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 regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...
).
Events
* March 16 — Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrest and jail poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and dismiss a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem " The Corrupt on Earth" which criticizes the state's Islamic judiciary, accusing some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for their own personal benefit.
* August 22 — Poet
Ron Silliman
Ron Silliman (born August 5, 1946) is an American poet. He has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. He is often associated with language poetry. Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wr ...
starts his popular and controversial
weblog
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Silliman's Blog ' which will become one of the most popular blogs devoted largely to contemporary poetry and poetics. (By August 2006, the blog will reach a total of 800,000 hits and get its next 100,000 by early November.).
* September — Amiri Baraka (b. 1934), an African-American poet and political activist from
Newark, New Jersey
Newark ( , ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County and the second largest city within the New York metropolitan area.Poet Laureate of New Jersey, ignites a controversy and accusations of
anti-Semitism
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Antis ...
Stanhope, New Jersey
Stanhope is a borough in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 3,610,September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commer ...
in a way that is highly critical of racism in America, includes angry depictions of public figures such as Rudolph Giuliani, Trent Lott, Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Ward Connerly, accuses Israel of involvement in the World Trade Center attacks, and supports the theory that the United States government knew about the attacks in advance. Amid public outrage and pressure from state leaders, Baraka is asked to resign as the Poet Laureate by New Jersey Governor
Jim McGreevey
James Edward McGreevey (born August 6, 1957) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 52nd governor of New Jersey from 2002 until his resignation in 2004 following the revelation of his extramarital affair ...
who had appointed him to the post two months earlier. Baraka refuses and, because there is no legal mechanism provided in the law to remove him as poet laureate, the state legislature and governor abolishes the position to remove him effective 2 July 2003.
* After
Ghazi al-Gosaibi
Ghazi Abdul Rahman Al Gosaibi ( ar, غازي بن عبدالرحمن القصيبي; 3 March 1940 – 15 August 2010) was a Saudi politician, diplomat, technocrat, poet, and novelist. He was an intellectual and a member of the Al Gosaibi family t ...
, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Britain, publishes a poem praising a suicide bomber who had killed himself and two Israelis after blowing himself up in a supermarket, the ambassador is recalled home.
* The office of
Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate
The Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate (french: Poète officiel du Parlement du Canada) is the national poet laureate of Canada. The current poet laureate is Louise Bernice Halfe.
The position is an office of the Library of Parliament.
Role
A ...
is instituted (see "Awards and honors" section below).
* The office of
Edinburgh
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Makar
A makar () is a term from Scottish literature for a poet or bard, often thought of as a royal court poet.
Since the 19th century, the term ''The Makars'' has been specifically used to refer to a number of poets of fifteenth and sixteenth cen ...
is instituted in
Scotland
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Bowery Poetry Club
The Bowery Poetry Club is a New York City poetry performance space founded by Bob Holman in 2002.Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe. (2008). ''Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam.'' Chapter 26: What the ...
, a New York City poetry performance space, is founded by
Bob Holman
Bob Holman is an American poet and poetry activist, most closely identified with the oral tradition, the spoken word, and poetry slam. As a promoter of poetry in many media, Holman has spent the last four decades working variously as an author ...
.
* '' Fulcrum, An annual of poetry and aesthetics'' is founded in the United States.
* Influential Chinese literary magazine ''Tamen'' ("They/Them") is revived as a webzine at www.tamen.net.
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
* Alison Croggon, ''Attempts at Being'', Salt Publishing, .
* Robert Gray, ''Afterimages''
* Emma Lew, ''Anything the Landlord Touches'', won the 2003
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 ...
and was short-listed for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry that same year
* Chris Mansell:
** ''Stalking the Rainbow'' (PressPress, 2002)
** ''Fickle Brat'' (IP Digital, Brisbane, 2002)
* Les Murray:
** ''Poems the Size of Photographs'', Duffy & Snellgrove and Carcanet Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
** ''New Collected Poems'', Duffy & Snellgrove; Carcanet, 2003
Canada
*
Margaret Avison
Margaret Avison, (April 23, 1918 – July 31, 2007) was a Canadian poet who twice won Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Prize.Michael Gnarowski,Avison, Margaret" ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Edmonton: Hurtig ...
, ''Concrete and Wild Carrot''
*
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 ...
, ''
’Pataphysics
Pataphysics (french: 'pataphysique) is a " philosophy" of science invented by French writer Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) intended to be a parody of science. Difficult to be simply defined or pinned down, it has been described as the "science of im ...
: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science''
*
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 2017
, ''thirsty''
* Michael Boughn, ''Dislocations in Crystal'' (Coach House Books)
* Louis Cabri, ''The Mood Embosser'' (Coach House Books)
*
Margaret Christakos
Margaret Christakos (born 1962 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto.
Life
Christakos was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario. She is a Canadian poet, fiction author, literary essayist and creative writing instructor. Sinc ...
, ''Excessive Love Prostheses'' (Coach House Books)
* Lise Downe, ''Disturbances of Progress'' (Coach House Books)
* Rob Fitterman, ''Metropolis (Book 2)'' (Coach House Books)
*
Laura Lush
Laura Lush (born 1959) is a Canadian poet and short story writer. She is most noted for her 1992 poetry book ''Hometown'', which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 1992 Governor General's ...
:
** ''The First Day of Winter: Poetry'', Vancouver: Ronsdale Press
** ''Going to the Zoo'', Winnipeg: Turnstone Press
* Don McKay, ''Vis à Vis: Field Notes on Poetry & Wilderness''
*
George McWhirter
George McWhirter (born September 26, 1939 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an Irish-Canadian writer, translator, editor, teacher and Vancouver's first Poet Laureate.
The son of a shipyard worker, George McWhirter was raised in a large extended f ...
, ''The Book of Contradictions''
* Jay Millar, ''Mycological Studies'' (Coach House Books)
*
P. K. Page
Patricia Kathleen Page, (23 November 1916 – 14 January 2010) was a British-born Canadian poet,Peter ScowenP.K. Page dies at age 93 ''The Globe and Mail'', 14 January 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2010. though the citation as she was inducted as a ...
, ''Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New'', edited and with an introduction by
Eric Ormsby
Eric Linn Ormsby (born 1941 in Atlanta, Georgia) is deputy head of academic research and publications at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. He was formerly a professor at McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies, where he also s ...
, Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill
* Joe Rosenblatt, ''Parrot fever''. collages by Michel Christensen. Toronto: Exile.
*
Raymond Souster
Raymond Holmes Souster (January 15, 1921 – October 19, 2012) was a Canadian poet whose writing career spanned over 70 years. More than 50 volumes of his own poetry were published during his lifetime, and he edited or co-edited a dozen volumes ...
, ''Take Me Out to the Ballgame''. Ottawa: Oberon Press.Notes on Life and Works ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
India, in English
*
Meena Alexander
Meena Alexander (17 February 1951 – 21 November 2018) was an Indian American poet, scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander later lived and worked in New York City, where she was a Distinguished ...
, ''Illiterate Heart'' ( Poetry in English ), Evanston, Illinois: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, by an Indian writing living in and published in the
United States
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Web page title "Meena Alexander" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
*
Smita Agarwal
Smita Agarwal (born 1958) is an Indian poet and a professor of English literature at the University of Allahabad, India.
Biography
Smita Agarwal's poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies. In 1999 she was a writer in residence at the Un ...
, ''Wish-granting Words'',(Poetry in English) New Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publisher, 2002.
* Sujata Bhatt, ''A Colour for Solitude'' ( Poetry in English ), Carcanet Press
*
Keki Daruwalla
Keki N. Daruwalla (born 24 January 1937Ranjit 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 ...
, editor, ''Reasons for Belonging, Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets'' ( Poetry in English ),
New Delhi
New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament Ho ...
: Viking/Penguin Books India; anthology including work from:
Jerry Pinto
Jerry Pinto (born 1966) is a Mumbai-based Indian English poet, novelist, short story writer, translator, as well as journalist. Pinto's works include '' Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb'' (2006), which won the Best Book on Cinema Award at ...
Smita Agarwal
Smita Agarwal (born 1958) is an Indian poet and a professor of English literature at the University of Allahabad, India.
Biography
Smita Agarwal's poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies. In 1999 she was a writer in residence at the Un ...
Jeet Thayil
Jeet Thayil (born 1959) is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist and musician. He is the author of several poetry collections, including ''These Errors Are Correct'' (2008), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award. His first novel, '' Narcopolis,'' ( ...
,
Tabish Khair
Tabish Khair is an Indian English author and associate professor in the Department of English, University of Aarhus, Denmark. His books include ''Babu Fictions'' (2001), ''The Bus Stopped'' (2004), which was shortlisted for the Encore Award (UK ...
,
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 ...
Anjum Hasan
Anjum Hasan is an Indian novelist, short story writer, poet, and editor. She graduated in philosophy from North-Eastern Hill University in Shillong, Meghalaya. She currently lives in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Career
Anjum Hasan's first book ...
and H. Masud Taj
* Sudeep Sen, ''Monsoon'', re-issued in 2005 as ''Rain'' ( Poetry in English );
London
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: Aark Arts,
* C. P. Surendran, ''Canaries on the Moon'' ( Poetry in English ), Kozhikode: Yeti,
Chennai
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.
*
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 ...
, ''Carriers Of Fire'', (translated from the original
Bengali
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*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 ...
,
Kolkata
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: Bhashanagar
Ireland
* Vona Groarke, ''Flight'', Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,
Ireland
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*
Justin Quinn
Justin Quinn (born 1968 in Dublin) is an Irish poet and critic. He received a doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, where his contemporaries included poets David Wheatley, Caitriona O'Reilly and Sinéad Morrissey, and now lives with his wif ...
:
** ''Fuselage'' Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,
** ''Gathered Beneath the Storm:
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance compa ...
, Nature and Community'', University College of Dublin Press, 2002 (criticism)
New Zealand
* James K. Baxter, ''The Tree House: James K. Baxter's Poems for Children'' (posthumous), the first illustrated edition of his work for children
*
Janet Charman
Janet Charman (born 1954) is a poet from New Zealand.
Background
Born in 1954, Charman grew up in the Hutt Valley and Taranaki.
Charman initially trained as a nurse and worked in social welfare. After receiving an MA in English from the Univ ...
, ''Snowing Down South'', Auckland: Auckland University Press
* Alan Brunton, ''Fq'', a sequence of 144 poems (posthumous)Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'', 1998, pp. 75–76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
*
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 ...
, ''Soundings'', Otago University Press
* Mike Minehan, ''O Jerusalem: James K. Baxter an Intimate Memoir''
* Kendrick Smithyman, posthumous:
** ''Last Poems'', Auckland: Holloway Press, designed by Tara hir poi a pek fhj nbb a: Auckland University Press
*
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 ...
, ''The Scientific Evidence of Dr Wang'', Victoria University Press
*
Kay McKenzie Cooke
Kay McKenzie Cooke (born 1953) is a poet from New Zealand.
Background
Cooke was born in 1953 in Tuatapere, Southland, New Zealand. She is of Kai Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, English, Scottish, and Irish descent. She attended the Dunedin Teachers' Co ...
, ''Feeding the Dogs'', Otago University Press)
Poets in ''Best New Zealand Poems''
Best New Zealand Poems series
''Ōrongohau , Best New Zealand Poems'' is an annual online anthology of poems chosen by guest editors. The anthology began in 2001 and is published by the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington in New ...
, an annual online anthology, is started this year with Iain Sharp as the first annual editor. Twenty-five poems by 25 New Zealand poets are selected from the previous year. The first selection is called ''Best New Zealand Poetry 2001''. Unlike ''The Best American Poetry'' series, the year named in each edition refers to the year the poems were originally published, not the following year, when the collection is put together and made public. Sharp chose poems published in 2001 from these poets:
* James K. Baxter
*
Jenny Bornholdt
Jennifer Mary Bornholdt (born 1 November 1960) is a New Zealand poet and anthologist.
Biography
Born in Lower Hutt, Bornholdt received a bachelor's degree in English Literature and a Diploma in Journalism. She studied poetry with Bill Manhire ...
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 ...
*
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell ONZM (25 June 1925 – 16 August 2009) was a poet, playwright, and novelist. Born in the Cook Islands, he was the son of a Cook Island Māori mother and a Pākehā father, who both died when he was young, leading to h ...
*
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 ...
*
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 ...
*
Chloe Gordon
Chloe (; ), also spelled Chloë, Chlöe, or Chloé, is a feminine name meaning "blooming" or "fertility" in Greek. The name ultimately derives, through Greek, from the Proto-Indo-European root ', which relates to the colors yellow and green. T ...
*
Bernadette Hall
Bernadette Hall (born 1945) is a New Zealand playwright and poet.
Biography
Hall was born in 1945 in Alexandra, New Zealand. She was raised in what she describes as "a small-city Catholic community that was proud, theatrical and pretty much e ...
*
Dinah Hawken
Dinah Hawken (born 1943) is a New Zealand poet, creative writing teacher, physiotherapist, counsellor and social worker.
Life and career
Hawken was born in Hāwera in 1943 and is a trained physiotherapist, psychotherapist and social worker. S ...
*
Anna Jackson
Anna Jackson (born 1967) is a New Zealand poet, fiction and non-fiction writer and an academic.
Biography
Jackson grew up in Auckland and now lives in Wellington. She has an MA from the University of Auckland and a DPhil from Oxford University ...
*
Jan Kemp (writer)
Janet Mary Riemenschneider-Kemp (born 12 March 1949) is a New Zealand poet, short story writer and public performer of her work. She lives in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany.
Early life
Kemp was born in Hamilton in 1949.
Education
Kemp grad ...
*
James Naughton
James Naughton (born December 6, 1945) is an American actor and director. He is best known as Michael Bower on '' Who's the Boss?'' (1984-1992) and was also notable for his earlier role as the astronaut Pete Burke in the 1974 single-season telev ...
*
Gregory O'Brien
Gregory Leo O’Brien (born 1961) is a New Zealand poet, painter and editor.
Life
Born in Matamata in 1961, O'Brien trained as a journalist in Auckland and worked as a newspaper reporter in Northland. He graduated from the University of Auckl ...
*
Peter Olds
Peter Olds (born 1944) is a New Zealand poet who was born in Christchurch and lives in Dunedin. He is regarded as being a significant contributor within New Zealand literary circles, in particular, having an influence with younger poets in the 1 ...
Richard Reeve
Richard Reeve or Reeves (fl. 1640–1680) was an instrument maker in London in the 17th century. He worked with Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke. His son was also Richard Reeve (fl. 1680).
Accuracy
Reeve's telescopes and microscopes had a wide ...
*
Elizabeth Smither
Elizabeth Edwina Smither (born 15 September 1941) is a New Zealand poet and writer.
Life and career
Smither was born in New Plymouth, and worked there part-time as a librarian.
Her first collection of poetry, ''Here Come the Clouds'', was publi ...
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 ...
Neil Astley
Neil Astley, Hon. FRSL (born 12 May 1953) is an English publisher, editor and writer. He is best known as the founder of the poetry publishing house Bloodaxe Books.
Life and work
Astley was born in Portchester, Hampshire, and grew up in nearby Fa ...
, editor, ''Staying Alive: real poems for unreal times'' (anthology)
*
Anthony Burgess
John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer.
Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire ''A Clockwork ...
, ''
Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems
''Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems'' is a posthumous collection of the short poetry written by Anthony Burgess. Compiled and edited by Kevin Jackson, who also provided a short introduction to the text, the book purports to collect most if no ...
'', edited by
Kevin Jackson
Kevin Andre Jackson (born November 25, 1964 in Highland Falls, New York) is an American retired freestyle and folkstyle wrestler, and mixed martial artist. Following his competitive career, Jackson would become a wrestling coach.
During his i ...
* Ciarán Carson: ''The Inferno of Dante Alighieri'' (translator), Granta, awarded the
Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize
Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize is an annual literary prize for any book-length translation into English from any other living European language. The first prize was awarded in 1999. The prize is funded by and named in honour of Lord Weidenfe ...
*
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 ...
, ''Feminine Gospels'' PicadorO’Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page, title "Carol Ann Duffy" t Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. 2009-05-08.
*
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 ...
, ''Collected Poems and Translations'', Carcanet
*
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 ...
: ''An Introduction to English Poetry'' Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
* Paul Henry (poet), Paul Henry, ''The Slipped Leash'', Seren
*
Ted Hughes
Edward James "Ted" Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest wri ...
, ''Selected Poems, 1957–1994'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"
*
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'' ...
, ''The Nerve'' (Houghton Mifflin); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" (British poet living in America, poetry editor of ''
The New Republic
''The New Republic'' is an American magazine of commentary on politics, contemporary culture, and the arts. Founded in 1914 by several leaders of the progressive movement, it attempted to find a balance between "a liberalism centered in hu ...
'' magazine)
* Sean O'Brien:
**''Cousin Coat: Selected Poems 1976–2001'' (Picador)
**With John Kinsella and Peter Porter, ''Rivers'' (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Australia)
*
Alice Oswald
Alice Priscilla Lyle Oswald (née Keen; born 31 August 1966) is a British poet from Reading, Berkshire. Her work won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002 and the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2017. In September 2017, she was named as BBC Radio 4's second Poe ...
:
** ''Dart'', Faber and Faber,
** Co-editor, with
Peter Oswald
Peter Charles Patrick Oswald (born 1965) is an English playwright specialising in verse drama, resident at Shakespeare's Globe from 1998 to 2009.
Early life
Oswald was born the second of four children (eldest of three sons) of farmer and sto ...
and Robert Woof), ''Earth Has Not Any Thing to Shew More Fair: A Bicentennial Celebration of Wordsworth's "Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge"''
Shakespeare's Globe
Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays, in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames. The original theatre was built in ...
& The Wordsworth Trust,
*
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 Return of the Cranes''
*
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 ...
, ''From the Virgil Caverns''
*
R.S. Thomas
Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000), published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest ( Church of Wales) noted for nationalism, spirituality and dislike of the anglicisation of Wales. John Betjeman, intr ...
, ''Residues'' (posthumous)
*
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 ...
, ''Collected Poems,'' Faber and Faber
United States
*
Meena Alexander
Meena Alexander (17 February 1951 – 21 November 2018) was an Indian American poet, scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander later lived and worked in New York City, where she was a Distinguished ...
, ''Illiterate Heart'', Evanston, Illinois: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, by an
Indian
Indian or Indians may refer to:
Peoples South Asia
* Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor
** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country
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writing living in and published in the
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Frank Bidart
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Bidart is a native of California and considered a career in acting or directing when he was young. In 1957, he began to s ...
, ''Music Like Dirt'' (Sarabande Books), the only poetry chapbook ever nominated for a Pulitzer Prize
*
Billy Collins
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, ''Nine Horses: Poems'' (Random House); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" ()
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Robert Creeley
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, guest editor, ''The Best American Poetry 2002''
* Jim Dodge – ''Rain on the River''
*
Alan Dugan
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, ''Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry'' (Seven Stories); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"
*
Michael S. Harper
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Among the infl ...
, ''Selected Poems'', ARC PublicationsWeb page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008
* Paul Hoover, ''Winter Mirror'', (Flood Editions)
*
Kenneth Koch
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:
**''Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952–1954'', New York: KnopfWeb page title "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925–2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008
**''A Possible World'', New York: Knopf
*
Abba Kovner
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, ''Sloan-Kettering: Poems'' (Schocken); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"
*
Brad Leithauser
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, ''Darlington's Fall: A Novel in Verse'' (Knopf); a 5,700-line verse novel in 10-line stanzas, irregularly rhymed; a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"
*
Glyn Maxwell
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, ''The Nerve'' (Houghton Mifflin); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" (British poet living in America, poetry editor of ''
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* J.D. McClatchy, ''Hazmat: Poems'' (Knopf); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"
*
Czesław Miłosz
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, ''New and Collected Poems: 1931–2001'' (Ecco/HarperCollins); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"
*
Paul Muldoon
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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and
Griffin Poetry Prize
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Lorine Niedecker
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, ''Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works'', edited by Jenny Penberthy (University of California Press), posthumous
*
Mary Oliver
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, ''What Do We Know''
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Molly Peacock
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Peacock's latest book is Flower Diary ...
, ''Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems''
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Carl Phillips
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Early life
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, ''Rock Harbor''
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Marie Ponsot
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, ''Springing: New and Selected Poems'' (Knopf); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"
*
Claudia Rankine
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Her book of poetry, '' Citizen: An American L ...
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Juliana Spahr
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Harryette Mullen
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Jorie Graham
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Aharon Shabtai
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, ''Artzenu'' (Hebrew: "Our Land")
*
Adam Zagajewski
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, ''Without End: New and Selected Poems'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"
David Lehman
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, editor;
Robert Creeley
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* Charles Bernstein (poet)
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*
Anselm Berrigan
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Frank Bidart
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Biography
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T. Alan Broughton
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Anne Carson
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Peter Cooley
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Clark Coolidge
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Diane di Prima
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Theodore Enslin
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Elaine Equi
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Clayton Eshleman
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Norman Finkelstein
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Peter Gizzi
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Louise Glück
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Albert Goldbarth
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Donald Hall
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Michael S. Harper
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Fanny Howe
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Maxine Kumin
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Timothy Liu
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Jackson Mac Low
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Nathaniel Mackey
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Sarah Manguso
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Harry Mathews
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Duncan McNaughton
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W. S. Merwin
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Philip Metres
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Maggie Nelson
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Alice Notley
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Sharon Olds
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Carl Phillips
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Early life
Phillips was born in Everett, Washington. He was born a child of a military family, moving year-by-year unt ...
Ron Silliman
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*Dale Smith (poet), Dale Smith
*Gustaf Sobin
*
Juliana Spahr
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*John Taggart
*Sam Truitt
*Jean Valentine
*Lewis Warsh
*Claire Nicolas White
*Nathan Whiting
*Dara Wier
*Charles Wright (poet), Charles Wright
*John Yau
Works published in other languages
China
* Han Dong (writer), Han Dong:
** ''Baba zai tianshang kan wo'' ("Daddy's Watching Me in Heaven"), Hebei: jiaoyu chubanshe,Simon Patten "Han Dong" , article, Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2009
** ("Running Criss-cross"), Dunhuang: wenyi chubanshe
* He Xiaozhu, ("6 Verbs, or Apples"), Hebei: jiaoyu chubanshe
* Jimu Langge, ("The silent revolver"), Hebei: jiaoyu chubanshe
French language
Canada, in French
* Denise Desautels, ''Pendant la mort'', Montréal: Québec Amérique
* Madeleine Gagnon, ''Le chant de la terre : Poèmes choisis 1978–2002, anthologie préparée par Paul Chanel Malenfant'', Montréal, Typo
* Pierre Nepveu, ''Lignes aériennes'', Montréal: Éditions du Noroît
* Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, ''Le cycle des migrations'', Montréal: Le Noroît
* Jean Royer, ''Poèmes de veille'', Montréal: Le Noroît
France
* Chris Wallace-Crabbe, ''La Poésie Australienne'', Valenciennes: Presses Universitaires, (with Simone Kadi), French literature, French translation of the work of this Australian literature, Australian poet
India
In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Hindi
* Gulzar, ''Raat Pashmine Ki'', New Delhi: Rupa& Co.; in both Urdu poetry, Urdu and HindiWeb page title "Gulzar" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 10, 2010
* Kunwar Narain, ''In Dino'', New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan,
* Rituraj, ''Leela Mukharvinda'', New Delhi: Medha Books
* Vinod Kumar Shukla, ''Atrikt Nahin'', New Delhi: Vani Prakashan
Other in India
* Bharat Majhi, ''Saralarekha'', Bhubaneswar: Paschima; Oriya poetry, Oriya-language
* Chandrakanta Murasingh, ''Ruphaini Buduk Ani Nogo'', Agartala: Tripura Publisher: Agartala; Kokborok poetry, Kokborok-language
* Gulzar, ''Raat Pashmine Ki'', New Delhi: Rupa& Co.; in both Urdu poetry, Urdu and Hindi poetry, Hindi
* Joy Goswami, ''Horiner Jonyo Ekok'', Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, ;
Bengali
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*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
* K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam poetry, Malayalam-language:
** ''Bharateeya Kavitayile Pratirodha Paramparyam'', ("The Tradition of Dissent of Indian Poetry"); scholarshipResume for K. Satchidanandan title "K. Satchidanandan/Bio data: Highlights" at the National Translation Mission website, retrieved July 11, 2010
** ''Vikku'', ("Stammer")
* K. Siva Reddy; Telugu poetry, Telugu-language:
** ''Antarjanam'', Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry CircleWeb page title "K. Siva Reddy" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010
** ''Vrittalekhini'', Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle
* Kutti Revathi, ''Mulaigal'' ("Breasts"). Chennai: Thamizhini; Tamil poetry, Tamil-language
* Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih; Kahsi poetry, Kahsi-language:
** ''Ka Samoi jong ka Lyer'' ("The Season of the Wind"), Shillong: AuthorWeb page title "Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
** ''Ki Mawsiang ka Sohra'' ("The Ancient Rocks of Cherra"), Shillong: Author
** ''Ki Jingkynmaw'' (Remembrances), Shillong: S. R. Lanong
* Nirendranath Chakravarti, ''Dekha Hobey'', Kolkata: Ananda Publishers;
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 ...
* Ewa Lipska, ''Uwaga: stopień'', Krakow: Wydawnictwo literackieWeb pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (i English an Polish ), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010
*
Czesław Miłosz
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, ''Druga przestrzen'' ("The Second Space"); Cracow: ZnakWeb pages titled "Miłosz Czesław" (bot English version [for translated titles] an Polish version [for diacritical marks]), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010
* Tadeusz Różewicz, ''Szara strefa'' ("Gray Zone"), Wrocław: Wydawnictwo DolnośląskieWeb pages titled "Tadeusz Rozewicz" (i English an Polish ), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved February 28, 2010
* Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, ''Zachód słońca w Milanówku'' ("Sunset in Milanówek"), Warsaw: Sic!Web page title "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek" , at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
Other languages
* Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Lutz Seiler, guest editor, ''Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2003'' ("Poetry Yearbook 2003"), publisher: Beck; anthology
* Klaus Høeck, ''Projekt Perseus'', publisher: Arena; Danish poetry, DenmarkWeb page title "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck" website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
* Rami Saari, ("So Much, So Much War"), Israel literature, Israel
* Maria Luisa Spaziani, ''Poesie dalla mano sinistra'', Italian poetry, Italy
* Wisława Szymborska: ''Chwila'' ("Moment"), Polish literature, Poland
* Søren Ulrik Thomsen, ''Det værste og det bedste'', illustrated by Ib Spang Olsen; Danish poetry, Denmark
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 ...
: Robert Gray, ''Afterimages''
* The Age Book of the Year, Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: ''After Images'' by Robert Gray
* Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Alan Wearne, ''The Lovemakers''
* Mary Gilmore Prize: Geraldine McKenzie, ''Duty''
Canada
* Gerald Lampert Award: Aislinn Hunter, ''Into the Early Hours''
* Archibald Lampman Award: Armand Garnet Ruffo, ''At Geronimo's Grave''
* Atlantic Poetry Prize: M. Travis Lane, ''Keeping Afloat''
* The office of
Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate
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Role
A ...
is instituted, George Bowering is the first appointee and will serve until 2004 in poetry, 2004
* 2002 Governor General's Awards: Roy Miki, ''Surrender'' (English); Robert Dickson (writer), Robert Dickson, ''Humains paysages en temps de paix relative'' (French)
*
Griffin Poetry Prize
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Before 2022, the awards went to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language. ...
: Canada:
Christian Bök
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Life and work
He was born "Christian Bo ...
, ''Eunoia (book), Eunoia''; International, in the English Language:
Alice Notley
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, ''Disobedience''
* Pat Lowther Award: Heather Spears, ''Required Reading: A Witness in Words and Drawings to the Reena Virk Trials 1998-2000''
* Prix Alain-Grandbois: Michel Beaulieu, ''Trivialités''
* Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Karen Solie, ''Short Haul Engine''
* Prix Émile-Nelligan: Benoît Jutras (writer), Benoît Jutras, ''Nous serons sans voix''
New Zealand
* Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
* Montana New Zealand Book Awards (no poetry category winner this year) First-book award for poetry: Chris Price, ''Husk'', Auckland University Press
United Kingdom
* Cholmondeley Award: Moniza Alvi, David Constantine, Liz Lochhead, Brian Patten
* Eric Gregory Award: Caroline Bird, Christopher James (poet), Christopher James, Jacob Polley, Luke Heeley, Judith Lal, David Leonard Briggs, Eleanor Rees, Kathryn Simmonds
* Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection): Peter Porter, ''Max is Missing'' (Picador); Best First Collection: Tom French (poet), Tom French, ''Touching the Bones'' (The Gallery Press)
* Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Peter Porter
* T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland):
Alice Oswald
Alice Priscilla Lyle Oswald (née Keen; born 31 August 1966) is a British poet from Reading, Berkshire. Her work won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002 and the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2017. In September 2017, she was named as BBC Radio 4's second Poe ...
, ''Dart''
* Whitbread Awards, Whitbread Award for poetry (United Kingdom):
United States
* Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Shao Wei (American poet), Shao Wei for ''Pulling a Dragon's Teeth''
* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Grace Schulman
* AML Awards for poetry to Kimberly Johnson for ''Leviathan with a Hook''
* Arthur Rense Prize for poetry awarded to B.H. Fairchild by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
* Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Timothy Donnelly, "His Long Imprison'd Thought"
* Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, Alice Fulton for ''Felt''
* Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Anna George Meek, ''Acts of Contortion''
* Frost Medal: Galway Kinnell
* National Book Awards#Poetry, National Book Award for poetry (United States): Ruth Stone, ''In the Next Galaxy''
* Poet Laureate of Virginia: George Garrett (poet), George Garrett, two year appointment 2002 to 2004https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/poets/virginia.html Virginia Law and Library of Congress List of Poets Laureate of Virginia
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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 ...
: Carl Dennis, ''Practical Gods''
* Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: Paul Fussell
* Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Lisel Mueller
* Wallace Stevens Award: Ruth Stone
* Whiting Awards: Elizabeth Arnold (poet), Elizabeth Arnold, David Gewanter, Joshua Weiner
* William Carlos Williams Award: Li-Young Lee, ''Book of My Nights'' (American Poets Continuum), Judge: Carolyn Kizer
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets:
Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds (born November 12, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Other
* Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature (2001 prize given this year): Gert Jonke
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* February 9 – Ale Ahmad Suroor, 90 (born 1911 in poetry, 1911),
Indian
Indian or Indians may refer to:
Peoples South Asia
* Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor
** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country
* South Asia ...
Urdu poetry, Urdu-language poet
* March 9 – Hamish Henderson, 81 (born 1919 in poetry, 1919), Scottish poetry, Scottish poet, folk song collector and soldier
* May 1 – Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh (إبراهيم العريّض) (born 1908 in poetry, 1908), Literature of Bahrain, Bahraini poet
* June 14 – June Jordan, 65 (born 1936 in poetry, 1936), Jamaican American poetry, American poet, of breast cancer
* June 27 – Alan Brunton, 55 (born 1946 in poetry, 1946), New Zealand literature, New Zealand poet and scriptwriter, died on visit to Amsterdam
* July 6 –
Kenneth Koch
Kenneth Koch ( ; 27 February 1925 – 6 July 2002) was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77. He was a prominent poet of the New York School of poetry. This was a loose group of poets includ ...
, 77 (born 1925 in poetry, 1925), American poetry, American poet, of leukemia
* July 14 – Nabakanta Barua, also known as Ekhud Kokaideu, 75 (born 1926 in poetry, 1926),
Indian
Indian or Indians may refer to:
Peoples South Asia
* Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor
** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country
* South Asia ...
Assamese poetry, Assamese-language novelist and poet
* August 25 – Dorothy Hewett 79 (born 1923 in poetry, 1923), Australian literature, Australian feminist writer
* September 27 – Charles Henri Ford, 89 (born 1908 in poetry, 1908), American poetry, American novelist, poet, filmmaker, photographer and collage artist
* October 21 – Harbhajan Singh (poet), Harbhajan Singh, 82 (born 1920 in poetry, 1920), Punjabi poet, critic, cultural commentator and translator
* October 28 – Annada Shankar Ray, 98 (born 1905 in poetry, 1905),
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 ...
poet
* December 9 – Stan Rice, 60 (born 1942 in poetry, 1942), American poetry, American painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice, of brain cancer
See also
*Poetry
*List of years in poetry
*List of poetry awards
Notes
"A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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2000s in poetry
2002 poems, *
2002, Poetry