Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish

Irish poetry

The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

 or France

French poetry

French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

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Events

• French public notary Patrick Huet unveils Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World
  Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World
  Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World is reputedly the longest modern handwritten poem in the world, unveiled on 4 August 2006 by its author, French public notary Patrick Huet...
  
   in Lyon
  Lyon
  Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
  
  . It is reportedly the longest modern hand-written poem in the world.
• In January, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu Cultural Foundation, founded by the Kyoto, Japan
  Japanese poetry
  Japanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...
  
  , Chamber of Commerce and Industry, opened the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu Hall of Fame, dedicated to the anthology of 100 poems by 100 poets compiled by Fujiwara no Teika
  Fujiwara no Teika
  Fujiwara no Teika , also known as Fujiwara no Sadaie or Sada-ie, was a Japanese poet, critic, calligrapher, novelist, anthologist, scribe, and scholar of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods...
  
   in c. 1235
  1235 in poetry
  -Works:* Fujiwara no Teika, editor, Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, an anthology of 100 Japanese poems, each by a different poet; is compiled about this year; the popularity of the anthology has endured to the present day, and a Japanese card game, Uta-garuta, uses cards with the poems printed on it...
  
  . The popularity of the anthology has endured, and a Japanese card game, Uta-garuta
  Uta-garuta
  are a kind of karuta, Japanese traditional playing cards. It is also the name of the game in which they are used. The game is played mostly on Japanese New Year's holidays. On each card, a poem is written, and there are a total of 100 poems. The standard collection of the poems used is called...
  
  , uses cards with the poems printed on it.
• March 29 – Grolier Poetry Bookstore is sold.
• BLATT, an English-language literary magazine and publishing imprint is started in Prague, Czech Republic.
• May – The Poetry Out Loud
  Poetry Out Loud
  The Poetry Out Loud: Recitation Contest was created in 2006 by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation. The contest was created to increase awareness in the art of performing poetry, with substantial cash prizes being awarded to schools that participated as well as...
  
   recitation contest is created this year by the National Endowment for the Arts
  National Endowment for the Arts
  The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
  
   and The Poetry Foundation to increase awareness in the art of performing poetry, with a top prize a $20,000 scholarship. State finalists performed in Washington D.C. during the second week of May.
• August – The existence of two early poems by Ted Hughes
  Ted Hughes
  Edward James Hughes OM , more commonly known as Ted Hughes, was an English poet and children's writer. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia Plath, from 1956 until...
  
  , written into a school exercise book, were announced; one an early version of 'Song' which appeared in his first collection.
• Pakistani
  Pakistani poetry
  Pakistan has a rich and diverse tradition of poetry that includes Urdu poetry, English poetry, Sindhi poetry, Pashto poetry, Punjabi poetry, Saraiki poetry, Baluchi poetry, and Kashmiri poetry...
  
   poet Ahmed Faraz
  Ahmed Faraz
  Ahmad Faraz born Syed Ahmad Shah on January 14, 1931, in Kohat, was a Pakistani Urdu poet. He was considered one of the greatest modern Urdu poets of the last century. Faraz is his pseudonym 'takhalus'...
  
  , who wrote in Urdu
  Urdu poetry
  Urdu poetry is a rich tradition of poetry and has many different types and forms. Borrowing much from the Persian language, it is today an important part of Pakistani and North Indian culture....
  
  , returns one of his country's highest civilian honors, the Hilal-e-Imtiaz, out of disgust with President Pervez Musharraf
  Pervez Musharraf
  Pervez Musharraf , is a retired four-star general who served as the 13th Chief of Army Staff and tenth President of Pakistan as well as tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. Musharraf headed and led an administrative military government from October 1999 till August 2007. He ruled...
  
  's government. The prize had been awarded to the poet in 2004 for his literary achievements. "My conscience will not forgive me if I remained a silent spectator of the sad happenings around us", he said. "The least I can do is to let the dictatorship know where it stands in the eyes of the concerned citizens, whose fundamental rights have been usurped."
• November 1 – A Sylvia Plath
  Sylvia Plath
  Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College, Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer...
  
   sonnet from her college years was discovered and first published by Blackbird, an online literary journal run by the English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University
  Virginia Commonwealth University
  Virginia Commonwealth University is a public university located in Richmond, Virginia. It comprises two campuses in the Downtown Richmond area, the product of a merger between the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia in 1968...
  
   in Richmond, Virginia
  Richmond, Virginia
  Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...
  
  .
• November – The most influential American poets of all time are Walt Whitman
  Walt Whitman
  Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse...
  
  , T. S. Eliot
  T. S. Eliot
  Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...
  
  , William Carlos Williams
  William Carlos Williams
  William Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine, having graduated from the University of Pennsylvania...
  
  , Wallace Stevens
  Wallace Stevens
  Wallace Stevens 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 a lawyer for the Hartford insurance company in Connecticut.His best-known poems include "Anecdote of the Jar",...
  
  , and Sylvia Plath
  Sylvia Plath
  Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College, Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer...
  
  , according to Christian Wiman
  Christian Wiman
  Christian Wiman is an American poet and editor born in 1966 and raised in West Texas. He graduated from Washington and Lee University and has taught at Northwestern University, Stanford University, Lynchburg College in Virginia, and the Prague School of Economics...
  
  , editor of Poetry Magazine. Wiman named the poets in a sidebar article to a December The Atlantic Monthly
  The Atlantic Monthly
  The Atlantic is an American magazine founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1857. It was created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine. It quickly achieved a national reputation, which it held for more than a century. It was important for recognizing and publishing new writers and poets,...
  
   cover story about the "100 Most Influential Americans" — no poet made it on that larger list.
• November 14 – Times Literary Supplement, reports on the discovery of a missing manuscript of Shelley's "Poetical Essay", a 172-line poem originally published in a 1811 pamphlet which criticizes war, politics and religion; although published anonymously, the poem is thought to have contributed to the rebel poet's expulsion from the University of Oxford.
• November 10 – A new series, "The Best of Irish Poetry" was launched by Southword Editions in Ireland with the 80-page The Best of Irish Poetry 2007 The project is under the direction of Patrick Cotter, with Colm Breathnach as Irish-language editor and Maurice Riordan
  Maurice Riordan
  Maurice Riordan is an Irish poet, translator, and editor. Born in Lisgoold, County Cork, Riordan has published three collections of poetry: A Word from the Loki , a largely London-based collection which was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T. S...
  
   as English-language (or Hiberno-English) editor. "Quite often readers abroad are presented with a selection of Irish poets restricted to those who are first published in the USA or the UK," Cotter wrote. "This annual series will present a more general selection generated by more informed pundits."

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

Australian literature

Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies, therefore, its literary tradition begins with and is linked to...

See also 2006 in Australian literature

2006 in Australian literature

The year 2006 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2006 in literature.See also:2005 in Australian literature,2006 in Australia,...

• Robert Adamson
  Robert Adamson (poet)
  Robert Adamson is an Australian poet and publisher.-Biography:Adamson grew up in Neutral Bay and spent much of his teenage years in Gosford Boys Home for juvenile offenders. He discovered poetry while educating himself in Gaol in his 20s. His first book, Canticles on the Skin, was published in 1970...
  
   The Goldfinches of Baghdad
• Ken Babstock
  Ken Babstock
  Ken Babstock is a Canadian poet. He was born in Newfoundland and raised in the Ottawa Valley. Babstock began publishing his poems in journals and anthologies, winning gold at the 1997 Canadian National Magazine Awards...
  
  , Airstream Land Yacht (Black Inc.), ISBN 978-1-86395-214-9
• Laurie Duggan
  Laurie Duggan
  Laurence "Laurie" James 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. Scott. Both he and Scott won the Monash Poetry Prize...
  
  , The Passenger, winner of the 2007 Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award; St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press
• Stephen Edgar
  Stephen Edgar
  Stephen Edgar is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and indexer.-Background and education:Edgar was born in Sydney in 1951 where he attended Sydney Technical High School. Between 1971 and 1974 he lived in London and worked as a library assistant in the London Borough of Lambeth...
  
  , Other Summers, 108 pp; named a "Book of the Year" by The Age
  The Age
  The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...
  
  ; Melbourne: Black Pepper
  Black Pepper publishing
  Black Pepper is an independent Australian publishing house founded by Kevin Pearson and Gail Hannah in 1995 specializing in Australian poetry and fiction. Its innovative titles have won critical acclaim....
  
  , ISBN 978-1-876044-54-1
• Robert Gray
  Robert Gray (poet)
  Robert William Geoffrey Gray is an Australian poet, freelance writer, and critic.-Biography:Gray grew up in Coffs Harbour and was educated in a country town on the north coast of New South Wales. He trained there as a journalist, and since then has worked in Sydney as an editor, advertising...
  
  , Nameless Earth
• Jennifer Harrison
  Jennifer Harrison
  Jennifer Harrison is a contemporary Australian psychiatrist, poet and photographer.Born in Liverpool, Sydney Jennifer Harrison studied medicine and then specialised in psychiatry...
  
  : Folly & Grief (Black Pepper) ISBN 978-1-876044-45-9
• Dennis Haskell, All the Time in the World
• Judy Johnson
  Judy Johnson
  William Julius "Judy" Johnson was an American third baseman in Negro league baseball.Johnson was born in Snow Hill, Maryland. Although his father wanted him to be a boxer, Johnson, who was 5 ft 11 in and only 150 lb , was far better suited for a career in baseball...
  
  , Jack
• S. K. Kelen, Earthly Delights
• Chris Mansell
  Chris Mansell
  Chris Mansell is an Australian poet and publisher.Born in Sydney, Chris Mansell grew up on the Central Coast of New South Wales and in Lae, Papua New Guinea, later studying economics at the University of Sydney...
  
  , Love poems (Kardoorair, Armidale)
• Graeme Miles, Phosphorescence
• Les Murray
  Les Murray (poet)
  Leslie Allan Murray, AO , known as Les Murray, is an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spans over forty years, and he has published nearly 30 volumes of poetry, as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings...
  
  , The Biplane Houses
• Dorothy Porter
  Dorothy Porter
  Dorothy Featherstone Porter was an Australian poet.-Early life:Porter was born in Sydney. Her father was barrister Chester Porter and her mother, Jean, was a high school chemistry teacher. Porter attended the Queenwood School for Girls...
  
  , The Best Australian Poems 2006 (Black, Inc.), ISBN 978-1-86395-262-0
• Mark Reid
  Mark Reid
  Mark Reid is a Scottish retired professional footballer who played as a left back. Reid made nearly 400 appearances in the Scottish and English Football Leagues between 1980 and 1993.-Career:...
  
  , A Difficult Faith
• Thomas Shapcott, The City of Empty Rooms
• Craig Sherborne, Necessary Evil, Black Inc., ISBN 978-1-86395-206-4
• John Tranter
  John Tranter
  John Ernest Tranter is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting...
  
  , Urban Myths: 210 Poems
• rob walker
  Rob Walker (poet)
  Rob Walker new article content ...Rob Walker is a contemporary Australian poet and writer. His poetry has been published widely in magazines, journals, anthologies and online since the mid 1990s. His work has been translated into Arabic , Spanish and Dutch , text-published in English in France ...
  
   , "micromacro" ISBN 978-1-74008-415-4
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe
  Chris Wallace-Crabbe
  Chris Wallace-Crabbe AO is an Australian poet and Emeritus Professor in The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne.-Biography:...
  
  , Then
• Simon West
  Simon West
  Simon West is an English-born film director. West started as a film editor with the BBC, then directed documentaries and commercials including many for Budweiser...
  
  , First Names
• Fay Zwicky
  Fay Zwicky
  Fay Zwicky is a contemporary Australian poet, short-story writer, critic and academic primarily known for her autobiographical poem Kaddish which deals with her identity as a Jewish writer.-Life:...
  
  , Picnic

Canada

Canadian literature

Canadian literature is literature originating from Canada. Collectively it is often called CanLit. Some criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes, although this is only a small portion of Canadian Literary criticism...

• Margaret Avison
  Margaret Avison
  Margaret Avison, OC was a Canadian poet who twice won Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Prize. "Her work has often been praised for the beauty of its language and images."-Life:...
  
  , Momentary Dark
• Elizabeth Bachinsky
  Elizabeth Bachinsky
  Elizabeth Bachinsky is a Canadian poet. She's published three collections since 2005: Curio, Home of Sudden Service, and God of Missed Connections. Her second book, Home of Sudden Service, was nominated for a 2006 Governor General's Award for Poetry...
  
  , Home of Sudden Service
• Ven Begamudré
  Ven Begamudré
  Ven Begamudré is a Canadian writer. He was born in South India and moved with his family to Canada when he was six. He currently divides his time between western Canada and the island of Bali.-Personal profile:...
  
  , The Lightness Which Is Our World, Seen from Afar
• Earle Birney
  Earle Birney
  Earle Alfred Birney, OC, FRSC was a distinguished Canadian poet and novelist, who twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honor, for his poetry.-Life:...
  
  , One Muddy Hand: Selected Poems, Sam Solecki ed. Posthumous.
• Dionne Brand
  Dionne Brand
  Dionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was named Toronto's third Poet Laureate in September 2009.-Biography:...
  
  , Inventory
• George Elliott Clarke
  George Elliott Clarke
  George Elliott Clarke, OC is a Canadian poet and playwright. His work largely explores and chronicles the experience and history of the Black Canadian community of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, creating a cultural geography that Clarke refers to as "Africadia".-Life:Born to William and Geraldine...
  
  , Black, Vancouver: Polestar, ISBN 978-1-55192-903-3
• Wayne Clifford
  Wayne Clifford
  Wayne Clifford is a Canadian poet.Clifford began writing poetry at fourteen. His first collection, Man in a Window , was the first volume published by Canadian literary publisher, Coach House Press. As a student at the University of Toronto , he shared the E.J.Pratt Prize with Michael Ondaatje...
  
  , The Book of Were
• Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...
  
  , Book of Longing
• John Paul Fiorentino, The Theory of the Loser Class (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-168-7
• Maxine Gadd's, Backup to Babylon
• Matthew Holmes
  Matthew Holmes
  Matthew Holmes was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the North British Railway from 1882 to 1903..-Locomotives:Locomotives designed by M. Holmes include:* NBR Class C, later LNER Class J36, 0-6-0...
  
  , Hitch, a first volume
• Anita Lahey, Out to Dry in Cape Breton
• Elizabeth Mayne, A Passionate Continuity
• Don McKay
  Don McKay
  Don McKay, CM is an award-winning Canadian poet, editor, and educator.Born in Owen Sound, Ontario and raised in Cornwall, McKay was educated at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Wales, where he earned his PhD in 1971...
  
  :
  • Strike/Slip winner of the 2007 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize
    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. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language....
    
     and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
    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 B.C. Book Prizes, the award was originally known as the B.C. Prize for Poetry...
    
    
  • Field Marks: The Poetry of Don McKay edited by Méira Cook
• Michael Ondaatje
  Michael Ondaatje
  Philip Michael Ondaatje , OC, is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet of Burgher origin. He is perhaps best known for his Booker Prize-winning novel, The English Patient, which was adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film.-Life and work:...
  
  , The Story, Toronto: House of Anansi, ISBN 978-0-88784-194-1
• P. K. Page
  P. K. Page
  Patricia Kathleen Page, CC, OBC, FRSC , commonly known as P. K. Page, was a Canadian poet. She was the author of over 30 published books: of poetry, fiction, travel diaries, essays, children's books, and an autobiography.By special resolution of the United Nations, in 2001 Page's poem "Planet...
  
  , Hand Luggage: A Memoir in Verse
• Sina Queyras
  Sina Queyras
  Sina Queyras is a Canadian poet. Her third collection of poetry, Lemon Hound, received the Pat Lowther Award and a Lambda Literary Award.In 2005 she edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets for Persea Books, the first anthology of Canadian poetry to be published by a U.S. press...
  
  , Lemon Hound (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-167-0
• Angela Rawlings
  Angela Rawlings
  Angela Rawlings is a Canadian poet, editor, and interdisciplinary artist who has presented and/or published work in Canada, Belgium, Iceland, Australia, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United States...
  
  , Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-169-4
• Raymond Souster
  Raymond Souster
  Raymond Holmes Souster, OC is a Canadian poet whose writing career spans almost 70 years. He has published more than 50 volumes of his own verse, and edited or co-edited a dozen volumes of others' poetry...
  
  :
  • Down to Earth Battered Silicon Dispatch Box.
  • Wondrous Wobbly World: Poems for the New Millennium.
  • Uptown Downtown Battered Silicon Dispatch Box.
• Nathalie Stephens, Touch to Affliction (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-175-5
• Sharon Thesen
  Sharon Thesen
  Sharon Thesen is a Canadian poet who lives in Lake Country, British Columbia. She teaches at UBC-O.In 2003, Thesen was a judge for the Griffin Poetry Prize.-Bibliography:*Artemis Hates Romance - 1980...
  
  , The Good Bacteria

India

Indian poetry

Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

, in English

Indian Poetry in English

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English Poetry. A significant and torch bearer poet is Nissim Ezekiel and the significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo...

• Keki Daruwalla, Collected poems, 1970-2005 ( Poetry in English
  English language
  English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
  
   ), New Delhi
  New Delhi
  New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
  
   and New York
  New York
  New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
  
   : Penguin Books
• Anjum Hasan
  Anjum Hasan
  Anjum Hasan is an Indian poet and novelist. She was born in Shillong, Meghalaya and currently lives in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.Street on the Hill was her debut collection of poems. Her debut novel Lunatic in my Head was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award 2007...
  
  , Street on the Hill ( Poetry in English
  English language
  English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
  
   ), New Delhi
  New Delhi
  New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
  
   : Sahitya Akademi.
• Meena Kandasamy
  Meena Kandasamy
  Meena Kandasamy is an emerging poet, fiction writer, and translator and activist with the Dalit Panthers of India. She is based in Chennai.-Works:...
  
  , Touch ( Poetry in English
  English language
  English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
  
   ), Mumbai
  Mumbai
  Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
  
   : Peacock Books
• Suniti Namjoshi
  Suniti Namjoshi
  Suniti Namjoshi is an Indian writer and poet, many of whose works explore issues of gender and sexual orientation. She has written several collections of fables, poetry and fantasy fiction. She has also written some children's fiction.-Biography:...
  
  , Sycorax: New Fables and Poems ( Poetry in English
  English language
  English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
  
   ), Penguin India, New Delhi
  New Delhi
  New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
  
  , 2006. ISBN 978-0-14309-948-2
• Robin Ngangom
  Robin Ngangom
  Robin S Ngangom is an Indian poet and translator from Manipur, North Eastern India.-Biography:Robin Singh Ngangom was born in Imphal, Manipur of North Eastern India. He is a bilingual poet who writes in English and Manipuri. He studied literature at St Edmund's College and the North Eastern Hill...
  
  , The Desire of Roots( Poetry in English
  English language
  English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
  
   ), Cuttack
  Cuttack
  Cuttack is the former capital of the state of Orissa, India. It is the headquarters of Cuttack district and is located about 20 km to the north east of Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa. The name of the city is an anglicised form of Kataka that literally means The Fort, a reference to the...
  
   : Chandrabhaga
• E.V. Ramakrishnan, Terms of Seeing: New and Selected Poems, ( Poetry in English
  English language
  English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
  
   ), New Delhi
  New Delhi
  New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
  
  : Konark Publishers, ISBN 978-81-220-0711-4,
• Udaya Narayana Singh, Second Person Singular, translated from the original Maithili of the author's Madhyampurush Ekvachan by the author and Rizio Yohanan Raj; New Delhi
  New Delhi
  New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
  
   : Katha

Ireland

Irish poetry

The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

• Vona Groarke
  Vona Groarke
  Vona Groarke is an Irish poet.Groarke was born in Edgeworthstown in the Irish midlands in 1964, and attended Trinity College, Dublin, and University College, Cork...
  
  , Juniper Street, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Ireland
  Irish poetry
  The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
  
  
• Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
  
  , District and Circle
  District and Circle
  District and Circle is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. It was published in 2006 forty years after his debut, Death of a Naturalist, and was awarded the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize...
  
  , Faber & Faber; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
  English poetry
  The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
  
  
• Maurice Riordan
  Maurice Riordan
  Maurice Riordan is an Irish poet, translator, and editor. Born in Lisgoold, County Cork, Riordan has published three collections of poetry: A Word from the Loki , a largely London-based collection which was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T. S...
  
   and Colm Breathnach, editors, Best of Irish Poetry 2007 selections from 50 Irish poets, including Eavan Boland
  Eavan Boland
  -Biography:Boland's father, Frederick Boland, was a career diplomat and her mother, Frances Kelly, was a noted post-expressionist painter. She was born in Dublin in 1944. At the age of six, Boland's father was appointed Irish Ambassador to the United Kingdom; the family followed him to London,...
  
  , Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
  
  , Thomas McCarthy
  Thomas McCarthy (poet)
  Thomas McCarthy is an Irish poet, novelist, and critic, born in Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, Ireland. He attended University College Cork where he was part of a resurgence of literary activity under the inspiration of John Montague...
  
  , Paul Muldoon
  Paul Muldoon
  Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 - 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities and...
  
  , Paul Durcan
  Paul Durcan
  Paul Durcan is a contemporary Irish poet.-Early life:Durcan grew up in Dublin and in Turlough, County Mayo. His father, John, was a barrister and circuit court judge; father and son had a difficult and formal relationship. Durcan enjoyed a warmer and more natural relationship with his mother,...
  
  , Eamon Grennan
  Eamon Grennan
  Eamon Grennan is an Irish poet born in Dublin. He has lived in the United States, except for brief periods, since 1964. He was the Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Professor of English at Vassar College until his retirement in 2004....
  
  , Vona Groarke
  Vona Groarke
  Vona Groarke is an Irish poet.Groarke was born in Edgeworthstown in the Irish midlands in 1964, and attended Trinity College, Dublin, and University College, Cork...
  
  , Thomas Kinsella
  Thomas Kinsella
  Thomas Kinsella is an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher.-Early life and work:Kinsella was born in Lucan, County Dublin. He spent much of his childhood with relatives in rural Ireland. He was educated in the Irish language at the Model School, Inchicore and the O'Connell Christian...
  
  , Michael Longley
  Michael Longley
  Michael Longley, CBE is a Northern Irish poet from Belfast.-Life and career:Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus...
  
  , Dorothy Molloy, Gerry Murphy
  Gerry Murphy
  Gerry Murphy was the Director of Football Development at Huddersfield Town between 1988 and 2009...
  
  , Katie Donovan, Matthew Sweeney
  Matthew Sweeney
  -Life:He graduated from Gormanston College, Polytechnic of North London and University of Freiburg, in 1979.He had residencies at the University of East Anglia, and South Bank Centre.He has lived for many years in London.-Awards:...
  
  , Derek Mahon, Gabriel Rosenstock
  Gabriel Rosenstock
  Gabriel Rosenstock is an Irish poet, haiku writer, translator and author. He was born in Kilfinane, County Limerick in 1949. He currently resides in Dublin.-Biography:...
  
  , Louis De Paor
  Louis de Paor
  Louis de Paor is a well-known poet in the Irish language. Born in Cork in 1961 and educated at Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh, de Paor edited the Irish language journal Innti, founded in 1970 by Michael Davitt, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Liam Ó Muirthile and Gabriel Rosenstock...
  
  , Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
  Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
  Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill is an Irish poet.Born in Lancashire, England in 1952, of Irish parents, she moved to Ireland at the age of 5, and was brought up in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, County Tipperary. Her uncle is Monsignor Pádraig Ó Fiannachta of An Daingean, the leading authority alive on...
  
   (Southward Editions) ISBN 978-1-905002-23-8 (anthology) Ireland
  Irish poetry
  The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
  
   (published November 2006)
• Justin Quinn
  Justin Quinn
  Justin Quinn is an Irish poet and critic, born in Dublin in 1968. He received a doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, where his contemporaries included poets Caitriona O'Reilly and Sinéad Morrissey, and now lives with his wife and sons in Prague...
  
  , Waves and Trees, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press

New Zealand

New Zealand literature

New Zealand literature is essentially literature in English that is either written by New Zealanders, or migrants, dealing with New Zealand themes or places and is primarily a 20th Century creation...

• Glenn Colquhoun
  Glenn Colquhoun
  Dr. Glenn Colquhoun, born in Papakura, Auckland in 1964, is a New Zealand poet and general practitioner.-Life:He practices medicine on the Kapiti Coast. He lives in Waikawa Beach with his young daughter Olive....
  
  , Playing God
• Janet Frame
  Janet Frame
  Janet Paterson Frame, ONZ, CBE was a New Zealand author. She wrote eleven novels, four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, an edition of juvenile fiction, and three volumes of autobiography during her lifetime. Since her death, a twelfth novel, a second volume of poetry, and a handful...
  
  , The Goose Bath, posthumous
• Bill Manhire
  Bill Manhire
  William "Bill" Manhire, CNZM is an award-winning New Zealand poet, short story writer, and professor, New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate.-Biography:...
  
  , Lifted
• Cilla McQueen
  Cilla McQueen
  Cilla McQueen 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....
  
  , A Wind Harp (compact disc)
• Alison Wong
  Alison Wong
  Alison Wong is a New Zealand poet of Chinese heritage. Her background in mathematics comes across in her poetry, not as a subject, but in the careful formulation of words to white space and precision...
  
  , Cup, Publisher: Steele Roberts

Poets in Best New Zealand Poems

Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Andrew Johnston for Best New Zealand Poems 2005

Best New Zealand Poems series

The Best New Zealand Poems series, begun in 2001 is an annual online selection of poems chosen by guest editors. The program is run by the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand....

, published online this year:

• Michele Amas
• Angela Andrews
• Stu Bagby
• Jenny Bornholdt
  Jenny Bornholdt
  Jennifer Mary Bornholdt is an award-winning New Zealand poet and anthologist.-Biography:Born in Lower Hutt, Bornholdt received a bachelor's degree in English Literature and a Diploma in Journalism...
  
  
• James Brown

• Janet Charman
• Geoff Cochrane
• Mary Cresswell
• Wystan Curnow
• Stephanie de Montalk

• Fiona Farrell
  Fiona Farrell
  Fiona Farrell is a New Zealand poet, fiction writer and playwright. Her latest novel, Limestone, was published in April 2009. The Broken Book, was published by Auckland University Press 2011 .-Bibliography:...
  
  
• Bernadette Hall
  Bernadette Hall
  Bernadette Hall is a New Zealand writer and poet. She was raised in what she describes as a small-city Catholic community that was proud, theatrical and pretty much enclosed. After a career as a teacher of Latin and classical studies she started writing full time in her 40s...
  
  
• Anne Kennedy
  Anne Kennedy
  Anne Kennedy is a New Zealand poet, writer, and filmwriter.-Life:She was educated in Wellington, she has been a piano teacher and music librarian and since 1986, a freelance scriptwriter. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Victoria University of Wellington...
  
  
• Michele Leggott
  Michele Leggott
  Michele Joy Leggott MNZM is a New Zealand poet, and Associate Professor of English at the University of Auckland. She was born in Stratford, New Zealand, and received her secondary education at New Plymouth Girls High School, before attending the University of Canterbury where she completed an MA...
  
  
• Anna Livesey

• Karlo Mila
  Karlo Mila
  Karlo Mila is a New Zealand poet. She is of Tongan, Palangi and Samoan heritage, and educated at Massey University in Palmerston North. Her first award was the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry at the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, for Dream Fish Floating...
  
  
• James Norcliffe
• Gregory O'Brien
  Gregory O'Brien
  Gregory O’Brien , is a New Zealand poet, painter and editor.-Life:He trained as a journalist in Auckland and worked as a newspaper reporter in Northland...
  
  
• Vivienne Plumb
• Anna Smaill

• Elizabeth Smither
  Elizabeth Smither
  Elizabeth Smither MNZM is a New Zealand poet and writer.She worked as a librarian.-Awards:* 2002 Te Mata Poet Laureate.* 2000 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry* 2008 Prime Minister's Award for poetry....
  
  
• Robert Sullivan
  Robert Sullivan (New Zealand poet)
  Robert Sullivan is an important Māori writer from Aotearoa/New Zealand.-Biography & Writing:Robert Sullivan is of Māori and Irish descent. He belongs to the Māori tribes Ngā Puhi as well as to Kāi Tahu and describes himself as multicultural...
  
  
• Brian Turner
  Brian Turner (New Zealand poet)
  Brian Turner is a New Zealand poet and author. He played hockey for New Zealand in the 1960s; senior cricket in Dunedin and Wellington; and was a veteran road cyclist of note...
  
  
• Ian Wedde
  Ian Wedde
  Ian Curtis Wedde ONZM 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 King's College and University of Auckland, graduating with an MA in...
  
  
• Sonja Yelich

United Kingdom

British poetry

British poetry is a term rarely used, as almost all poets of the British world are clearly identified with one of the various nations within those areas....

• Carol Ann Duffy
  Carol Ann Duffy
  Carol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's poet laureate in May 2009...
  
   and Jane Ray
  Jane Ray
  Jane Ray is an internationally known illustrator of children's books. She has illustrated over 30 books and has won the Smarties prize for the "Story of the Creation"....
  
  , The Lost Happy Endings, Penguin
• James Fenton
  James Fenton
  James Martin Fenton is an English poet, journalist and literary critic. He is a former Oxford Professor of Poetry.-Life and career:...
  
  :
  • Selected Poems (2006) Penguin
  • Editor, The New Faber Book of Love Poems (anthology)
• John Haynes (poet), Letter to Patience, a book-length poem in iambic pentameter, in the form of a letter from a Nigerian father in Britain to his friend back in Nigeria; winner of the Costa Book Award
• Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
  
  , District and Circle
  District and Circle
  District and Circle is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. It was published in 2006 forty years after his debut, Death of a Naturalist, and was awarded the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize...
  
  , Faber & Faber; Irish
  Irish poetry
  The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
  
   poet published in the United Kingdom
• Allison Hedge Coke
  Allison Hedge Coke
  Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is an American Book Award-winning American/Canadian poet of mixed Wendat/Huron/Metis/Tsalagi/ Creek/French Canadian/Portuguese/Irish/Scot/English ancestry.-Background:...
  
   - Blood Run
  Blood Run (book)
  Blood Run is a volume of free verse poetry written by Allison Hedge Coke. It was published in the UK by Salt Publications in November 2006, and was subsequently published in the US in February 2007....
  
  , Salt Publications
• Geoffrey Hill
  Geoffrey Hill
  Geoffrey Hill is an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation...
  
  : Without Title
  Without Title
  Without Title is a book of poems by Geoffrey Hill. It was published by Penguin in 2006 .The first book of the Hill's late writing period ....
  
  
• Derek Mahon, Adaptations (A collection of versions, rather than translations proper, from poets such as Pasolini, Juvenal, Bertolt Brecht
  Bertolt Brecht
  Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...
  
  , Valery
  Valery
  The French name Valery [valri] is a given name or surname of Germanic origin Walaric , that has often been confused in modern time with the latin name Valerius, that explains the variant spelling Valéry [valeri]...
  
  , Baudelaire, Rilke, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
  Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
  Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill is an Irish poet.Born in Lancashire, England in 1952, of Irish parents, she moved to Ireland at the age of 5, and was brought up in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, County Tipperary. Her uncle is Monsignor Pádraig Ó Fiannachta of An Daingean, the leading authority alive on...
  
  .) Gallery Press
• Sean O'Brien
  Sean O'Brien (writer)
  Sean O'Brien is a British poet, critic, playwright. Prizes he has garnered include the Eric Gregory Award , the Somerset Maugham Award , the Cholmondeley Award , the Forward Poetry Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize...
  
  , Inferno: a verse version of Dante
  DANTE
  Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe is a not-for-profit organisation that plans, builds and operates the international networks that interconnect the various national research and education networks in Europe and surrounding regions...
  
  's Inferno (Picador)
• Robin Robertson
  Robin Robertson
  Robin Robertson is a Scottish poet.-Biography:Robertson was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland, but has spent most of his professional life in London...
  
  , Swithering, winner of the 2006 Forward Poetry Prize
  Forward Poetry Prize
  The Forward Poetry Prizes were created in 1991. The aim of the prizes is to extend the audience for contemporary poetry. Until the T.S. Eliot Prize remuneration was increased to £15,000 plus £1000 to each of nine runners-up, the Forward was the United Kingdom's most valuable annual poetry...
  
   for Best Collection, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize
• Claire Tomalin
  Claire Tomalin
  Claire Tomalin is an English biographer and journalist. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge.She was literary editor of the New Statesman and of the Sunday Times, and has written several noted biographies...
  
  , Thomas Hardy
  Thomas Hardy
  Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.While he regarded himself primarily as a...
  
  , Penguin Press, one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" for 2007 (biography)
• Hugo Williams
  Hugo Williams
  Hugo Williams is a British poet, journalist and travel writer. His full name is Hugh Mordaunt Vyner Williams He is the son of actor Hugh Williams and the model and actress Margaret Vyner, who co-wrote some upper-middle-class comedies in the late 1950s...
  
  , Dear Room, (Faber and Faber)

Poets included in New Writing 14

This book of British writing (Granta, ISBN 978-1-86207-850-5), edited by Lavinia Greenlaw

Lavinia Greenlaw

-Biography:Greenlaw was born in London into a family of doctors and scientists, but spent much of her childhood in a small village in Essex. She began her working life in publishing and arts administration before embarking upon a career as a freelance artist, critic and radio broadcaster. She lives...

 and Helon Habila

Helon Habila

Helon Habila is a Nigerian novelist and poet. He won the Caine Prize for African fiction in 2001, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2003....

, contains short stories, essays and excerpts of novels in addition to poems by these poets:

• Carrie Etter
  Carrie Etter
  -Life:Originally from Normal, Illinois, she moved to Southern California at the age of 19, and on to London in 2001.Etter holds a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MA and PhD from the University of California, Irvine...
  
  
• Iain Galbraith
• Chenjerai Hove
  Chenjerai Hove
  Chenjerai Hove , is a Zimbabwean poet, novelist and essayist. He was educated at the University of South Africa and the University of Zimbabwe, and has worked as an educator and journalist...
  
  
• Stephen Knight

• Frances Leviston
  Frances Leviston
  Frances Leviston is a British poet.Born in Edinburgh, Frances Leviston later moved to Sheffield. She studied at St Hilda's College in Oxford University, where she read English. Leviston then began an MA in Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. There she won their Ictus Prize in 2004,...
  
  
• Carola Luther
• Jamie McKendrick
  Jamie McKendrick
  -Poetry:McKendrick has published five collections of poetry.He is also the editor of The Faber Book of 20th-Century Italian Poems .-Awards:...
  
  
• David Morley
  David Morley (poet)
  David Morley is a British poet, critic, anthologist, editor and scientist of partly Romani extraction. His bestselling textbook The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing has been translated into several languages including Arabic...
  
  

• Paul Muldoon
  Paul Muldoon
  Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 - 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities and...
  
  
• Blessing Musariri
• Sean O'Brien
  Sean O'Brien (writer)
  Sean O'Brien is a British poet, critic, playwright. Prizes he has garnered include the Eric Gregory Award , the Somerset Maugham Award , the Cholmondeley Award , the Forward Poetry Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize...
  
  
• Don Paterson
  Don Paterson
  Don Paterson, OBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet, writer and musician.-Background:Paterson was born in Dundee. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1990 and his poem A Private Bottling won the Arvon Foundation International Poetry Competition in 1993. He was included on the list of 20 poets chosen for the...
  
  

• Paul Perry
• Greta Stoddart
• Eoghan Walls

United States

• A. R. Ammons, Selected Poems, American Poets Project of the Library of America; distributed by Penguin Putnam, posthumous
• Bruce Beasley, The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems, University of Washington Press, ISBN 978-0-295-98638-8
• Robin Becker
  Robin Becker
  Robin Becker is an American poet, critic, feminist, and professor. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is author of seven collections of poetry, most recently, Domain of Perfect Affection . Her All-American Girl , won the 1996 Lambda Literary Award in Poetry. Becker earned a B.A...
  
  , Domain of Perfect Affection, Pittsburgh University Press
• Elizabeth Bishop
  Elizabeth Bishop
  Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia...
  
  , Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments, Alice Quinn, editor (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), posthumous
• Charles Bukowski
  Charles Bukowski
  Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles...
  
  , Come On In!: New Poems (Ecco)
• Hayden Carruth
  Hayden Carruth
  Hayden Carruth was an American poet and literary critic. He taught at Syracuse University.-Life:Hayden Carruth grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut, and was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Chicago. He lived in Johnson, Vermont for many years...
  
  , Toward the Distant Islands: New and Selected Poems, Copper Canyon Press, edited by Sam Hamill
  Sam Hamill
  Sam Hamill is an american poet and the co-founder of Copper Canyon Press along with Bill O’Daly and Tree Swenson.He is also the initiator of the Poets Against War movement...
  
  
• Jared Carter
  Jared Carter
  -Background:Carter studied at Yale and at Goddard College. After military service and travel abroad, he made his home in Indianapolis, where he has lived since 1969...
  
  , Cross this Bridge at a Walk, Wind Publications.
• Carson Cistulli
  Carson Cistulli
  Carson Cistulli is an American poet, essayist and English professor. His works of poetry include Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated, Assorted Fictions, and A Century of Enthusiasm.- Early Years :...
  
   Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated, Casagrande Press.
• Hart Crane
  Hart Crane
  -Career:Throughout the early 1920s, small but well-respected literary magazines published some of Crane’s lyrics, gaining him, among the avant-garde, a respect that White Buildings , his first volume, ratified and strengthened...
  
  , Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, edited by Langdon Hammer, Library of America (posthumous)
• Robert Creeley
  Robert Creeley
  Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P...
  
  , On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay (University of California Press)
• Dick Davis
  Dick Davis
  Richard Earl Davis is a former professional baseball player. He played all or part of six seasons in Major League Baseball from 1977 until 1982, primarily as an outfielder. He also played five seasons in Japan with the Kintetsu Buffaloes from 1984 until 1988....
  
  , Trick of Sunlight, Swallow Press
• Michael Dumanis
  Michael Dumanis
  Michael Dumanis is an American poet, professor, and editor of poetry.-Works:Dumanis’s first collection of poetry, My Soviet Union , won the 2006 Juniper Prize for Poetry. Other works have appeared in literary journals, including Denver Quarterly, H.O.W...
  
   and Cate Marvin
  Cate Marvin
  -Life:She graduated from Marlboro College, University of Houston, University of Iowa, and University of Cincinnati with a Ph.D.She teaches at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York and in spring 2010 will be teaching at Columbia University....
  
  , Editors, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande
  Sarabande
  In music, the sarabande is a dance in triple metre. The second and third beats of each measure are often tied, giving the dance a distinctive rhythm of quarter notes and eighth notes in alternation...
  
   Books)
• Daisy Fried
  Daisy Fried
  -Life:She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1989.Her work has appeared in The Nation, Poetry, The New Republic, American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Threepenny Review, Triquarterly....
  
  , My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again (University of Pittsburgh Press), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
• Jack Gilbert
  Jack Gilbert
  -Life and career:Born and raised in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania neighborhood of East Liberty, he attended Peabody High School then worked as a door-to-door salesman, an exterminator, and a steelworker...
  
  , Tough Heaven: Poems of Pittsburgh, Transgressions: Selected Poems
• Allen Ginsberg
  Allen Ginsberg
  Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression...
  
  , Collected Poems, 1947-1997 (posthumous), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year", an expanded edition of the 1984
  1984 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*December 19 - Philip Larkin turns down the British Poet Laureateship, and Ted Hughes becomes Poet Laureate....
  
   Collected Poems, 1947-1980
• Jesse Glass
  Jesse Glass
  -In America:Glass first began to write and publish experimental poetry in c. 1972. Starting in 1976, he edited and published the mimeographed Goethe’s Notes Magazine and Goethe's Press from his family home in Westminster, Maryland...
  
  , The Passion of Phineas Gage and Selected Poems (West House/Ahadada)
• Eugene Gloria
  Eugene Gloria
  -Life:Eugene Gloria was born in Manila, Philippines, in 1957 and was raised in San Francisco. He was educated at San Francisco State University, Miami University, and the University of Oregon...
  
  , Hoodlum Birds, Penguin
• Louise Glück
  Louise Glück
  Louise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet of Hungarian Jewish heritage. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000....
  
  , Averno (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
• Linda Gregg
  Linda Gregg
  Linda Alouise Gregg is an American poet.-Biography:Although born just miles northwest of New York City, Ms. Gregg grew up on the other side of the country, in Marin County, California. She received both her Bachelor of Arts, in 1967, and her Master of Arts, in 1972, from San Francisco State College...
  
  , In the Middle Distance, Graywolf
• Donald Hall
  Donald Hall
  Donald Hall is an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2006.-Personal life:...
  
  , White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 (Houghton Mifflin)
• Suheir Hammad
  Suheir Hammad
  Suheir Hammad is a Palestinian-American poet, author and political activist. She was born in Amman, Jordan. Her parents were Palestinian refugees who immigrated along with their daughter to Brooklyn, New York City when she was five years old...
  
  , ZataarDiva, book and CD (Cypher/Rattapallax)
• Jim Harrison
  Jim Harrison
  James "Jim" Harrison is an American author known for his poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and writings about food. He has been called "a force of nature", and his work has been compared to that of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway...
  
  , Saving Daylight (Copper Canyon Press
  Copper Canyon Press
  Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, specializing in the publication of poetry and located in the picturesque town of Port Townsend, Washington. Since 1972, the Press has published poetry exclusively and has established an international reputation for its commitment to...
  
  ) ISBN 978-1-55659-235-5
• Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
  
  , District and Circle, Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Allison Hedge Coke
  Allison Hedge Coke
  Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is an American Book Award-winning American/Canadian poet of mixed Wendat/Huron/Metis/Tsalagi/ Creek/French Canadian/Portuguese/Irish/Scot/English ancestry.-Background:...
  
   - Blood Run
  Blood Run (book)
  Blood Run is a volume of free verse poetry written by Allison Hedge Coke. It was published in the UK by Salt Publications in November 2006, and was subsequently published in the US in February 2007....
  
  , US edition
• George Heym, Poems (Northwestern University Press, translated from German
  German literature
  German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German part of Switzerland, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there...
  
   by Antony Hasler
• Jeffrey Harrison
  Jeffrey Harrison
  Jeffrey W. Harrison is an American poet. His most recent poetry collection is The Names of Things: New & Selected Poems . His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, Poets of the New Century...
  
  , Incomplete Knowledge, Four Way Books
• Jane Hirshfield
  Jane Hirshfield
  Jane Hirshfield is an American poet.-Biography:Jane Hirshfield was born in New York City and received her bachelor's degree from Princeton University in the school's first graduating class to include women. She later studied at the San Francisco Zen Center, including three years of monastic...
  
  , After: Poems, (HarperCollins), named as one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post
  The Washington Post
  The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
  
  
• Paul Hoover
  Paul Hoover
  Paul Hoover is an American poet and editor born in Harrisonburg, Virginia.His work has been associated with the New York School poets and innovative practices such as New York School and language poetry....
  
  , Edge and Fold (Apogee Press)
• Frieda Hughes
  Frieda Hughes
  Frieda Rebecca Hughes is an English poet and painter. She has published seven children's books and four poetry collections and has had many exhibitions.-Early life:...
  
  , Forty-Five (HarperCollins)
• Troy Jollimore
  Troy Jollimore
  -Career & Education:Troy Jollimore was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia and attended the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton University in 1999, under the direction of Harry Frankfurt and Gilbert Harman. He has lived in the U.S. since...
  
  , Tom Thomson in Purgatory (MARGIE/Intuit House), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
• Patricia Spears Jones
  Patricia Spears Jones
  Patricia Spears Jones is an American poet. She is the author of two collections books of poetry: The Weather That Kills and Femme du Monde. Patricia Spears Jones was the co-editor for Ordinary Women: Poems of New York City Women. Her poem, "Beuys and the Blonde" was nominated for a Pushcart...
  
  , Femme du Monde: Poems, (Tia Chucha Press)
• Mary Karr
  Mary Karr
  Mary Karr is an American poet, essayist and memoirist. She rose to fame in 1995 with the publication of her bestselling memoir The Liars' Club...
  
  , Sinners Welcome: Poems (HarperCollins)
• Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis, Intaglio, Kent State
• Galway Kinnell
  Galway Kinnell
  Galway Kinnell is an American poet. He was Poet Laureate of Vermont from 1989 to 1993. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are "St...
  
  , Strong Is Your Hold (Houghton Mifflin Books), the poet's first collection of new poems in more than a decade, one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
• Thomas Kinsella
  Thomas Kinsella
  Thomas Kinsella is an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher.-Early life and work:Kinsella was born in Lucan, County Dublin. He spent much of his childhood with relatives in rural Ireland. He was educated in the Irish language at the Model School, Inchicore and the O'Connell Christian...
  
  , Collected Poems: 1956–2001, Wake Forest
• Kei Miller
  Kei Miller
  Kei Miller is a Jamaican poet, fiction writer, anthologist and occasional journalist.- Biography :Miller was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. He read English at the University of the West Indies, but dropped out short of graduation. However, while studying there, he befriended Mervyn Morris,...
  
  , Kingdom of Empty Bellies, Jamaican
  Jamaican literature
  Jamaican literature is internationally renowned. The island has been the home or birthplace of many important authors. One of the most important aspects of Jamaican literature is the local patois, a variation of English...
  
   poet published in the United States:
• Hannah Nijinsky and John Most, Persephone (AQP Collective)
• Alice Notley
  Alice Notley
  Alice Notley is an American poet. She was born in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. She received a B.A. from Barnard College in 1967 and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969. She married poet Ted Berrigan in 1972, with whom she was active in...
  
  , Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005 (Wesleyan University Press)
• Mary Oliver
  Mary Oliver
  Mary Oliver is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's [America's] best-selling poet".-Early life:...
  
  , Thirst (Beacon Press)
• Carl Phillips
  Carl Phillips
  Carl Phillips is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis....
  
  , Riding Westward, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Ishmael Reed
  Ishmael Reed
  Ishmael Scott Reed is an American poet, essayist, and novelist. A prominent African-American literary figure, Reed is known for his satirical works challenging American political culture, and highlighting political and cultural oppression.Reed has been described as one of the most controversial...
  
  , New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006, one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
• Lisa Robertson
  Lisa Robertson (poet)
  Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet who is best known for a collection a poem entitled The Weather, which was inspired by the shipping forecasts announced on BBC radio. She currently lives in France.-Life:...
  
  , The Men: A Lyric Book (BookThug) ISBN 978-0-9739742-5-6
• Theodore Roethke
  Theodore Roethke
  Theodore Roethke was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm, rhyming, and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking.-Biography:...
  
  , Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, compiled by David Wagoner
  David Wagoner
  David Russell Wagoner is an American poet who has written many poetry collections and ten novels. Two of his books have been nominated for National Book Awards....
  
   from "277 spiral notebooks of poetry fragments, aphorisms, jokes, memos, journal entries, random phrases, bits of dialog, commentary, and fugitive miscellany", Copper Canyon Press
  Copper Canyon Press
  Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, specializing in the publication of poetry and located in the picturesque town of Port Townsend, Washington. Since 1972, the Press has published poetry exclusively and has established an international reputation for its commitment to...
  
  , ISBN 978-1-55659-248-5 (posthumous)
• Miltos Sachtouris
  Miltos Sachtouris
  Miltos Sachtouris or Miltos Sahtouris was a Greek poet. He was a descendant of Giorgos Sachtouris. When he was young he adopted the pen name Miltos Chrysanthis...
  
  , Poems (1945 - 1971), bilingual edition, Greek with English translation by Karen Emmerich (Archipelago Books), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
• Frederick Seidel
  Frederick Seidel
  -Career:In 1962, his first book, Final Solutions, was chosen by a jury of Louise Bogan, Stanley Kunitz, and Robert Lowell for an award sponsored by the 92nd Street Y, with a $1,500 prize...
  
  , Ooga-Booga, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
• Julie Sheehan
  Julie Sheehan
  -Life:She graduated from Yale University, and Columbia University.She lives on Long Island, New York, with her son, and is currently an assistant professor at Stony Brook Southampton....
  
  , Orient Point: Poems, (W.W. Norton & Co.)
• Patricia Smith, Teahouse of the Almighty: Poems, selected by Ed Sanders
  Ed Sanders
  Ed Sanders is an American poet, singer, social activist, environmentalist, author and publisher and has been a longtime member of the band The Fugs. He has been called a bridge between the Beat and Hippie generations.-Biography:...
  
   (Coffee House Press, 2006)
• W.D. Snodgrass, Not For Specialists, New and Selected Poems, (BOA Editions, Ltd.), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
• Mark Strand
  Mark Strand
  Mark Strand is an American poet, essayist, and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. Since 2005, he has been a professor of English at Columbia University.- Biography :...
  
  , Man and Camel (Alfred A. Knopf) by a Canadian
  Canadian poetry
  - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...
  
   native long living in and published in the United States
• Rosmarie Waldrop
  Rosmarie Waldrop
  Rosmarie Waldrop is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s...
  
  , Splitting Image (Zasterle), Curves to the Apple (New Directions)
• Alicia E. Vasquez, 1719 Union St. (Wasteland Press)
• Eliot Weinberger
  Eliot Weinberger
  Eliot Weinberger is a contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator. His work regularly appears in translation and has been published in some thirty languages...
  
  , Muhammed, (Verso, W.W. Norton & Co.)
• Dara Wier
  Dara Wier
  Dara Wier is an American poet and the author of eleven books of poetry, including most recently SELECTED POEMS from Wave Books. Awards include the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from the American Poetry Review, Pushcart Prize, San Francisco Poetry Center Prize. Her work is in Best American Poetry...
  
  , Remnants of Hannah, Wave Books
• C.K. Williams, Collected Poems
• George Witte
  George Witte
  George Witte, an American poet from Madison, New Jersey, is the author of Deniability: Poems and The Apparitioners: Poems.-Career:George Witte is the author of two books of poetry: Deniability: Poems, published by Orchises Press in 2009, and The Apparitioners: Poems, published by Three Rail Press...
  
  , The Apparitioners, Three Rail Press
• Charles Wright
  Charles Wright (poet)
  Charles Wright is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award (19830 for...
  
  , Scar Tissue, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Franz Wright
  Franz Wright
  -Background:Wright graduated from Oberlin College in 1977. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category....
  
  , God's Silence (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Robert Wrigley
  Robert Wrigley
  Robert Wrigley is an American poet and educator.His most recent book is Beautiful Country'. Other collections include Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems Lives of the Animals ; Reign of Snakes ; In the Bank of Beautiful Sins ; What My Father Believed ; Moon in a...
  
  , Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems, Penguin
• Louis Zukofsky
  Louis Zukofsky
  Louis Zukofsky was an American poet. He was one of the founders and the primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets and thus an important influence on subsequent generations of poets in America and abroad.-Life:...
  
  , Selected Poems, American Poets Project of the Library of America, distributed by Penguin Putnam; posthumous
• Jesse Lee Kercheval
  Jesse Lee Kercheval
  Jesse Lee Kercheval is an American academic and writer. She is a writing teacher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has authored several books of various genres, notably Building Fiction, The Museum of Happiness, and The Dogeater....
  
  , Film History As Train Wreck

Anthologies in the United States

• Harold Bloom
  Harold Bloom
  Harold Bloom is an American writer and literary critic, and is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He is known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his unique and controversial theories of poetic influence, and his prodigious literary output, particularly for a literary...
  
   and Jesse Zuba, editors, American Religious Poems: An Anthology, Library of America
• Michael Hofmann
  Michael Hofmann
  Michael Hofmann is a German-born poet who writes in English and a translator of texts from German.-Biography:...
  
  , editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Joy Katz
  Joy Katz
  Joy Katz is an American poet, who was recently awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.She is the author of two poetry collections, most recently, The Garden Room...
  
   and Kevin Prufer
  Kevin Prufer
  Kevin D. Prufer is an American poet, academic, editor, and essayist. His most recent books are In A Beautiful Country and National Anthem...
  
  , editors, Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems, 76 poems, each selected by a poet who was asked to provide an "unknown or underappreciated poem written by anyone, in any language, from any era", along with a brief essay by the selecting poet about the poem each chose; Illinois University Press
• Jeb Livingood
  Jeb Livingood
  Jeb Livingood is an American essayist, short story writer, editor, and academic.- Life :He graduated from University of Virginia, American University, George Mason University, and University of Virginia, with an M.F.A...
  
  , series editor; Eric Pankey
  Eric Pankey
  -Life:He graduated from the University of Missouri and Iowa University with his MFA in 1981.He directed the Creative Writing Program at Washington University in St...
  
  , editor, Best New Poets 2006: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers, Samovar

Poets included in The Best American Poetry 2006

Poets included in The Best American Poetry 2006

The Best American Poetry 2006

The Best American Poetry 2006, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman , and poet Billy Collins, guest editor....

, edited by David Lehman

David Lehman

David Lehman is a poet and the series editor for The Best American Poetry series. He teaches at The New School in New York City.-Career:...

, co-edited this year by Billy Collins

Billy Collins

Billy Collins 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 and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida...

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• Kim Addonizio
  Kim Addonizio
  Kim Addonizio is an award-winning American poet and novelist.-Life:Addonizio is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie....
  
  
• Dick Allen
  Dick Allen
  Richard Anthony Allen is a former Major League Baseball player and R&B singer. He played first and third base and outfield in Major League Baseball and ranked among his sport's top offensive producers of the 1960s and early 1970s...
  
  
• Craig Arnold
  Craig Arnold
  Craig Arnold was an American poet and professor. His first book of poems, Shells , was selected by W. S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets...
  
  
• John Ashbery
  John Ashbery
  John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...
  
  
• Jesse Ball
  Jesse Ball
  Jesse Ball is an American poet and novelist. He has published novels, volumes of poetry, short prose, and drawings.-Education and Early Interests:...
  
  
• Krista Benjamin
  Krista Benjamin
  Krista Benjamin is an American poet and writer. Her poem, “Letter from My Ancestors” was selected by Guest Editor Billy Collins for inclusion in The Best American Poetry 2006. Additional poems and stories appear in The Sun, Margie, Minnesota Review, Pearl , and Phoebe, among other journals...
  
  
• Ilya Bernstein
• Gaylord Brewer
• Tom Christopher
  Tom Christopher
  Tom Christopher is an American artist known for his expressionist urban paintings, mostly of New York City.Critics generally have received his work in a positive light; it has been described as “exploring the many aspects of man’s struggle in an urban environment” with “a blaze of expressionistic...
  
  
• Laura Cronk
• Carl Dennis
  Carl Dennis
  Carl Dennis , an American poet and educator. His book Practical Gods won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Stephen Dobyns
  Stephen Dobyns
  Stephen J. Dobyns is an American poet and novelist born in Orange, New Jersey, and residing in Westerly, RI.-Life:Was born on February 19, 1941 in Orange, New Jersey to Lester L., a minister, and Barbara Johnston...
  
  
• Denise Duhamel
  Denise Duhamel
  -Background:Duhamel received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been resident poet at Bucknell University...
  
  
• Stephen Dunn
  Stephen Dunn
  Stephen Dunn is an American poet. Dunn has written fifteen collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours and has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Dunn completed his B.A. in English at...
  
  
• Beth Ann Fennelly

• Megan Gannon
• Amy Gerstler
  Amy Gerstler
  Amy Gerstler is an American poet. Her books of poetry include Ghost Girl ; Medicine - finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Poetry Award; Crown of Weeds ; Nerve Storm ; Bitter Angel - winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - The True Bride and Dearest Creature, .Described by the Los...
  
  
• Sarah Gorham
  Sarah Gorham
  Sarah Gorham is an American poet, writer and publisher.She was born in Santa Monica, California in 1954. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 1978 and her BA in 1976 from Antioch College....
  
  
• George Green
  George Green
  George Green was a British mathematical physicist who wrote An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism...
  
  
• Debora Greger
  Debora Greger
  Debora Greger is an award-winning American poet as well as a visual artist.She was raised in Richland, Washington....
  
  
• Eamon Grennan
  Eamon Grennan
  Eamon Grennan is an Irish poet born in Dublin. He has lived in the United States, except for brief periods, since 1964. He was the Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Professor of English at Vassar College until his retirement in 2004....
  
  
• Daniel Gutstein
  Daniel Gutstein
  Dan Gutstein is an American writer who has published two collections of writing, non/fiction and Bloodcoal & Honey , as well as poetry, fiction shorts, fiction, drama, and memoir widely in literary magazines, and who has taught poetry and fiction writing, composition, and...
  
  
• R. S. Gwynn
  R. S. Gwynn
  R. S. Gwynn is an American poet, and anthologist associated with New Formalism.-Life:He graduated from Davidson College in 1969, where he won the Vereen Bell Award for creative writing twice, played varsity football on a dubious knee, and was a member of the school's championship team on the...
  
  
• Rachel Hadas
  Rachel Hadas
  Rachel Hadas is an American poet, teacher, essayist, and translator. Her most recent essay collection is Classics: Essays , and her most recent poetry collection is The Ache of Appetite . Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ingram Merrill Foundation Grants, the O.B...
  
  
• Mark Halliday
  Mark Halliday
  Mark Halliday is a noted American poet, professor and critic. He is author of five collections of poetry, most recently Keep This Forever...
  
  
• Jim Harrison
  Jim Harrison
  James "Jim" Harrison is an American author known for his poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and writings about food. He has been called "a force of nature", and his work has been compared to that of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway...
  
  
• Robert Hass
  Robert Hass
  Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials.-Life:...
  
  
• Christian Hawkey
  Christian Hawkey
  Christian Hawkey is an American poet.-Life and work:Christian Hawkey graduated from University of Massachusetts, Amherst....
  
  
• Terrance Hayes
  Terrance Hayes
  Terrance Hayes is a prize-winning American poet. His recent poetry collection Lighthead won the National Book Award for Poetry...
  
  
• Bob Hicok
  Bob Hicok
  -Life:Hicok is an associate professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech. He is from Michigan and before teaching owned and ran a successful automotive die design business...
  
  

• Katia Kapovich
  Katia Kapovich
  Katia Kapovich is a Russian poet now living in the United States. She writes in both Russian and English.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Laura Kasischke
  Laura Kasischke
  Laura Kasischke is an American fiction writer and American poet with poetry awards and multiple well reviewed works of fiction. Her work has received the Juniper Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Prize, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for...
  
  
• Joy Katz
  Joy Katz
  Joy Katz is an American poet, who was recently awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.She is the author of two poetry collections, most recently, The Garden Room...
  
  
• David Kirby
  David Kirby
  David Kirby is a journalist based in Brooklyn, New York, and was formerly a regular contributor to the New York Times since 1998. He is author of the 2005 book Evidence of Harm - Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy....
  
  
• Jennifer L. Knox
• Ron Koertge
• John Koethe
  John Koethe
  John Koethe is an American poet and essayist. Originally from San Diego, California, he was educated at Princeton University and Harvard University, and is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee....
  
  
• Mark Kraushaar
• Julie Larios
• Dorianne Laux
  Dorianne Laux
  Dorianne Laux is an American poet.-Biography:Laux worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988. Laux taught at the University of Oregon...
  
  
• Reb Livingston
• Thomas Lux
  Thomas Lux
  -Biography:Thomas Lux was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, son of a milkman and a Sears & Roebuck switchboard operator, neither of whom graduated from high school. Lux was raised in Massachusetts on a dairy farm. He was, according to those who knew him in high school, very good at baseball,...
  
  
• Paul Muldoon
  Paul Muldoon
  Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 - 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities and...
  
  
• Marilyn Nelson
  Marilyn Nelson
  Marilyn Nelson is an American poet, translator and children's book author. She is the author or translator of twelve books and three chapbooks.-Early life:...
  
  
• Richard Newman
  Richard Newman
  Richard Newman is a voice actor with numerous voice roles in Transformers cartoons.-Career:Newman started his career in voice acting in Beast Wars voicing Rhinox and the Vok...
  
  

• Mary Oliver
  Mary Oliver
  Mary Oliver is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's [America's] best-selling poet".-Early life:...
  
  
• Danielle Pafunda
• Mark Pawlak
  Mark Pawlak
  Mark Pawlak is a Polish-American poet and educator.-Early years:Mark Pawlak was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1948, into an ethnic Polish working class family...
  
  
• Bao Phi
  Bao Phi
  Bao Phi, a Vietnamese American spoken word artist, writer and community activist living in Minnesota.Bao Phi was born in Sai Gon, Viet Nam, the youngest son to two mixed blood Chinese and Vietnamese parents who raised him in the Phillips neighborhood of South Minneapolis.A graduate of Macalester...
  
  
• Donald Platt
  Donald Platt (poet)
  Donald Platt is a poet and professor of English at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Recently, he was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.-Bibliography:...
  
  
• Lawrence Raab
  Lawrence Raab
  -Life:He graduated from Middlebury College, in 1968 and from Syracuse University with an MA, in 1972.He taught at American University 1970-71, University of Michigan, and Williams College 1976 to present...
  
  
• Betsy Retallack
• Liz Rosenberg
  Liz Rosenberg
  Liz Rosenberg is an American poet, novelist, children's book author, and book reviewer. She is currently a professor of English at Binghamton University, and in previous years has taught at Colgate University, Sarah Lawrence College, Hamilton College, Bennington College, and Hollins College...
  
  
• J. Allyn Rosser
  J. Allyn Rosser
  Jill Allyn Rosser , who published under J. Allyn Rosser, is a contemporary American poet.-Life:She grew up in Sparta, New Jersey....
  
  
• Kay Ryan
  Kay Ryan
  Kay Ryan is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. Ryan was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate, from 2008 to 2010...
  
  
• Mary Jo Salter
  Mary Jo Salter
  Mary Jo Salter is an American poet, a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.-Life:...
  
  
• Vejay Sheshadri
• Alan Shapiro
  Alan Shapiro
  Alan Shapiro is an American poet and professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of nine poetry books, including Tantalus in Love, Song and Dance, and The Dead Alive and Busy. He received the Kingsley Tufts Award and the Los Angeles...
  
  
• Charles Simic
  Charles Simic
  Dušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet, and was co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.-Early years:...
  
  
• Gerald Stern
  Gerald Stern
  Gerald Stern is an American poet. His work became widely recognized after the 1977 publication of Lucky Life, which was that year's Lamont Poetry Selection, and of a series of essays on writing poetry in American Poetry Review. He has subsequently been given many prestigious awards for his...
  
  

• James Tate
  James Tate (writer)
  James Tate is an American poet whose work has earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters...
  
  
• Sue Ellen Thompson
• Tony Towle
  Tony Towle
  Tony Towle is a native New Yorker and poet. He began writing poetry in 1960 and John Ashbery has referred to him as "one of the New York School's best-kept secrets"-Personal life:Towle currently lives in New York City with actress, Diane Tyler...
  
  
• Alison Townsend
  Alison Townsend
  -Life:She grew up in New York. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.Her work has appeared in Calyx, Clackamas Literary Review, Fourth Genre, New Letters, The North American Review, and The Southern Review....
  
  
• Paul Violi
  Paul Violi
  Paul Randolph Violi was an American poet born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Splurge, Fracas, The Curious Builder, Likewise, and most recently Overnight...
  
  
• Ellen Bryant Voigt
  Ellen Bryant Voigt
  Ellen Bryant Voigt is an American poet. She has published six collections of poetry and a collection of craft essays. Her poetry collection Shadow of Heaven was a finalist for the National Book Award and Kyrie was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poetry has been...
  
  
• David Wagoner
  David Wagoner
  David Russell Wagoner is an American poet who has written many poetry collections and ten novels. Two of his books have been nominated for National Book Awards....
  
  
• Charles Harper Webb
  Charles Harper Webb
  Charles Harper Webb is an American poet, professor, psychotherapist and former singer and guitarist. His most recent poetry collection is Shadow Ball . His honors include a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a Pushcart Prize and inclusion in The Best American...
  
  
• C. K. Williams
  C. K. Williams
  Charles Kenneth Williams is an American poet. Senior poet Paul Muldoon has described him as “one of the most distinguished poets of his generation.” -Biography:...
  
  
• Terence Winch
  Terence Winch
  -Biography:Terence Patrick Winch was born in New York City in 1945. He grew up in an Irish neighborhood in the Bronx, the child of Irish immigrants. In 1971, he moved to Washington, DC, where he became involved with the Mass Transit readings in Dupont Circle. He published the first issue of Mass...
  
  
• Susan Wood
  Susan Wood (poet)
  Susan Wood is an American poet and the Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English at Rice University.-Life:She received her B.A. from East Texas State University, and her M.A...
  
  
• Franz Wright
  Franz Wright
  -Background:Wright graduated from Oberlin College in 1977. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category....
  
  
• Robert Wrigley
  Robert Wrigley
  Robert Wrigley is an American poet and educator.His most recent book is Beautiful Country'. Other collections include Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems Lives of the Animals ; Reign of Snakes ; In the Bank of Beautiful Sins ; What My Father Believed ; Moon in a...
  
  
• David Yezzi
  David Yezzi
  David Dalton Yezzi is an American poet, actor and executive editor of The New Criterion.Yezzi is a former associate editor of Parnassus: Poetry in Review and a former poetry editor at The New Criterion....
  
  
• Dean Young
  Dean Young (poet)
  Dean Young is a contemporary American poet in the poetic lineage of John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch. Often cited as a second-generation New York School poet, Young also derives influence and inspiration from the work of André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the other French Surrealist poets,...
  
  

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

• Jason Shinder
  Jason Shinder
  Jason Shinder is an American poet who authored three books and founded the YMCA National Writer's Voice. His last book, Stupid Hope , was released posthumously....
  
  , editor, “The Poem That Changed America: 'Howl' Fifty Years Later, essays on Allen Ginsberg
  Allen Ginsberg
  Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression...
  
  's poem, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Other

• Chandrashekhar Bhattacharya, Tomake Ebong Tomake: Poems (Manaswini Publication), Bangladesh
• Claude Esteban
  Claude Esteban
  Claude Esteban was a French poet.Author of a major poetic œuvre of this last half-century, Claude Esteban wrote numerous essays on art and poetry and was the French translator, inter alia, of Jorge Guillén, Octavio Paz, Borges, García Lorca, or again, Quevedo.-Biography:Of Spanish father and...
  
  , Le Jour à peine écrit (1967-1992), Gallimard, France
  French poetry
  French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
  
  
• Mohit Kailashnath Misra, "Ponder Awhile" (Booksurge Publishers)

Works published in other languages

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Czech Republic

• Michal Ajvaz
  Michal Ajvaz
  Michal Ajvaz is a Czech novelist, poet and translator, an exponent of the literary style known as magic realism.- Biography :...
  
  , Padesát pět měst ("Fifty-five cities")
• Petr Král
  Petr Král
  Petr Král is a Czech writer. Having graduated from FAMU, he worked as an editor in the Orbis publishing house, where he focused on a line of books about film and film-makers. In 1968, he emigrated to France where he worked in a gallery, a photo shop, as a teacher, interpreter, translator,...
  
  , Hm čili Míra omylu, 2006
• Michal Šanda
  Michal Šanda
  Michal Šanda is Czech writer and poet.- Life :After secondary school, he made his living in a series of jobs that included stonemasonry, bookselling, street vending, fowling and organ-grinding, as well as making fans on an ostrich farm and painting railway cars...
  
  , Kecanice ("Chew The Rag"), Prague: Protis, ISBN 978-80-85940-75-6
• Marie Šťastná
  Marie Štastná
  Marie Šťastná is a Czech poet. She has a degree in Art History and History of Culture from the University of Ostrava....
  
  , Akty ("Nudes"), Czech Republic
• Ivan Wernisch
  Ivan Wernisch
  Ivan Wernisch is a Czech poet, editor and a collage artist. He studied Ceramics Secondary school in Carlsbad and has since done many jobs, mostly manual. In 1961, after publishing his debut poetry book, he quickly established himself as one of the best and most loved writers of his generation...
  
  , Michal Šanda
  Michal Šanda
  Michal Šanda is Czech writer and poet.- Life :After secondary school, he made his living in a series of jobs that included stonemasonry, bookselling, street vending, fowling and organ-grinding, as well as making fans on an ostrich farm and painting railway cars...
  
   and Milan Ohnisko
  Milan Ohnisko
  Milan Ohnisko is a Czech poet and editor. After quitting two secondary schools before graduating either of them he worked in many manual professions. He also had his own publishing house and a bookshop...
  
  , Býkárna, Druhé město Brno
  Brno
  Brno by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative centre of the South Moravian Region where it forms a separate district Brno-City District...
  
  , ISBN 978-80-7227-252-5

France

French poetry

French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

• Léopold Sédar Senghor
  Léopold Sédar Senghor
  Léopold Sédar Senghor was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal . Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the Académie française. Before independence, he founded the political party called the Senegalese...
  
  , Œuvre poétique, éd. Le Seuil - Points.
• Jacques Roubaud
  Jacques Roubaud
  Jacques Roubaud is a French poet and mathematician.Jacques Roubaud is a professor of poetry at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and he was a professor of Mathematics at University of Paris X...
  
  , Cœurs, La Bibliothèque Oulipienne n°155
• Jean Max Tixier
  Jean Max Tixier
  -Life:He taught at the Lycée Agricole de Hyères.He is a member of the Editorial Board of journals "Autre Sud" , "Encres Vives", and "Poésie 1 Vagabondages".-Awards:* 1992 Campion-Guillaumet Prize by SGDL, for Etats du lieu...
  
  , Les silences du passeur, publisher: Le Taillis pré
• Linda Maria Baros
  Linda Maria Baros
  Linda Maria Baros is a French-language poet, translator and literary critic, one of the most powerful new voices on today’s poetry scene .She lives in Paris, France.-Biography:* Pupil at the Central School in Bucharest and at the Victor...
  
  , La Maison en lames de rasoir (The House Made of Razor Blades), Cheyne éditeur

Germany

• Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Norbert Hummelt
  Norbert Hummelt
  Norbert Hummelt is a German poet, essayist and translator.Hummelt studied German studies und English studies in Cologne until 1990. He worked together with Marcel Beyer and like him he started as a rather experimental writer, following Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Thomas Kling. From 1988 to 1992 he...
  
  , guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2007 ("Poetry Yearbook 2007"), publisher: S. Fischer Verlag; anthology
• Hendrik Jackson. Dunkelströme ("Dark Current") Kookbooks, 72 pages, ISBN 978-3-937445-18-2
• Christoph Janacs, Unverwandt den Schatten ("Intently the Shadow"); St. Georgs Presse
• Christoph Ransmayr
  Christoph Ransmayr
  Christoph Ransmayr is an Austrian writer.- Life :Born in Wels, Upper Austria Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee. From 1972 to 1978 he studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna...
  
  , Der fliegende Berg, a novel-poem Austria
• Monika Rinck, Ah, das Love-Ding ("Ah, the Love-Ding"), illustrated by Andreas Topfer, Kookbooks, 160 pages, ISBN 978-3-937445-20-5

India

Indian poetry

Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

• Amarjit Chandan, Annjall, Lokgeet, Chandigarh; Punjabi
• Bharat Majhi; Oriya:
  • Murtikar Bhubaneswar: Pen In, Bhubaneswar
  • Mahanagara Padya, Bhubaneswar: Pratchi Prakasani
• Jayanta Mahapatra
  Jayanta Mahapatra
  Jayanta Mahapatra is one of the best known Indian English poets.By all standards, Mahapatra's tryst with the muse came rather late in life. He took to writing poetry when he was into his 40s...
  
  , Samparka, Natuna Dilli: Sāhitya Akādemi; Bengali
  Bengali poetry
  Bengali poetry is a form that originated in Pāli and other Prakrit socio-cultural traditions. It is antagonistic towards Vedic rituals and laws as opposed to the shramanic traditions such as Buddhism and Jainism...
  
  -language
• K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam
  Malayalam poetry
  There are two types of meters used in Malayalam poetry, the classical Sanskrit based and Tamil based ones.- Sanskrit Meters :Sanskrit meters are primarily based on trisyllabic feet. The short sound is called a laghu, a long sound is called a guru. A guru is twice as long as a laghu...
  
  :
  • Satchidanandte Kavithakal, selected poems, 1965-2005
  • Anantam ("Infinite")
  • Onnaam Padham ("The First Lesson")
• K. Siva Reddy, Mithi Ka Pukar, translated into Hindi from the original Telugu
  Telugu poetry
  Telugu poetry is verse originating in the southern provinces of India, predominantly from modern Andhra Pradesh and some corners of Tamilnadu and Karnataka.- Origins :...
  
   by Narasa Reddy), Hyderabad: Milind Prakashan
• Kanaka Ha. Ma., Arabi Kadalu, Sagara, Karnataka: Akshara Prakashana; Kannada
  Kannada poetry
  Kannada poetry is poetry written in the Kannada language spoken in Karnataka. Karnataka is the land that gave birth to eight Jnanapeeth award winners, the highest honour bestowed for Indian literature...
  
  
• Namdeo Dhasal
  Namdeo Dhasal
  Namdeo Laxman Dhasal is a Marathi writer and Dalit activist from Maharashtra, India.-Biography:Dhasal was born on February 15, 1949, in a village near Pune, India. A member of the Mahar Dalit class, he grew up in dire poverty...
  
  , Tujhe Bot Dharoon Chalalo Ahe Mee; Marathi
  Marathi poetry
  -Earliest Prominent Marathi Poetry:The two poets, Namadev and Dnyaneshwar , wrote the earliest significant poetry in Marathi. They were respectively born in 1270 and 1275 CE in Maharashtra, India, and both wrote religious poetry. A little over 400 verses in the so-called “abhang” form are...
  
  
• Nirendranath Chakravarti, Jyotsnaye Ekela, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali
  Bengali poetry
  Bengali poetry is a form that originated in Pāli and other Prakrit socio-cultural traditions. It is antagonistic towards Vedic rituals and laws as opposed to the shramanic traditions such as Buddhism and Jainism...
  
  
• Prem ke Roopak, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan, ISBN 978-81-8143-543-9, anthology, Hindi-language

Poland

Polish poetry

Polish poetry has a centuries old history, similar to the Polish literature.Three most famous Polish poets are known as the Three Bards: Adam Mickiewicz , Juliusz Słowacki and Zygmunt Krasiński ....

• Marcin Baran
  Marcin Baran
  Marcin Baran is a Polish poet and journalist. He has a degree in Polonistics from the Jagiellonian University. He is one of the Polish poets who published their verses in the magazine bruLion ....
  
  , Sprzeczne fagmenty
• Stanisław Barańczak, Wiersze zebrane, Krakow: a5
• Wojciech Bonowicz, Pełne morze
• Ewa Lipska
  Ewa Lipska
  Ewa Lipska, born October 8, 1945, in Kraków is a Polish poet from the generation of the Polish "New Wave." Collections of her verse have been translated into English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German and Hungarian...
  
  , Drzazga, Krakow: Wydawnictwo literackie
• Czesław Miłosz, Wiersze ostatnie ("The Last Poems"), Kraków: Znak
• Marta Podgórnik, Dwa do jeden
• Tomasz Różycki
  Tomasz Różycki
  Tomasz Różycki is a Polish poet and translator. He studied Romance Languages at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and taught French at the Foreign Languages Teaching College in Opole...
  
  , Kolonie ("Colonies"), 77 poems, 86 pp, Kraków: Znak, ISBN 978-83-240-0697-7
• Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, Do widzenia gawrony ("Good-bye, Rooks"), Warsaw: Sic!
• Marcin Świetlicki
  Marcin Swietlicki
  Marcin Świetlicki is a Polish poet, writer, and musician. He lives and works in Cracow, Poland.Świetlicki was born in Piaski, near Lublin, Poland. He studied Polish Literature at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, where he has been living since 1980. He worked as an editor at the Tygodnik...
  
  , Muzyka środka
• Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki
  Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki
  Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki is an award-winning Polish poet.Born in Wólka Krowicka near Lubaczów, he is an author of nine volumes of poems and some texts for the magazine Kresy. He is a past winner of the Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna Award, the Barbara Sadowska Award, Polish-German Days of Literature...
  
  , Poezja jako miejsce na ziemi. (1988-2003)
• Jan Twardowski
  Jan Twardowski
  Jan Jakub Twardowski was a famous Polish poet, but, as he said of himself, he was a priest first of all. He was a chief Polish representative of contemporary religious lyrics. He wrote short, simple poems, humorous, sometimes with colloquialisms...
  
  , Kilka myśli o cierpieniu, przemijaniu i odejściu Poznan: Księgarnia Św. Wojciecha

Russia

• Yelena Fanaylova, Russkaya versiya ("The Russian Version")
• Lev Losev
  Lev Losev
  -Early life and education:The son of poet Vladimir Lifshitz, Loseff was born in Leningrad. He attended Leningrad's famous Saint Peter's School and graduated from the journalism department of the Leningrad State University.-Literary career:...
  
  , Iosif Brodsky: opyt literaturnoy biografii, biography of Joseph Brodsky
  Joseph Brodsky
  Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters...
  
  , a friend of the author's, Russia
• Alexander Mezhirov
  Alexander Mezhirov
  Alexander Petrovich Mezhirov was a Soviet and Russian poet, translator and critic....
  
  , Артиллерия бьёт по своим, Moscow: publisher: Zebra E
• Aleksey Tsvetkov, Shekspir otdykhaet ("Shakespeare at Rest")
• Dmitry Vodennikov
  Dmitry Vodennikov
  Dmitry Vodennikov is a Russian poet and essayistIn 2002, he was named as one of the ten best living Russian poets in a poll of 110 leading Russian poets and critics, being one of just two poets under 35 in the top ten. Some critics name him as "perhaps the best known poet of his generation",...
  
  , Chernovik ("Rough Draft")
• Igor Vishnevetsky
  Igor Vishnevetsky
  Igor Georgievich Vishnevetsky is a notable Russian poet. He has been a contributor and editor in numerous Russian literary journals and anthologies since the 1980s...
  
  , На запад солнца ("West of the Sun")
• Ivan Zhdanov, a book of selected works

Other languages

• Klaus Høeck, Heartland, publisher: Gyldendal; Denmark Denmark
• Duo Yo, Duo Yu shixuan ("Poems by Duo Yu"), China
  Chinese poetry
  Chinese poetry is poetry written, spoken, or chanted in the Chinese language, which includes various versions of Chinese language, including Classical Chinese, Standard Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Yue Chinese, as well as many other historical and vernacular varieties of the Chinese language...
  
  

International

• Nobel Prize in Literature
  Nobel Prize in Literature
  Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
  
  : Orhan Pamuk
  Orhan Pamuk
  Ferit Orhan Pamuk , generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk, is a Turkish novelist. He is also the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches comparative literature and writing....
  
  , Turkey
  Turkish literature
  Turkish literature comprises both oral compositions and written texts in the Turkish language, either in its Ottoman form or in less exclusively literary forms, such as that spoken in the Republic of Turkey today...
  
  
• Golden Wreath of Poetry
  Struga Poetry Evenings
  Struga Poetry Evenings is an international poetry festival held annually in Struga, Republic of Macedonia. During the several decades of its existence, the Festival has awarded its most prestigious award, the Golden Wreath, to some of the most notable international poets, including: Mahmoud...
  
  : Nancy Morejón
  Nancy Morejón
  Nancy Morejón is one of Cuba's major authors and poets. She has gained recognition for work whose themes are centered on women and the Afro-Cuban experience.-Life history:...
  
   (Cuba
  Cuba
  The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
  
  )

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry
  C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry
  The C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, for a significant selection of new work by a poet published in a book. It is named after the early twentieth century vernacular poet C. J...
  
  :
• Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize
  The Age Book of the Year
  The Age Book of the Year Awards are annual literary awards presented by Melbourne's The Age newspaper. The awards were first presented in 1974. Since 1998 they have been presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival...
  
  : Friendly Fire by Jennifer Maiden
  Jennifer Maiden
  Jennifer Maiden is a contemporary Australian poet.Jennifer Maiden was born in Penrith, New South Wales. She began publishing professionally in the late 1960s and has been active in Sydney's literary scene since then. She took a BA at Macquarie University in the early 1970s...
  
  
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
  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...
  
  :

Canada

Canadian poetry

- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

• Atlantic Poetry Prize
  Atlantic Poetry Prize
  The Atlantic Poetry Prize is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, to the best work of poetry published by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.-Winners:*1998 - Carmelita McGrath, To the New World...
  
  : Jenny MacDougall
• Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate
  Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate
  -Role:According to the laureate's official Web site: "The Poet’s role is to encourage and promote the importance of literature, culture and language in Canadian society...
  
  : John Steffler
  John Steffler
  -Biography:Born in Toronto, Ontario, Steffler was educated at the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph. Since 1975 he has lived in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador where he taught at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College...
  
   (until December 3, 2008)

• Griffin Poetry Prize
  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. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language....
  
   (Canada): Sylvia Legris
  Sylvia Legris
  Sylvia Legris is a Canadian poet.Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, she now lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She has published three volumes of poetry, the third of which, Nerve Squall, won the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize and Pat Lowther Award....
  
  , Nerve Squall
• Griffin Poetry Prize
  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. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language....
  
   (International, in the English Language): Kamau Brathwaite, Born to Slow Horses
• Pat Lowther Award
  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. It is presented in honour of poet Pat Lowther, who was murdered by her husband in 1975. Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.-Winners:*1981 - M...
  
  : Sylvia Legris
  Sylvia Legris
  Sylvia Legris is a Canadian poet.Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, she now lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She has published three volumes of poetry, the third of which, Nerve Squall, won the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize and Pat Lowther Award....
  
  , Nerve Squall
• Prix Alain-Grandbois
  Prix Alain-Grandbois
  The Prix Alain-Grandbois or Alain Grandbois Prize is awarded each year to an author for a book of poetry. The jury is composed of three members of the Académie des lettres du Québec...
  
  : Fernand Ouellette
• Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award
  Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award
  The Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award, established in 1996, was an annual prize given by the Canadian Poetry Association. It was named in memory of Shaunt Basmajian, a founder of the association. It was an annual manuscript publication competition and award...
  
  : Kate Marshall Flaherty, Unfathom, ISBN 978-1-55253-065-8

New Zealand

New Zealand literature

New Zealand literature is essentially literature in English that is either written by New Zealanders, or migrants, dealing with New Zealand themes or places and is primarily a 20th Century creation...

• Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
• Montana New Zealand Book Awards
  Montana New Zealand Book Awards
  The New Zealand Post Book Awards are a series of literary awards to works of New Zealand citizens. They were created in 1996, as a merge of the two previously most relevant awards in New Zealand: the Montana Book Awards and the New Zealand Book Awards...
  
   (poetry category): Bill Manhire
  Bill Manhire
  William "Bill" Manhire, CNZM is an award-winning New Zealand poet, short story writer, and professor, New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate.-Biography:...
  
  , Lifted, Victoria University Press

United Kingdom

English poetry

The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

• Forward Poetry Prize
  Forward Poetry Prize
  The Forward Poetry Prizes were created in 1991. The aim of the prizes is to extend the audience for contemporary poetry. Until the T.S. Eliot Prize remuneration was increased to £15,000 plus £1000 to each of nine runners-up, the Forward was the United Kingdom's most valuable annual poetry...
  
   Best Collection: Robin Robertson
  Robin Robertson
  Robin Robertson is a Scottish poet.-Biography:Robertson was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland, but has spent most of his professional life in London...
  
   for Swithering.
• Forward Poetry Prize
  Forward Poetry Prize
  The Forward Poetry Prizes were created in 1991. The aim of the prizes is to extend the audience for contemporary poetry. Until the T.S. Eliot Prize remuneration was increased to £15,000 plus £1000 to each of nine runners-up, the Forward was the United Kingdom's most valuable annual poetry...
  
   Best First Collection: Tishani Doshi
  Tishani Doshi
  Tishani Doshi is an Indian poet, journalist and dancer based in Chennai. Born in Madras, India, to a Welsh mother and Gujarati father, she received an Eric Gregory Award in 2001. Her first poetry collection, Countries of the Body, won the 2006 Forward Poetry Prize for best first collection...
  
  , for Countries of the Body.
• Forward Poetry Prize
  Forward Poetry Prize
  The Forward Poetry Prizes were created in 1991. The aim of the prizes is to extend the audience for contemporary poetry. Until the T.S. Eliot Prize remuneration was increased to £15,000 plus £1000 to each of nine runners-up, the Forward was the United Kingdom's most valuable annual poetry...
  
   Best Single Poem: Sean O'Brien
  Sean O'Brien (writer)
  Sean O'Brien is a British poet, critic, playwright. Prizes he has garnered include the Eric Gregory Award , the Somerset Maugham Award , the Cholmondeley Award , the Forward Poetry Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize...
  
  , for "Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright".
• T. S. Eliot Prize
  T. S. Eliot Prize
  The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded by the Poetry Book Society to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" in any particular year. The Prize was inaugurated in 1993 in celebration of the Poetry Book Society's 40th birthday and in...
  
   (United Kingdom and Ireland): Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
  
  , for District and Circle
• Costa Book Awards
  Costa Book Awards
  The Costa Book Awards are a series of literary awards given to books by authors based in Great Britain and Ireland. They were known as the Whitbread Book Awards until 2005, after which Costa Coffee, a subsidiary of Whitbread, took over sponsorship....
  
   (formerly Whitbread Award) for poetry: John Haynes for Letter to Patience
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
  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 include people from the rest of the Commonwealth realms...
  
  : Fleur Adcock
  Fleur Adcock
  Kareen Fleur Adcock , CNZM, OBE is a poet and an editor of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England.-Life and career:...
  
  

United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
  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, USA was initiated by Ed Ochester and developed by Frederick A. Hetzel. The prize is...
  
    awarded to Nancy Krygowski for Velocity
• American Academy of Arts and Letters: poets Paul Auster
  Paul Auster
  Paul Benjamin Auster is an American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy , Moon Palace , The Music of Chance , The Book of Illusions and The Brooklyn Follies...
  
   and Frank Bidart
  Frank Bidart
  Frank Bidart is an American academic and poet.-Biography:In 1957, he began to study at the University of California at Riverside and went on to Harvard, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop...
  
   elected to the Literature Department
• Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
  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 nation's official poet. During his or her term, the Poet Laureate seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of...
  
  : Donald Hall
  Donald Hall
  Donald Hall is an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2006.-Personal life:...
  
   appointed
• Poet Laureate of Virginia
  Poet Laureate of Virginia
  The position of Poet Laureate of Virginia was established December 18, 1936 by the General Assembly.Originally the Poet Laureate of Virginia was appointed without outside consultation by the General Assembly, usually for one year. The procedure was later changed and most recently codified in 1998...
  
  : Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
  Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
  Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda was named Poet Laureate of Virginia by the Governor, Tim Kaine, on June 26, 2006. She succeeded Rita Dove and served in this position from June 2006 - July 2008...
  
  , two year appointment 2006 to 2008
• Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards
  Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards
  The Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards are relatively large prizes given out each year to poets with unpublished manuscripts. In addition to the cash prizes, two winners get published by a university press....
  
  : Moira Linehan
  Moira Linehan
  Moira Linehan is an American poet. She graduated from Boston College, and Vermont College of Fine Arts, with an MFA.She lived in Winchester, Massachusetts, where she worked as an academic administrator...
  
  , If No Moon
• James Laughlin Award
  James Laughlin Award
  The James Laughlin Award, formerly the Lamont Poetry Prize, is given annually for a poet's second published book; it is the only major poetry award that honors a second book...
  
   for poetry: Tracy K. Smith
  Tracy K. Smith
  Tracy K. Smith is an African American poet and educator. She has published three collections of poetry. About her most recent collection, Life on Mars , Joel Brouwer wrote: "Smith shows herself to be a poet of extraordinary range and ambition......
  
  
• National Book Award for poetry: Nathaniel Mackey
  Nathaniel Mackey
  Nathaniel Mackey is an American poet, novelist, anthologist, literary critic, editor and Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Mackey is a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. Mackey is currently teaching a poetry workshop at Duke University....
  
  , Splay Anthem, New Directions
  • Finalists: Louise Glück
    Louise Glück
    Louise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet of Hungarian Jewish heritage. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000....
    
    , Averno, Farrar, Straus & Giroux; H.L. Hix, Chromatic, Etruscan Press
    Etruscan Press
    Etruscan Press is an American publisher founded in 2001 with a grant from the Oristaglio Foundation. A non-profit co-operative of poets and writers, Etruscan Press' goal is to "produce and promote books that nurture the dialogue among genres, achieve a distinctive voice, and reshape the literary...
    
    ; Ben Lerner
    Ben Lerner
    Benjamin S. Lerner is an American poet, novelist, and critic. He was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of fifty-two sonnets, . In 2004, Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry...
    
    , Angle of Yaw, Copper Canyon Press
    Copper Canyon Press
    Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, specializing in the publication of poetry and located in the picturesque town of Port Townsend, Washington. Since 1972, the Press has published poetry exclusively and has established an international reputation for its commitment to...
    
    ; James McMichael
    James McMichael
    -Life:The Pasadena, California native received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. In 1970 he married his second wife, Phylinda Wallace, a translator, and has three children, Robert, Geoffrey and Owen....
    
    , Capacity, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
• National Poetry Review Book Prize: Bryan Penberthy
  Bryan Penberthy
  Bryan Penberthy is an American poet. Born in Dearborn, Michigan, in 1976, he was raised near Leavenworth, Kansas. He received his B.A. from Kansas State University in 2000, and his M.F.A. from Purdue University in 2003...
  
  , Lucktown.
• Poets' Prize
  Poets' Prize
  The Poets' Prize is awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year. The $3000 annual prize is donated by a committee of about 20 American poets, who each nominate two books and who also serve as judges...
  
  : Catherine Tufariello
  Catherine Tufariello
  -Life:She graduated from University of Buffalo, and Cornell University with a PhD.She taught at Cornell University, the College of Charleston, and the University of Miami....
  
  , Keeping My Name
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, special citations for poetry were presented in 1918 and 1919.-Winners:...
  
   (United States): Claudia Emerson
  Claudia Emerson
  Claudia Emerson is an American poet who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Late Wife.-Background:...
  
  , Late Wife; and Poet Laureate of Virginia 2008 to 2010
• Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award
  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 Fifth Annual West Chester University Poetry...
  
  : John Hollander
  John Hollander
  John Hollander is a Jewish-American poet and literary critic. As of 2007, he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University...
  
  
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
  Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
  The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize is awarded annually by The Poetry Foundation; the Foundation also publishes Poetry. The Prize was established in 1986 by Ruth Lilly. The prize honors a living U.S. poet whose "lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition"; its value is presently $100,000...
  
  : Richard Wilbur
  Richard Wilbur
  Richard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989....
  
  
• Whiting Writers' Award
  Whiting Writers' Award
  The Whiting Writers' 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 and has been presented since 1985. As of 2007, winners receive US $50,000.-External links:**...
  
   (poetry winners): Sherwin Bitsui
  Sherwin Bitsui
  Sherwin Bitsui is originally from Baaʼoogeedí , on the Navajo Nation. Currently, he lives in Tucson, Arizona. He is Navajo of the Todichʼíiʼnii , born for the Tłʼízíłání ....
  
  , Tyehimba Jess
  Tyehimba Jess
  Tyehimba Jess is an American poet.-Life:He graduated from the University of Chicago, and New York University, with an MFA. He teaches poetry and fiction at CUNY College of Staten Island and is the faculty adviser for Caesura, the university's literary arts magazine.His work appeared in Soul...
  
  , Suji Kwock Kim
  Suji Kwock Kim
  -Life:She graduated from Yale College; the Iowa Writers' Workshop; Seoul National University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar; and Stanford University, where she was a Stegner Fellow....
  
  
• Wallace Stevens Award: Michael Palmer
  Michael Palmer
  Michael Palmer is an American poet and translator. He attended Harvard University where he earned a BA in French and a MA in Comparative Literature. He has worked extensively with Contemporary dance for over thirty years and has collaborated with many composers and visual artists...
  
  
• Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
  Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
  The Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the first collection of a promising American poet...
  
  : Jessica Fisher
  Jessica Fisher
  Jessica Fisher is an American poet, and was the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2007.She is the daughter of Ann Fisher-Wirth. She is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley....
  
  , Frail-Craft; Judge: Louise Glück
  Louise Glück
  Louise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet of Hungarian Jewish heritage. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000....
  
  
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Carl Phillips
  Carl Phillips
  Carl Phillips is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis....
  
  

From the Poetry Society of America

Poetry Society of America

The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists including Witter Bynner. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the have included such renowned writers as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent...

• Frost Medal
  Frost Medal
  The Robert Frost Medal is an award of the Poetry Society of America for "distinguished lifetime service to American poetry." Medalists receive a prize purse of $2,500....
  
  : Maxine Kumin
  Maxine Kumin
  Maxine Kumin is an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981-1982.-Early years:...
  
  
• Shelley Memorial Award
  Shelley Memorial Award
  The Shelley Memorial Award of more than $3,500, given out by the Poetry Society of America, was established by the will of the late Mary P. Sears, and named after the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The prize is given to a living American poet selected with reference to genius and need. The selection is...
  
  : George Stanley (poet)
  George Stanley (poet)
  George Stanley is an award-winning American-Canadian poet associated with the San Francisco Renaissance in his early years and later a resident of British Columbia....
  
  , Judges: Sonia Sanchez
  Sonia Sanchez
  Sonia Sanchez is an African American poet most often associated with the Black Arts Movement. She has authored over a dozen books of poetry, as well as plays and children's books...
  
  , Joshua Clover
  Joshua Clover
  Joshua Clover is a poet, critic, journalist and author. He has appeared in three editions of Best American Poetry, is a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, and recipient of an individual grant from the NEA; his first book of poetry, Madonna anno domini, received the Walt Whitman Award from the...
  
  
• Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
  Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
  The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America "to honor the memory and poetry of Emily Dickinson, for a poem inspired by Dickinson though not necessarily in her style." The winner receives a $250 prize.-Winners:*2010: Marlene Rosen Fine,...
  
  : Nicole Cooley
  Nicole Cooley
  Nicole Ruth Cooley is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is Breach . Her work has appeared in Poetry, Field, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, The Paris Review, PEN America, The Missouri Review, The Nation, and Pedagogy...
  
  , "The Anatomical Museum", Judge: Gerald Stern
  Gerald Stern
  Gerald Stern is an American poet. His work became widely recognized after the 1977 publication of Lucky Life, which was that year's Lamont Poetry Selection, and of a series of essays on writing poetry in American Poetry Review. He has subsequently been given many prestigious awards for his...
  
  
• Cecil Hemley Memorial Award
  Cecil Hemley Memorial Award
  The Cecil Hemley Memorial Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America "for a lyric poem that addresses a philosophical or epistemological concern."...
  
  : Rusty Morrison
  Rusty Morrison
  Rusty Morrison is an American poet and publisher. She received a BA in English from Mills College in Oakland, California, an MFA in Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California, and an MA in Education from California State University, San Francisco...
  
  , "Sky Clutches Any Strong Beat", Judge: Cal Bedient
• Lanan Literary Award for Poetry: Bruce Weigl
  Bruce Weigl
  Bruce Weigl is an American contemporary poet who teaches at Lorain County Community College. Weigl enlisted in the United States Army shortly after his 18th birthday and spent three years in the service. He served in the Vietnam War from December 1967 to December 1968 and received the Bronze Star...
  
  
• Lyric Poetry Award
  Lyric Poetry Award
  The Lyric Poetry Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America and was "established under the will of PSA member Mrs. Consuelo Ford , and also in memory of Mary Carolyn Davies, for a lyric poem on any subject."...
  
  : Alice Jones
  Alice Jones
  Alice Jones is an American poet, physician, and psychoanalyst. Her most recent collection of poetry is Gorgeous Mourning . Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including Antioch Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Boston Review, The Denver Quarterly, and Chelsea...
  
  , "Valle D'Aosta", Judge: Toi Derricotte
  Toi Derricotte
  Toi Derricotte is an American poet and a professor of writing at University of Pittsburgh.At Wayne State University she earned a B.A. in 1965 and an M.A...
  
  
• Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
  Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
  The Lucille Medwick Memorial Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America. It was "established by Maury Medwick in memory of his wife, the poet and editor, for an original poem in any form on a humanitarian theme."...
  
  : Lynne Knight, "Recovery", Judge: Grace Schulman
  Grace Schulman
  -Life:She studied at Bard College, and graduated from American University in 1955, and from New York University with a Ph.D.She is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY...
  
  
  • Finalists: Amy Dryansky
    Amy Dryansky
    Amy Dryansky is an American poet. She is author of How I Got Lost So Close to Home , and has had her poems published in literary journals and magazines including Orion Magazine, DoubleTake Magazine, The New England Review, The Massachusetts Review, Nerve, and in anthologies including Sweeping...
    
    , Somewhere Honey from Those Bees; J.C. Todd, What's Left;
• Alice Fay di Castagnola Award (for a manuscript in progress): G.C. Waldrep
  G.C. Waldrep
  George Calvin Waldrep is an American poet and historian. -Biography:Waldrep earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees in History at Harvard University and Duke University, respectively, before receiving an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa.He was visiting professor at Kenyon...
  
  , Archicembalo,
  • Finalists: John Isles, The Arcadia Negotiations; Wayne Miller, The Book of Props; Emily Rosko, Weather Inventions; Judge: Forrest Gander
    Forrest Gander
    Forrest Gander is an American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and translator.Born in the Mojave Desert, he was raised in Virginia where he attended The College of William and Mary, majoring in geology, a subject referenced frequently in both his poems and essays. He received an M.A...
    
    
• Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award
  Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award
  The Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award is given "for the best unpublished poem by a student in grades 9 through 12 from the United States. Teachers or administrators may submit an unlimited number of their students' poems."...
  
  : Katherine Browning, "to discover the cartography of blankness", Judge: Prageeta Sharma
• George Bogin Memorial Award
  George Bogin Memorial Award
  The Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Memorial Award is given "by the family and friends of George Bogin for a selection of four or five poems that use language in an original way to reflect the encounter of the ordinary and the extraordinary and to take a stand against oppression in any of...
  
  : Kevin Prufer
  Kevin Prufer
  Kevin D. Prufer is an American poet, academic, editor, and essayist. His most recent books are In A Beautiful Country and National Anthem...
  
  
  • Finalists: Susan Briante, Jill McDonough
    Jill McDonough
    Jill Susann McDonough is an American poet.She grew up in North CarolinaShe graduated from Stanford University, and from Boston University with an MFA.She taught in the Prison Education Program of Boston University....
    
    , Judge: Marie Howe
    Marie Howe
    Marie Howe is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is The Kingdom of Ordinary Time . Her first book, The Good Thief, was selected by Margaret Atwood as the winner of the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series...
    
    
• Robert H. Winner Memorial Award
  Robert H. Winner Memorial Award
  The Poetry Society of America's Robert H. Winner Memorial Award is given "by the family and friends of Robert H. Winner, whose first book of poems appeared when he was almost fifty years old...
  
  : Daneen Wardrop, Archicembalo, Judge: Jean Valentine
  Jean Valentine
  Jean Valentine is an American poet, and currently the New York State Poet . Her poetry collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003, was awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry....
  
  
• Norma Farber First Book Award
  Norma Farber First Book Award
  The Norma Farber First Book Award is given by the Poetry Society of America "for a first book of original poetry written by an American and published in either a hard or soft cover in a standard edition during the calendar year"....
  
  : Cammy Thomas, Cathedral of Wish, Judge: Medbh McGuckian
  Medbh McGuckian
  Medbh McGuckian is a poet from Northern Ireland.-Biography:She was born the third of six children as Maeve McCaughan to Hugh and Margaret McCaughan in North Belfast. Her father was a school headmaster and her mother an influential art and music enthusiast...
  
  
• William Carlos Williams Award
  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....
  
  : Brenda Hillman
  Brenda Hillman
  Brenda Hillman , is an American poet. She was educated at Pomona College, and received her M.F.A. at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California...
  
  , Pieces of Air in the Epic, Judge: Marjorie Welish
  Marjorie Welish
  Marjorie Welish is an American poet, artist, and art critic.Welish is a graduate of Columbia University and received her M.F.A. degree from Vermont College and Norwich University...
  
  
  • Finalists: Ethan Paquin
    Ethan Paquin
    Ethan Paquin is an American poet and a native of New Hampshire. He grew up in Londonderry, New Hampshire. He earned a BA in English/Writing from Plymouth State College in Plymouth, New Hampshire, and his MFA in Creative Writing from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers, University of Massachusetts,...
    
    , The Violence (Ahsahta Press); Aaron Shurin
    Aaron Shurin
    Aaron Shurin is an American poet, essayist, and educator. Since 1999, he has co-directed the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.-Life and work:...
    
    , Involuntary Lyrics (Omnidawn Press)

From the Poetry Society of Virginia Student Poetry Contest

2006 Student Poetry Contest Winners ::

Other awards and honors

• Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
  Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
  The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung was founded on August 28, 1949—the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe—in Paulskirche in Frankfurt...
  
   (German Academy for Language and Literature) Georg Büchner Prize
  Georg Büchner Prize
  The Georg Büchner Prize is the most important literary prize of Germany. It was created in 1923 in memory of Georg Büchner and was only given to artists who came from or were closely tied to Büchner's home of Hesse...
  
  : Oskar Pastior
  Oskar Pastior
  Oskar Pastior was a Romanian-born German poet and translator. He was the only German member of Oulipo....
  
  
• Cervantes Prize (Spanish-language): Antonio Gamoneda
  Antonio Gamoneda
  Antonio Gamoneda is a Spanish poet, winner of the Cervantes Prize in 2006.- Biography :Antonio Gamoneda was born in Oviedo, Asturias, on May 30, 1931. His father, named Antonio, was a modernist poet who published only one book, Otra más alta vida in 1919. In 1934, already an orphan, he moved with...
  
   (Spain
  Spanish poetry
  Spanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature....
  
  )

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

date not known	Binoy Majumdar Binoy Majumdar Binoy Majumdar was a Bengali poet. Binoy received the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005.-Biography:Late Binoy Majumdar was born in Myanmar on the 17th of September 1934. His family later moved to what is now West Bengal in India. Binoy loved mathematics from his early youth...	born 1934 1934 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Barretts of Wimpole Street, a film directed by Sidney Franklin, with Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett and Fredric March as Robert Browning; redone in 1957, less successfully*The University...	Bengali Bengali poetry Bengali poetry is a form that originated in Pāli and other Prakrit socio-cultural traditions. It is antagonistic towards Vedic rituals and laws as opposed to the shramanic traditions such as Buddhism and Jainism...
January 4	Irving Layton Irving Layton Irving Peter Layton, OC was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following but also made enemies. As T... , 93	born 1912 1912 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore takes a sheaf of his translated works to England, where they impress William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Bridges, Ernest Rhys, Thomas Sturge Moore, and others...	Canadian Canadian poetry - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...
February 21	Gennadiy Aygi Gennadiy Aygi Gennadiy Nikolaevich Aygi was a Chuvash poet and a translator. His poetry is written both in Chuvash and in Russian.He was born in the village of Shaimurzino , Chuvashia and started writing poetry in the Chuvash language in 1958.... , 71	born 1934 1934 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Barretts of Wimpole Street, a film directed by Sidney Franklin, with Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett and Fredric March as Robert Browning; redone in 1957, less successfully*The University...	Chuvash Chuvash language Chuvash is a Turkic language spoken in central Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur branch of Turkic languages.... / Russian poet
February 25	Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin was Poet Laureate of Ethiopia, as well as a poet, playwright, essayist, and art director.-Biography:... , 69	born 1936 1936 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* James Laughlin founds New Directions Publishers in New York, which published many modern poets for the first time;...	Ethiopian poet laureate, in New York
March 3	Ivor Cutler Ivor Cutler Ivor Cutler was a Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist. He became known for his regular performances on BBC radio, and in particular his numerous sessions recorded for John Peel's influential radio programme, and later for Andy Kershaw's programme... , 83	born 1923 1923 in poetry -- From Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", first published this year in his collection New HampshireNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...	Scots Scottish literature Scottish literature is literature written in Scotland or by Scottish writers. It includes literature written in English, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, Brythonic, French, Latin and any other language in which a piece of literature was ever written within the boundaries of modern Scotland.The earliest...
March 15	Ken Brewer Ken Brewer Kenneth Wayne Brewer was an American poet and longtime scholar who resided in Utah, where he served as Poet Laureate. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, he attended Butler University and Western New Mexico University in the 1960s, then earned a master's degree in English literature from New Mexico... , 64	born 1941 1941 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*September 3 — 19-year-old John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator, flew a high-altitude test flight in a Spitfire V and afterwards wrote "High Flight" about the experience, on...	American
March 27	Ian Hamilton Finlay Ian Hamilton Finlay Ian Hamilton Finlay, CBE, was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener.-Biography:Finlay was born in Nassau, Bahamas of Scottish parents. He was educated in Scotland at Dollar Academy. At the age of 13, with the outbreak of World War II, he was evacuated to family in the countryside... , 80	born 1925 1925 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* T. S. Eliot joins the publishing house of Faber & Gwyer, leaves Lloyds bank....	Scots English literature English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....  poet, writer, artist, gardener
April 7	Muriel Spark Muriel Spark Dame Muriel Spark, DBE was an award-winning Scottish novelist. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".-Early life:... , 88	born 1918 1918 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Robert Graves marries Nancy Nicholson...	English English poetry The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...  novelist and poet
May 9	Jerzy Ficowski Jerzy Ficowski Jerzy Ficowski was a Polish poet, writer and translator .- Biography and works :During the German occupation of Poland in World War II, Ficowski who lived in Włochy near Warsaw was a member of the Polish resistance... , 81	born 1924 1924 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* October 10 — Ezra Pound leaves Paris permanently and moves to Rapallo, Italy...	Polish Polish literature Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages, used in Poland over the centuries, have also contributed to Polish literary traditions, including Yiddish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German and...  poet, writer and translator
May 14	Stanley Kunitz Stanley Kunitz Stanley Jasspon Kunitz was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000.-Biography:... , 100	born 1905 1905 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Ezra Pound presents Hilda Doolittle with a sheaf of love poems with the collective title Hilda's Book...	former U.S. Poet Laureate 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 nation's official poet. During his or her term, the Poet Laureate seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of...
May 18	Gilbert Sorrentino Gilbert Sorrentino Gilbert Sorrentino was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and editor.In over twenty-five works of fiction and poetry, Sorrentino explored the comic and formal possibilities of language and literature... , 77	born 1929 1929 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Little Review, edited by Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, ceases publication* The Dial ceases publication...	American novelist and poet
June 9	Enzo Siciliano Enzo Siciliano Enzo Siciliano was an Italian writer, playwright, literary critic and intellectual.Siciliano was born in Rome. He was collaborator of Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elsa Morante and many other famous writers in the 1950s and 1960s.From 1996 to 1998 he was President of RAI... , 72	born 1934 1934 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Barretts of Wimpole Street, a film directed by Sidney Franklin, with Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett and Fredric March as Robert Browning; redone in 1957, less successfully*The University...	Italian Italian poetry -Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....  novelist, playwright, literary critic, broadcasting official, teacher and poet
June 26	Jim Simmerman Jim simmerman Jim Simmerman was a poet and editor from the United States.-Biography:Simmerman was born in Boulder, Colorado, in 1952. He received his MFA in Poetry from University of Iowa in 1980... , 54	born 1952 1952 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* November — The Group British poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s began at Downing College, Cambridge University, Philip Hobsbaum along with two friends — Tony Davis and Neil Morris...	American
July 6	Lisa Bellear Lisa Bellear Lisa Bellear was an Indigenous Australian poet, photographer, activist, spokeswoman, dramatist, comedian and broadcaster. She was a Goernpil woman of the Noonuccal people of Minjerribah , Queensland... , 45	born 1961 1961 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 20–Robert Frost recites his poem "The Gift Outright" at United States President John F...	Australian Australian literature Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies, therefore, its literary tradition begins with and is linked to...
July 14	Patricia Goedicke Patricia Goedicke Patricia Goedicke was an American poet.Born Patricia McKenna in Boston, Massachusetts, she grew up in Hanover, New Hampshire, where her father was a resident psychiatrist at Dartmouth College. During her high school years she was an accomplished downhill skier. She earned her B.A. at Middlebury...	born 1931 1931 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Louis Zukofsky edits the February issue of Poetry magazine. The issue eventually will be recognized as the founding document of the Objectivist poets...	American, of pneumonia
July 26	Louise Bennett-Coverley Louise Bennett-Coverley Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou, OM, OJ, MBE was a Jamaican folklorist, writer, and educator. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica and attended Ebenezer and Calabar Elementary Schools, St...	born 1919 1919 in poetry —From A Prayer for My Daughter by W. B. Yeats, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Two paintings by E. E...	Jamaican Jamaican literature Jamaican literature is internationally renowned. The island has been the home or birthplace of many important authors. One of the most important aspects of Jamaican literature is the local patois, a variation of English...  folk poet known as "Miss Lou"
July 30	Trinidad Sanchez, Jr. Trinidad Sanchez, Jr. Trinidad Sanchez, Jr. was a poet and activist who wrote about culture and socialissues. He received several awards during his lifetime and was given the President's Peace Commission Art of Peace award posthumously in 2007.... , 63		American Chicano performer/poet (stroke complications)
July 31	Lisa Bellear Lisa Bellear Lisa Bellear was an Indigenous Australian poet, photographer, activist, spokeswoman, dramatist, comedian and broadcaster. She was a Goernpil woman of the Noonuccal people of Minjerribah , Queensland... , 45	born 1961 1961 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 20–Robert Frost recites his poem "The Gift Outright" at United States President John F...	Australian indigenous poet, photographer, activist, dramatist, comedian and broadcaster
August 11	Mazisi Kunene Mazisi Kunene Mazisi Kunene was a South African poet best known for his poem Emperor Shaka the Great. While in exile from South Africa's apartheid regime, Kunene was an active supporter and organizer of the anti-apartheid movement in Europe and Africa... , 76	born 1930 1930 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:*Alfred Bailey, Tao: A Ryerson Poetry Chap Book, ....	South African South African poetry The poetry of South Africa covers a broad range of themes, forms and styles. This article discusses the context that contemporary poets have come from and identifies the major poets of South Africa, their works and influence....  poet and academic
August 18	Shamsur Rahman Shamsur Rahman Shamsur Rahman was a Bangladeshi poet, columnist and journalist. Rahman, who emerged in the latter half of the 20th century, wrote more than sixty books of poetry and is considered a key figure in Bengali literature. He was regarded the unofficial poet laureate of Bangladesh... (also spelled "Shamsur Ruhman"), 76	born 1921 1921 in poetry — Wilfred Owen, concluding lines of Dulce et Decorum Est, published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...	Bengali Bengali poetry Bengali poetry is a form that originated in Pāli and other Prakrit socio-cultural traditions. It is antagonistic towards Vedic rituals and laws as opposed to the shramanic traditions such as Buddhism and Jainism...  poet, columnist and journalist
September 4	Colin Thiele Colin Thiele Colin Milton Thiele, AC was an Australian author and educator. He was renowned for his award-winning children's fiction, most notably the novels Storm Boy, Blue Fin, the Sun on the Stubble series, and February Dragon.- Biography :Thiele was born in Eudunda in South Australia to a Barossa German... , 85	born 1920 1920 in poetry — Opening and closing lines of The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...	Australian
October 4	Omran Salahi		Afghanistan poet
November 26	Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos also known as Mário Cesariny is among the most important Portuguese surrealist poets, having published several major works during a career spanning 50 years... , 83	born 1923 1923 in poetry -- From Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", first published this year in his collection New HampshireNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...	Portuguese Portuguese literature This is a survey of Portuguese literature.The Portuguese language was developed gradually from the Vulgar language spoken in the countries which formed part of the Roman Empire and, both in morphology and syntax, it represents an organic transformation of Latin without the direct intervention of...  painter and surrealist poet
November 27	Győző Határ, 92		Hungarian poet and writer
December 2	kari edwards Kari edwards kari edwards was a poet, artist and gender activist. He won the New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature .He authored have been blue for charity ; obedience ; iduna kari edwards (1954-2006) was a poet, artist and gender activist. He won the New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature... , 52	born 1954 1954 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Robert Creeley founds and edits the Black Mountain Review...	poet, artist and gender activist
December 28	John Heath-Stubbs John Heath-Stubbs John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs OBE was an English poet and translator, known for his verse influenced by classical myths, and the long Arthurian poem Artorius .- Biography :... , 88	born 1918 1918 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Robert Graves marries Nancy Nicholson...	English English poetry The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
date not known	Aristides Paradissis Aristides Paradissis -Biography:Born in China of Greek parents in Chefoo , Paradissis moved to Shanghai in 1932. He studied at St. Francis Xavier's College and then business and law at the Aurora University . Paradissis arrived in Australia in 1949 and continued his studies at the University of Melbourne and at La...	born 1923 1923 in poetry -- From Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", first published this year in his collection New HampshireNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...	Australian