia Society; India, Indian poetry in English
 * Joseph Furtado, A Goan Fiddler
 * Shyam Sunder Lal Chordia, Chitor and Other Poems, Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala Sons and Co.

United Kingdom

 * Rupert Brooke, Collected Poems, see also 1946
 * Roy Campbell, The Wayzgoose, a lampoon, in rhyming couplets, on the cultural shortcomings of South Africa; South African native published in the United Kingdom, and at this time living there
 * W.H. Davies, Collected Poems
 * T.S. Eliot:
 * "Perch' Io non Spero" (later to become part I of Ash-Wednesday, published in 1930) was published in the Spring, 1928 issue of Commerce along with a French translation.
 * H.S. Milford, editor, The Oxford Book of English Verse of the Romantic Period, 1798-1837: 1798-1837, Clarndon Press, anthology
 * Thomas Hardy, Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres, (posthumous)
 * D.H. Lawrence, Collected Poems
 * John Masefield, Midsummer Night, and Other Tales in Verse
 * Laura Riding, Love as Love, Death as Death
 * Siegfried Sassoon, The Heart's Journey
 * A.J.A. Symons, An Anthology of 'Nineties' Verse
 * Humbert Wolfe:
 * The Silver Cat, and Other Poems
 * This Blind Rose
 * W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom):
 * The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan", Irish
 * The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary (poetry)

United States

 * W.H. Auden, Poems
 * Stephen Vincent Benet, John Brown's Body
 * E.E. Cummings, Christmas Tree
 * John Gould Fletcher, The Black Rock
 * Robert Frost, West-Running Brook
 * Robert Hillyer, The Seventh Hill
 * Robinson Jeffers, Cawdor and Other Poems
 * William Ellery Leonard, A Son of Earth
 * Archibald MacLeish, The Hamlet of A. MacLeish
 * Edgar Lee Masters, Jack Kelso: A Dramatic Poem
 * Joseph Moncure March, "The Wild Party"
 * Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Buck in the Snow
 * Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun
 * Ezra Pound:
 * Selected Poems, edited by T. S. Eliot, London, American poet living in Europe
 * A Draft of the Cantos 17–27
 * Edward Arlington Robinson, Sonnets, 1889–1927
 * Carl Sandburg, Good Morning, America
 * Allen Tate, Mr. Pope and Other Poems, including "Ode to the Confederate Dead"
 * Amos Wilder, Arachne: poems, Yale University Press
 * Elinor Wylie, Trivial Breath
 * Louis Zukofsky completes the original versions of "A" 1, 2, 3 and 4, which have been compared to Pound's Cantos; the fragmentary long poem will be a lifelong project

Other in English

 * John Le Gay Brereton, Swags Up, Australia
 * W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
 * The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan", Irish
 * The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary (poetry)

France

 * René Char, Les Cloches sur le coeur
 * Léon-Paul Fargue:
 * Banalité
 * Vulturne
 * Francis Jammes, Diane
 * Pierre Jean Jouve, Les Noces
 * Alphonse Métérié, Nocturnes
 * Benjamin Péret, Le grand jeu
 * Pierre Reverdy, La Balle au bond
 * Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Indicateur des chemins de coeur

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:
 * Cherian Mappila, also known as "Cheriyan Mappila", Shri Yesu Vijayam (also spelled "Sriyesuvijayam"), long poem about the life of Jesus, India, Malayalam language; a poem on a Christian theme; called the first major contribution to Indian literature by a Christian poet
 * Nalini Bala Devi, Sandhiyar Sur, Assamese
 * Peer Ghulam Mohammad Hanafi, Bagh-O Bahar, tales in verse in the Kashmiri language, derived from Urdu tales
 * Sri Sri, Prabhava, Telugu
 * Vakil Ghulam Ahmad Shah Qureshi, Pani Gulzar, Kashmiri

Spain

 * Vicente Aleixandre, Ambito ("Milieu"), the author's first book of poems
 * Federico García Lorca, Primer romancero gitano ("Gypsy Ballads")
 * Jorge Guillén, Cántico, first edition, with 75 poems in five sections (enlarged edition, with 125 poems, 1936)

Other in Spanish

 * Martín Adan, La case de cartón, a novel in verse, Peru
 * José Varallanos, El hombre del Ande que asesinó su esperanza, Peru

Other languages

 * Nérée Beauchemin, Patrie intime; French language;, Canada
 * Aaro Hellaakoski, Jääpeili, Finland
 * Stefan George, Das neue Reich ("The New Reich"); German
 * Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia ("Cuttlefish Bones"), second edition, with six new poems and an introduction by Alfredo Gargiulo (first published in 1925; third edition, 1931), Lanciano: Carabba; Italy
 * Takahashi Shinkichi, Takahashi Shinkichi shishu ("Poetical Works by Takahashi Shinkichi"), Tokyo: Nanso Shoin, Japan (Surname: Takahashi)

Awards and honors

 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson wins his third Pulitzer Prize for Poetry of the decade, this time for Tristram

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 1 – Iain Crichton Smith (died 1998), Scot writing poetry, short stories and novels in both English and Scottish Gaelic
 * January 10 – Philip Levine, American poet, educator and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * February 2 – Cynthia Macdonald, American
 * February 14 – Bruce Beaver (died 2004). Australian poet
 * March 4 – Alan Sillitoe, English poet and writer and one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s
 * March 28 – Vayalar Rama Varma (died 1975), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriter
 * April 4 – Maya Angelou, African-American poet
 * April 7 – Gael Turnbull (died 2004), Scottish poet
 * May 4 – Thomas Kinsella Irish poet, translator, editor and publisher
 * June 27 – Peter Davison (died 2004), American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor, and publisher
 * July 4 – Ted Joans (died 2003) African American trumpeter, jazz poet and painter
 * September 17 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水 (born 1885), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet
 * September 20 – Donald Hall, American poet and the U.S. Poet Laureate
 * September 22 – Irving Feldman, American poet and educator
 * September 22 – Édouard Glissant, (died 2011) – French-Martiniquan poet and writer.
 * November 9 – Anne Sexton (died 1974), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967
 * December 10 – Milan Rufus (died 2009), Slovak poet and academic


 * Also:
 * Carol Bergé
 * R.F. Brissenden
 * Don Coles, Canadian
 * William Dickey (poet), American
 * Dave Etter, American
 * Gene Frumkin, American
 * Conrad Hilberry, American
 * Hertha Kraftner (died 1951), German
 * Lo Fu (poet) (Luo Fu) (pen name of Mo Luofu), Chinese poet, writer and translator

Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 11 – Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet
 * February 5 – David McKee Wright (born 1869), Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia
 * February 19 – Ina Coolbrith (born 1841), American poet, writer and librarian
 * March 18 – Paul van Ostaijen
 * March 24 – Charlotte Mew (born 1869), English poet, from suicide
 * May 16 – Edmund Gosse, poet and critic
 * July 20 – Kostas Karyotakis, Greek
 * August 16 – Antonín Sova
 * September 17 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水 (1885–1928), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet
 * December 16 – Elinor Wylie, poet and novelist