Portal:Poetry/Events archive/January 2007
- November 1 — A Sylvia Plath sonnet from her college years was discovered and first published by Blackbird, an online literary journal run by the English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.
- October 9, 2006: Senegal celebrates the centenary of the birth of its first president, the poet Léopold Sédar Senghor
- October 5, 2006: The Forward Poetry Prizes go to Robin Robertson, Tishani Doshi, and Sean O'Brien.