1935 in poetry

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Years in poetry:	1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938
Years in literature:	1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938
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Years:	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
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
January 27 — Donald Michael Thomas, English novelist, poet, and translator from Cornwall known as "D.M. Thomas"
May 14 — Roque Dalton, (died 1975), leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist who wrote on death, love, and politics
June 1 — Clayton Eshleman, American poet, translator, and editor
June 6 — Joy Kogawa, Canadian poet and novelist
July 29 — Pat Lowther, Canadian poet killed by her husband in 1975
August 24 — Rosmarie Waldrop, German born American poet & 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 (lived his final 40 years in France)
December 1 — George Bowering December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer
December 29 — Yevgeny Rein (Евгений Рейн), Russian poet
date not known:
- 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.
- Michael Benedikt
- Russell Edson, American poet
- David R. Slavitt
- Jay Wright, African-American poet

April 6 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, 65, American poet and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner
July 17 — George William Russell, 68, 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
August 11 — Sir William Watson (poet), English traditionalist poet popular for the political content of his verse
September 18 — Alice Dunbar-Nelson, 60, African American poet, journalist and political activist, and a part of the Harlem Renaissance, her husband Paul Laurence Dunbar was also a poet
November 30 - Fernando Pessoa, 42, Portuguese poet and writer, from cirrhosis of the liver
December 17 — Helena Forrest, 79, American poet
date not known — Lizette Woodworth Reese