1901 in poetry

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

Events

 * A small plaque is set on the Statue of Liberty to display Emma Lazarus' 1883 poem, "The New Colossus"
 * The first Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Sully Prudhomme, a French poet and essayist.

Canada

 * Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States
 * William Henry Drummond, Johnnie Courteau and other Poems.
 * Charles Mair, Tecumseh: A Drama, and Canadian Poems, published in Toronto

United Kingdom

 * Jane Barlow, Ghost-Bereft, with Other Stories and Studies in Verse
 * C. S. Calverley, Complete Works (posthumous)
 * John Davidson
 * The Testament of a Man Forbid
 * The Testament of a Vivisector
 * Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present (published November 1901; book states "1902")
 * Laurence Hope, The Garden of Kama (U.K. title), India's Love Lyrics (U.S. title).
 * George Meredith, A Reading of Life with Other Poems
 * Lady Margaret Sackville, Poems

United States

 * Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States
 * Nina Davis, translator, Songs of Exile by Hebrew Poets, English translator of medieval Hebrew poetry published in the United States
 * Edwin Markham, Lincoln and Other Poems
 * William Vaughn Moody, Poems
 * George Santayana, A Hermit of Carmel and Other Poems

Other in English

 * Joseph Furtado, Poems, Bombay; India, Indian poetry in English
 * Louise Mack, Dreams in Flower, Australia

Works published in other languages

 * Hayim Nahman Bialik, שירים, Hebrew published in Warsaw
 * José Santos Chocano, El fin de Satán y otros poemas (The End of Satan' and Other Poems), Peru
 * Stefan George, Die Fibel, poems written from 1886 to 1889; German
 * Francis Jammes, Le Deuil des primevères, France
 * Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Kavyarasika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)
 * Beheramji Malabari, Kavyarasika, (Indian writing in Gujarati)
 * Vazha-Pshavela, The Snake-eater, Georgian

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 6 – Walter Fischer (died 1978), Austrian medical doctor, journalist, radio broadcaster, translator, poet, anti-fascist resistance fighter and Communist Party official
 * January 16 – Laura Riding Jackson (died 1991), American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
 * January 29 – Heinrich Anacker (died 1971), German
 * January 30 – Hans Erich Nossack (died 1977), German
 * March 4? – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo or Rebearivelo (died 1937), Madagascar native and French-language poet
 * March 5 – Yocheved Bat-Miriam (died 1979), Russian-born, Israeli, Hebrew-language poet
 * March 27 – Kenneth Slessor (died 1971), Australian newspaper journalist and poet
 * April 20 – Michel Leiris, French author and poet
 * April 29 – Hirohito (died 1989), Emperor of Japan and poet
 * May 1 – Sterling Brown (died 1989) African-American teacher, poet, writer on folklore and literary critic
 * May 30 – Itsik Manger (or "Itzig Manger") איציק מאַנגער (died 1969), Yiddish poet and playwright born in Ukraine, a resident in Romania and Poland, then an immigrant to Israel
 * June 3 – G. Sankara Kurup (died 1978), Indian Malayalam-language poet
 * June 10 – Eric Maschwitz (died 1969), English entertainer, writer, broadcaster, broadcasting executive and poet
 * June 13 – J. C. Beaglehole (died 1971), New Zealand historian and poet
 * July 1 – Vladimir Lugovskoy (or "Lugovskoi") (died 1957), Russian Constructivist poet
 * July 26 – Nina Berberova, Нина Николаевна Берберова (died 1993), Russian-born poet, novelist, playwright, critic and academic living in Europe from 1922 to 1950, then in the United States
 * August 5 – Margarita Abella Caprile (died 1960), Argentine poet
 * August 12 – Robert Francis (died 1987), American
 * August 20 – Salvatore Quasimodo (died 1968), Italian poet
 * September 2 – Andreas Embirikos (died 1975), Greek
 * September 23 – Jaroslav Seifert (died 1986), Czech, Nobel Prize-winning poet and journalist
 * September 28 – T. Inglis Moore (died 1978), Australian
 * September 29 – Lanza del Vasto (died 1981), French poet and novelist
 * October 2 – Roy Campbell (died 1957), South African poet and translator
 * October 4 – Adrian Bell (died 1980), English rural writer and crossword compiler
 * Also:
 * Heinz Helmerking (died 1964), German writer
 * Kilian Kerst (died 1981), German
 * Sankara Kurup (died 1978), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
 * Hans Lorber (died 1973), German
 * Amin Nakhla (died 1976), Lebanese, Arabic language poet
 * Irina Odoyevtseva, also "Odoevtseva" also "Iraida Gustavovna Beinlke Ivanova" (more probably born 1895; died 1990), Russian
 * Louis Paul, born Leroi Placet (approximate date of birth; died 1970), American fiction writer
 * Vladimir Aleksandrovich Smolensky or "Smolenskii" (died 1961), Russian
 * Shinkichi Takahashi (died 1987), Japanese Dadaist poet

Deaths

 * June 10 – Robert Williams Buchanan, 59, Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist
 * July 20 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, 61 (born 1840), English poet and critic
 * July 23/24 – Andreas Laskaratos (born 1811), Greek poet
 * October 18 – Nicholas Flood Davin, 61 (born 1840), Irish-born Canadian lawyer, journalist, politician and poet
 * November 10 – Sarah Carmichael (born 1838), American poet
 * December 23 – William Ellery Channing, 73, American Transcendentalist poet
 * Also:
 * Albery Allson Whitman (born 1851), African American poet and orator