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 ...

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

Events

* Immediately after the

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in the United States,

W. H. Auden Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in ...

's "

September 1, 1939 "September 1, 1939" is a poem by W. H. Auden written on the outbreak of World War II. It was first published in ''The New Republic'' issue of 18 October 1939, and in book form in Auden's collection ''Another Time'' (1940). Description The po ...

" was read (with many lines omitted) on

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and widely circulated and discussed for its relevance to recent events. On September 19, Amiri Baraka read his poem "Somebody Blew Up America?" at a poetry festival in

New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...

. * December 9–10 — Professor John Basinger, 67, performed, from memory, John Milton's '' Paradise Lost'' at Three Rivers Community-Technical College in Norwich, Connecticut, a feat that took 18 hours. *

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 ...

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Seth Schoen Seth David Schoen (born September 27, 1979) is senior staff technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a technology civil rights organisation, and has been actively involved in discussing digital copyright law and encryption since the 1 ...

wrote

DeCSS haiku DeCSS haiku is a 465-stanza haiku poem written in 2001 by American hacker Seth Schoen as part of the protest action regarding the prosecution of Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen for co-creating the DeCSS software. The poem, written in the s ...

as one of a number of artworks intended to demonstrate that

source code In computing, source code, or simply code, is any collection of code, with or without comments, written using a human-readable programming language, usually as plain text. The source code of a program is specially designed to facilitate the w ...

should be accorded the privileges of freedom of speech. * In ''

The Best American Poetry 2001 ''The Best American Poetry 2001'', a volume in ''The Best American Poetry series'', was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Robert Hass. Background In his introduction, Hass wrote, "There are roughly three traditions in American poetry at ...

'', poet and guest editor

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 ...

wrote, "There are roughly three traditions in American poetry at this point: a metrical tradition that can be very nervy and that is also basically classical in impulse; a strong central tradition of free verse made out of both romanticism and modernism, split between the impulses of an inward and psychological writing and an outward and realist one, at its best fusing the two; and an experimental tradition that is usually more passionate about form than content, perception than emotion, restless with the conventions of the art, skeptical about the political underpinnings of current practice, and intent on inventing a new one, or at least undermining what seems repressive in the current formed style. ..At the moment there are poets doing good, bad, and indifferent work in all these ranges." Critic Maureen McLane said of Hass' description that "it's hard to imagine a more judicious account of major tendencies." * The appointment of

Billy Collins William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York (retired, 2016). Collins ...

as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress generated a protest in which Anselm Hollo was elected "anti-laureate" in a contest run by

Robert Archambeau Robert Archambeau (18 April 1933 — 25 April 2022) was a Canadian ceramic artist and potter. He also had an academic career in post-secondary art studies. Personal history Born in Toledo, Ohio, United States in 1933, he immigrated to C ...

(the influential online POETICS list at the University of Buffalo served as the main forum).

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

* Robert Adamson ''Mulberry Leaves: New & Selected Poems 1970–2001'' * Les Murray, ''Conscious & Verbal'', shortlisted for the 2002 International

Griffin Poetry Prize The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin. Before 2022, the awards went to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language. ...

Philip Salom Philip Salom (born 8 August 1950) is an Australian poet and novelist, whose poetry books have drawn widespread acclaim. His 14 collections of poetry and four novels are noted for their originality and expansiveness and surprising differences fro ...

, ''A Cretive Life''. (''sic''.) (Fremantle Arts Centre) * Chris Wallace-Crabbe, ''By and Large'', Manchester: Carcanet; and Sydney; Brandl and Schlesinger

Canada

* Bruce Andrews, ''Lip Service'' (Coach House Books) * Louise Bak, ''Tulpa'' (Coach House Books) * Gary Barwin, ''Raising Eyebrows'' (Coach House Books) *

Christian Bök Christian Bök, FRSC (; born August 10, 1966 in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian poet known for unusual and experimental works. He is the author of '' Eunoia'', which won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize. Life and work He was born "Christian Bo ...

, ''Eunoia'', winner of the 2002 Canadian

(Coach House Books) *

George 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 ...

: ** ''Execution Poems: The Black Acadian Tragedy of George and Rue''. Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Gaspereau Press,

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 tot ...

** ''Blue''. Vancouver: Polestar, *

Victor Coleman Victor Coleman (born September 9, 1944) is a Canadian poet. Biography Born in Toronto, Coleman was the first editor at Coach House Books from 1966 until 1975. After his tenure in publishing, he managed the multidisciplinary art centre, A Space ...

, ''Honeymoon Suite/Letter Drop'', illustrations by David Bolduc, (Coach House Books) *

Diane Keating Diane Keating is a Canadian writer. She is most noted for her poetry collection ''No Birds or Flowers'', which was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 1982 Governor General's Awards. She publ ...

, ''The Year One: New and Selected Poems'' * Karen MacCormack, ''At Issue'' (Coach House Books) *

Steve McCaffery Steven McCaffery (born January 24, 1947) is a Canadian poet and scholar who was a professor at York University. He currently holds the David Gray Chair at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. McCaffery was born in Sheffie ...

: **''Seven Pages Missing Volume 1'' (Coach House Books) **''Seven Pages Missing Volume 2: Selected Ungathered Work'' (Coach House Books) *

Roy Miki Roy Akira Miki, (born 10 October 1942) is a Canadian poet, scholar, editor, and activist most known for his social and literary work. Born in Ste. Agathe, Manitoba to second generation Japanese-Canadian parents, Miki grew up on a sugar beet farm ...

, ''Surrender'' winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for poetry * W. Mark Sutherland, ''Code X'' (Coach House Books) *

Sharon Thesen Sharon Thesen (born 1946 in Tisdale, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian poet who lives in Lake Country, British Columbia. She teaches at University of British Columbia Okanagan. In 2003, Thesen was a judge for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Selected works ...

, editor, ''The New Long Poem Anthology'', Burnaby, British Columbia: Talonbooks * Daniel Wincenty, ''Words of Wisdom from a Man Claiming to be Fred Rogers'' (Coach House Books)

India, in English

Imtiaz Dharker Imtiaz Dharker (born 31 January 1954) is a Pakistan-born British full time poet, artist, and video film maker. She won the Queen's Gold Medal for her English poetry and was appointed Chancellor of Newcastle University from January 2020. In 201 ...

, ''I Speak for the Devil'' ( 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 ide ...

), first foreign edition brought out from

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 European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

by Bloodaxe (first India edition: Penguin Books

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 so ...

, 2003) *

Ranjit Hoskote Ranjit Hoskote (born 1969) is an Indian poet, art critic, cultural theorist and independent curator. He has been honoured by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, with the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award and the Sahitya ...

, ''The Sleepwalker's Archive'' ( Poetry in

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' fin ...

: Single File *

Arundhathi Subramaniam Arundhathi Subramaniam is an Indian poet and author, who has written about culture and spirituality. Life and career Subramaniam is a poet and writer based in Mumbai. She is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose. She has received ...

, ''On Cleaning Bookshelves'' ( Poetry in

: Allied Publishers, * Sudeep Sen, ''Perpetual Diary'',

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

: Aark Arts * K. Satchidanandan, ''So Many Births: Three Decades of Poetry'', Konarak Publishers Pvt Ltd,

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders ...

Ireland

* Pat Boran, ''As the Hand, the Glove'' (Dedalus)"Publications" Web page
at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2 *

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (; born 1942) is an Irish poet and academic. She was the Ireland Professor of Poetry (2016–19). Biography Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork in 1942. She is the daughter of Eilís Dillon and Professor Cormac Ó Cuil ...

: ''The Girl Who Married the Reindeer'', Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin"
at Poetry International website, accessed May 3, 2008 * Tom French (poet), ''Touching the Bones'', Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, *

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.

, '' Electric Light'', Faber & Faber; Irish poet published in the

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 ...

, ''Poems 1968–1998'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"; Irish poet living in the

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 primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...

* Aidan Murphy (poet), ''Looking in at Eden'', New Island Books,

New Zealand

* Alistair Campbell, ''Maori Battalion: a poetic sequence'', Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press *

Allen Curnow Thomas Allen Monro Curnow (17 June 1911 – 23 September 2001) was a New Zealand poet and journalist. Life Curnow was born in Timaru, New Zealand, the son of a fourth generation New Zealander, an Anglican clergyman, and he grew up in a relig ...

, ''The Bells of Saint Babel's'', a winner of the

Montana New Zealand Book Awards The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand. The awards began in 1996 as the merger of two literary awards events: the New Zealand Book Awards, which ran from 1976 to 1995, and the Goodman Fielder W ...

Leigh Davis Leigh Robert Davis (20 June 1955 – 3 October 2009) was a New Zealand writer who created long poems and large-scale, mixed-media projects in which he worked with painters, designers and composers. He was known for the highly experimental natu ...

: ** ''The Book of Hours'', Auckland: Jack Books ** ''General Motors'', Auckland: Jack Books *

Lauris Edmond Lauris Dorothy Edmond (née Scott, 2 April 1924 – 28 January 2000) was a New Zealand poet and writer. Biography Born in Dannevirke, Hawke's Bay, Edmond survived the 1931 Napier earthquake as a child. Trained as a teacher, she raised a fam ...

, ''Selected Poems 1975–2000'', edited by K. O. Arvidson, Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, posthumousRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'', 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article *

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 ...

, ''Collected Poems'' *

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 ...

, ''Axis'', Otago University Press * Paul Millar, ''Spark to a Waiting Fuse: James K. Baxter's Correspondence with Noel Ginn 1942–1946'' * Michael O'Leary, ''He Waiatanui Kia Aroha'' *

Hone Tuwhare Honing is a kind of metalworking. Hone may also refer to: * Hone (name) (incl. Hōne), a list of people with the surname, given name or nickname * Hõne language Hõne is a Jukunoid language spoken in Gombe State and Taraba State, Nigeria ...

, ''Piggyback Moon'' *

Ian Wedde Ian Curtis Wedde (born 17 October 1946) is a New Zealand poet, fiction writer, critic, and art curator. Biography Born in Blenheim, New Zealand, Wedde lived in East Pakistan and England as a child before returning to New Zealand. He attended ...

, ''The Commonplace Odes'' *

Kate Camp Kate Camp (born 1972) is a New Zealand poet and author who currently resides in Wellington. Early life and education Camp was born in 1972 in Wellington, New Zealand. She has a BA in English from the Victoria University of Wellington. Career ...

, ''Realia,'' Victoria University Press

United Kingdom

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 ...

, ''Code''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Ciarán Carson: ''The Twelfth of Never'', Picador, Wake Forest University Press *

Kate Clanchy Kate Clanchy MBE (born 1965 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a British poet, freelance writer and teacher. Early life She was born in 1965 in Glasgow to medieval historian Michael Clanchy and teacher Joan Clanchy (née Milne). She was educated at Ge ...

, ''Slattern'' *

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 ...

, editor, ''Hand in Hand: An Anthology of Love Poems'', Picador (anthology); 36 poets from around the world were each invited to select a love poem written by someone of the opposite sex and appearing opposite the selecting poet's own love poem *

James Fenton James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguat ...

: ''A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed'', Viking / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 *

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.

, '' Electric Light (Heaney), Electric Light'', Faber & Faber;

poet published in the United Kingdom *

Geoffrey Hill Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL (18 June 1932 – 30 June 2016) was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be ...

, ''Speech! Speech!'' * Selima Huill, ''Bunny'' * Elizabeth Jennings, ''Timely Issues'' *

Derek Mahon Derek Mahon (23 November 1941 – 1 October 2020) was an Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland but lived in a number of cities around the world. At his death it was noted that his, "influence in the Irish poetry community, lit ...

, ''Selected Poems.'' Penguin * Andrew Motion, ''Here to Eternity'' *

, ''Vera of Las Vegas'';

poet living in the

and published in the United Kingdom * Sean O'Brien, ''Downriver'' (Picador) *

Craig Raine Craig Anthony Raine, FRSL (born 3 December 1944) is an English contemporary poet. Along with Christopher Reid, he is a notable pioneer of Martian poetry, a movement that expresses alienation with the world, society and objects. He was a fellow o ...

, ''Collected Poems 1978–1999'' *

Peter Reading Peter Reading (27 July 1946 – 17 November 2011) was an English poet and the author of 26 collections of poetry. He is known for his deep interest for the nature and use of classical metres. ''The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry'' de ...

, '' ntitled' *

W.G. Sebald Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was being cited by literary critics as one of the g ...

For Years Now. Short Books. *

Jo Shapcott Jo Shapcott FRSL (born 24 March 1953, London) is an English poet, editor and lecturer who has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Awa ...

, ''Tender Taxes'' *

Hugo Williams Hugo Williams (born Hugh Anthony Mordaunt Vyner Williams) is an English poet, journalist and travel writer. He received the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1999 and Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2004. Family and early life Williams was born in 1942 in ...

, ''Curtain Call: 101 Portraits in Verse,'' (editor) Faber and Faber *

Benjamin Zephaniah Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (born 15 April 1958)Gregory, Andy (2002), ''International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002'', Europa, p. 562. . is a British writer and dub poet. He was included in ''The Times'' list of Britain's top 50 post-wa ...

, ''Too Black, Too Strong''

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

* Stephen Wade, editor, ''Gladsongs and Gatherings: Poetry and Its Social Context in Liverpool Since the 1960s'', Liverpool University Press,

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

* Keith Tuma, '' Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry'' (

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...

) *

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 ...

, ''Ted Hughes – The Life of a Poet'', Weidenfeld & Nicolson

United States

* Elizabeth Alexander, ''Antebellum Dream Book'' * Ralph Angel, ''Twice Removed'' (Sarabande) *

Renée Ashley Renée Ashley is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and educator. Presently on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University and an editor of ''The Literary Review'', Ashley is the author of five collections of poetry, two chapbooks and a ...

, ''The Revisionist's Dream'' * Bei Dao, ''At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991–1996'' (New Directions) *

, ''Against Love Poetry'' (Norton); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" * Edward Brathwaite, ''Ancestors'', Barbadian poet living in the United States"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 * Joseph Brodsky: ''Nativity Poems'', translated by Melissa Green; New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007 Russian literature, Russian-

* Paul Celan, translated by John Felstiner, ''Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan'' (Norton); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" * Maxine Chernoff, ''World: Poems 1991–2001'' (Salt Publications) *

, ''Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems'' (Random House); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" () * W.S. Di Piero, ''Skirts and Slacks: Poems'' (Knopf); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" *

Ed Dorn Edward Merton Dorn (April 2, 1929 – December 10, 1999, aged 70) was an American poet and teacher often associated with the Black Mountain poets. His most famous work is '' ''Gunslinger'. Overview Dorn was born in Villa Grove, Illinois. ...

, ''Chemo Sábe'', Limberlost Press (posthumous) * Alice Fulton, ''Felt'' (Norton); a ''Los Angeles Times'' "Best Book of 2001" *

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.

, ''Electric Light'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"; Irish poet living in the United States *

Jane Hirshfield Jane Hirshfield (born February 24, 1953) is an American poet, essayist, and translator, known as 'one of American poetry's central spokespersons for the biosphere' and recognized as 'among the modern masters,' 'writing some of the most important ...

, ''Given Sugar, Given Salt'' * Paul Hoover, ''Rehearsal in Black'', (Cambridge, England: Salt Publications) *

James Merrill James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1977 for ''Divine Comedies.'' His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyri ...

, ''Collected Poems'', edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser (Knopf); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" *

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 ...

, ''The Pupil'', New York: KnopfWeb page title
"W. S. Merwin (1927– )"
at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 *

, ''Poems 1968–1998'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year";

poet living in the United States *

Amos Oz Amos Oz ( he, עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner; 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onw ...

, ''The Same Sea'' (Harcourt); a novel about sexual hanky-panky involving a man, son and several women; most of the book is in verse; the author collaborated on the translation by

Nicholas de Lange Nicholas Robert Michael de Lange (born 7 August 1944) is a British Reform rabbi and historian. He is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Cambridge. Academic and literary career Nicholas de Lange is an emeritus fellow at ...

); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" *

Carl Phillips Carl Phillips (born 1959) is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Early life Phillips was born in Everett, Washington. He was born a child of a military family, moving year-by-year unt ...

, ''The Tether'' * James Reiss, ''Ten Thousand Good Mornings'' * Jay Wright, ''Transfigurations: Collected Poems'' (Louisiana State University Press); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"

Anthologies in the United States

Caroline Kennedy Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is an American author, attorney, and diplomat serving in the Biden administration as the United States Ambassador to Australia since 2022. She previously served in the Obama administration as th ...

, editor, ''The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis'', a hardcover New York Times best seller for 15 weeks late this year and into 2002. * Michelle Yeh and N. G. D. Malmqvist, ''Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry'', Columbia University Press * ''

'', edited by

David Lehman David Lehman (born June 11, 1948David Lehman
at poets.org) is an American poet, non-fiction writer, and li ...

, co-edited this year by

(including 75 poets)

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

* Kate Sontag and David Graham, editors, ''After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography'', Graywolf Press

Other in English

* Edward Brathwaite, ''Ancestors'', Barbadian poet living in the United States * Pamela Mordecai, ''Certifiable'', Jamaican

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, in French

* Edmond Robillard, ', Montréal: Maxime *

Jean Royer Jean Royer (31 October 1920 – 25 March 2011) was a French catholic and conservative politician, former Minister, and former Mayor of Tours. Biography Mayor of Tours Born in Nevers, Nièvre, Royer was at first a teacher. In 1958 he was elec ...

, ''Nos corps habitables: Poèmes choisis, 1984–2000'', Montréal: Le Noroît

France

Yves Bonnefoy Yves Jean Bonnefoy (24 June 1923, Tours – 1 July 2016 Paris) was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was pr ...

: ** ''Le Théâtre des enfants'' ** ''Le Cœur-espace'' ** ''Les Planches courbes'' * Seyhmus Dagtekin, ''Le verbe temps'', publisher: L'Harmattan;

Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *Kurds or Kurdish people *Kurdish languages *Kurdish alphabets *Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes: **Southern Kurdistan **Eastern Kurdistan **Northern Kurdistan **Western Kurdistan See also * Kurd (dis ...

Turkish poet writing in and published in

* Claude Esteban: ** ''Morceaux de ciel, presque rien'', Gallimard ** ''Etranger devant la porte'', I. Variations, Farrago

India

In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Bengali

Mallika Sengupta Mallika Sengupta ( bn, মল্লিকা সেনগুপ্ত; 1960–2011) was a Bengali poet, feminist, and reader of Sociology from Kolkata, known for her "unapologetically political poetry". Biography Mallika Sengupta was the hea ...

: ** ''Deoyalir Rat'', Kolkata: PatralekhaWeb page titl
"Mallika Sengupta"
, at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 ** ''Amra Lasya Amra Ladai'', Kolkata: Sristi Prakashani *

Nirendranath Chakravarti Nirendranath Chakravarty (19 October 1924 – 25 December 2018) was a contemporary Bengali poet, Translator, Novelist. He lived in Bangur Avenue, Kolkata. Biography He was born in Faridpur district of undivided Bengal in 1924. After graduati ...

, ''Kobi Cheney, Shompurno Cheney Na'', Kolkata: Dey's Publishing;

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

-language

Other in India

* Basudev Sunani, ''Asprushya'', Bhubaneswar: National Institute of Social Work and Social Sciences; Oraya-language *

Gulzar Sampooran Singh Kalra (born 18 August 1934), known professionally as Gulzar, is an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, and film director known for his works in Hindi cinema. He is regarded as one of greatest Urdu poets of this ...

, ''Triveni'', New Delhi: Rupa& Co.; in both

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' Hindi Hindi ( Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...

languages *

Hemant Divate Hemant Divate is a reputed Marathi poet, editor, translator and publisher based in Mumbai. Biography Hemant Divate is a poet, editor, publisher and translator. He is the founder-editor of the Marathi little magazine Abhidhanantar, which was ...

, ''Chautishiparyantachya Kavita'', Mumbai: Prabhat Prakashan;

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 * * ...

-language * Malathi Maithri, ''Sankarabharani'', Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathippagam;

Tamil Tamil may refer to: * Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia **Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils **Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia * Tamil language, nativ ...

-language *

Manushya Puthiran Humans in Buddhism (, , Pali ) are the subjects of an extensive commentarial literature that examines the nature and qualities of a human life from the point of view of humans' ability to achieve enlightenment. In Buddhism, humans are just one ...

, ''Neeralanathu'', Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathipagam,

language * Nitin Kulkarni, ''Sagla Kasa Agdi Safehaina'', Mumbai: Lokvangmaya Griha Prakashan;

-language

Poland

* Juliusz Erazm Bolek, ''Ars poetica'' * Julia Hartwig, ''Nie ma odpowiedzi'' ("There's no Answer"), 98 pages; Warsaw: Sic! *

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 and ...

, ' ("Pet Shops"); Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackieWeb pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (i
English
an
Polish
), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010 *

Tadeusz Różewicz Tadeusz Różewicz (9 October 1921 – 24 April 2014) was a Polish poet, playwright, writer, and translator. Różewicz was in the first generation of Polish writers born after Poland regained its independence in 1918, following the century of f ...

, ''Nożyk profesora'' ("The Professor's Knife"), Wrocław: Wydawnictwo DolnośląskieWeb pages titled "Tadeusz Rozewicz" (i
English
an
Polish
), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved February 28, 2010 * Tomasz Różycki, ' ("Country Cottage"), Warsaw: Lampa i Iskra BożaWeb page title
"Tomasz Różycki"
at Culture.pl website, retrieved March 1, 2010 *

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 ...

, ''Kiedy mówisz. When You Say, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie,'' Kraków: Wydawnictwo LiterackieWeb page title
"Jan Twardowski"
, at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010

Other languages

* Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and

Adolf Endler Adolf Endler (20 September 1930 – 2 August 2009) was a lyric poet, essayist and prose author who played a central role in subcultural activities that attacked and challenged an outdated model of socialist realism in the German Democratic Repu ...

, guest editor, ''Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2002'' ("Poetry Yearbook 2002"), publisher: Beck; 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 betwe ...

* Katrine Marie Guldager, ''Ankomst Husumgade'', publisher: Gyldendal;

Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of Denmark , establish ...

* Klaus Høeck, ''In nomine'', publisher: Gyldendal;

Web page title
"Bibliography of Klaus Høeck"
website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010 * Chen Kehua, ''Hua yu lei yu heliu'' ("Flowers and Tears and Rivers")

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...

(Taiwan) * Jun Er, ''Chenmo yu xuanhua de shijie'' ("Quiet in a Tumultuous World"),

(People's Republic of China) * Rahman Henry, ''Circusmukhorito Graam'', ( A Book of Poetry ),

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

. * Rie Yasumi, 平凡な兎 ("Ordinary Rabbit") and やすみりえのとっておき川柳道場 ("Senryu Dojo reserve: Fun begins at any time"), Japan

Awards and honors

Australia

C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry The Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry, formerly known as the C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has an enumeration of 25,000. The winner of this category prize vies w ...

John Mateer John Mateer (born 1971) is a South African-born Australian poet and author. Early life and education He was born in Roodepoort, South Africa in 1971, and grew up on the outskirts of Johannesburg. He spent some of his childhood in Canada, before ...

, ''Barefoot Speech'' * Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: ''Untold Lives and Later Poems'' by Rosemary Dobson * Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Ken Taylor, ''Africa'' * Miles Franklin Award:

Frank Moorhouse Frank Thomas Moorhouse (21 December 1938 – 26 June 2022) was an Australian writer. He won major Australian national prizes for the short story, the novel, the essay, and for script writing. His work has been published in the United Kingdom, ...

, ''Dark Palace''

Canada

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 ...

: Anne Simpson, ''Light Falls Through You'' *

Archibald Lampman Award The Archibald Lampman Award is an annual Canadian literary award, created by Blaine Marchand, and presented by the literary magazine '' Arc'', for the year's best work of poetry by a writer living in the National Capital Region. History The ...

Colin Morton Colin Morton (born 1948) is a Canadian poet. Personal life Morton was born in Toronto, Ontario, but grew up in Calgary, Alberta and has worked as a teacher and editor. His poetry and fiction have appeared in ''Descant'', ''The Fiddlehead'', ''A ...

, ''Coastlines of the Archipelago'' *

Atlantic Poetry Prize The J.M. Abraham Poetry Award, formerly known as the Atlantic Poetry Prize, is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival, to the best work of poetry published by a writer from the Atlantic provinces. Winne ...

: Anne Simpson, ''Light Falls Through You'' * 2001 Governor General's Awards:

, ''Execution Poems'' (English); Paul Chanel Malenfant, ''Des ombres portées'' (French) *

(Canada):

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 ...

, ''

Men in the Off Hours ''Men in the Off Hours'' (2000) is a book of poems and prose pieces by Anne Carson. It won her the inaugural Griffin Poetry Prize in 2001. Summary ''Men in the Off Hours'' is a hybrid collection of short poems, verse essays, epitaphs, commemora ...

'' *

(International, in the English Language): Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh, translation of ''Glottal Stop: 101 Poems'' by Paul Celan * Pat Lowther Award:

, ''A Pair of Scissors'' *

Prix Alain-Grandbois The Prix Alain-Grandbois or ''Alain Grandbois Prize'' is awarded each year to an author for a book of poetry.

Martine Audet Martine Audet (born October 15, 1961) is a Canadian poet from Montreal, Quebec. She won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 2020 Governor General's Awards for her poetry collection ''La Société des cendres''. She wa ...

, ''Les tables'' *

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. ...

: Don McKay, ''Another Gravity'' *

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 ...

: Mathieu Boily, ''Le grand respir''

New Zealand

* Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: *

(no winner in poetry category this year) First-book award for poetry:

Stephanie de Montalk Stephanie de Montalk (born 1945) is a poet and biographer from New Zealand. Background Born in 1945, in New Zealand, de Montalk grew up in the Far North and Wellington. She trained at Wellington Hospital School of Nursing and received and M ...

, ''Animals Indoors'', Victoria University Press

United Kingdom

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 ...

: Ian Duhig,

Paul Durcan Paul Durcan (born 16 October 1944) is a contemporary Irish poet. Early life Durcan was born and grew up in Dublin and in Turlough, County Mayo. His father, John, was a barrister and circuit court judge; father and son had a difficult and forma ...

Kathleen Jamie Kathleen Jamie FRSL (born 13 May 1962) is a Scottish poet and essayist. In 2021 she became Scotland's fourth Makar. Life and work Kathleen Jamie is a poet and essayist. Raised in Currie, near Edinburgh, she studied philosophy at the University ...

Grace Nichols Grace Nichols FRSL (born 1950) is a Guyanese poet who moved to Britain in 1977, before which she worked as a teacher and journalist in Guyana. Her first collection, ''I is a Long-Memoried Woman'' (1983), won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. In D ...

* Eric Gregory Award: Leontia Flynn, Thomas Warner,

Tishani Doshi Tishani Doshi (born 9 December 1975) is an Indian poet, journalist and dancer based in Chennai. In 2006 she won the Forward Prize for her debut poetry book ''Countries of the Body''. Her poetry book ''A God at the Door'' has been shortlisted fo ...

, Patrick Mackie,

Kathryn Gray Kathryn Gray is a Welsh poet. Biography Kathryn Gray was born in Wales in 1973 and grew up in Swansea. She studied German and Medieval Studies and at the University of Bristol. Gray's first poetry collection, ''Never—Never'', was publishe ...

, Sally Read *

Forward Poetry Prize The Forward Prizes for Poetry are major British awards for poetry, presented annually at a public ceremony in London. They were founded in 1992 by William Sieghart with the aim of celebrating excellence in poetry and increasing its audience. The ...

(Best Collection): Sean O'Brien, ''Downriver'' (Picador) *

(Best First Collection): John Stammers, ''The Panoramic Lounge Bar'' (Picador) *

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 ...

Michael Longley Michael Longley, (born 27 July 1939, Belfast, Northern Ireland), is an Anglo-Irish poet. Life and career One of twin boys, Michael Longley was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to English parents, Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast A ...

* T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland):

, ''The Beauty of the Husband'' *

Whitbread Award The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland. Originally named the Whitbread Book Awards from 1971 to 2005 after its first sponsor, the Whitbread company, then ...

for poetry: Selima Hill, ''Bunny''

United States

Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major United States, American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language. This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Penn ...

awarded to Gabriel Gudding for ''A Defense of Poetry'' *

Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize, administered by the ''Sewanee Review'' and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career. It was established through a beq ...

, Frederick Morgan *

American Book Award The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "the ...

, Janet McAdams, for "The Island of Lost Luggage" *

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.

, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, for "Circus Fire, 1944" *

Bollingen Prize for Poetry The Bollingen Prize for Poetry is a literary honor bestowed on an American poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement.

Louise Glück Louise Elisabeth Glück ( ; born April 22, 1943) is an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal". H ...

Brittingham Prize in Poetry The Brittingham Prize in Poetry is a major United States literary award for a book of poetry chosen from an open competition. The prize, established in 1985, is sponsored by the English Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is ...

, Robin Behn, ''Horizon Note'' *

Frost Medal The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the society have included such renowned poets as Witter Bynner, Ro ...

Sonia Sanchez Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver; September 9, 1934) is an American poet, writer, and professor. She was a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and has written over a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays ...

National Book Award for Poetry The National Book Award for Poetry is one of five annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers".

Alan Dugan Alan Dugan (February 12, 1923 – September 3, 2003) was an American poet. His first volume ''Poems'' published in 1961 was a chosen by the Yale Series of Younger Poets and went on to win the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer P ...

, ''Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry'' * Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress:

appointed *

Poets' Prize The Poets' Prize is awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year. The $3000 annual prize is donated by a committee of about 20 American poets, who each nominate two books and who ...

: Philip Booth, ''Lifelines: Selected Poems 1950–1999'' *

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, published ...

: Stephen Dunn, ''Different Hours'' * Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: Edward Weismiller *

Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize is awarded annually by The Poetry Foundation, which also publishes ''Poetry'' magazine. The prize was established in 1986 by Ruth Lilly. It honors a living U.S. poet whose "lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordina ...

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 ...

Wallace Stevens Award The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreach ...

: John Ashbery *

Whiting Awards The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and ...

: Joel Brouwer, Jason Sommer *

William Carlos Williams Award The William Carlos Williams Award is given out by the Poetry Society of America for a poetry book published by a small press, non-profit, or university press. The award is endowed by the family and friends of Geraldine Clinton Little, a poet an ...

: Ralph J. Mills, ''Grasses Standing: Selected Poems'', Judge:

Fanny Howe Fanny Howe (born October 15, 1940 in Buffalo, New York) is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Howe has written more than 20 books of poetry and prose. Her major works include poetry such as ''One Crossed Out'', ''Gone'', and ''S ...

Other

* France:

Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ''The Goncourt Prize'') is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward o ...

for poetry: Claude Esteban, for his oeuvre as a whole

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "

ear An ear is the organ that enables hearing and, in mammals, body balance using the vestibular system. In mammals, the ear is usually described as having three parts—the outer ear, the middle ear and the inner ear. The outer ear consists of ...

in poetry" article: *January 17 –

Gregory Corso Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet and a key member of the Beat movement. He was the youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burrou ...

(born

1930 Events January * January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will b ...

Beat Generation poet, of prostate cancer *February 25 –

A. R. Ammons Archibald Randolph Ammons (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an American poet who won the annual National Book Award for Poetry in 1973 and 1993. Poetic themes Ammons wrote about humanity's relationship to nature in alternately comi ...

(born

1926 Events January * January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. * January 8 **Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz. ** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of Viet ...

author and poet *February 14 – Alan Ross (born

1922 Events January * January 7 – Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes. * January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann, the day after Éamon de Valera ...

British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...

writer and poet *February 22 –

Leo Connellan Leo Connellan (November 30, 1928 – February 22, 2001) was an American poet of the Beat Generation born in Portland, Maine, who served as Connecticut's Poet Laureate from 1996 until his death in 2001. Life Leo Connellan grew up in Rockla ...

(born

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhan ...

poet *March 23 –

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 ...

(born 1918),

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 ...

poet, academic critic and publisher * August 28 – Sansei Yamao (born 1938),

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * 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 ...

poet and friend of the

American poet The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. A B C D E F G H I–J K L M N O P Q * George Quasha (born 1942) R S T U–V ...

Gary Snyder *September 23 –

(born

1911 A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...

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 count ...

poet and journalist *October 16 –

Anne Ridler Anne Barbara Ridler OBE (née Bradby) (30 July 1912 – 15 October 2001) was a British poet and Faber and Faber editor, selecting the Faber ''A Little Book of Modern Verse'' with T. S. Eliot (1941). Her ''Collected Poems'' (Carcanet Press ...

(born 1912),

poet and Faber and Faber editor *October 20 – Andrew Waterhouse (born

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

poet and environmentalist, suicide *October 26: ** Pamela Gillilan (born 1918),

poet ** Elizabeth Jennings (born

poet *November 18 – R. N. Currey (born

1907 Events January * January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000. February * February 11 – The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco ...

poet *November 25 –

David Gascoyne David Gascoyne (10 October 1916 – 25 November 2001) was an English poet associated with the Surrealist movement, in particular the British Surrealist Group. Additionally he translated work by French surrealist poets. Early life and surrealis ...

(born

1915 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". * January ...

poet associated with the

Surrealist Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to ...

movement *December 8 –

Agha Shahid Ali Agha Shahid Ali (4 February 1949 – 8 December 2001) was an Indian-born poet who immigrated to the United States, and became affiliated with the literary movement known as New Formalism in American poetry. His collections include ''A Walk ...

(born 1949), Kashmiri-born English-language American poet *December 20 –

Léopold Sédar Senghor Léopold Sédar Senghor (; ; 9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who was the first president of Senegal (1960–80). Ideologically an African socialist, he was the major theoretician o ...

(born

1906 Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...

), first

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university * President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...

Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...

, poet and writer *December 27 – Ian Hamilton (born 1938),

poet, critic and magazine publisher *Date not known – Bill Sewell (born

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...

poet, German literary scholar and lawyer

Notes

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