1689 in poetry

• May 26 – Matsuo Bashō begins the journey described in Oku no Hosomichi ("Narrow road to the interior") on which he visits Kisakata, and later composes a waka about Kisakata's islands.
• Thomas Shadwell becomes Poet Laureate of England.^[1]

• Aphra Behn, The History of the Nun; or, The Fair Vow-Breaker, Behn died on April 16 of this year^[2]
• Charles Cotton, Poems on Several Occasions^[2]
• Robert Gould, Poems^[2]
• Nathaniel Lee, On the Death of Mrs Behn, Aphra Behn died on April 16 of this year^[2]

• Michael Wigglesworth, Riddles Unriddled; or, Christian Paradoxes, a poem published in the 14th edition of Meat Out of the Eater, English Colonial America^[3]

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

• February 25 – Khushal Khattaktak (born 1613), Pashtun warrior, poet and tribal chief
• May 3 (bapt.) – William Broome (died 1745), English poet and translator
• May 15 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (died 1762), English aristocrat and writer
• November 18 – Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (died 1752), Sufi scholar and saint, poet of the Sindhi language

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

• January – William Chamberlayne (born c.1619), English poet and playwright
• April 16 – Aphra Behn (born 1640), English woman playwright and poet^[2]
• August 21 – William Cleland (born 1661), Scottish poet and soldier, killed at Battle of Dunkeld
• October 4 – Quirinus Kuhlmann (born 1651), German Baroque poet and mystic, burned at the stake
• December 13 – Zbigniew Morsztyn (born 1628), Polish poet
• date unknown – Gwilym Puw (born 1626), Welsh Catholic poet and Royalist officer

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