1986 in Poetry - Events

Events

  • New American Writing, an annual literary magazine concentrating on poetry, is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
  • March 4 — President Ronald Reagan publicly recites from memory lines from Robert Service's "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
  • Wendy Cope, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis a best-seller
  • December 18 — Pforzheimer Collection of the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his circle donated to the New York Public Library

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