- c. 625BC
Sappho is born and lives on the island of Lesvos (also spelled Lesbos).
- 600BC
Sappho's "Hymn to Aphrodite" is published.
- c. 570BC
Sappho dies.
- 701
Li Po is born, most likely in central Asia.
- 743
Li Po's "Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon" is published.
- 762
Li Po dies, allegedly of drowning after trying to embrace the moon's reflection in water.
- 1882
Mina Loy is born (Mina Gertrude Lowy) in London on December 27.
- 1888
T. S. Eliot is born on September 26 in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1888
Giuseppe Ungaretti is born on February 10 in Alexandria, Egypt.
- 1891
Nelly Sachs is born (Leonie Sachs) on December 10.
- 1898
Federico García Lorca is born in an Andalusian village near Granada, Spain.
- 1908
Cesare Pavese is born on September 9 in Santo Stefano Belbo, Italy.
- 1916
Anne Hébert is born on August 1 in Sainte-Catherine-de-Fossambault, Quebec.
- 1921
Mona Van Duyn is born in Waterloo, Iowa, on May 9.
- 1922
T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" is published.
- 1925
Kenneth Koch is born on February 27 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- 1936
Federico García Lorca is killed. Lorca is perceived to have liberal sympathies, taken to a field outside the city of Granada, and shot on August 19.
- 1939
Carl Dennis is born on September 17 in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1940
Federico García Lorca's "Gacela of the Dark Death" is published.
- 1942
Linda Gregg is born on September 9 in Suffern, New York.
- 1946
Cesare Pavese's "Two Poems for T." is published.
- 1947
Yusef Komunyakaa is born on April 29 in Bogalusa, Louisiana.
- 1948
T. S. Eliot is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- 1950
Cesare Pavese dies from an overdose of sleeping pills.
- 1950
Giuseppe Ungaretti's "Variations on Nothing" is published.
- 1951
Brenda Hillman is born on March 27 in Tucson, Arizona.
- 1959
Elena Karina Byrne is born on September 10 in Los Angeles, California.
- 1960
Anne Hébert's "The Alchemy of Day" is published.
- 1965
T. S. Eliot dies on January 4 in London, England, of emphysema and related complications.
- 1966
Nelly Sachs's "But Perhaps God Needs the Longing" is published.
- 1966
Mina Loy dies in Aspen, Colorado, on September 25.
- 1966
Nelly Sachs is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- 1970
Nelly Sachs dies.
- 1970
Giuseppe Ungaretti dies on June 1 in Milan, Italy, at the age of eighty-two.
- 1982
Mina Loy's "Moreover, the Moon" is published.
- 1988
Mona Van Duyn's "Memoir" is published.
- 1991
Mona Van Duyn's Near Changes receives the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
- 1994
Yusef Komunyakaa's Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems receives the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
- 1998
Yusef Komunyakaa's "Ode to a Drum" is published.
- 1999
Linda Gregg's "A Thirst Against" is published.
- 2000
Anne Hébert dies of cancer on January 22.
- 2001
Brenda Hillman's "Air for Mercury" is published.
- 2001
Carl Dennis's "The God Who Loves You" is published.
- 2002
Carl Dennis's Practical Gods receives the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
- 2002
Elena Karina Byrne's "In Particular" is published.
- 2002
Kenneth Koch dies of leukemia on July 6 at his home in Manhattan.
- 2002
Kenneth Koch's "Paradiso" is published.
