1901 in poetry

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• 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.

• Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States
• William Henry Drummond, Johnnie Courteau and other Poems.Garvin, John William, editor, [https://books.google.com/books?id=94cTAAAAIAAJ Canadian poets] (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
• Charles Mair, Tecumseh: A Drama, and Canadian Poems, published in Toronto{{cite DCB |last=Latham |first=David |title=Mair, Charles |volume=15 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mair_charles_15E.html}}

• Jane Barlow, Ghost-Bereft, with Other Stories and Studies in VerseCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN|0-19-860634-6}}
• 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")Web page titled [http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/#heading9 "A Time-Line of Poetry in English"] at the Representative Poetry Online website of the University of Toronto, retrieved December 20, 2008
• 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

• Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States{{cite book|author=Ludwig, Richard M.|author2=Nault, Clifford A. Jr.|title=Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983|url=https://archive.org/details/annalsofamerican00ludw|url-access=registration|year=1986|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|quote=If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year.|chapter=Preface|page=vi}}
• 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

• Joseph Furtado, Poems, Bombay; India, Indian poetry in EnglishNaik, M. K., [https://books.google.com/books?id=FcH2MUnlQjQC Perspectives on Indian poetry in English], p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, {{ISBN|0-391-03286-0}}, {{ISBN|978-0-391-03286-6}}), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
• Louise Mack, Dreams in Flower, Australia

• 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{{cite web|url=http://www.ale.uji.es/chocano.htm |title=Santos Chocano |publisher=Ale.uji.es |accessdate=2014-08-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120823025830/http://www.ale.uji.es/chocano.htm |archivedate=2012-08-23 }}
• Stefan George, Die Fibel, poems written from 1886 to 1889; German[http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Stefan_George.aspx#1G2-3404702441 "Stefan George"], article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved February 23, 2010
• Francis Jammes, Le Deuil des primevères, FranceRees, William, [https://books.google.com/books?id=YAepXCkCPkIC The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950 : with prose translations], p 413, Penguin Classics, 1992, {{ISBN|978-0-14-042385-3}}, retrieved via Google Books, August 30, 2009
• Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Kavyarasika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)Mohan, Sarala Jag, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&dq=Urdu+poets&pg=PA100 Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature"] (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|978-0-313-28778-7}}, retrieved December 10, 2008
• Beheramji Malabari, Kavyarasika, (Indian writing in Gujarati)
• Vazha-Pshavela, The Snake-eater, Georgian

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{{cite web|work=UeLEX|url=https://uelex.de/uebersetzer/fischer-walter/|title=Walter Fischer, 1901–1978}}
• 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{{cite web|title=Moore, Tom Inglis (1901–1978)|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150468b.htm|accessdate=2007-10-02}}
• 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 poetPaniker, Ayyappa, [https://books.google.com/books?id=m1R2Pa3f7r0C&dq=%22Balijepalli+Lakshmikantham%22&pg=PA411 "Modern Malayalam Literature"] chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
• 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

• 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

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