Timeline of American poetry

This Timeline of American poetry contains the significant events in the history of American poetry in English (and selected events in the history of American poetry in other languages), mostly original publications of books, from the beginning until 2010. English-language books of poetry (not counting anthologies) have been limited to 2 per year.

1911-1920
1918 - Poetry Society of America sponsors Pulitzer Prize in Poetry (in 1918 and 1919) 1919 - Carl Sandburg, Corn Husker
 * Sara Teasdale, Love Songs
 * Margaret Widdemer, Old Road to Paradise 

1921-1930
1922 - annual Pulitzer Prize in Poetry 1st awarded

1924 - Robert Frost, New Hampshire

1925 - Countee Cullen, Colour

1926 - Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues

1931-1940
1931 - Robert Frost, Collected Poems

1937 - Robert Frost, A Further Range

1941-1950
1943 - Robert Frost, A Witness Tree

1955 - Jack Kerouac, Mexico City Blues

1956 - Allen Ginsberg, Howl, and other poems

1958 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind

1961-1970
1963 - Arna Bontemps, Personals

1967 - Elizabeth Bishop, Selected Poems
 * Rod McKuen, Listen to the Warm

1981-1990
1981 - Carolyn Forché, The Country between Us

1983 - Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems, 1927-1979

1991-2000
1993 - Jim Carroll, Fear of Dreaming: Selected poems

1999 - Philip Booth, Lifelines: Selected poems, 1950-1999

2001-2010
2003 - Poetry 180: A turning back to poetry (edited by Billy Collins)