1903 in poetry

• Konstantin Balmont, Будем как Солнце (Budem kak Solntse), Russia^[13]
• Paul Claudel, Art poétique, criticism; France^[14]
• Kavi Dalpatram Nanalal, Katlank Kavyo, Indian, Gujarati-language^[15]
• Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux, Anciennetés, France^[16]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• April 3 – Peter Huchel (died 1981), German poet
• May 25 – Ewart Milne (died 1987), Irish poet and radical
• May 30 – Countee Cullen (died 1946), African-American poet
• June 13 – Sanjayan, pen name of M. R. Nayar (died 1943), Indian, Malayalam-language poet^[17]
• June 17 – Jyoti Prasad Agarwala (died 1953), playwright, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker; Indian, writing in Assamese
• September 9 – Atul Chandra Hazarika (died 1986), poet, dramatist, children's story writer and translator; called "Sahitycharjya" by an Assamese literary society; Indian, writing in Assamese
• October 5 – Yaho Kitabatake 北畠 八穂 (died 1982), Japanese Shōwa period poet and children's fiction writer
• November 6 – Carl Rakosi (died 2004), German-born American poet
• November 15:
  • Tatsuko Hoshino 星野立子 (died 1984), Japanese Shōwa period haiku poet and travel writer; founded Tamamo, a haiku magazine exclusively for women; in the Hototogisu literary circle; haiku selector for Asahi Shimbun newspaper; contributed to haiku columns in various newspapers and magazines (a woman)
  • Jinzai Kiyoshi 神西清 (died 1957) Japanese Shōwa period novelist, translator, literary critic, poet and playwright
• December 4 – A. L. Rowse (died 1997), English poet, historian and Shakespeare scholar and biographer
• December 10 – William Plomer (died 1973), South African-born novelist, poet and literary editor
• December 31:
  • Fumiko Hayashi 林 芙美子 (born this year or 1904 (sources disagree); died 1951), Japanese novelist, writer and poet (a woman)
  • Lorine Niedecker (died 1970) the only woman associated with the Objectivist poets
• Also:
  • Raymond Herbert McGrath (died 1977), Australian poet
  • Rafael Méndez Dorich (died 1973), Peruvian poet^[18]

• March 20 – Charles Godfrey Leland (born 1824), American humorist, folklorist and poet
• May 8 – David Mills (born 1831), Canadian politician and poet^[9]
• May 22 – Misao Fujimura, 藤村操 (born 1886), Japanese philosophy student and poet, largely remembered for the poem he carved into a tree before committing suicide over an unrequited love; made famous by Japanese newspapers after his death (see picture at right)
• July 11 – W. E. Henley (born 1849), English poet, critic and editor
• September 3 – Joseph Skipsey "The Pitman Poet" (born 1832), English collier and poet^[19]
• October 30 – Ozaki Kōyō 尾崎 紅葉, pen name of Ozaki Tokutarō 尾崎 徳太郎 (born 1868), Japanese novelist, essayist and haiku poet
• December – Isa Craig (born 1831), Scottish-born poet^[9]

• 20th century in poetry
• 20th century in literature
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• French literature of the 20th century
• Silver Age of Russian Poetry

• Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
• Poetry