Events
- Iowa Writers' Workshop founded by Paul Engle at the University of Iowa
- George Hill Dillon becomes editor of Poetry Magazine and stays in that job until 1949.
- Summer — In Nazi Germany, Wolfgang Willrich, a member of the SS, lampooned German expressionist poet Gottfried Benn in Willrich's book Säuberung des Kunsttempels; Heinrich Himmler, however, stepped in to reprimand Willrich and defended Benn on the grounds of his pro-Nazi record since 1933 (his earlier artistic output was dismissed as irrelevant).
- William Butler Yeats concludes his recordings of his own verse and his broadcast lectures on the BBC (begun in 1936).
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