1935 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
… 1925 ^. 1926 ^. 1927 ^. 1928 ^. 1929 ^. 1930 ^. 1931 … 1932 1933 1934 -1935- 1936 1937 1938 … 1939 ^. 1940 ^. 1941 ^. 1942 ^. 1943 ^. 1944 ^. 1945 … In literature: 1932 1933 1934 -1935- 1936 1937 1938
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George Oppen joins the Communist Party, where his organizing work will increasingly take precedence over his poetry; he writes no more verse until 1958.

Constantine Cavafy - Ποιήματα (Piimata, or 'Poems of C.P. Cavafy')
E.E. Cummings - No Thanks
Allen Curnow (New Zealand):
- Three Poems (Caxton)
- Poetry and Language, a brief poetry manifesto (Caxton)
T. S. Eliot - Murder in the Cathedral
William Empson - Some Versions of Pastoral
Federico García Lorca - Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (Spanish for "Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías"), and Seis poemas galegos ("Six Galician poems")
Sir Muhammad Iqbal - Bal-i Jibril (Wings of Gabriel) in Urdu, inspired by his 1933 visit to Spain
Louis MacNeice - Poems
John Masefield - Box of Delights
Giorgos Seferis - Μυθιστόρημα (Tale of Legends)
Wallace Stevens - Ideas of Order
William Carlos Williams - An Early Martyr and Other Poems
W. B. Yeats - A Full Moon in March

January 30 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet (died 1984)
January 27 - died M. Thomas, English novelist, poet, and translator from Cornwall
March 13 - Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian poet and author whose work combines the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization.
April 16 — Sarah Kirsch, German
May 14 - Roque Dalton, leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist who wrote on death, love, and politics (died 1975)
June 1 - Clayton Eshleman, American poet, translator, and editor
June 6 - Joy Kogawa, Canadian poet and novelist
June 12 &mdasah; Christoph Meckel, German
July 29 - Pat Lowther, Canadian poet killed by her husband (died 1975)
August 24 - Rosmarie Waldrop, German-born American poet and translator (primary English translator of Edmond Jabès)
August 25 - Charles Wright, American poet.
September 10 - Mary Oliver, American poet
November 15 - Gustaf Sobin, American expatriate poet & novelist (died 2005)
December 1 - George Bowering, Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer
December 29 - Yevgeny Rein (Евгений Рейн), Russian poet
date unknown
- Michael Benedikt
- Russell Edson, American poet
- David R. Slavitt
- Jay Wright, African American poet

April 6 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner (born 1869)
July 17 - George William Russell, Anglo-Irish supporter of Irish nationalism, critic, poet, and painter who wrote under the pseudonym Æ, mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers of theosophy (born 1867)
August 11 - Sir William Watson, English traditionalist poet popular for the political content of his verse (born 1858)
September 18 - Alice Dunbar Nelson, African American poet, journalist and political activist, and a part of the Harlem Renaissance; her husband Paul Laurence Dunbar was also a poet (born 1875)
November 30 - Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and writer (born 1888)
December 17 - Lizette Woodworth Reese, American poet (born 1856)