1964 in poetry

Years in poetry:	1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967
Years in literature:	1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967
Decades in poetry:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Centuries in poetry:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years:	1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967

[edit] Events

Russian poet Joseph Brodsky is convicted of "parisitism" in a Soviet court, which sends him into exile near the Arctic Circle.

A.R. Ammons, Expressions of Sea Level
Ted Berrigan, The Sonnets
John Berryman, 77 Dream Songs (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Sir John Betjeman, Ring of Bells
Joseph Payne Brennan, Nightmare Need
Leonard Cohen, Flowers for Hitler, including "The Only Tourist in Havana Turns his Thoughts Homeward"
Lawrence Durrell, Selected Poems: 1953–1963, edited by Alan Ross
Collected Poems: 1931–1974 Edited by James A. Brigham
Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings.
Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead
William Meredith, The Wreck of the Thresher and Other Poems
Vladimir Nabokov, Notes on Prosody and his translation of Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin
Kenneth Rexroth (translator), 100 Poems from the Japanese
R.S. Thomas, "Words and the Poet" (lecture)
Donald Wandrei, Poems for Midnight
Poetry of the Thirties, a Penguin Books anthology; including the last published appearance during the lifetime of W.H. Auden of his, "September 1, 1939", a poem which he was famous for, but which he hated; the poem appeared in the edition with a note about this and four other early poems: "Mr. W. H. Auden considers these five poems to be trash which he is ashamed to have written."

See 1964 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Reed Wittemeyer appointed this year.
National Book Award for Poetry: John Crowe Ransom, Selected Poems
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Louis Simpson: At The End Of The Open Road
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Elizabeth Bishop

May 7 — Kathy Shaidle, a Canadian author, columnist and poet
date not known:
- Rafael Campo, gay, Cuban-American poet, doctor, and author
- Catherine Graham