1902 in poetry

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

Events

 * H.D. meets and befriends Ezra Pound
 * Times Literary Supplement begins publication

Canada

 * James B. Dollard, also known as "Father Dollard", Irish Mist and Sunshine
 * Anna Frances McCollum, Flower Legends and other Poems
 * Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, Tangled in Stars

United Kingdom

 * Alfred Austin, A Tale of True Love and Other Poems
 * Maurice Baring, The Black Prince and Other Poems (published this year; book states "1903")
 * Walter De la Mare (publishing under the pen name "Walter Ramal"), Songs of Childhood
 * Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and Present actually published last year, although the book states "1902"
 * Thomas MacDonagh, Through the Ivory Gate, Irish poet published in Ireland
 * John Edward Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads, including "I must go down to the sea again"
 * Alice Meynell, Later Poems
 * Henry Newbolt, The Sailing of the Long Ships, and Other Poems
 * Laurence Hope, editor, The Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics from India, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
 * Alfred Noyes, The Loom of Years
 * Dora Sigerson, The Woman Who Went to Hell, and Other Ballads and Lyrics
 * W. B. Yeats, Cathleen Ni Houlihan

United States

 * Elizabeth Akers Allen, The Sunset Song
 * Madison Cawein, Kentucky Poems
 * John William De Forest, Poem: Medley and Palestrina
 * Ellen Glasgow, The Freeman and Other Poems
 * James Whitcomb Riley, The Book of Joyous Children
 * Edwin Arlington Robinson, Captain Craig
 * Trumbull Stickney, Dramatic Verses
 * John B. Tabb, Later Lyrics

Other in English

 * Adela Florence Cory Nicolson, editor, The Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics from India, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom

Works published in other languages

 * Francis Jammes, Clairières dans le ciel, France
 * Chanda Jha, Gitasaptasati; India, Maithili-language
 * Else Lasker-Schüler, Styx, German
 * Ștefan Petică, Fecioara în alb. Când vioarele tăcură. Moartea visurilor, Romanian
 * Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Images, German

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 10 – Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (d. 1980)
 * February 1 – Langston Hughes (died 1967), African-American jazz poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer and newspaper columnist best known for his role in the Harlem Renaissance
 * February 19 – Kay Boyle (died 1992, award-winning American poet, writer, educator and political activist
 * February 22 – R. D. Fitzgerald (died 1987), Australian
 * April 1 – Maria Polydouri (died 1930), Greek
 * May 12 – Clementina Suárez (died 1991), Honduran
 * July 3 – Yoshino Hideo (died 1967), Japanese Shōwa period tanka poet
 * July 19 – Ada Verdun Howell (died 1981), Australian
 * July 28 – Kenneth Fearing (died 1961), American poet and writer
 * August 19 – Ogden Nash (died 1971), American poet best known for pithy and funny light verse.
 * August 24 – Felipe Alfau (died 1999), Spanish-American poet, translator and author
 * September 20 – Stevie Smith (died 1971), British poet and novelist
 * September 25 – Chen Xiaocui (suicide 1967), Chinese poet, fiction writer, translator and painter
 * October 13 – Arna Bontemps (died 1973), American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance
 * November 1 – Nordahl Grieg (killed in action 1943), Norwegian poet and author.
 * November 8 – A. J. M. Smith (died 1980), Canadian
 * November 20 – Nazim Hikmet (died 1963), Turkish poet, dramatist and Communist
 * December 6 – Michael Roberts (died 1948), English poet, writer, critic, broadcaster and teacher
 * December 10 – Dulce María Loynaz (died 1997), Cuban
 * December 22 – Evelyn Eaton (died 1983), Canadian novelist, short-story writer, poet and academic

Deaths

 * January 20 – Aubrey Thomas De Vere, 88, Irish poet and critic
 * April 1 – Thomas Dunn English (born 1819), American politician, poet, author, songwriter who was elected to the United States House of Representatives and had a feud with Edgar Allan Poe
 * May 6 – Bret Harte, 66, American author and poet, best remembered for accounts of pioneering life in California
 * June 29 – Brunton Stephens (born 1835), Australian
 * September 6 – Philip James Bailey, 86, English poet
 * September 19 – Masaoka Shiki, pen-name of Masaoka Tsunenori , who changed his name to Noboru  (born 1867), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, journalist and, early in his life, a baseball player
 * September 29 – William McGonagall, Scottish weaver, actor, and poet comically renowned as one of the worst poets in the English language
 * October 4 – Lionel Pigot Johnson, 35 (born 1867), English poet, essayist, and critic