1916 in poetry

	This is part of the List of years in poetry
Years in poetry:	1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
Years in literature:	1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
Decades in poetry:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Centuries in poetry:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years:	1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919

Events

July 14 — At the first public soiree at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland, Hugo Ball recited the first Dada manifesto (see text).
October 6 — By some accounts, the Dada movement in art, poetry and literature coalesced by this date at the cabaret, where Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp, Richard Huelsenbeck, Sophie Täuber and others discussed art and put on performances expressing their disgust with World War I and the interests they believed inspired it

When Wallace Stevens' job as a lawyer for a New York City insurance company is abolished as a result of mergers, he joins the home office of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company and moves to Hartford, where he will remain the rest of his life.^[1]

H.D. in the mid 1910s

Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Sea Garden
Robert Frost, Mountain Interval, including "Out, Out--"
Antonio Machado, Campos de Castilla (revised edition)
D. H. Lawrence, Amores
Ezra Pound, Lustra
Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems
Robert Service, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Charles Hamilton Sorley, Marlborough and Other Poems
William Butler Yeats, "Easter 1916", 1916 book Responsibilities and Other Poems
Some Imagist Poets second anthology

July 1 — Gilbert Waterhouse, war poet killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme while serving as a second lieutenant in the 2nd Bn Essex Regiment.
July 4 — Alan Seeger, 38, American poet who joined the French Foreign Legion in 1914 and died in battle, cheering on his fellow soldiers after he was hit; uncle of American folk singer Pete Seeger
July 30 — Joyce Kilmer, American poet, killed by a sniper in the Second Battle of the Marne in France