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Louis Zukofsky Louis Zukofsky (January 23, 1904 – May 12, 1978) was an American poet. He was the primary instigator and theorist of the so-called "Objectivist" poets, a short lived collective of poets who after several decades of obscurity would reemerge a ...

edits the February issue of ''

Poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings ...

'' magazine. The issue eventually will be recognized as the founding document of the

Objectivist poets The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernists who emerged in the 1930s. They were mainly American and were influenced by, among others, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. The basic tenets of objectivist poeti ...

. It features poetry by Zukofsky,

Charles Reznikoff Charles Reznikoff (August 31, 1894 – January 22, 1976) was an American poet best known for his long work, ''Testimony: The United States (1885–1915), Recitative'' (1934–1979). The term Objectivist was coined for him. The multi-volume ''Test ...

Carl Rakosi Carl Rakosi (November 6, 1903 – June 25, 2004) was the last surviving member of the original group of poets who were given the rubric Objectivist. He was still publishing and performing his poetry well into his 90s. Early life Rakosi was ...

, George Oppen,

Basil Bunting Basil Cheesman Bunting (1 March 1900 – 17 April 1985) was a British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of '' Briggflatts'' in 1966, generally regarded as one of the major achievements of the modernist traditi ...

William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both ped ...

Kenneth Rexroth Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (1905–1982) was an American poet, translator, and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement. Although he did not consider ...

, and many others. Also in the issue: Zukofsky's essay "Sincerity and Objectification". * George Oppen and his wife,

Mary Oppen Mary Oppen (November 28, 1908 – May 14, 1990), was an American activist, artist, photographer, poet and writer. She published an autobiography, ''Meaning a Life'' (1978), and a book of verse, ''Poems and Transpositions'' (1980). Early life O ...

found To Publishers in Le Beausset, France;

is editor. * ''Beacon'' magazine founded in

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(lasts until 1933)"Chronology for Anglophone Caribbean poetry"
p xviii, in Brenier, Laurence A., ''An Introduction to West Indian Poetry'', Cambridge University Press, 1998, , retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009

Works published in English

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* Wilson MacDonald, ''A Flagon Of Beauty''. Toronto: Pine Tree Publishing.Search results: Wilson MacDonald
Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011. *

Marjorie Pickthall Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (14 September 1883, in Gunnersbury, London – 22 April 1922, in Vancouver), was a Canadian writer who was born in England but lived in Canada from the time she was seven.Barbara Godard,Pickthall, Marjorie Lowr ...

, ''The Naiad and Five Other Poems'' (Toronto: Ryerson)Marjorie Pickthall 1883-1922: Works
, Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 6, 2011

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, in English

* A.R. Chida, editor, ''An Anthology of Indo-Anglian Verse with an Introductory Note to Each Set of Selections'', Hyderabad: A. R. Chida, 113 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in EnglishJoshi, Irene, compiler
"Poetry Anthologies"
"Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.

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John Betjeman Sir John Betjeman (; 28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architectu ...

, ''Mount Zion; or, In Touch with the Infinite''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, *

Laurence Binyon Robert Laurence Binyon, CH (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. Born in Lancaster, England, his parents were Frederick Binyon, a clergyman, and Mary Dockray. He studied at St Paul's School, London ...

, ''Collected Poems'' *

Edmund Blunden Edmund Charles Blunden (1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974) was an English poet, author, and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was al ...

: ** ''Themis'' ** (editor) ''The Poems of

Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced ...

'' * Robert Bridges, ''Shorter Poems'' * Roy Campbell, ''The Georgiad'', a satire openly attacking the

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; a

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native published in the United Kingdom *

C. Day-Lewis Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Irish-born British poet and Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Bla ...

, ''From Feathers to Iron'' *

T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.Bush, Ronald. "T. S. Eliot's Life and Career", in John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds), ''American National Biogr ...

: ** ''Coriolan'' ** ''Triumphal March'' *

John Gawsworth Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (29 June 1912 – 23 September 1970), better known as John Gawsworth (and also sometimes known as T. I. F. Armstrong), was a British writer, poet and compiler of anthologies, both of poetry and of short stories. He a ...

** ''Confession: verses'' ** ''Fifteen Poems: Three Friends'' ** ''Snowballs'' * Robert Graves, ''Poems 1926–1930'' *

Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxle ...

: ** ''The Cicadas, and Other Poems'' ** ''The World of Light; A comedy'', a verse drama performed March 30 * John Lehmann, ''A Garden Revisited, and Other Poems'' * Æ,

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of George William Russell, ''Vale, and Other Poems'' * Osbert Sitwell, ''The Collected Satires and Poems'' * William Soutar, ''Conflict'' *

Arthur Symons Arthur William Symons (28 February 186522 January 1945) was a British poet, critic and magazine editor. Life Born in Milford Haven, Wales, to Cornish parents, Symons was educated privately, spending much of his time in France and Italy. In 1884 ...

, ''Jezbel Mort, and Other Poems'' (sic) *

Humbert Wolfe Humbert Wolfe CB CBE (5 January 1885 – 5 January 1940) was an Italian-born British poet, man of letters and civil servant. Biography Humbert Wolfe was born in Milan, Italy, and came from a Jewish family background,"Wolfe, Humbert" in Stanley J ...

, ''Snow''

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Franklin P. Adams Franklin Pierce Adams (November 15, 1881 – March 23, 1960) was an American columnist known as Franklin P. Adams and by his initials F.P.A.. Famed for his wit, he is best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances a ...

, ''Christopher Columbus''Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press * Conrad Aiken: ** ''The Coming Forth by Day of Osris Jones'' ** ''Preludes for Memnon'' * E. E. Cummings, ''W (ViVa)'' *

Hilda Doolittle Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Her career began in 1911 after she moved to London and co-founded the ...

(H.D.), ''Red Roses for Bronze'' *

Langston Hughes James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, H ...

, ''The Negro Mother'' * Edna St. Vincent Millay, ''Fatal Interview'' *

Ogden Nash Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by ''The New York Times'' the country's bes ...

: ** ''Free Wheeling'' ** ''Hard Lines'' *

Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhap ...

, ''Death and Taxes'' * Edward Arlington Robinson, ''Mathias at the Door'' *

Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance comp ...

, ''Harmonium'', including "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle", "The Comedian as the Letter C", "The Emperor of Ice Cream", "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", "Peter Quince at the Clavier", "Sunday Morning", "Sea Surface Full of Clouds" and "In the Clear Season of Grapes"), Knopf, revised from

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edition 2009-05-04. *

Mark Van Doren Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was an American poet, writer and critic. He was a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thin ...

, ''Jonathan Gentry'' * Yvor Winters, ''The Journey'' * Gamel Woolsey, ''Middle Earth''

Other in English

* Norman Cameron, ''

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Poetry: 1831–1931'' *

Kenneth Slessor Kenneth Adolphe Slessor (27 March 190130 June 1971) was an Australian poet, journalist and official war correspondent in World War II. He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences int ...

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and Colin Simpson, ''Trio: A Book of Poems'', Sydney: Sunnybrook Press, Australia *

Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny West (Pittsburgh), Allegheny West neighborhood and raised in Oakland, Calif ...

, ''Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded: written on a poem by Georges Hugnet'', American poet published in France

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Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire) of the Wąż coat of arms. (; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French French poetry, poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish-Belarusian, Polish descent. Apollinaire is considered ...

of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, ''Le condor et le morpion'', posthumously published (died

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)Web page title
"Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)"
t the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. 2009-09-03. *

Louis Aragon Louis Aragon (, , 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review '' Littérature''. He w ...

: ** ''Hourra l'Oural'', influenced by the author's conversion to MarxismBree, Germaine, ''Twentieth-Century French Literature'', translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 ** ''Persécuté Persécuteur''Auster, Paul, editor, ''The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets'', New York: Random House, 1982 *

André Breton André Robert Breton (; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first ''Surrealist Manifesto'' (''Manifeste du surréalisme'') o ...

, ''L'union libre'' * Francis Jammes, ''L'Arc-en-ciel des amours'', Paris: Bloud et GayWeb page title
"POET Francis Jammes (1868–1938)"
at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03. * Pierre Jean Jouve, ''Les Noces'' *

Tristan Tzara Tristan Tzara (; ; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, comp ...

of Sami Rosenstock, ''L'Homme approximatif''

Indian subcontinent

Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname: * Atul Prasad Sen, ''Gitigunja'', complete collection of songs by this

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poet and composerDas, Sisir Kumar and various
''History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2''
1995, published by

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, , retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008 * Bal Krisna Rav, ''Kaumudi'', Indian,

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-language * Bhagavadacharya, ''Mohanapancadhydyi'',

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poem on

Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, Anti-colonial nationalism, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure ...

Chanda Jha Sanskrit prosody or Chandas refers to one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies.James Lochtefeld (2002), "Chandas" in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Vol. 1: A-M, Rosen Publishing, , page 140 It is the study of poetic metr ...

, ''Candra Padyavali'', edited by Baladev Mishra, Maithili * D. K. Kelkar, ''Kavyalocan'', a treatise in

Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people *Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece See also * * ...

on literary theory; discusses the nature of poetry, figures of speech, the nature of poetic pleasure and Indian literary concepts *

K. V. Simon Mahakavi Kunnampurathu Varghese Simon (7 February 1883 – 1944) was a Malayalam Christian poet from Kerala, India. He was also a musician, a teacher, a reformer, a writer, a Bible scholar and apologist. Simon authored around three hundred hy ...

, ''Veda Viharam'', long poem based on the book of

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;

India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry ( Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam wa ...

languagePaniker, Ayyappa
"Modern Malayalam Literature"
chapter in George, K. M., editor, ''Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology'', pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009 *

Mahjoor Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad (August 1885 − 9 April 1952), known by his pen name as Mahjoor, was a poet of the Kashmir Valley, along with contemporaries, Zinda Kaul, Abdul Ahad Azad, and Dinanath Nadim. He is especially noted for introducing a new s ...

, ''Nav Baharo Myani Locaro Ho'',

Kashmiri Kashmiri may refer to: * People or things related to the Kashmir Valley or the broader region of Kashmir * Kashmiris, an ethnic group native to the Kashmir Valley * Kashmiri language, their language People with the name * Kashmiri Saikia Barua ...

* Mayadhar Mansinha, ''Dhupa'', poems in this collection remained very popular as of the mid-1990s; Oriya * Mohan Singh Diwana, ''Jagat Tamasa'',

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(a 1927 novel by Charan Singh Sahid has the same title) * Raja K. K., ''Baspanjali'',

work by a poet of the Vallathol school * Siyaram Sharan Gupta, ''Atmostsarga'', on the self-sacrifice of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi in the cause of communal peace;

* Tallapragada Visvasundaramma, ''Ratri'', including many patriotic poems;

Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode S ...

* Umashankar Joshi, ''Vishwashanti'', also spelled "Visvasanti" ( Indian, writing in Gujarati) * V. Seetharamayya, ''Gitagalu'', the author's first book of poetry, with ''navodaya'' lyrics more intellectual than most;

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

Spanish language

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Federico García Lorca Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca ( ), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblemat ...

, ''Poema del cante jondo'' ("Poem of Deep Song") * Pedro Salinas, ''Fábula y signo'' ("Fable and Sign")Debicki, Andrew P.
''Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond''
University Press of Kentucky, 1995, , retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009 *

José Moreno Villa José Moreno Villa (16 February 1887, Málaga – 25 April 1955, México) was a Spanish poet and member of the Generation of '27. He was a man of many talents: narrator, essayist, literary critic, artist, painter, columnist, researcher, a ...

, ''Carambas''

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Enrique Peña Barrenechea Enrique () is the Spanish variant of the given name Heinrich of Germanic origin. Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Enric (Catalan), Enrico (Italian), Henrik (Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian), Heinrich (German), Hendrik, Henk ...

, ''Cinema de los sentidos puros'',

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Fitts, Dudley, editor, ''Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea'' Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 635 * Vicente Huidobro, '' Altazor'',

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an poet published in Spain

Other languages

Vladimir Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (, ; rus, Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский, , vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ məjɪˈkofskʲɪj, Ru-Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky.ogg, links=y; – 14 Apr ...

, Кем Быть (''Kem byt'?'', "Whom Shall I Become?"),

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, published posthumously, for children * Giorgos Seferis, ''Στροφή'' ("Strophe") (

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders wit ...

)

Awards and honors

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first presented in 1922, and is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, publishe ...

Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American collo ...

: ''Collected Poems''

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " earin poetry" article: * January 6 ** Juan Goytisolo (died

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poet, essayist and novelist ** P. J. Kavanagh (died

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the April ...

), English poet, lecturer, actor and broadcaster * January 14 –

Ahmed Faraz Syed Ahmad Shah (), better known by his pen name Ahmed Faraz, ( 12 January 1931 – 25 August 2008) was a Pakistani Urdu poet, scriptwriter and became the founding Director General (later Chairman) of Pakistan Academy of Letters. He wrot ...

, pseudonym of Syed Ahmad Shah (died

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), Pakistani

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''

-language poet, son of Agha Syed Muhammad Shah Bark Kohati, a leading traditional poet * February 2 – Judith Viorst, American author known for her children's books and poetry * February 16 – Makoto Ōoka 大岡信 (died

), Japanese poet and literary critic * April 9 – Gerard Benson (died

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), English poet * April 15 –

Tomas Tranströmer Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (; 15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's ...

(died

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writer, poet and translator * April 19 – Etheridge Knight (died

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), African- American poet * May 2 – Ruth Fainlight, American poet, short story writer, translator and librettist * May 16 –

Peter Levi Peter Chad Tigar Levi, FSA, FRSL (16 May 1931, in Ruislip – 1 February 2000, in Frampton-on-Severn) was a British poet, archaeologist, Jesuit priest, travel writer, biographer, academic and prolific reviewer and critic. He was Professor ...

(died

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

), English poet, professor of poetry at the

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, Jesuit priest, archaeologist, travel writer, biographer, scholar, prolific reviewer and critic * May 27 – O. N. V. Kurup (died 2016), Indian,

-language poet * June 5 –

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(died

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), Northern Irish

Ulster Scots dialect Ulster Scots or Ulster-Scots (', ga, Albainis Uladh), also known as Ulster Scotch and Ullans, is the dialect of Scots spoken in parts of Ulster in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.Gregg, R. J. (1972) "The Scotch-Irish Dialect Bo ...

poet * June 6 – Kiki Dimoula, Greek poet (died

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in ...

) * June 7 – Okot p'Bitek (died

1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., Un ...

), Ugandan poet * June 13 – Jay Macpherson (died

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

lyric Lyric may refer to: * Lyrics, the words, often in verse form, which are sung, usually to a melody, and constitute the semantic content of a song * Lyric poetry is a form of poetry that expresses a subjective, personal point of view * Lyric, from ...

poet and scholar; she is a member of the " mythopoeic school of poetry" * June 21 – Patricia Goedicke (died 2006), American poet * July 29 – C. Narayana Reddy (died

), Indian poet * July 28 – Alan Brownjohn, English poet and novelist * August 11 – Delia Domínguez (died

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), Chilean poet * September 30 –

Jansug Charkviani Jansug Charkviani ( ka, ჯანსუღ ჩარკვიანი; 30 September 1931 – 6 November 2017) was a Georgian poet. He was a member of the Parliament of Georgia from 1992 to 2004. Born in Tbilisi, Charkviani graduated from the Tb ...

(died

), Georgian poet and politician * November 8 –

Jack Collom John Aldridge "Jack" Collom (November 8, 1931 – July 2, 2017) was an American poet, essayist, and creative writing pedagogue. Included among the twenty-five books he published during his lifetime were ''Red Car Goes By: Selected Poems 1955–20 ...

(died

), American poet * December 15 –

Shuntarō Tanikawa (born December 15, 1931 in Tokyo City, Japan) is a Japanese poet and translator. He is one of the most widely read and highly regarded of living Japanese poets, both in Japan and abroad, and a frequent subject of speculations regarding the Nob ...

谷川俊太郎, Japanese poet and translator (surname: Tanikawa) * Unknown date – Sonja Dunn,

poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " earin poetry" article: * March 16 –

Harold Edward Monro Harold Edward Monro (14 March 1879 – 16 March 1932) was an English poet born in Brussels, Belgium. As the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London, he helped many poets to bring their work before the public. Life and career Monro was born ...

, 54, British poet, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London * March 31 – Puran Singh (born

1881 Events January–March * January 1– 24 – Siege of Geok Tepe: Russian troops under General Mikhail Skobelev defeat the Turkomans. * January 13 – War of the Pacific – Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos: The C ...

), Indian, writing Indian poetry in EnglishVinayak Krishna Gokak
''The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965)''
p 314, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 6, 2010. * April 2 – Katharine Tynan, 70 (born

1861 Statistically, this year is considered the end of the whale oil industry and (in replacement) the beginning of the petroleum oil industry. Events January–March * January 1 ** Benito Juárez captures Mexico City. ** The first steam- ...

), Irish poet, novelist and writer who, after her marriage in 1898, usually wrote under the names "Katharine Tynan Hinkson", "Katharine Tynan-Hinkson" or "Katharine Hinkson-Tynan" * April 10 – Khalil Gibran, 48, poet artist, and writer born in Lebanon who spent much of his productive life in the United States * November 19 – Xu Zhimo, 34 (born

1897 Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a puniti ...

), Chinese poet, in aviation accident * December 5 – Vachel Lindsay (Nicholas Vachel Lindsay), 42 (born 1879), American poet and early advocate of

jazz poetry Jazz poetry has been defined as poetry that "demonstrates jazz-like rhythm or the feel of improvisation" and also as poetry that takes jazz music, musicians, or the jazz milieu as its subject. Some critics consider it a distinct genre though others ...

, a suicide by poison

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, in English