History of Poetry Poetry as an oral art form likely qredates written text. The earliest poetry is believed to have been recited or sung, employed as a way of remembering oral history, genealogy, and law. Poetry is often closely related to musical traditions, an ...

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Foetry.com Foetry.com, sometimes referred to as just Foetry, was a website that attempted to identify fraudulent and unethical practices in poetry contests. It was active from April 1, 2004 until May 18, 2007. Organization Members and visitors contributed inf ...

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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 ...

Scottish Parliament The Scottish Parliament ( gd, Pàrlamaid na h-Alba ; sco, Scots Pairlament) is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Scotland. Located in the Holyrood area of the capital city, Edinburgh, it is frequently referred to by the metonym Holy ...

Jang Jin-sung Jang Jin-sung ( ko, 장진성; born c. 1970–1971) is the pseudonym of a North Korean poet and government official who defected to South Korea. He had worked as a psychological warfare officer within the United Front Department of the Korean Wo ...

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Sappho Sappho (; el, Σαπφώ ''Sapphō'' ; Aeolic Greek ''Psápphō''; c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied ...

Tithonus poem The Tithonus poem, also known as the old age poem or (with fragments of another poem by Sappho discovered at the same time) the New Sappho, is a poem by the archaic Greek poet Sappho. It is part of fragment 58 in Eva-Maria Voigt's edition of Sa ...

Samizdat Samizdat (russian: самиздат, lit=self-publishing, links=no) was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the document ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

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1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is ...

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 ...

Alison Croggon Alison Croggon (born 1962) is a contemporary Australian poet, playwright, fantasy novelist, and librettist. Life and career Born in the Transvaal, South Africa, Alison Croggon's family moved to England before settling in Australia, first in Bal ...

M. T. C. Cronin M. T. C. Cronin (born 1963) is a contemporary Australian poet. MTC Cronin has published more than twenty books (poetry, prose poems and essays) including several collections jointly written with the Australian poet and translator, Peter Boyle ...

Luke Davies Luke Davies (born 1962) is an Australian writer of poetry, novels and screenplays. His best known works are '' Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction'' (which was adapted for the screen in 2006) and the screenplay for the film ''Lion'', which ea ...

Les Wicks Les Wicks (born 15 June 1955) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting. This includes the publication of fifteen books of poetry. Early life and education Wicks gre ...

Roo Borson Ruth Elizabeth Borson, who writes under the name Roo Borson (born January 20, 1952 in Berkeley, California) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto. After undergraduate studies at UC Santa Barbara and Goddard College, she received an MFA from th ...

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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. ...

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Pat Lowther Award The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.American-

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Jon Paul Fiorentino Jon Paul Fiorentino is a Canadian poet, novelist, short story writer, editor, and professor. Fiorentino was born and raised in the Transcona area of Winnipeg, Manitoba. In his book of poems, ''Resume Drowning'', he wrote that because he has res ...

, ''Hello Serotonin'' (Coach House Books) *

Susan Holbrook Susan Holbrook is a Canadian poet, whose collection ''Throaty Wipes'' was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2016 Governor General's Awards.Dennis Lee, ''So cool.'' Dennis Lee ; illustrations by Maryann Kovalski. Toronto : Key Porter. * Don McKay, ''Camber'', shortlisted for the 2005 Canadian

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Michael Ondaatje Philip Michael Ondaatje (; born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple literary awards such as the Governor General's Award, the Giller ...

, ''Vintage Ondaatje'', Vintage, Web page title
"Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943– )"
at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008 *

Ian Samuels Ian Samuels is an American filmmaker. He directed the film '' The Map of Tiny Perfect Things'' (2021). Filmography *''Sierra Burgess Is a Loser ''Sierra Burgess Is a Loser'' is an American teen comedy-drama film directed by Ian Samuels from a ...

, ''The Ubiquitous Big'' (Coach House Books) *

Mark Truscott Mark Truscott (born 1970) is a Toronto poet. He was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. He attended several public schools and Nelson High School in Burlington, Ontario and went on for a B.A. and M.A. in English at McMaster University ...

, ''Said Like Reeds or Things'' (Coach House Books) * Julia Williams, ''The Sink House'' (Coach House Books)

India, in English

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Web page title
"Meena Alexander"
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Ajeet Cour Ajeet Cour (born 1934) is an Indian writer who writes in Punjabi. She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award by the Government of India. Biography Ajeet Cour was born in the family of S ...

and Nirupama Dutt, editors, ''Our Voices: An Anthology of SAARC Poetry'', in various languages, with some translations into English; New Delhi: Foundation of SAARC Writers and LiteratureWeb page title
"Nirupama Dutt"
at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010 * Rukmini Bhaya Nair, ''Yellow Hibiscus: New and Selected Poems'' (Poetry in English), New Delhi: Penguin * Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih and Robin Ngangom, editors, ''Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from the Northeast'', Shillong: Nehu Publishing *

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,'' ( ...

, ''English'' (Poetry in English), Penguin, Delhi and Rattapallax Press, New York, 2004. ;

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Indian poetry in English Indian English poetry is the oldest form of Indian English literature. Indian poets writing in English have succeeded to nativize or indianize English in order to reveal typical Indian situations. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first ...

* Mamang Dai, ''River Poems'' (Poetry in English), Kolkata: Writers Workshop

Ireland

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Sebastian Barry Sebastian Barry (born 5 July 1955) is an Irish novelist, playwright and poet. He was named Laureate for Irish Fiction, 2019–2021. He is noted for his lyrical literary writing style and is considered one of Ireland's finest writers. Barry's l ...

, ''The Pinkening Boy: New Poems'' New Island New Poetry, *

Dermot Bolger Dermot Bolger (born 1959) is an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and editor from Dublin, Ireland. Born in the Finglas suburb of Dublin in 1959, his older sister is the writer June Considine. Bolger's novels include ''Night Shift'' (1982), '' ...

, ''The Chosen Moment'' *

Ciarán Carson Ciaran Gerard Carson (9 October 1948 – 6 October 2019) was a Northern Ireland-born poet and novelist. Biography Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast into an Irish-speaking family. His father, William, was a postman and his mother, Mary, wo ...

: ''The Midnight Court'', (translation of

Brian Merriman Brian Merriman or in Irish Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre (c. 1747 – 27 July 1805) was an Irish language bard, farmer, and hedge school teacher from rural County Clare. His single surviving work of substance, the 1000-line long Dream vision poem ...

's Cúirt an Mhéan Oíche Gallery Press, 2005; Wake Forest University Press * Peter Fallon, translator, ''The Georgics of

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'', Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, * Vona Groarke, ''Flight and Earlier Poems'', Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem Irish poet published in the U.S. *

Michael D. Higgins Michael Daniel Higgins ( ga, Mícheál Dónal Ó hUigínn; born 18 April 1941) is an Irish politician, poet, sociologist, and broadcaster, who has served as the ninth president of Ireland since November 2011. Entering national politics throug ...

, ''An Arid Season'' * William Wall, ''Fahrenheit Says Nothing To Me'', Dedalus Press, Dublin

New Zealand

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Diane Brown Diane Edith Brown (born 1951) is a novelist and poet from New Zealand. Background Brown was born in 1951. She is based in Dunedin. Career Brown has published several novels and poetry collections including: * ''Before The Divorce We Go T ...

, ''Learning to Lie Together'', Godwit * Paula Green, ''Crosswind'', Auckland University Press *

Mark Pirie Mark Pirie (born 30 April 1974) is a New Zealand poet, writer, literary critic, anthologist, publisher, and editor. He is best known for his Generation X New Zealand anthology ''The NeXt Wave'', which included an 8,000-word introduction (1998), t ...

, Ron Riddell and

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Kendrick Smithyman William Kendrick Smithyman (9 October 1922 – 28 December 1995) was a New Zealand poet and one of the most prolific of that nation's poets in the 20th century. Family and early life Smithyman was born in Te Kōpuru, a milling and logging t ...

, ''Campana to Montale'', Writers Group * Tusiata Avia, ''Wild Dogs Under My Skirt'', Victoria University Press

Poets in ''Best New Zealand Poems''

Poems from these 25 poets were selected by

Robin Dudding Robin Nelson Dudding (7 December 1935 – 21 April 2008) was a New Zealand literary editor and journalist who founded the influential literary journal '' Islands'' (1972–1988). He was also editor of the literary journals ''Landfall'' (1966� ...

for '' Best New Zealand Poems 2003'', published online this year: * David Beach *

Peter Bland Peter Bland (born 12 May 1934 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire) is a British-New Zealand poet and actor. Life He emigrated to New Zealand at the age of 20 and graduated from the Victoria University of Wellington. He worked as a radio producer ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Gordon Challis Cecil Gordon Challis (3 July 1932 – 2 March 2018Geoff Cochrane Geoffrey O'Neill Cochrane (1951 – November 2022) was a New Zealand poet, novelist and short story writer. He published 19 collections of poetry, a novel and a collection of short fiction. Many of his works were set in or around his hometown o ...

* Fiona Farrell * Cliff Fell *

Sia Figiel Sia Figiel (born 1967 Apia, Samoa) is an American contemporary Samoan novelist, poet, and painter. Early life Sia Figiel grew up amidst traditional Samoan singing and poetry, which heavily influenced her writing. Figiel's greatest influence a ...

* Rhian Gallagher *

Robin Hyde Robin Hyde, the pseudonym used by Iris Guiver Wilkinson (19 January 1906 – 23 August 1939), was a South African-born New Zealand poet, journalist and novelist. Early life Wilkinson was born in Cape Town to an English father and an Australia ...

* Kevin Ireland * Anna Jackson * Anne Kennedy *

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* Karlo Mila *

James Norcliffe James Norcliffe is a novelist, short story writer, poet, editor, teacher and educator. His work has been widely published and he has been the recipient of a number of writing residencies. Several of his books have been shortlisted for or won award ...

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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 Auc ...

* Bob Orr * Chris Price *

Sarah Quigley Sarah Quigley is a New Zealand-born writer. Background Sarah Quigley was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on the 1 October 1967. She has an MA Hons from the University of Canterbury and a DPhil in English Literature from the University of ...

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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 ...

* Brian Turner * Richard von Sturmer

United Kingdom

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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 ...

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"Carol Ann Duffy"
t Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. 2009-05-08. * Paul Henry, ''The Breath of Sleeping Boys & other poems'', Carreg Gwalch *

Muriel Spark Dame Muriel Sarah Spark (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006). was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. Life Muriel Camberg was born in the Bruntsfield area of Edinburgh, the daughter of Bernard Camberg, an ...

, ''All the Poems''

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

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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 ...

: ** ''Out of Fashion: An Anthology of Poems'', editor (contemporary poets select their favourite poem, from another time or culture, in connection with clothing), Faber and Faber ** ''Overheard on a Saltmarsh: Poets' Favourite Poems'' (editor) (30 contemporary poets selected their favourite children's poem to appear alongside one of their own poems; including contemporary poems by

Sophie Hannah Sophie Hannah (born 1971) is a British poet and novelist. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 a junior research fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She lives with ...

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Jackie Kay Jacqueline Margaret Kay, (born 9 November 1961), is a Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works ''Other Lovers'' (1993), ''Trumpet'' (1998) and ''Red Dust Road'' (2011). Kay has won many awards, including the Guardian Fictio ...

, Valerie Bloom, and

Wendy Cope Wendy Cope (born 21 July 1945) is a contemporary English poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She now lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire, with her husband, the poet Lachlan Mackinnon. Biography Cope was born in Erith in Kent (now ...

, as well as classic poets such as

Robert Burns Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who ha ...

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

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Edward Lear Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. His principal a ...

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Don Paterson Donald Paterson (born 1963) is a Scottish poet, writer and musician. Background Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1990 and his poem "A Private Bottling" won the Arvon Foundation Internatio ...

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Charles Simic Dušan Simić ( sr-cyr, Душан Симић, ; born May 9, 1938), known as Charles Simic, is a Serbian American poet and former co-poetry editor of the '' Paris Review''. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for ''The World Does ...

, editors, ''

New British Poetry New is an adjective referring to something recently made, discovered, or created. New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz (South Korean band), The Boyz Albums and EPs * New (album), ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartn ...

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Kim Addonizio Kim Addonizio (July 31, 1954) is an American poet and novelist. Life Addonizio was born in Washington, D.C., United States. She is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie (born Addonizio). She briefly attende ...

, ''What is this Thing Called Love'' (Norton) * Meena Alexander, ''Raw Silk'', Evanston, Illinois: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, by an Indian writing living in and published in the

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* John Ash, ''To the City'' (Talisman), *

Wendell Berry Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of ...

, ''Given: Poems'' (Shoemaker & Hoard) * Sophie Cabot Black, ''The Descent: poetry'' (

Graywolf Press Graywolf Press is an independent, non-profit publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Graywolf Press collaborates with organizations such as the College of Saint Benedict, the Mellon ...

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Charles Bukowski Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted ...

, ''Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems'' (Ecco) *

Tina Chang Tina Chang is an American poet, professor, editor, organizer, and public speaker. In 2010, she was named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn. Early life Chang was born in 1969 in Oklahoma to Taiwanese immigrants, who had met in Montreal, where her mother ...

, ''Half-Lit Houses'', Four Way Books *

Billy Corgan William Patrick Corgan Jr. (born March 17, 1967) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and professional wrestling promoter. He is best known as the lead singer, primary songwriter, guitarist, and only permanent member of the rock band th ...

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Blinking with Fists ''Blinking with Fists'' is the debut book of poetry by The Smashing Pumpkins and former Zwan frontman, Billy Corgan. The progress and writing of the poems was covered in Corgan's blogs. The Volume of 57 poems was published by Faber and Faber in 20 ...

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Rita Dove Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the positi ...

, ''American Smooth: Poems'' (Norton); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" *

Claudia Emerson Claudia Emerson (January 13, 1957 – December 4, 2014) was an American poet. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection ''Late Wife'', and was named the Poet Laureate of Virginia by Governor Tim Kaine in 2008. Early life Emer ...

, ''Late Wife'' (Louisiana State University Press) *

Alice Fulton Alice Fulton (born 1952) is an American author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Fulton is the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English Emerita at Cornell University. Her awards include the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, ...

, ''Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems'' (Norton) * Sarah Gambito, ''Matadora'' (Alice James Book), * Jack Gilbert, ''Refusing Heaven'' (Alfred A. Knopf) * Vona Groarke, ''Flight and Earlier Poems'', Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem Irish poet published in the U.S. * Beth Gylys, ''Spot in the Dark'' (Ohio State University Press), winner of The OSU Press/''The Journal'' Award in Poetry *

Lee Harwood Lee Harwood (6 June 1939 – 26 July 2015) was a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival. Life Travers Rafe Lee Harwood was born in Leicester to maths teacher Wilfred Travers Lee-Harwood and Grace Ladkin Harwood, who were then living ...

, ''Collected Poems'' *

Allison Hedge Coke Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is an American poet and editor. Her debut book, ''Dog Road Woman'', won the American Book Award and was the first finalist of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Diane DeCora Award. Since then, she has written five more book ...

– '' Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer'' (memoir of poet's life) *

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 ...

, ''On the Ground'' *

Donald Justice Donald Rodney Justice (August 12, 1925 – August 6, 2004) was an American teacher of writing and poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980. In summing up Justice's career, David Orr wrote, "In most ways, Justice was no different from an ...

, ''Collected Poems'' (Knopf); published posthumously; a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" * Jane Kenyon, ''Jane Kenyon: Collected Poems'' (Graywolf Press), posthumous *

Ted Kooser Theodore J. Kooser (born 25 April 1939) is an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2005. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006. Kooser was one of the first poets laureate selec ...

, ''Flying At Night: Poems 1965–1985'' (University of Pittsburgh Press) * W. S. Merwin: ** ''Migration: New and Selected Poems'' (Copper Canyon Press) ** ''Present Company'' *

Mirabai Meera, better known as Mirabai and venerated as Sant Meerabai, was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna. She is a celebrated Bhakti saint, particularly in the North Indian Hindu tradition. Mirabai was born into a Ratho ...

, ''Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems'' translated into English by

Robert Bly Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is '' Iron John: A Book About Men'' (1990), which spent 62 weeks on ...

and

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 ...

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Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale (; 12 October 1896 – 12 September 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. Life and works Early years Montale was born in Genoa. His family were ch ...

, ''Selected Poems'', translated by Jonathan Galassi, Charles Wright, and David Young from the original

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Mary Oliver Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her work is inspired by nature, rather than the human world, stemming from her lifelong passion for solitar ...

: ** ''New and Selected Poems, volume two'' ** ''Why I Wake Early: New Poems'' ** ''Blue Iris: Poems and Essays'' ** ''Long Life: Essays and Other Writings'' *

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 Rest of Love'', New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux *

Kay Ryan Kay Ryan (born September 21, 1945) is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. From 2008 to 2010 she was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate. In 2011 she was name ...

, ''The Niagara River'' (Grove Press) *

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, ''New And Selected Poems'' *

Mark Strand Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014) was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004 ...

, ''Keeping Things Whole'', by a

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native long living in and published in the United States *

Tony Tost Tony Tost (born 1975) is an American film director, poet, critic and screenwriter. His first poetry book ''Invisible Bride'' won the 2003 Walt Whitman Award judged by C.D. Wright. He is the creator, executive producer, and showrunner of ''Damnati ...

, ''Invisible Bride'' (LSU) (selected by

C.D. Wright Carolyn D. Wright (January 6, 1949 – January 12, 2016) was an American poet. She was a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island. Background C. D. Wright was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas, to a chancery ju ...

for the 2003 Walt Whitman Award) *

Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem '' Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott ...

, ''The Prodigal'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" *

Rosmarie Waldrop Rosmarie Waldrop (born Rosmarie Sebald; August 24, 1935) is an American poet, novelist, translator, essayist and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958 and has settled in Providence, Rhode Island since the late ...

, ''Blindsight'' ( New Directions) *

Franz Wright Franz Wright (March 18, 1953 – May 14, 2015) was an American poet. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category. Life and career Wright was born in Vienna, Austria. He gradua ...

, ''Walking to Martha's Vineyard'' (Knopf) (Pulitzer Prize in Poetry) * Jesse Lee Kercheval, ''Dog Angel''

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

*

Anne Waldman Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet. Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political acti ...

and Lisa Birman, editors, ''Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action'', essays (Coffee House Press)

Anthologies in the United States

* Mary Ann Caws, editor, ''Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry'', (Yale University Press), Apollinaire and more than 100 other poets, bi-lingual

=Poets in ''The Best American Poetry 2004''

= The 75 poets included in ''

The Best American Poetry 2004 ''The Best American Poetry 2004'', a volume in ''The Best American Poetry series'', was edited by general editor David Lehman. The guest editor for the year was Lyn Hejinian. Hejinian, a "partisan of the Language School and the New York poets", ac ...

'', 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

Lyn Hejinian Lyn Hejinian (born May 17, 1941) is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. She is often associated with the Language poets and is known for her landmark work ''My Life'' (Sun & Moon, 1987, original version Burning Deck, 1980), as ...

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Kim Addonizio Kim Addonizio (July 31, 1954) is an American poet and novelist. Life Addonizio was born in Washington, D.C., United States. She is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie (born Addonizio). She briefly attende ...

* Will Alexander *

Bruce Andrews Bruce Andrews (April 1, 1948) is an American poet who is one of the key figures associated with the Language poets (or '' L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E'' ''poets'', after the magazine that bears that name). Life and work Andrews was born in Chicago and studied ...

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Rae Armantrout Rae Armantrout (born April 13, 1947) is an American poet generally associated with the Language poets. She has published ten books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies. Armantrout currently teaches at the Univer ...

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Craig Arnold Craig Arnold (November 16, 1967 – April 27, 2009) was an American poet and professor. His first book of poems, ''Shells'' (1999), was selected by W. S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His many honors include the 2005 Joseph ...

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John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...

*

Mary Jo Bang Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religious contexts * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also call ...

*

Alan Bernheimer Alan Bernheimer (born 1948 in New York City) is an American poet, often associated with the San Francisco Language poets. Biography He attended Horace Mann School, and graduated in 1970 from Yale College, where he became friends with poets Stev ...

* Charles Bernstein *

Anselm Berrigan Anselm Berrigan (born 1972) is an American poet and teacher. Life and work Anselm Berrigan grew up in New York City, where he currently resides with his wife, poet Karen Weiser. From 2003 to 2007, he served as artistic director at the St. Mark ...

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Mark Bibbins Mark Bibbins (born 1968 in Albany, New York) is an American poet and received an MFA from The New School. He received a Lambda Literary Award for his collection of poems ''Sky Lounge'' (Graywolf Press, 2003), and was awarded a 2005 Poetry Fello ...

*

Oni Buchanan Oni Buchanan (born 1975) is an American poet, and pianist. Her most recent poetry collection is ''Spring'' (University of Illinois Press, 2008), a 2007 National Poetry Series winner. Her discography includes three solo piano CDs on the independ ...

* Michael Burkard *

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 ...

* T.J. Clark *

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 ...

*

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

* Michael Costello * Michael Davidson *

Olena Kalytiak Davis Olena Kalytiak Davis (born September 16, 1963) is a Ukrainian-American poet. Davis is the author of five poetry collections, her most recent being ''Late Summer Ode''. Her collection ''The Poem She Didn't Write And Other Poems'' (2014, Copper Ca ...

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Jean Day Jean Day (born 1954) is an American poet. Life and work Born in Syracuse, New York, and raised in Middletown, Rhode Island, Day graduated from Antioch College in 1977. Since then she has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and worked in liter ...

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Rita Dove Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the positi ...

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Rachel Blau DuPlessis Rachel Blau DuPlessis (born December 14, 1941) is an American poet and essayist, known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist and contemporary poetry. Her work has been widely anthologized. Early life DuPlessis w ...

* kari edwards *

Kenward Elmslie Kenward Gray Elmslie (April 27, 1929 – June 29, 2022) was an American author, performer, editor and publisher associated with the New York School (art), New York School of poetry. Life and career Kenward Gray Elmslie was born to William and C ...

* Aaron Fogel * Ariel Greenberg *

Ted Greenwald TED may refer to: Economics and finance * TED spread between U.S. Treasuries and Eurodollar Education * ''Türk Eğitim Derneği'', the Turkish Education Association ** TED Ankara College Foundation Schools, Turkey ** Transvaal Education Depar ...

*

Barbara Guest Barbara Guest, ''née'' Barbara Ann Pinson (September 6, 1920 – February 15, 2006), was an American poet and prose stylist. Guest first gained recognition as a member of the first generation New York School of poetry. Guest wrote more than ...

* Carla Harryman *

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 ...

*

John Hollander John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic. At the time of his death, he was Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, having previously taught at Connecticut College, Hunter ...

*

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 ...

* Kenneth Irby *

Major Jackson Major Jackson (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and professor at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of five collections of poetry: The Absurd Man ( W.W. Norton, 2020), Roll Deep ( W.W. Norton, 2015), Holding Compa ...

* Marc Jaffee *

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 ...

*

John Koethe John Koethe (born December 25, 1945) is an American poet, essayist and professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Biography Koethe is originally from San Diego, California. He was educated at Princeton University and ...

*

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 ...

* Sean Manzano Labrador *

Ann Lauterbach Ann Lauterbach (born 1942) is an American poet, essayist, art critic, and professor. Selected bibliography Full-length poetry collections * ''Spell'' (Penguin Books, 2018) * ''Under the Sign'' (Penguin Books, 2013) * ''Or to Begin Again'' (Peng ...

*

Nathaniel Mackey Nathaniel Mackey is an American poet, novelist, anthologist, literary critic and editor. He is the Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing at Duke University and a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. Mackey is currently teaching a ...

* Harry Mathews * Steve McCaffery *

K. Silem Mohammad Kasey Silem Mohammad is an American poet and professor at Southern Oregon University. He is one of the Flarf poets. Life Mohammad was born in Modesto, California, in 1962. He graduated with a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz in ...

* Erín Moure *

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 ...

*

Eileen Myles Eileen Myles (born December 9, 1949) is a LAMBDA Literary Award-winning American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades. No ...

*

Alice Notley Alice Notley (born November 8, 1945) is an American poet. Notley came to prominence as a member of the second generation of the New York School of poetry—although she has always denied being involved with the New York School or any specific m ...

*

Jeni Olin Jeni may refer to * Jeni Barnett * Jeni Bojilova-Pateva * Jeni Couzyn * Jeni Klugman * Jeni Le Gon * Jeni Mawter * Jeni Mundy * Jeni Tennison See also * Jennifer (given name) Jennifer or Jenifer may refer to: People * Jennifer (given name) ...

* Danielle Pafunda * Heidi Peppermint *

Bob Perelman Bob Perelman (born December 2, 1947) is an American poet, literary critic, critic, editor, and teacher. He was an early exponent of the Language poets, an avant-garde movement, originating in the 1970s. He has helped shape a "formally adventuro ...

*

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 ...

*

Robert Pinsky Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most o ...

*

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

* Ed Roberson * Kit Robinson * Carly Sachs * Jennifer Scappettone *

Frederick Seidel Frederick Seidel (born February 19, 1936) is an American poet. Biography Seidel was born to a family of Russian Jewish descent in St. Louis, Missouri in 1936. His family owned Seidel Coal and Coke, which supplied coal to the brewing industry in S ...

* David Shapiro *

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 w ...

*

Bruce Smith Bruce Bernard Smith (born June 18, 1963) is an American former football defensive end who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 19 seasons, primarily with the Buffalo Bills. He played college football at Virginia Tech, where he wa ...

*

Brian Kim Stefans Brian Kim Stefans (born 1969) is an American poet. Biography He was born in Rutherford, New Jersey and, earned a bachelor's degree from Bard College and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree from Brown University after studies at the Graduat ...

*

Gerald Stern Gerald Daniel Stern (February 22, 1925 – October 27, 2022) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. The author of twenty collections of poetry and four books of essays, he taught literature and creative writing at Temple University, Indi ...

* Virgil Suarez *

Arthur Sze Arthur Sze (; ; born December 1, 1950) is an American poet, translator, and professor. Since 1972, he has published ten collections of poetry. Sze's ninth collection ''Compass Rose'' (2014) was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Sz ...

* James Tate * Edwin Torres * Rodrigo Toscano * Paul Violi *

David Wagoner David Russell Wagoner (June 5, 1926 – December 18, 2021) was an American poet, novelist, and educator. Biography David Russell Wagoner was born on June 5, 1926, in Massillon, Ohio. Raised in Whiting, Indiana, from the age of seven, Wagoner a ...

* Charles Wright

Elsewhere

* Stratis Haviaras translator into English from the original

Modern Greek Modern Greek (, , or , ''Kiní Neoellinikí Glóssa''), generally referred to by speakers simply as Greek (, ), refers collectively to the dialects of the Greek language spoken in the modern era, including the official standardized form of the ...

, '' C.P. Cavafy, The Canon'', (Athens: Hermes Publishing; reprinted by

Harvard University Press Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the reti ...

in 2007), published in Greece

Works published in other languages

French language

France

* Seyhmus Dagtekin, ''La langue mordue'', Publisher: Le Castor Astral; Turkish poet writing in and published in French *

Linda Maria Baros Linda Maria Baros (born 6 August 1981 in Bucharest) is a French-language poet, translator and literary critic, one of the most powerful new voices on today's poetry scene (the famous French literary award ''Prix Guillaume Apollinaire'' – 2007 ...

, ''Le Livre de signes et d’ombres'', Publisher: Éditions Cheyne *

Jean Max Tixier Jean Max Tixier (1935 in Marseille – 30 September 2009) was a French poet. Life Jean Max Tixier studied at the collège Victor-Hugo, before attending the lycée Thiers of Marseille. He taught at the Lycée Agricole de Hyères.Alongside his te ...

: ** Editor, ''La Poésie française contemporaine'', anthology, publisher: Cogito ** Editor, ''Joyaux au sud / Juvaere din sud, traduit du roumain'', anthology, publisher: Cogito ** ''Le temps des mots'', publisher: Pluie d'étoiles éditions

Canada, in French

* Denise Desautels, editor, ''Mémoires parallèles, choix et présentation de

Paul Chamberland Paul Chamberland (born 1939 in Longueuil, Quebec) is a poet and Quebec essayist. He is also considered as a humanist. He studied philosophy and literature. He participated in ''La Nuit de La poésie'' in the 27th of March 1970, with Gaston Miron, ...

'', Montréal, Le Noroît (anthology)

India

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

Malayalam

* K. Satchidanandan, ''Sakshyangal'', ("Witness") * P. P. Ramachandran, ''Randay Murichathu'', Thrissur: Current Books * Raghavan Atholi, ''Maunasilakalude Pranayakkurippukal'', Calicut: Avvaiyar Books

Other in India

*

Ajeet Cour Ajeet Cour (born 1934) is an Indian writer who writes in Punjabi. She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award by the Government of India. Biography Ajeet Cour was born in the family of S ...

and Nirupama Dutt, editors, ''Our Voices: An Anthology of SAARC Poetry'', in various languages, with some translations into English; New Delhi: Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature * Jiban Narah, ''Suna mor Phul Koli'', Guwahati, Assam: Banlata; Indian,

Assamese Assamese may refer to: * Assamese people, a socio-ethnolinguistic identity of north-eastern India * People of Assam, multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multi-religious people of Assam * Assamese language, one of the easternmost Indo-Aryan language ...

-language *

Malathi Maithri Malathi Maithri (born 1968) is an Indian writer, activist and feminist, who is recognised as a distinguished poet in contemporary Tamil literature. Maithri has been the recipient of the Tirupur Tamizh Sangam Award and the State Award for Poetry b ...

, ''Viduthalaiyai Ezhuthuthal'' ("Writing Liberation"), 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, nati ...

-language * ''Natyanubhava'', Bikaner: Vagdevi Prakashan, , anthology;

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of North India, northern, Central India, centr ...

-language * Nirendranath Chakravarti, ''Mayabi Bondhon'', 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 ...

-language * Sachin Ketkar, ''Bhintishivaicya Khidkitun Dokavtana'', Mumbai: Abhidhanantar 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 * Tarannum Riyaz, editor, ''Biswin Sadi Mein Khwateen ka Urdu Adab'' ("Anthology of Twentieth Century Women's Writing in Urdu"), poetry, fiction and nonfiction anthology; New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, ;

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''

-language *

Srijato Srijato Bandopadhyay is an Indian poet of the Bengali language. He won the Ananda Puroskar in 2004 for his book ''Udanta Sawb Joker: All Those Flying Jokers''. In 2014, he won the Filmfare Awards East for Best Lyricist for the song 'Balir Shoh ...

, ''Udanta Sawb Joker'' ("All Those Flying Jokers"),

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 ...

-language * Veerankutty, ''Manthrikan'' ("Wizard"), Kottayam: DC Books;

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

-language

Poland

* Julia Hartwig, ''Bez pozegnania'' ("No Farewells"), 96 pages; Warsaw: Sic! * Ryszard Krynicki, ''Kamień, szron'' ("Stone, Rime"); Kraków: Wydawnictwo a5Web pages titled "Krynicki Ryszard" (bot
English version
an
Polish version
), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010 *

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 ...

, ''Gdzie indziej'', ("Somewhere else"); 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 ...

, ''Wyjście'' ("Exit"), 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: ** ''Dwanaście stacji'' ("Twelve Stations"), a book-length poem, awarded the 2004 Kościelski Prize; Kraków: ZnakWeb page title
"Tomasz Różycki"
at Culture.pl website, retrieved March 1, 2010 ** ''Wiersze'', containing all the poems from Różycki's first four poetry books, Warsaw: Lampa i Iskra Boża

Other languages

*

Christoph Buchwald Christoph is a male given name and surname. It is a German variant of Christopher. Notable people with the given name Christoph * Christoph Bach (1613–1661), German musician * Christoph Büchel (born 1966), Swiss artist * Christoph Dientzenho ...

, general editor, and Michael Lentz, guest editor, ''Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2005'' ("Poetry Yearbook 2005"), publisher: Beck; anthology;

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...

* Klaus Høeck, ''Hsieh'', 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 , establishe ...

Web page title
"Bibliography of Klaus Høeck"
website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010 *

Rahman Henry Rahman (Arabic: or ) may refer to: *Rahman, one of the names of God in Islam *Ar-Rahman, the 55th sura of the Qur'an People * Rahman (name), an Arabic male personal name **Short form of Abd al-Rahman * Rahman (actor) (born 1967), Indian actor *R ...

, ''Aundhokarbela'', publisher: BALAKA,

Chittagong Chittagong ( /ˈtʃɪt əˌɡɒŋ/ ''chit-uh-gong''; ctg, চিটাং; bn, চিটাগং), officially Chattogram ( bn, চট্টগ্রাম), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh after Dhaka and third largest city in B ...

.

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million pe ...

*

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

, ''

The Great Enigma ''The Great Enigma'' ( sv, Den stora gåtan) is a 2004 collection of poetry by the Swedish writer Tomas Tranströmer. It consists of five poems in free format, followed by 45 haiku in eleven suites. It is one of the two collections Tranströmer wr ...

'' (''Den stora gåtan''), publisher: Albert Bonniers förlag; Sweden

Awards and honors

Australia

*

ALS Gold Medal The Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (ALS Gold Medal) is awarded annually by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature for "an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year." From 1928 to 1974 it was awarded by th ...

:

Laurie Duggan Laurence James Duggan (born 1949), known as Laurie Duggan, is an Australian poet, editor, and translator. Life Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne and attended Monash University, where his friends included the poets Alan Wearne and John A. Sc ...

, ''Mangroves'',

University of Queensland Press Established in 1948, University of Queensland Press (UQP) is an Australian publishing house. Founded as a traditional university press, UQP has since branched into publishing books for general readers in the areas of fiction, non-fiction, poetr ...

* C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry:

Judith Beveridge Judith Beveridge (born 1956) is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic. She is a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award. Biography Judith Beveridge was born in London, England, arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. S ...

, ''Wolf Notes'' * Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: ''Totem'' by

Luke Davies Luke Davies (born 1962) is an Australian writer of poetry, novels and screenplays. His best known works are '' Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction'' (which was adapted for the screen in 2006) and the screenplay for the film ''Lion'', which ea ...

*

Grace Leven Prize for Poetry The Grace Leven Prize for Poetry was an annual poetry award in Australia, given in the name of Grace Leven who died in 1922. It was established by William Baylebridge who "made a provision for an annual poetry prize in memory of 'my benefactress ...

:

Luke Davies Luke Davies (born 1962) is an Australian writer of poetry, novels and screenplays. His best known works are '' Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction'' (which was adapted for the screen in 2006) and the screenplay for the film ''Lion'', which ea ...

, ''Totem'', Allen & Unwin *

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form.Pam Brown Pamela Jane Barclay Brown (born 1948) is an Australian poet. Career Pam Brown was born in Seymour, Victoria. Most of her childhood was spent on military bases in Toowoomba and Brisbane. Since her early twenties, she has lived in Melbourne a ...

, ''Dear Deliria: New & Selected Poems'' * Mary Gilmore Prize:

David McCooey David McCooey (born 1967 in London), poet, critic, musician, and academic. He is Personal Chair in Literary Studies and Professional & Creative Writing at Deakin University in Geelong. Early life and education David McCooey was born in London i ...

, ''Blister Pack''; Michael Brennan, ''Imageless World''

Canada

*

Gerald Lampert Award The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets The League of Canadian Poets (LCP), founded in 1966, is a national non-profit arts service organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The organization acts as t ...

: Adam Getty, ''Reconciliation'' *

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 ...

:

David O'Meara David O'Meara (born Pembroke, Ontario) is a Life He was raised in Pembroke, Ontario. He lives in Sandy Hill, Ottawa Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the ...

, ''The Vicinity'' * Atlantic Poetry Prize:

Brian Bartlett Brian Bartlett (born October 1, 1953) is a Canadian poet, essayist, nature writer, and editor. He has published 14 books or chapbooks of poetry, two prose books of nature writing, and a compilation of prose about poetry. He was born in St. Steph ...

, ''Wanting the Day'' *

Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate The Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate (french: Poète officiel du Parlement du Canada) is the national poet laureate of Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic ...

: Pauline Michel (until 2006) *

Governor General's Awards The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the ...

:

Roo Borson Ruth Elizabeth Borson, who writes under the name Roo Borson (born January 20, 1952 in Berkeley, California) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto. After undergraduate studies at UC Santa Barbara and Goddard College, she received an MFA from th ...

, ''Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida'' (English);

André Brochu André Brochu (born 3 March 1942 in Saint-Eustache, Quebec) is a poet, essayist and professor of Quebecois literature. Life He graduated from the Université de Montréal in 1961, and from Université Paris VIII. He has been a member of the ...

, ''Les jours à vif'' (French) *

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. ...

Canadian: Anne Simpson, ''Loop'' *

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. ...

International, in the English Language:

August Kleinzahler August Kleinzahler (born December 10, 1949) is an American poet. Life and career Until he was 11, he went to school in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where he grew up. He then commuted to the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, graduating in 1967. He wrote p ...

, ''The Strange Hours Travelers Keep'' *

Pat Lowther Award The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.Betsy Struthers Betsy Struthers (born 1951) is a Canadian poet and novelist who lives in Peterborough, Ontario. She was co-editor (with Sarah Klassen) and contributor to ''Poets in the Classroom'', an anthology of essays about teaching poetry workshops wri ...

, ''Still'' *

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

: Jean-Philippe Bergeron, ''Visages de l'affolement'' *

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 ...

: Philip Kevin Paul, ''Taking the Names Down from the Hill'' * Prix Émile-Nelligan: Kim Doré, ''Le rayonnement des corps noirs''

New Zealand

* Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: *

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 ...

First-book award for poetry: Cliff Fell, ''The Adulterer's Bible'', 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 bee ...

:

John Agard John Agard FRSL (born 21 June 1949 in British Guiana) is an Afro-Guyanese playwright, poet and children's writer, now living in Britain. In 2012, he was selected for the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

,

Ruth Padel Ruth Sophia Padel FRSL FZS is a British poet, novelist and non-fiction author, known for her poetic explorations of migration, both animal and human, and her involvement with classical music, wildlife conservation and Greece, ancient and modern. ...

Lawrence Sail, Eva Salzman *

Eric Gregory Award The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given annually by the Society of Authors for a collection by British poets under the age of 30. The award was founded in 1960 by Dr. Eric Gregory to support and encourage young poets. In 2021, the seve ...

: Nick Laird,

Elizabeth Manuel Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to: People * Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name) * Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist Ships * HMS ''Elizabeth'', several ships * ''Elisabeth'' (sch ...

,

Abi Curtis Abi Curtis is a poet, writer, and lecturer at York St John University. Biography Abi Curtis received a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Sussex, and went on to teach there until 2010. She is currently Professor of Creat ...

,

Sophie Levy Sophie is a version of the female given name Sophia, meaning "wise". People with the name Born in the Middle Ages * Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson * Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of ...

,

Saradha Soobrayen ''Attarintiki Daredi'' () is a 2013 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film written and directed by Trivikram Srinivas. Produced by Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra and Reliance Entertainment, the film stars Pawan Kalyan, Samantha and Prani ...

*

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:

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 Universit ...

, ''The Tree House'' (Picador) *

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 First Collection: Leontia Flynn, ''These Days'' (Jonathan Cape) * ''Scots

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 ...

'' (equivalent of a poet laureate to represent and promote poetry in Scotland) named on February 16: Edwin Morgan *

Orange Prize for Fiction The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously with sponsor names Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's m ...

:

Andrea Levy Andrea Levy (7 March 1956 – 14 February 2019) was an English author best known for the novels '' Small Island'' (2004) and '' The Long Song'' (2010). She was born in London to Jamaican parents, and her work explores topics related to Briti ...

, '' Small Island'' *

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 i ...

: Hugo Williams *

T. S. Eliot Prize The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prize that was, for many years, awarded by the Poetry Book Society (UK) to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" in any particular year. The Pri ...

(United Kingdom and Ireland): George Szirtes, ''Reel'' *

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:

Michael Symmons Roberts Michael Symmons Roberts FRSL (born 1963 in Preston, Lancashire) is a British poet. He has published eight collections of poetry, all with Cape (Random House), and has won the Forward Prize, the Costa Book Award and the Whitbread Prize for Poetr ...

, "Corpus"

United States

*

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 bequ ...

, Henry Taylor *

Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major 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, United States was initiated by ...

awarded to Aaron Smith for ''Blue on Blue Ground'' * AML Award for poetry to John Talbot for ''The Well-Tempered Tantrum'' *

Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize The Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize Competition is a biennial program of Letras Latinas in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame Press. Founded in 2004, the Latino poetry competition seeks to publish the first collection of a promising Lat ...

awarded to

Sheryl Luna Sheryl Luna is an American writer. Born and raised in El Paso, Texas, Luna's most recent collection, Magnificent Errors, received the Ernest Sandeen Prize at Notre Dame. The judges were Orlando Menes and Joyelle McSweeney. Luna is the author of ' ...

for ''Pity the Drowned Horses'' *

Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry The Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry is given by the Paris Review "for the finest poem over 200 lines published in The Paris Review in a given year", according to the magazine.

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Jeremy Glazier Jeremy may refer to: * Jeremy (given name), a given name * Jérémy, a French given name * ''Jeremy'' (film), a 1973 film * "Jeremy" (song), a song by Pearl Jam * Jeremy (snail), a left-coiled garden snail that died in 2017 * ''Jeremy'', a 1919 ...

, "Conversations with the Sidereal Messenger" *

Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry The Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry is awarded biennially by the Library of Congress on behalf of the nation in recognition for the most distinguished book of poetry written by an American and published during the preceding two y ...

,

B.H. Fairchild B.H. Fairchild (born 1942) is an American poet and former college professor. His most recent book is ''An Ordinary Life'' (W.W. Norton, 2023), and his poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''The New Yorker'', ''The Pari ...

for ''Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest'' * Brittingham Prize in Poetry, John Brehm, ''Sea of Faith'' * Frost Medal:

Richard Howard Richard Joseph Howard (October 13, 1929 – March 31, 2022; adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz) was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a graduate of Columbia University, w ...

*

MacArthur Fellowship The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

:

C.D. Wright Carolyn D. Wright (January 6, 1949 – January 12, 2016) was an American poet. She was a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island. Background C. D. Wright was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas, to a chancery ju ...

*

National Book Award The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors. The N ...

for poetry:

Jean Valentine __NOTOC__ Jean Valentine (April 27, 1934December 29, 2020) was an American poet and the New York State Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010. Her poetry collection, ''Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003'', was awarded the 2004 Na ...

, ''Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003'' *

Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate—serves as the official poet of the United States. During their term, the poet laureate seeks to raise the national cons ...

:

Ted Kooser Theodore J. Kooser (born 25 April 1939) is an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2005. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006. Kooser was one of the first poets laureate selec ...

appointed *

Poet Laureate of Virginia The position of Poet Laureate of Virginia was established December 18, 1936 by the Virginia General Assembly. Originally, the Poet Laureate of Virginia was appointed without outside consultation by the General Assembly, usually for one year, in a ...

:

Rita Dove Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the positi ...

, two year appointment 2004 to 2006 *

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

:

Franz Wright Franz Wright (March 18, 1953 – May 14, 2015) was an American poet. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category. Life and career Wright was born in Vienna, Austria. He gradua ...

, ''Walking to Martha's Vineyard'' () *

Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award The Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award is awarded to scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification. The award was named after the poet, critic, and translator Robert Fitzgerald. It was established in 1999 at the ...

: Timothy Steele * Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize:

Kay Ryan Kay Ryan (born September 21, 1945) is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. From 2008 to 2010 she was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate. In 2011 she was name ...

*

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 ...

:

Mark Strand Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014) was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004 ...

*

Whiting Awards The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Mrs. (American English) or Mrs ( British English; standard ...

: Catherine Barnett,

Dan Chiasson Dan Chiasson (; born May 9, 1971 in Burlington, Vermont) is an American poet, critic, and journalist. The ''Sewanee Review'' called Chiasson "the country’s most visible poet-critic." He is the Lorraine C. Wang Professor of English Literature a ...

, A. Van Jordan *

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 and ...

:

Anthony Butts Anthony Butts (born July 28, 1969 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American poet. Life He graduated from Wayne State University with a bachelor's degree, from Western Michigan University, with an MFA, and University of Missouri with a PhD. He taught a ...

, ''Little Low Heaven'', Judge:

Lucie Brock-Broido Lucie Brock-Broido (May 22, 1956 – March 6, 2018) was an American author of four collections of poetry. Biography She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, she was Director of Poetry in the Wri ...

*

Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets 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 outreac ...

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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 ...

Awards and honors in other nations

* One of Pakistan's highest civilian honors, the

Hilal-e-Imtiaz The ''Hilaal-e-Imtiaz'' (; ), also spelled and transliterated as Hilāl-e-Imtiyāz, is the second-highest (in the hierarchy of "Hilal") civilian award and honour given to both civilians and military officers of the Pakistan Armed Forces by the ...

, awarded to

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

, an

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
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-language poet, for his literary achievementsPandya, Haresh
"Ahmed Faraz, Outspoken Urdu Poet, Dies at 77"
obituary, ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

'', September 1, 2008, retrieved December 10, 2008

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " earin poetry" article: * January 4 – Jeff Nuttall, 70 (born

1933 Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...

),

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 id ...

poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, and social commentator * January 8 –

Norman Talbot Lieutenant General Sir Norman Graham Guy Talbot, KBE, TD, FRCOG, FRCP (16 February 1914 – 27 February 1979) was a senior British Army officer who was Director General of the Army Medical Services between 1969 and 1973. Early life Talbot ...

(born

1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...

),

Australian Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal ...

* January 29 –

Janet Frame Janet Paterson Frame (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She was internationally renowned for her work, which included novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awar ...

, 79,

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 id ...

novelist who wrote poetry all her life; she published one collection, ''The Pocket Mirror'', in

1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establ ...

. * February 17 – Bruce Beaver (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 Bazhano ...

),

Australian Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal ...

* March 3 –

Pedro Pietri Pedro Pietri (March 21, 1944 – March 3, 2004) was a Nuyorican poet and playwright and one of the co-founders of the Nuyorican Movement. He was considered by some as the poet laureate of the Nuyorican Movement. Early years Pietri was born i ...

59, Puerto Rican/ American poet * March 12 –

Cid Corman Cid (Sidney) Corman (June 29, 1924 – March 12, 2004) was an American poet, translator and editor, most notably of ''Origin'', who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century. Life Corman was bor ...

, 79, American poet, translator and editor * August 29 –

Donald Allen Donald Merriam Allen (Iowa, 1912 – San Francisco, August 29, 2004) was an American editor, publisher and translator of American literature. He is best known for his project ''The New American Poetry 1945-1960'' (1960), one of the anthologie ...

, influential editor, publisher, and translator of contemporary American literature who edited '' The New American Poetry 1945-1960'', an influential book republished in 1990. * September 16 –

Virginia Hamilton Adair Virginia Hamilton Adair (February 28, 1913, New York City – September 16, 2004, Claremont, California) was an American poet who became famous later in life with the 1996 publication of ''Ants on the Melon''. Background Mary Virginia Hamilton was ...

, 91, American poet * October 20 –

Anthony Hecht Anthony Evan Hecht (January 16, 1923 – October 20, 2004) was an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the Second World War, in which he fought, an ...

, American poet * December 2 –

Mona Van Duyn Mona Jane Van Duyn (May 9, 1921 – December 2, 2004) was an American poet. She was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1992. Biography Early years Van Duyn was born May 9, 1921 in Waterloo, Iowa."Van Duyn, Mona (1921–2004)." '' Dictio ...

(born

1921 Events January * January 2 ** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in Brazil. ** The Spanish liner ''Santa Isabel'' breaks ...

), American poet * December 8 –

Jackson Mac Low Jackson Mac Low (1922–2004) was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practioneer of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, whic ...

, American poet * December 26 – Ishigaki Rin 石垣りん (born

1920 Events January * January 1 ** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20. ** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own m ...

),

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, employee of the Industrial Bank of Japan, sometimes called "the bank teller poet" * date not known – Mary Elizabeth Frye (born

1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is ...

), American housewife, florist, author of the poem " Do not stand at my grave and weep"

References

Notes

"A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the ''Representative Poetry Online'' Web site, University of Toronto
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Poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings ...

Events

Works published

Australia

Anthologies in Australia

Canada

India, in English

Ireland

New Zealand

Poets in ''Best New Zealand Poems''

United Kingdom

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

United States

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Anthologies in the United States

=Poets in ''The Best American Poetry 2004''

Elsewhere

Works published in other languages

French language

France

Canada, in French

India

Malayalam

Other in India

Poland

Other languages

Awards and honors

Australia

Canada

New Zealand

United Kingdom

United States

Awards and honors in other nations

Deaths

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