Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events- September 3 — 19-year-old John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator, flew a high-altitude test flight in a Spitfire V and afterwards wrote "High Flight" about the experience, on December 11 he dies while serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force, which he had joined before the United States had officially entered World War II
- December — In siege-bound Leningrad, Yakov Druskin, ill and starving, and Maria Malich, the second wife of Danil Kharms, trudge across the city to Kharms' bombed-out apartment building and collect a trunk full of manuscripts. They hide the manuscripts through the 1940s and 1950s, even bringing them to Siberia, then covertly show them to others in the 1960s. Their actions save much of Kharms' work for posterity as well as that of fellow poet Alexander Vvedensky (of whom only about a quarter of his output survives)
- Under the Nazi occupation beginning in June 1941, Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was among the Polish Jews interned in the Vilna Ghetto. He would escape and join the resistance in 1943. During the Nazi era, Sutzkever wrote over 80 poems, whose manuscripts he managed to save for postwar publication.
- Ezra Pound applies to return to the United States but is refused. He begins appearing on Rome Radio, making statements against the Allies.
- The magazine VVV founded in New York City by French poet André Breton and Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and David Hare
[Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0394521978]
Works published in EnglishListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: - Baldoon Dhingra, Comes Ever the Dawn, Lahore: Ripon Press
[Naik, M. K., , p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009]
- Hariprasad Sastri, editor and translator, Indian Mystic Verse, (3rd revised and enlarged edition 1984) anthology
[Joshi, Irene, compiler, , "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.]
- Thurairajah Tambimuttu, editor, Out of This War, London: Fortune Press; anthology; Indian poetry published in the United Kingdom
- W. H. Auden, New Year Letter (sometimes incorrectly called New Year Letters, with an "s"), May (published as The Double Man in the United States in March),
[Cowley, Malcolm, review in The New Republic, April 7, 1941, pp 473-474, as it appears in Haffenden, John, , p 309, ]
book reprint published by Routledge, 1997, ISBN 9780415159401, retrieved via Google Books, February 5, 2009 English poet living in the United States- Laurence Binyon, The North Star, and Other Poems
[Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6]
- W. H. Auden, The Double Man, published in March; later published as New Year Letter in the United Kingdom in May;
[ English poet living in the United States]
- Stephen Vincent Benet, A Summons to the Free
[Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press]
Other in English- Bertram Warr, Yet a Little Onwards, Broadsheet No. 3, Resurgam Younger Poets series, Favil Press, Canada
[Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books]
Works published in other languagesListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: - Luc Estang, Puissance du matin
[Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983]
Indian subcontinentIncluding all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname: - Abanindranath Tagore and Rani Chanda, a memoir describing the lives of the family that included Rabindranath Tagore; a companion volume to Joda Sakor Dhare 1944 and Apan Katha 1946; Bengali
[Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, , 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008]
- Darshan Singh Awara, Main Bagi Han, Punjabi-language poems reflecting anger toward society as well as religious traditions and institutions
Other languages- Federico García Lorca, Diván del Tamarit (Spanish for "The Diván of Tamarit", written in 1936, published posthumously this year
- Jyotsna Shukla, Akashnan Phool, Indian poet writing in Gujarati
[Mohan, Sarala Jag, (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008]
Awards and honorsBirthsDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - March 22 – Billy Collins, American poet who served two terms as the 44th Poet Laureate of the United States (2001-2003)
DeathsBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - May 19 – Lola Ridge (born 1873), American anarchist poet, editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications
 Alexander Vvedensky - * Alexander Vvedensky, Russian poet with formidable influence on "unofficial" and avant-garde art during and after the times of the Soviet Union; arrested under suspicion of planning treason and shipped off to a labor camp, he died of dysentery on the way (for the fate of his poetry, see Events section above)
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