1963 in poetry

	… 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; ; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; ; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973 …;
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The woman is perfected.

Her dead

Body wears the smile of accomplishment...

—Opening lines of "Edge" by Sylvia Plath, written days before her suicide