April 18 — American poet Ezra Pound's indictment for treason is dismissed.[1] He is released from St. Elizabeths Hospital, an insane asylum in Maryland, after spending 12 years there (starting in 1946) and returns to Italy.[1]
June 29 — A monument to Vladimir Mayakovsky is unveiled in the centre of Moscow and becomes a focus for informal poetry readings.
Brazilian manifesto for concrete poetry, which focuses on visual and other sensory qualities.
Listed by language and often by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
May 5 – James Branch Cabell, 79, whose 52 books included poetry, of a cerebral hemorrhage (to help people remember the pronunciation of his name, he composed the ditty, "Tell the rabble my name is CA-bell.")
^ abAckroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Chronology" chapter, p 118
^ abcGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
^Britannica Book of the Year 1960, covering events of 1959, published by Encyclopædia Britannica, 1960; "Canadian Literature" article mentioned this book as a "late 1958 anthology"
^ abcdefghiM. L. Rosenthal, The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, "Selected Bibliography: Individual Volumes by Poets Discussed", pp 334-340
^Amrita Paresh Patel, "24. Selected Poems of Dilip Kumar Roy: A Study", p 267, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, ISBN81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010
^ abcdefgCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN0-19-860634-6
^ abcdefghijklmnopqrsLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
^Fischer (2003). Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917-2000, Part F, Vol. 17: Documentation. Munchen, Germany: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN3-598-30170-7.
^ abcdAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN0-394-52197-8
^Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
^Britannica Book of the Year 1960, covering events of 1959, published by the Encyclopædia Britannica, 1960; "Jewish Literature", pp 372-373; "[...] Meyer Shtiker, whose second collection of verse Yidishe landshaft ("Yiddish Landscape") was published in 1958."
^Balcom, John, "Lo Fu"Archived 2011-01-01 at the Wayback Machine, article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
