This article covers 1248 in poetry.

• Lanfranc Cigala writes Quan vei far bon fag plazentier bemoaning the state of the Church
• Japanese Retired Emperor Go-Saga orders a new imperial anthology of waka poems; compiled by Fujiwara no Tameie, the new anthology, titled Shokugosen Wakashū' 続後撰和歌集 ("Later Collection Continued"), would be finished three years later, in 1251

• Shams Tabrizi (born 1185), Persian Sufi

• 13th century in poetry
• List of years in poetry