Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish
Irish may refer to:
Common meanings
* Someone or something of, from, or related to:
** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
or
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
).
Events
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Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Gener ...
crowned "Majelis King" in Prague on May Day.
*
Jason Shinder
Jason Shinder (1955–2008) was an American poet who authored three books and founded the YMCA National Writer's Voice. His last book, ''Stupid Hope'' (Graywolf Press, 2009), was released posthumously.
He was born in Brooklyn New York in 1955, ...
, an
American
American(s) may refer to:
* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
poet, expands a New York City Y.M.C.A. writing education program nationwide, thereby founding the Y.M.C.A. National Writer's Voice program, one of the country's largest networks of literary-arts centers, with 24 locations by 2008. Writers who teach in the program include poets
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the ...
and
Galway Kinnell
Galway Mills Kinnell (February 1, 1927 – October 28, 2014) was an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1982 collection, ''Selected Poems'' and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright. From 1989 to 1 ...
, novelists
Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel '' The Hours'', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lectur ...
and
E. L. Doctorow
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (January 6, 1931 – July 21, 2015) was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction.
He wrote twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction and a stage drama. They included ...
, and playwright
Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright. She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 ...
.
Works published in English
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by ...
*
Jennifer Maiden
Jennifer Maiden (born 1949) is an Australian poet. She was born in Penrith, New South Wales, and has had 36 books published: 28 poetry collections, 6 novels and 2 nonfiction works. Her current publishers are Quemar Press in Australia and Blooda ...
:
** ''Bastille Day'', NLA
** ''Selected Poems of Jennifer Maiden'', Penguin
** ''The Winter Baby'', Angus & Robertson
* Les Murray, ''Dog Fox Field'' Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1990; Carcanet, 1991 and New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993
*
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe (born 6 May 1934) is an Australian poet and emeritus professor in the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne.
Life and career
Wallace-Crabbe was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. His father was K ...
:
** ''For Crying Out Loud'', Oxford: Oxford University Press
** ''Poetry and Belief'' (scholarship), Hobart: University of Tasmania
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by to ...
*
Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand (born 7 January 1953) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was Toronto's third Poet Laureate from September 2009 to November 2012. She was admitted to the Order of Canada in 2017George Elliott Clarke
George Elliott Clarke, (born February 12, 1960) is a Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2012 to 2015 and as the 2016–2017 Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. His work is known larg ...
, ''
Whylah Falls
''Whylah Falls'' is a long narrative poem (or "verse novel") by George Elliott Clarke, published in book form in 1990.
As with much of Clarke's work, the poem is inspired by the history and culture of the Black Canadian community in Nova Scotia, ...
'', Vancouver: Polestar, (revised edition,
2000
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)
* A. E. Davidson, ''Studies on Canadian Literature'' (scholarship),
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by to ...
*
Louis Dudek
Louis Dudek, (February 6, 1918 – March 23, 2001) was a Canadian poet, academic, and publisher known for his role in defining Modernism in poetry, and for his literary criticism. He was the author of over two dozen books. In ''A Digital Hist ...
, ''Continuation II.'' Montreal: Véhicule Press.Louis Dudek: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011.
* George Johnston, ''Endeared by Dark: The Collected Poems''Roberts, Neil, editor ''A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry'' Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, , retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
* A.M. Klein, ''Complete Poems''.Toronto: University of Toronto Press."A.M. Klein: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto, Web, May 7, 2011.
* A.M. Klein, ''Doctor Dwarf and Other Poems for Children''. Kingston, ON: Quarry Press.
*
Archibald Lampman
Archibald Lampman (17 November 1861 – 10 February 1899) was a Canadian poetry, Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian John Keats, Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadians, Canadian school of ...
, ''Selected Poetry of Archibald Lampman'', Michael Gnarowski ed. (Ottawa: Tecumseh).
*
James Reaney
James Crerar Reaney, (September 1, 1926 – June 11, 2008) was a Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor, "whose works transform small-town Ontario life into the realm of dream and symbol." Reaney won Canada's highest literary ...
, ''Performance Poems.''
* Michael Redhill, ''Impromptu Feats of Balance'', Don Mills, Ontario: Wolsak & Wynn
*
Ajmer Rode
Ajmer Rode is a Canadian author writing in Punjabi as well as in English. His first work was non-fiction ''Vishva Di Nuhar'' on Albert Einstein's Relativity in dialogue form inspired by Plato's ''Republic''. Published by the Punjabi University ...
, ''Poems at my Doorstep'', by a
Punjabi
Punjabi, or Panjabi, most often refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan
* Punjabi language
* Punjabi people
* Punjabi dialects and languages
Punjabi may also refer to:
* Punjabi (horse), a British Th ...
poet living and published in Canada and writing in English; Vancouver: Caitlin Press, Web page title "Ajmer Rode" , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
*
Ricardo Sternberg
Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg (born 1948) is a Canadian poet.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sternberg moved to the United States with his family when he was fifteen. He received a B.A. in English literature from the University of Cali ...
, ''Invention of Honey'', Montreal: Signal Editions
*
Phyllis Webb
Phyllis Webb (April 8, 1927 – November 11, 2021) was a Canadian poet and broadcaster.
Webb's poetry had diverse influences, ranging from neo-Confucianism to the field theory of composition developed by the Black Mountain poets. Critics hav ...
, ''Hanging Fire''
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...
Dom Moraes
Dominic Francis Moraes (19 July 1938 – 2 June 2004) was an Indian writer and poet who published nearly 30 books in English. He is widely seen as a foundational figure in Indian English literature. His poems are a meaningful and substantial ...
, ''Serendip'' ( Poetry in
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ...
) .
* Eunice de Souza, ''Ways of Belonging: Selected Poems'' ( Poetry in
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ...
),
Edinburgh
Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...
: Polygon,
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and ...
*
Sudeep Sen
Sudeep Sen (born 1964) is an Indian English poet and editor.
Early life
He was educated at St Columba's School in Delhi and received a degree in English literature from Hindu College, University of Delhi. He received a master's degree from t ...
, ''The Lunar Visitations'' ( Poetry in
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ...
), Indian poet writing in English, published in the United States and India; White Swan Books,
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
, 1990; , (reprinted in 1991, New Delhi: Rupa)
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the s ...
*
Eavan Boland
Eavan Aisling Boland (24 September 1944 – 27 April 2020) was an Irish poet, author, and professor. She was a professor at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996. Her work deals with the Irish national identity, and the role of w ...
, ''Outside History'', including "The Latin Lesson" and "Midnight Flowers", Carcanet PressCrotty, Patrick, ''Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology'', Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995,
*
Pat Boran
Pat Boran (born 1963) is an Irish poet.
Biography
Born in Portlaoise, Boran has lived in Dublin for a number of years. He is the publisher of the Dedalus Press which specialises in contemporary poetry from Ireland, and international poetry i ...
:
**''History and Promise'' (IUP)"Publications" Web page at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2
**''The Unwound Clock'' (Dedalus)
*
Ciarán Carson
Ciaran Gerard Carson (9 October 1948 – 6 October 2019) was a Northern Ireland-born poet and novelist.
Biography
Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast into an Irish-speaking family. His father, William, was a postman and his mother, Mary, wo ...
, ''Belfast Confetti'', Bloodaxe, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and ...
Padraic Fallon
Padraic Fallon (3 January 1905 – 9 October 1974) was an Irish poet and playwright.
Personal life
Fallon was born and raised in Athenry, County Galway; his upbringing and his early impressions of the town and the surrounding landscape are int ...
, ''Collected Poems'', introduction by
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, published posthumously
*
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
:
** ''The Tree Clock'', Linen Hall Library
** '' New Selected Poems 1966-1987'', Faber & Faber
** ''The Redress of Poetry'', criticism
*
Michael D. Higgins
Michael Daniel Higgins ( ga, Mícheál Dónal Ó hUigínn; born 18 April 1941) is an Irish politician, poet, sociologist, and broadcaster, who has served as the ninth president of Ireland since November 2011. Entering national politics throug ...
, ''The Betrayal''
*
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951) is an Irish poet. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. At Princeton University he is currently both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University P ...
, ''Madoc'', including "Cauliflowers", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
* Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, ''The Magdalene Sermon'', including "The Informant", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island coun ...
Bill Manhire
William Manhire (born 27 December 1946) is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, emeritus professor, and New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate (1997–1998). He founded New Zealand's first creative writing course at Victoria University of Well ...
, ''The Old Man's Example''
* Frank McKay, ''Life of
James K. Baxter
James Keir Baxter (29 June 1926 – 22 October 1972) was a New Zealand poet and playwright. He was also known as an activist for the preservation of Māori culture. He is one of New Zealand's most well-known and controversial literary figures. H ...
'', Auckland: Oxford University Press; called the "standard biography" of New Zealand's "probably New Zealand's best-known poet"
*
Cilla McQueen
Priscilla Muriel McQueen (born 22 January 1949 in Birmingham, England) is a poet and three-time winner of the ''New Zealand Book Award'' for Poetry.
Early years and education
McQueen's family moved to New Zealand when she was four.
She was educ ...
, ''Berlin Diary'', winner of the
1991
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New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and ...
*
Dannie Abse
Daniel Abse CBE FRSL (22 September 1923 – 28 September 2014) was a Welsh poet and physician. His poetry won him many awards. As a medic, he worked in a chest clinic for over 30 years.
Early years
Abse was born in Cardiff, Wales, as the young ...
, ''Remembrance of Crimes Past''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004,
*
Eavan Boland
Eavan Aisling Boland (24 September 1944 – 27 April 2020) was an Irish poet, author, and professor. She was a professor at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996. Her work deals with the Irish national identity, and the role of w ...
, ''Outside History''
*
Ciarán Carson
Ciaran Gerard Carson (9 October 1948 – 6 October 2019) was a Northern Ireland-born poet and novelist.
Biography
Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast into an Irish-speaking family. His father, William, was a postman and his mother, Mary, wo ...
: ''Belfast Confetti'', Bloodaxe, Wake Forest University Press,
Irish
Irish may refer to:
Common meanings
* Someone or something of, from, or related to:
** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
poet published in the United Kingdom
* Cary Archard, editor, ''Poetry Wales: 25 Years'', Seren, an anthology
*
Donald Davie
Donald Alfred Davie, FBA (17 July 1922 – 18 September 1995) was an English Movement poet, and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract, but often evoke various landscapes.
Biography
Davie was born in Barnsley, ...
, ''Collected Poems''
* Paul Durcan, ''Daddy, Daddy''
*
Carol Ann Duffy
Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, resigning in 2019. She was the first ...
, ''The Other Country'', Anvil Press Poetry (poetry)O'Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of) the web page, title "Carol Ann Duffy" at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009 Archived 2009-05-08.
*
Padraic Fallon
Padraic Fallon (3 January 1905 – 9 October 1974) was an Irish poet and playwright.
Personal life
Fallon was born and raised in Athenry, County Galway; his upbringing and his early impressions of the town and the surrounding landscape are int ...
, ''Collected Poems'', introduction by
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
, published posthumously
*
Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein FRSL (born Elaine Cooklin; 24 October 1930 – 23 September 2019) was an English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator. She joined the Council of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007.
Earl ...
, ''City Music'', Hutchinson
*
Tony Harrison
Tony Harrison (born 30 April 1937) is an English poet, translator and playwright. He was born in Beeston, Leeds and he received his education in Classics from Leeds Grammar School and Leeds University. He is one of Britain's foremost verse w ...
** ''Losing Touch''
** ''
The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus
''The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus'' is a 1990 play by English poet and playwright Tony Harrison. It is partially based on ''Ichneutae'', a satyr play by the fifth-century BC Athenian dramatist Sophocles, which was found in fragments at the Egyptian ...
''
*
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
:
** ''The Tree Clock'', Linen Hall Library
** '' New Selected Poems 1966-1987'', Faber & Faber
** ''The Redress of Poetry'', criticism
*
John Heath-Stubbs
John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs (9 July 1918 – 26 December 2006) was an English poet and translator. He is known for verse influenced by classical myths, and for a long Arthurian poem, ''Artorius'' (1972).
Biography and works
Heath-Stub ...
:
** ''The Game of Love and Death''
** ''Selected Poems''
* John Hegley, ''Glad to Wear Glasses (glad to have ears)''
*
Adrian Henri
Adrian Henri (10 April 1932 – 20 December 2000) was a British poet and painter best remembered as the founder of poetry-rock group the Liverpool Scene and as one of three poets in the best-selling anthology '' The Mersey Sound'', along with ...
, ''Box, and Other Poems''
* Alan Jenkins, ''Greenheart''
* Derek Mahon, ''The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush: Selected Poems.'' Gallery Press
*
Glyn Maxwell
Glyn Maxwell (born 1962) is a British poet, playwright, novelist, librettist, and lecturer.
Early life
Of primarily Welsh heritage — his mother Buddug-Mair Powell (b. 1928) acted in the original stage show of Dylan Thomas's ''Under Milk Wood'' ...
, ''Tale of the Mayor's Son''
* Edwin Morgan, ''Collected Poems''
*
Brian Patten
Brian Patten (born 7 February 1946) is an English poet and author. He came to prominence in the 1960s as one of the Liverpool poets, and writes primarily lyrical poetry about human relationships. His famous works include "Little Johnny's Confessio ...
, ''Collected Poems''
*
Ruth Pitter
Emma Thomas "Ruth" Pitter, CBE, FRSL (7 November 1897 – 29 February 1992) was a British poet.
She was the first woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955, and was appointed CBE in 1979 to honour her many contributions to Engli ...
Peter Redgrove
Peter William Redgrove (2 January 1932 – 16 June 2003) was a British poet, who also wrote prose, novels and plays with his second wife Penelope Shuttle.
Life and career
Redgrove was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. He was educated at Ta ...
, ''Dressed as for a Tarot Pack''
*
Peter Scupham
Peter Scupham (24 February 1933 – 11 June 2022) was a British poet.
Life
Scupham was born in Bootle on 24 February 1933 to John and Dorothy Scupham. The family moved to Cambridgeshire and he was educated at the Perse School, Cambridge, and St G ...
, ''Watching the Perseids''
* R.S. Thomas, ''Counterpoint''
* Hugo Williams, ''Self-Portrait with a Slide''
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., ...
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou ( ; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and ...
, ''I Shall Not be Moved''
*
Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart (born May 27, 1939) is an American academic and poet, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Biography
Bidart is a native of California and considered a career in acting or directing when he was young. In 1957, he began to s ...
Charles Olson
Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation modern American poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York ...
and
Robert Creeley
Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. He was close with Char ...
: The Complete Correspondence'', ninth and last volume published this year (first volume published in
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – In ...
),
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara ( es, Santa Bárbara, meaning " Saint Barbara") is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat. Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West ...
, biography and criticismEverett, Nicholas "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the ''Modern American Poetry'' website, accessed May 1, 2008
*
Maxine Chernoff
Maxine Chernoff (born 1952) is an American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor.
Biography
She was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Chernoff is a professor and ...
, ''Leap Year Day: New & Selected Poems'' (Another Chicago Press)
* Alice Fulton, ''Powers of Congress''
*
David Graham David Graham may refer to:
Authors and intellectuals
* David Graham (American poet), American writer and poet
*David Graham (author) (1919–1994), pen name of British writer Robert Hale
* David Graham (Canadian academic), Canadian academic admini ...
, ''Second Wind'', Texas Tech University Press
*
David Lehman
David Lehman (born June 11, 1948David Lehman at poets.org) is an American poet, non-fiction writer, and li ...
, ''Operation Memory'', Princeton University Press
*
Thomas Lux
Thomas Lux (December 10, 1946 – February 5, 2017) was an American poet who held the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology and ran Georgia Tech's "Poetry @ Tech" program. He wrote fourteen ...
, ''The Drowned River'', Houghton Mifflin
*
Jean Marzollo
Jean Marzollo (June 24, 1942 – April 10, 2018) was an American children's author and illustrator. She wrote more than 100 books, including the best-selling and award-winning ''I Spy'' series for children, written completely in rhythm and rhym ...
, ''
Pretend You're a Cat
''Pretend You're a Cat'' is a 1974 Children's book by Jean Marzollo and illustrators Jerry Pinkney or Marcia Sewall. It was originally published in 1974 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and re-illustrated with an revised edition was published by Di ...
''
*
Mary Oliver
Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her work is inspired by nature, rather than the human world, stemming from her lifelong passion for solitary ...
, ''House of Light''
*
Peter Oresick
Peter Oresick ( ; September 8, 1955 – September 3, 2016) was an American poet.
Oresick was best known as the editor of '' Working Classics'', a landmark literary anthology of working-class poetry, and as a publisher. He served in senior po ...
, ''Definitions'' (West End Press) and '' Working Classics'' (University of Illinois Press)
*
Mark Strand
Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014) was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004 ...
, ''The Continuous Life'',
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 ...
native living in and published in the United States
*
Derek Walcott
Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem '' Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as Walcot ...
, ''
Omeros
' is an epic poem by Saint Lucian writer Derek Walcott, first published in 1990. The work is divided into seven "books" containing a total of sixty-four chapters. Many critics view ''Omeros'' as Walcott's finest work.
In 2022, it was included ...
''
*
Rosmarie Waldrop
Rosmarie Waldrop (born Rosmarie Sebald; August 24, 1935) is an American poet, novelist, translator, essayist and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958 and has settled in Providence, Rhode Island since the lat ...
, ''Peculiar Motions'' (Kelsey St. Press)
*
Reed Whittemore
Edward Reed Whittemore, Jr. (September 11, 1919 – April 6, 2012) was an American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor. He was appointed the sixteenth and later the twenty-eighth Poet Laureate Consultant in P ...
, ''The Past, the Future, the Present: Poems Selected and New''
Anthologies in the United States
* Michael James Hutt, editor and translator, ''Himalayan Voices: An Introduction to Modern
Nepali
Nepali or Nepalese may refer to :
Concerning Nepal
* Anything of, from, or related to Nepal
* Nepali people, citizens of Nepal
* Nepali language, an Indo-Aryan language found in Nepal, the current official national language and a language spoken ...
Literature'', University of California Press
* Peter H. Lee, editor, ''Modern
Korean
Korean may refer to:
People and culture
* Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula
* Korean cuisine
* Korean culture
* Korean language
**Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl
**Korean dialects and the Jeju language
** ...
Literature'', including poetry, University of Hawai'i Press
* Edward Morin, editor, ''The Red Azalea: Chinese Poetry since the Cultural Revolution'', University of Hawai'i Press
David Lehman
David Lehman (born June 11, 1948David Lehman at poets.org) is an American poet, non-fiction writer, and li ...
with
Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham (; born May 9, 1950) is an American poet. The Poetry Foundation called Graham "one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation." She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at ...
John Ashbery
John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic.
Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...
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Marvin Bell
Marvin Hartley Bell (August 3, 1937 – December 14, 2020) was an American poet and teacher who was the first Poet Laureate of the state of Iowa.
Biography
Bell was raised in Center Moriches, Long Island. He served in the U.S. Army from 196 ...
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Stephen Berg
Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; ...
Hayden Carruth
Hayden Carruth (August 3, 1921 – September 29, 2008) was an American poet, literary critic and anthologist. He taught at Syracuse University.
Life
Hayden Carruth was born in Waterbury, Connecticut and grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut. He gra ...
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Anne Carson
Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor.
Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the Unit ...
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Raymond Carver
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. He contributed to the revitalization of the American short story during the 1980s.
Early life
Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mil ...
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Amy Clampitt
Amy Clampitt (June 15, 1920 – September 10, 1994) was an American poet and author.
Life
Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920, of Quaker parents, and brought up in New Providence, Iowa. In the American Academy of Arts and Letters and at nearby G ...
Robert Creeley
Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. He was close with Char ...
*Christopher Davis
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Thomas M. Disch
Thomas Michael Disch (February 2, 1940 – July 4, 2008) was an American science fiction author and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nominatio ...
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Norman Dubie
Norman Dubie (April 10, 1945--February 20, 2023) was an American poet from Barre, VT.
Life
He was the author of twenty-eight collections of poetry. Dubie's work often assumes historical personae and has been included in ''The New Yorker'', ''Ploug ...
Suzanne Gardinier
Suzanne Gardinier (born 1961 in New Bedford, Massachusetts) is an American poet. She is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
Life
Gardinier grew up in Scituate, Massachusetts. She completed her B.A. at the University of Massachu ...
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Amy Gerstler
Amy Gerstler (born 1956) is an American poet. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Biography
Amy Gerstler was born in 1956. She is a graduate of Pitzer College and holds an M.F.A. from Bennington Co ...
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Linda Gregg
Linda Alouise Gregg (September 9, 1942 – March 20, 2019) was an American poet.
Biography
She was born in Suffern, New York.
Ms. Gregg grew up on the other side of the country, in Marin County, California. She received both her Bachelor of Ar ...
Donald Hall
Donald Andrew Hall Jr. (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. He was the author of over 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and includin ...
Robert Hass
Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for the collection ''Time and Materials: Poems 1997 ...
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Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Anthony Hecht
Anthony Evan Hecht (January 16, 1923 – October 20, 2004) was an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the Second World War, in which he fought, ...
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Emily Hiestand
Emily Hiestand (born 1947 Chicago) is an American writer and poet.
Life
She grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art. In 1970, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a graphic designer. She studied at ...
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Brenda Hillman
Brenda Hillman (born March 27, 1951 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American poet and translator. She is the author of ten collections of poetry: ''White Dress'', ''Fortress'', ''Death Tractates'', ''Bright Existence'', ''Loose Sugar'', ''Cascadia'', '' ...
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John Hollander
John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic. At the time of his death, he was Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, having previously taught at Connecticut College, Hunter ...
Richard Howard
Richard Joseph Howard (October 13, 1929 – March 31, 2022; adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz) was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a graduate of Columbia University, w ...
Galway Kinnell
Galway Mills Kinnell (February 1, 1927 – October 28, 2014) was an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1982 collection, ''Selected Poems'' and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright. From 1989 to 1 ...
Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa (born James William Brown; April 29, 1941) is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for ''Ne ...
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Denise Levertov
Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet. She was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
Early life and influences
Levertov was born and grew up in Ilford, Ess ...
Thomas Lux
Thomas Lux (December 10, 1946 – February 5, 2017) was an American poet who held the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology and ran Georgia Tech's "Poetry @ Tech" program. He wrote fourteen ...
Lynne McMahon
Lynne McMahon is an American poet.
She graduated from University of Utah with a PhD in 1982. She teaches at University of Missouri,
Her work has appeared in ''The New York Times Book Review, New Virginia Review, American Poetry Review, The South ...
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Jane Mead
Jane Mead (August 13, 1958 – September 8, 2019) was an American poet and the author of five poetry collections. Her last volume was ''To the Wren: Collected & New Poems 1991-2019'' (Alice James Books, 2019). Her honors included fellowships from ...
W. S. Merwin
William Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose, and produced many works in translation. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thema ...
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Jane Miller
Jane Miller (born 1949) is an American poet.
Life
Jane Miller was born in New York and lives in Tucson, Arizona. She served as a professor for many years in the Creative Writing Program at The University of Arizona—including a stint as its Dire ...
Thylias Moss
Thylias Moss (born February 27, 1954, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright of African-American, Native American, and European heritage. Her poetry has been published in a number ...
Alice Notley
Alice Notley (born November 8, 1945) is an American poet. Notley came to prominence as a member of the second generation of the New York School of poetry—although she has always denied being involved with the New York School or any specific mo ...
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most o ...
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the ...
James Schuyler
James Marcus Schuyler (November 9, 1923 – April 12, 1991) was an American poet. His awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1980 collection ''The Morning of the Poem''. He was a central figure in the New York School and is of ...
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Frederick Seidel
Frederick Seidel (born February 19, 1936) is an American poet.
Biography
Seidel was born to a family of Russian Jewish descent in St. Louis, Missouri in 1936. His family owned Seidel Coal and Coke, which supplied coal to the brewing industry in ...
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Charles Simic
Dušan Simić ( sr-cyr, Душан Симић, ; born May 9, 1938), known as Charles Simic, is a Serbian American poet and former co-poetry editor of the ''Paris Review''. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for ''The World Doesn' ...
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Gustaf Sobin
Gustaf Sobin (November 15, 1935 – July 7, 2005) was a U.S.-born poet and author who spent most of his adult life in France. Originally from Boston, Sobin attended the Choate School, Brown University, and moved to Paris in 1962. Eventually he set ...
David St. John
David St. John (born July 24, 1949) is an American poet.
Biography
Born in Fresno, California, he was educated at California State University, Fresno, where he studied with poet Philip Levine, and at the University of Iowa, receiving an M.F.A. ...
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Gerald Stern
Gerald Daniel Stern (February 22, 1925 – October 27, 2022) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. The author of twenty collections of poetry and four books of essays, he taught literature and creative writing at Temple University, Indi ...
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Mark Strand
Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014) was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004 ...
Sidney Wade
Sidney Wade (born 1951) is an American poet. She currently holds the position of Professor of creative writing at the University of Florida, where she has taught since 1993.
Biography
Wade was born in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1951. She attende ...
Richard Wilbur
Richard Purdy Wilbur (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets of his generation, Wilbur's work, composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentle ...
Ramabai Espinet
Ramabai Espinet (born 1948) is an Indo-Trinidadian poet, novelist, essayist, and critic from Trinidad and Tobago. Espinet was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. She attended York University in Toronto, Canada before earning a Ph.D. at t ...
, ''Creation Fire: A
CAFRA
The Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA) is a nongovernmental organization that advocates for women's rights and empowerment in the Caribbean. The regional network, which serves as an umbrella organization for progressive ...
Anthology of
Caribbean
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Women's Poetry''"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, ''Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography'', page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, , retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
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Derek Walcott
Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem '' Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as Walcot ...
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Omeros
' is an epic poem by Saint Lucian writer Derek Walcott, first published in 1990. The work is divided into seven "books" containing a total of sixty-four chapters. Many critics view ''Omeros'' as Walcott's finest work.
In 2022, it was included ...
United States
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Works published in other languages
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
French language
Canada
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, in French
* Denise Desautels, ''Leçons de Venise'' ("Venice Lessons"), about three sculptures by Michel Goulet, Saint-Lambert: Le Noroît
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Suzanne Jacob
Suzanne Jacob (born 1943) is a French Canadian novelist, poet, playwright, singer-songwriter, and critic.
Life and career
Born in the town of Amos, in the Abitibi region of Québec, she studied classics at the Collège Notre-Dame de l'Assompti ...
, ''Filandere Cantabile'', Paris: Marval
France
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France
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** ''Tous les déchirements''. Messidor, Paris (épuisé)
** translator, ''La Poésie palestinienne contemporaine'', an anthology translated from the original
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...
; Paris: Éditions Messidor
** translator, ''L'Espace du Noûn'', translated in collaboration with Leïla Khatib from the original
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Cr ...
Gábor Tompa Gábor Tompa (born 8 August 1957 in Târgu Mureș) is an internationally renowned Hungarian theater and film director, poet, essayist and teacher. Between 2007 and 2016 he was the Head of Directing at the Theatre and Dance Department of the Univers ...
, ''Készenlét'' ("Alertness"), Budapest
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
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Joy Goswami
Joy Goswami ( bn, জয় গোস্বামী; born 1954) is an Indian poet. Goswami writes in Bengali language, Bengali and is widely considered one of the most important Bengali poets of his generation.
Biography
Joy was born on 10 Nov ...
Bangladeshi
Bangladeshis ( bn, বাংলাদেশী ) are the citizens of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centered on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay.
Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the ...
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K. Satchidanandan
K. Satchidanandan (1946) is an Indian poet and critic, writing in Malayalam and English. A pioneer of modern poetry in Malayalam, a bilingual literary critic, playwright, editor, columnist and translator, he is the former editor of ''Indian L ...
, ''Kayattam'', ("The Ascent");
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 ...
-language
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Vaidehi
Vaidehi may refer to:
*Of, from or related to the ancient Indian kingdom of Videha
**Vaidehi, another name for the goddess Sita
**Queen Vaidehi, mother of king Ajatashatru
* ''Vaidehi'' (2006 TV series), also known as ''Vaidehi – Ek Aur Agni Pa ...
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 ...
-language
* Varavara Rao (better known as "VV"), ''Muktakantam'' or ''Muktakantham'' ("Free Throat"), Vijayawada: Samudram Prachuranalu;
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
...
-language
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Yash Sharma Yash may refer to:
People
* Yash (name), including a list of people with that name
* Yash (Kannada actor), Indian Kannada-language actor
* Yash Dasgupta, Indian Hindi and Bengali film actor
* Yash Birla, chairman of the Indian conglomerate Yash B ...
, ''Jo Tere Man Chitt Laggi Ja'' ("Whatever Touches Your Heart and Souls"), winner of the Sahitya Academy Award;
Dogri
Dogri ( Name Dogra Akkhar: ; Devanagari: डोगरी; Nastaliq: ; ) is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India, with smaller groups of speakers in adjoining regions of western Himachal Prad ...
-language
Poland
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Stanisław Barańczak
Stanisław Barańczak (, November 13, 1946December 26, 2014) was a Polish poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, translator and lecturer. He is perhaps most well known for his English-to- Polish translations of the dramas of William Shakespeare a ...
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** ''159 wiersze 1968-88'' ("159 Poems"), Kraków: ZnakWeb page title "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek" , at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
** ''Tablica z Macondo. Osiemnascie prob wytlumaczenia, po co i dlaczego sie pisze'' ("A License Plate from Macondo: Eighteen Attempts at Explaining Why One Writes"), criticism; London: Aneks
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Zbigniew Herbert
Zbigniew Herbert (; 29 October 1924 – 28 July 1998) was a Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist. He is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers. While he was first published in the 1950s (a volume titled ...
, ''Elegia na odejście'' ("Elegy for the Departure"), Paris: Instytut LiterackiWeb page title "Herbert Zbigniew" , at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website – this source for information other than the translation of the title – retrieved February 27, 2010
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Ewa Lipska
Ewa Lipska (born 8 October 1945 in Kraków), is a Polish poet from the generation of the Polish "New Wave." Collections of her verse have been translated into English, Italian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German and Hungarian. She lives in Vienna an ...
, , ("Limited Standing Zone"); Warsaw: CzytelnikWeb pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (i English an Polish ), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010
* Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, ''Nenia i inne wiersze''
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Jan Twardowski
Jan Jakub Twardowski (1 June 1915 – 18 January 2006) was a Polish poet and Catholic priest. He was a chief Polish representative of contemporary religious lyrics. He wrote short, simple poems, humorous, which often included colloquialisms. He ...
, ''Tak ludzka'', Poznań: Księgarnia św. WojciechWeb page title "Jan Twardowski" , at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
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Adam Zagajewski
Adam Zagajewski (21 June 1945 – 21 March 2021) was a Polish poet, novelist, translator, and essayist. He was awarded the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, the 2017 P ...
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** ''Płótno'', Paris: Zeszyty LiterackieWeb page title Zagajewski Adam" , at the Instytut Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliografia: Poezja:" section, retrieved February 19, 2010
** ''Płótno'', Paris: Zeszyty Literackie
Spanish language
Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = '' Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, ...
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Matilde Camus
Aurora Matilde Gómez Camus (26 September 1919 – 28 April 2012) was a Spanish poet from Cantabria who also wrote non-fiction.
Life and career
Aurora Matilde Gómez Camus was born in Santander, Cantabria on September 26th 1919, she was t ...
, ''El color de mi cristal'' ("The colour of my glasses")
Other languages
* Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Karl Mickel, guest editor, ''Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1990/91'' ("Poetry Yearbook 1990/91"), publisher: Luchterhand; anthology;
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwee ...
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Mircea Cărtărescu
Mircea Cărtărescu (; born 1 June 1956) is a Romanian novelist, poet, short-story writer, literary critic, and essayist.
Biography
Born in Bucharest in 1956, he attended Cantemir Vodă National College during the early 1970s. During his scho ...
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The Levant
The Levant () is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia. In its narrowest sense, which is in use today in archaeology and other cultural contexts, it is equ ...
'' (''Levantul''), Romania
* Luo Fu, Chinese (Taiwan):
**''Nirvana of Angels''Balcom, John "Lo Fu" , article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
**''House of Midnight''
* Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, ''Pharaoh's Daughter'', including "Fear Suaithinseach", "An Bhabog Bhriste", "An Bhean Mhidhilis", and "Ceist na Teangan", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,
Gaelic
Gaelic is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". As a noun it refers to the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the languages individually. Gaelic languages are spoken in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, an ...
-language,
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the s ...
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Maria Luisa Spaziani
Maria Luisa Spaziani (21 June 1923 – 30 June 2014) was an Italian poet.
Biography
Spaziani was born in Turin. At nineteen, she founded the review ''Il dado'', working with collaborators such as Vasco Pratolini, Sandro Penna and Vince ...
, ''Giovanna d'Arco'',
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
Awards and honors
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by ...
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form.Robert Adamson, ''The Clean Dark''
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Mary Gilmore Prize
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The Mary Gilmore Award is currently an annual Australian literary award for poetry, awarded by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Since being established in 1956 as the ACTU Dame Mary Gilmore Award, it has been awar ...
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by to ...
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Gerald Lampert Award The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet. It is presented in honour of poetry promoter Gerald Lampert
Gerald Lampert (c. 1924 - April 29, 1978) w ...
Gary Geddes
Gary Geddes (born 9 June 1940 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet and writer.
Biography
He spent four years of his childhood on the Canadian prairies, but otherwise remained on the west coast until 1963, where he got his bachelor's ...
, ''No Easy Exit''
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1990 Governor General's Awards
Each winner of the 1990 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10000 and a specially bound edition of his or her book. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
English Langua ...
Pat Lowther Award
The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.Patricia Young
Patricia Young (born 1954 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet, and short story writer.
She is married to writer Terence Young. Their daughter Clea Young is also a writer, whose debut short story collection ''Teardown'' was publis ...
, ''The Mad and Beautiful Mothers''
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Prix Alain-Grandbois
The Prix Alain-Grandbois or ''Alain Grandbois Prize'' is awarded each year to an author for a book of poetry.
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.
One of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, the award was originally known as the B.C. Prize for Poetry ...
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Victoria Walker
Victoria Clayton, née Walker, (born 1947) is a British author. She began writing at her parents' house in Cambridgeshire (after a couple of years living a bohemian lifestyle in London). When dining one night in London she sat next to Bill McCread ...
, ''Suitcase''
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Prix Émile-Nelligan The Prix Émile-Nelligan is a literary award given annually by the Fondation Émile-Nelligan to a North American French language poet under the age of 35. It was named in honour of the Quebec poet Émile Nelligan and was first awarded in 1979, the 1 ...
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Rukmini Bhaya Nair is a linguist, poet, writer and critic of India. She won the First Prize for her poem ''kali'' in the "All India Poetry Competition" in 1990 organised by The Poetry Society (India) in collaboration with British Council. She i ...
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and ...
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Cholmondeley Award
The Cholmondeley Awards () are annual awards for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. Since 1991 the award has be ...
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Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social ...
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Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein FRSL (born Elaine Cooklin; 24 October 1930 – 23 September 2019) was an English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator. She joined the Council of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007.
Earl ...
Eric Gregory Award
The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given annually by the Society of Authors for a collection by British poets under the age of 30. The award was founded in 1960 by Dr. Eric Gregory to support and encourage young poets. In 2021, the seve ...
Maggie Hannan Maggie Hannan (born 1962) is an English poet, formerly based in Hull, now living in County Sligo, Ireland. She is the author of a single 'but highly influential' collection of poetry, ''Liar, Jones''. She won the Eric Gregory Award in 1990. She was ...
Lavinia Greenlaw
Lavinia Elaine Greenlaw (born 30 July 1962) is an English poet, novelist and non-fiction writer. She won the Prix du Premier Roman with her first novel and her poetry has been shortlisted for awards that include the T. S. Eliot Prize, Forward P ...
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Don Paterson
Donald Paterson (born 1963) is a Scottish poet, writer and musician.
Background
Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1990 and his poem "A Private Bottling" won the Arvon Foundation International ...
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry is awarded for a book of verse published by someone in any of the Commonwealth realms. Originally the award was open only to British subjects living in the United Kingdom, but in 1985 the scope was extended to in ...
National Poetry Competition
The National Poetry Competition is an annual poetry prize established in 1978 in the United Kingdom. It is run by the UK-based Poetry Society and accepts entries from all over the world, with over 10,000 poems being submitted to the competition ...
: Nick Rice for ''Room Service''
United States
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Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
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W. S. Merwin
William Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose, and produced many works in translation. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thema ...
Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry The Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry is given by the Paris Review "for the finest poem over 200 lines published in The Paris Review in a given year", according to the magazine.
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Christopher Logue
Christopher Logue, CBE (23 November 1926 – 2 December 2011)Mark EspineObituary: Christopher Logue ''The Guardian'', 2 December 2011 was an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival, and a pacifist.
Life
Born in Portsmouth, ...
Denise Levertov
Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet. She was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
Early life and influences
Levertov was born and grew up in Ilford, Ess ...
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James Laughlin
James Laughlin (October 30, 1914 – November 12, 1997) was an American poet and literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishing.
Early life
He was born in Pittsburgh, the son of Henry Hughart and Marjory Rea Laughlin. Laughlin ...
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
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Mark Strand
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Charles Simic
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Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
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Hayden Carruth
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Whiting Awards
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Emily Hiestand
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Life
She grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art. In 1970, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a graphic designer. She studied at ...
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Dennis Nurkse
Dennis Nurkse is a poet from Brooklyn.
Life
Nurkse is the son of the eminent Estonian economist Ragnar Nurkse. He has taught workshops at Rikers Island, and his poems about prison life appeared in ''The American Poetry Review, Evergreen Review ...
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Kiran Millwood Hargrave (born 29 March 1990) is a British poet, playwright and novelist.
Life
Hargrave was born on 29 March 1990 in London. She graduated from Cambridge University in 2011, and Oxford University in 2014.
Career
She started writ ...
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English
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* English people
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Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ...
poet, playwright and novelist
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " earin poetry" article:
* March 13 – Teiko Tomita (born
1894
Events January–March
* January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire.
* January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...
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Japanese
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* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
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-born American poet who wrote in Japanese"Teiko Tomita" entry, p 640 in ''Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century'', edited by Susan Ware, Stacy Lorraine Braukman; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
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* May 14 –
Mary Oppen
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American
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poet, activist, artist, photographer and writer, wife of
George Oppen
George Oppen (April 24, 1908 – July 7, 1984) was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism and moved to Mexico in 1950 to avoid the attentions ...
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Nagai Tatsuo
was a writer of short stories, novels, and essays, active in the Shōwa period Japan, known for his portrayals of city life. Nagai was also known as a haiku poet under the pen-name of "Tomonkyo".
Early life
Nagai was born in the Sarugakuchō ne ...
永井龍男, used the
pen-name
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A pen na ...
of "Tomonkyo" for his poetry (born
1904
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* January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''.
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Japanese
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* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
haiku
is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases that contain a '' kireji'', or "cutting word", 17 '' on'' (phonetic units similar to syllables) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern, and a '' kigo'', or ...
poet, editor and journalist
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Lawrence Durrell
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Born in India to British colonial p ...
, 78 (born
1912
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* January 1 – The Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6
** German geophysicist Alfred ...
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English
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Peoples, culture, and language
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novelist, poet, dramatist and travel writer
* November 11 –
Yiannis Ritsos
Yiannis Ritsos ( el, Γιάννης Ρίτσος; 1 May 1909 – 11 November 1990) was a Greek poet and communist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II. While he disliked being regarded as a political poet, he has b ...
(born
1909
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* January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes.
* January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
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Greek
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1950
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* January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.
* January 5 – Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 crashes in a snowstorm. All 19 ...
), Chinese
American
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Nikos Karouzos Nikos Karouzos ( el, Νίκος Καρούζος) was a Greek modernist poet. He was born in Nafplion on 17 July 1926 and died in Athens on 28 September 1990.
He published his first poems in 1949. He also wrote literary criticism and essays on the ...
(born
1926
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* January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece.
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Greek
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Greece
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*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
1923
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* January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory).
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Welsh
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poet and journalist
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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 meani ...
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List of years in poetry
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21st century in poetry
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List of poetry awards
Major international awards
* Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings
* Bridges of Struga (for a debuting author at Struga Poetry Evenings)
* Griffin Poetry Prize (The international prize)
* International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medi ...
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 i ...