1906 in poetry

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

Events

 * Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein

Canada

 * Jean Blewett, The Cornflower and Other Poems
 * Helena Coleman, Songs and Sonnets
 * Sophia Almon Hensley, The Heart of a Woman.
 * J. D. Logan, Preludes, Sonnets and Other Verses
 * Duncan Campbell Scott, Via Borealis, Toronto: William Tyrrell & Co.
 * Frederick George Scott, The Hymn of Empire, and Other Poems

United Kingdom

 * 'Æ' (George William Russell), By Still Waters
 * Joseph Campbell, The Rushlight
 * John Davidson, Holiday, and Other Poems
 * Walter de la Mare, Poems
 * C. M. Doughty, The Dawn in Britain
 * Thomas Hardy. The Dynasts, II
 * Douglas Hyde, editor and translator into English from Gaelic, The Religious Songs of Connacht, Ireland
 * Thomas MacDonagh, The Golden Joy, Irish poet published in Ireland
 * Harold Monro, Poems
 * Alfred Noyes:
 * Drake
 * "The Highwayman", a ballad
 * Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall, 'Twixt Earth and Stars
 * Arthur Symons, The Fool of the World, and Other Poems
 * W. B. Yeats, Poems, 1899-1905, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

United States

 * Gelett Burgess, Are You a Bromide?
 * William Ellery Leonard, Sonnets and Poems
 * Horace L. Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, five volumes, published from this year to 1964

Other in English

 * W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, New Zealand Verse, anthology
 * W. B. Yeats, Poems, 1899-1905, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

France

 * Francis Jammes:
 * Clairières dans le Ciel
 * L'Eglise habillée de feuilles
 * Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Les Sept Solitudes

Other

 * José Santos Chocano, Alma América, pról. de Miguel se Unamuno, Peru
 * Amelia Denis de Icaza, "Al Cerro Ancón" ("Ancon Hill"), Panama
 * Vera Figner, Stikhotvoreniia ("Poems"), Russia
 * Alfred Garneau, Poésies, posthumously published; French language; Canada
 * Marie Heiberg, Mure-lapse laulud ("Songs of a Problem Child"), Estonia
 * Johannes V. Jensen, Digte, Denmark
 * Mikhail Kuzmin, Alexandrian Songs, Russia
 * Govardhanram N. Tripathi, Kavi Dayramno Aksharadeh, an appraisal of the works of poet Kavi Dayramno Aksharadeh (Indian, writing in Gujarati) (criticism)

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 5 – Takashi Matsumoto 松本たかし(died 1956), Japanese Shōwa period professional haiku poet in the Shippo-kai haiku circle, then, starting in 1929, in the Hototogisu group also including Kawabata Bosha; founder of literary magazine, Fue ("Flute") in 1946
 * January 6 – Eberhard Wolfgang Möller, (died 1972), German playwright and poet
 * January 19 – Robin Hyde (suicide 1939), New Zealand
 * February 22 – Humayun Kabir (died 1969) Bengali poet, educationist, politician, writer and philosopher
 * April 13 – Samuel Beckett (died 1989), Irish poet, playwright and novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969
 * May 10 – Robert Guy Howarth (died 1974), Australian scholar, literary critic and poet
 * May 11 – Charles Tory Bruce (died 1971), Canadian writer
 * May 17 – Frederic Prokosch (died 1989), American novelist, poet, memoirist and critic
 * June 12 – Sandro Penna (died 1977), Italian
 * June 22 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh (died 2001), American poet and wife of Charles Lindbergh
 * June 27 – Vernon Watkins (died 1967), Welsh poet writing in English
 * August 8 – Jesse Stuart (died 1984), American short story writer, poet and novelist
 * August 28 – John Betjeman (died 1984), English poet laureate, writer and broadcaster
 * September 2 – Ronald Bottrall (died 1989), English
 * September 16 – Stanley Burnshaw (died 2005), American poet, critic, novelist, playwright, publisher, editor, translator and scholar
 * September 20 – Ishizuka Tomoji 石塚友二 the kanji (Japanese writing) is a pen name of Ishizuka Tomoji, which is written with the different kanji 石塚友次, but in English there is no difference (died 1984), Japanese Shōwa period haiku poet and novelist
 * September 27 – William Empson (died 1984), English literary critic and poet
 * October 16 – Cleanth Brooks (died 1994) influential American literary critic and professor; author of Understanding Poetry
 * November 12 – George Hill Dillon (died 1968), American poet and winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize in poetry
 * November 23 (November 10 O.S.) – Betti Alver (died 1989), Estonia
 * December 23 – Edasseri Govindan Nair (died 1974), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
 * Also:
 * Ken Barratt, Australian poet and magazine editor
 * Mary Finnin, Australian
 * James Picot (died 1944), Australian
 * A. J. Wood, Australian

Deaths

 * February 9 – Paul Laurence Dunbar (born 1872), American
 * February 27 – Colm de Bhailís (born 1796, sic.), Irish
 * March 1 – Lettie S. Bigelow (born 1849), American
 * March 31 – James McIntyre (born 1826), Canadian called "the Cheese Poet"
 * date not known – Martha Griffith Browne, American abolitionist, novelist and poet