1903 in poetry

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

Canada

 * Bliss Carman, From the Green Book of Bards
 * E. Pauline Johnson (also known as "Tekahionwake"), Canadian Born
 * Charles G.D. Roberts, The Book of the Rose

United Kingdom

 * Robert Bridges, Now in Wintry Delights
 * W.E. Henley, A Song of Speed
 * Rudyard Kipling, The Five Nations
 * John Masefield, Ballads
 * Alfred Noyes, The Flower of Old Japan
 * AE (George William Russell), The Nuts of Knowledge
 * Thomas Traherne, The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne (posthumous)
 * W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
 * In the Seven Woods, poems including "Adam's Curse"
 * Ideas of Good and Evil, essays, including essays on Edmund Spenser, Percy Shelley and William Blake (criticism)

United States

 * Ambrose Bierce, Shapes of Clay
 * Willa Cather, Shapes of Clay
 * W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
 * H.L. Mencken, Ventures into Verse
 * Josephine Preston Peabody, The Singing Leaves
 * George Sterling, The Testimony of the Suns
 * J.T. Trowbridge, Poetical Works

Other in English

 * Yone Noguchi, From the Eastern Sea
 * Bernard O'Dowd, Dawnward?, Australia
 * N. W. Pai, The Angel of Misfortune: A Fairy Tale, A Metrical Romance in Ten Books, Bombay: W.N. Mulgaokar and Co.India, Indian poetry in English
 * Banjo Paterson, "Waltzing Matilda", Australia's most widely known bush ballad

Works published in other languages

 * Paul Claudel, Art poétique, criticism; France
 * Kavi Dalpatram Nanalal, Katlank Kavyo, Indian, Gujarati-language
 * Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux, Anciennetés, France

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * April 3 – Peter Huchel (died 1981), German
 * May 30 – Countee Cullen (died 1946), African-American poet
 * October 5 – Yaho Kitabatake 北畠 八穂 (died 1982), Japanese Showa period poet and children's fiction writer
 * November 6 – Carl Rakosi, American poet
 * November 15:
 * Tatsuko Hoshino 星野立子 (died 1984), Japanese Showa period haiku poet and travel writer; founded Tamamo, a haiku magazine exclusively for women; in the Hototogisu literary circle; haiku selector for Asahi Shimbun newspaper; contributed to haiku columns in various newspapers and magazines (a woman)
 * Jinzai Kiyoshi 神西清 (died 1957) Japanese Showa period novelist, translator, literary critic, poet and playwright
 * December 4 – A. L. Rowse (died 1997), British poet, historian and Shakespeare scholar and biographer
 * December 31:
 * December 31 – Fumiko Hayashi 林 芙美子 (born this year or 1904 (sources disagree); died 1951), Japanese novelist, writer and poet (a woman)
 * Lorine Niedecker (died 1970) the only woman associated with the Objectivist poets
 * Also:
 * Jyoti Prasad Agarwala (died 1953), playwright, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker; Indian, writing in Assamese
 * Atul Chandra Hazarika (died 1986), poet, dramatist, children's story writer and translator; called "Sahitycharjya" by an Assamese literary society; Indian, writing in Assamese
 * Raymond Herbert McGrath (died 1977), Australian
 * Rafael Méndez Dorich (died 1973), Peruvian poet
 * William Plomer (died 1973), South African novelist, poet and literary editor
 * Sanjayan, pen name of M. R. Nayar (died 1943), Indian, Malayalam-language poet

Deaths

 * March 20 – Charles Godfrey Leland, 78, American humorist, folklorist and poet
 * May 22 – Misao Fujimura, 藤村操 (born 1886), Japanese philosophy student and poet, largely remembered for the poem he carved into a tree before committing suicide over an unrequited love; made famous by Japanese newspapers after his death (see picture at right)
 * July 11 – William Ernest Henley, 52 (died 1903), British poet, critic, and editor
 * October 30 – Ozaki Kōyō 尾崎 紅葉, pen name of Ozaki Tokutaro 尾崎 徳太郎 (born 1868), Japanese novelist, essayist and haiku poet
 * Also:
 * Isa Craig, Scots
 * David Mills (poet), Canadian