1930 in poetry

Years in poetry:	1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933
Years in literature:	1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933
Decades in poetry:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1950s 1960s 1970s
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Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years:	1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933

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Rabindranath Tagore sits with Einstein during their widely-publicized July 14, 1930 conversation.

Frost Medal inaugurated by the Poetry Society of America
John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate
British poet Basil Bunting, in Europe, contacts American poet Louis Zukofsky in New York City on the recommendation of Ezra Pound; Bunting and Zukofsky will become friends and members of the Objectivist poets group.

T.S. Eliot - Ash Wednesday
W. H. Auden, Poems, his first published book (accepted by T.S. Eliot on behalf of Faber & Faber, which remained Auden's publisher for the rest of his life)
Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope
Basil Bunting, Redimiculum Matellarum, his first book of poems, published in Milan.
Hart Crane, The Bridge
William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity, a book of criticism
Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York written this year, published posthumously in 1940, first translation into English as "A Poet in New York", 1988)
Richard Aldington, editor, Imagist Anthology
I'll Take My Stand a collection of essays considered the manifesto of the Southern Agrarians school of poetry and literature

John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the UK.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems
Frost Medal: Jessie Rittenhouse and (posthumously) to Bliss Carmen, and George Edward Woodberry

January 23 — Derek Walcott, native of St. Lucia, poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes in English
May 8 — Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist
May 11, Edward Brathwaite, Barbadian writer, poet and dramatist
May 12, Mazisi Kunene (died 2006), South African poet
August 17 - Ted Hughes (died 1998), English poet and children's writer
September 25 - Shel Silverstein (died 1999), American writer of children's verse
November 16 — Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer and poet
date not known:
- Adonis or "Adunis", pen name of Ali Ahmad Said Asbar, Syrian-born poet and essayist who has made his career largely in Lebanon and France and who writes in Arabic
- Gregory Corso, British poet and jazz pianist
- Roy Fisher
- Jon Silkin (died 1997), British poet.
- Anthony Thwaite, British poet and writer married to the writer Ann Thwaite