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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

• January 5 – The Turkish government announces it will posthumously restore the citizenship it had stripped from influential poet Nazim Hikmet
  Nazim Hikmet
  Nâzım Hikmet Ran , commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet , was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements"...
  
  , a Marxist who died in 1963
  1963 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 26 – Raghunath Vishnu Pandit, an Indian poet who wrote in both Konkani and Marathi languages, publishes five books of poems this day* The Belfast Group, a discussion group of poets in...
  
   as an exile in the Soviet Union.
• January 20 – Poet Elizabeth Alexander
  Elizabeth Alexander (poet)
  Elizabeth Alexander is an American poet, essayist, playwright, and a university professor.-Early life:Alexander was born in Harlem, New York City and grew up in Washington D.C. She is the daughter of former United States Secretary of the Army and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chairman...
  
   reads "Praise Song for the Day
  Praise Song for the Day
  "Praise Song for the Day" is an occasional poem written by the American poet Elizabeth Alexander and delivered at the 2009 presidential inauguration of President Barack Obama. The poem is the fourth to be delivered at a United States presidential inauguration, following in the tradition of recitals...
  
  " at presidential inauguration of President Barack Obama
  Barack Obama
  Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
  
  
• March 16 – Nicholas Hughes
  Nicholas Hughes
  Nicholas Farrar Hughes was a fisheries biologist known as an expert in stream salmonid ecology. Hughes was the son of the American poet Sylvia Plath and English poet Ted Hughes and the younger brother of English artist and poet Frieda Hughes...
  
  , 47, the son of the poets 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...
  
   (who later became the British poet laureate) 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...
  
  , who famously committed suicide in 1963
  1963 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 26 – Raghunath Vishnu Pandit, an Indian poet who wrote in both Konkani and Marathi languages, publishes five books of poems this day* The Belfast Group, a discussion group of poets in...
  
   when her son was a year old, hanged himself in his home in Alaska. He had suffered from depression.
• May 1 – 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...
  
   is appointed Poet Laureate
  Poet Laureate
  A poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
  
   of the United Kingdom, the first woman appointed to the position in its 341-year history, a position that has been held by, among others, John Dryden
  John Dryden
  John Dryden was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.Walter Scott called him "Glorious John." He was made Poet...
  
   ( whom Charles II
  Charles II of England
  Charles II was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War...
  
   named the first official poet laureate ), Tennyson
  Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
  Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language....
  
  , Wordsworth, Cecil Day-Lewis
  Cecil Day-Lewis
  Cecil Day-Lewis CBE was an Irish poet and the Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake...
  
   and 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...
  
  . Duffy is also the first Scot
  Scottish people
  The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...
  
   and the first openly
  Closeted
  Closeted and in the closet are metaphors used to describe lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning and intersex people who have not disclosed their sexual orientation or gender identity and aspects thereof, including sexual identity and sexual behavior.-Background:In late 20th...
  
   gay
  Gay
  Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
  
   occupant of the post
• May 16 & May 25 - Ruth Padel
  Ruth Padel
  Ruth Sophia Padel is a British poet, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Society of London. She also writes non-fiction and more recently fiction, broadcasts on wildlife, poetry and literature for BBC Radio 3 and 4, and is Writer in Residence at The Environment Institute,...
  
   became the first female ever elected Professor of Poetry
  Oxford Professor of Poetry
  The chair of Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford is an unusual academic appointment, now held for a term of five years, and chosen through an election open to all members of Convocation, namely, all graduates and current academics of the university; in 2010, on-line voting was allowed....
  
   at the University of Oxford
  University of Oxford
  The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
  
   but resigned nine days later after she was alleged to have been involved in what some sources referred to as a smear campaign
  Smear campaign
  A smear campaign, smear tactic or simply smear is a metaphor for activity that can harm an individual or group's reputation by conflation with a stigmatized group...
  
   against Derek Walcott
  Derek Walcott
  Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros...
  
  , her leading rival for the post.
• July 30 - Last Post
  Last Post (poem)
  "Last Post" is a poem written by Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, in 2009. It was commissioned by the BBC to mark the deaths of Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, two of the last three surviving British veterans from the First World War, and was first broadcast on the BBC...
  
  , a poem by 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...
  
  , the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
  Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
  The Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, also referred to as the Poet Laureate, is the Poet Laureate appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Prime Minister...
  
  , was read on the BBC Radio 4
  BBC Radio 4
  BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
  
   programme Today
  Today programme
  Today is BBC Radio 4's long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, now broadcast from 6.00 am to 9.00 am Monday to Friday, and 7.00 am to 9.00 am on Saturdays. It is also the most popular programme on Radio 4 and one of the BBC's most popular programmes across its radio networks...
  
  . Commissioned by the BBC to mark the deaths of Henry Allingham
  Henry Allingham
  Henry William Allingham was a British supercentenarian, First World War veteran and, for one month, the verified oldest living man in the world...
  
   and Harry Patch
  Harry Patch
  Henry John "Harry" Patch , known in his latter years as "the Last Fighting Tommy", was a British supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe, and the last surviving soldier to have fought in the trenches of the First World War...
  
  , two of the last three surviving British veterans of the World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
  , it was read on the date of Allingham's funeral.
• September 18 - The film Bright Star
  Bright Star (film)
  Bright Star is a 2009 film based on the last three years of the life of poet John Keats and his romantic relationship with Fanny Brawne. It stars Ben Whishaw as Keats and Abbie Cornish as Fanny...
  
  , about John Keats
  John Keats
  John Keats was an English Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death.Although his poems were not...
  
   and his relationship with Fanny Brawne
  Fanny Brawne
  Frances Brawne Lindon is most known for her betrothal to 19th-Century English Romantic poet John Keats, a fact largely unknown until 1878, when Keats' letters to her were published...
  
  , is released in the United States, and on November 6 in the United Kingdom. The film's title is a reference to a sonnet by Keats, Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art
  Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art
  "Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art" is the first line of a love sonnet by John Keats.-Background:It is unclear when Keats first drafted "Bright Star"; his biographers suggest different dates. Andrew Motion suggests it was begun in October 1819. Robert Gittings states it was begun in...
  
  , written at the time of the love affair. Jane Campion
  Jane Campion
  Jane Campion is a filmmaker and screenwriter. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia – where she now lives – and the United States...
  
   directed the movie.
• A Room and a Half, a Russian film directed by Andrey Khrzhanovsky and based on the life of Russian–American poet 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...
  
  , is released. It is distributed in the United States in 2010.

Works published in English

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

Australia

• Robert Adamson
  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 Best Australian Poems, Black Inc., ISBN 978-1-86395-452-5, anthology including works by Ivy Alvarez
  Ivy Alvarez
  Ivy Alvarez is an award-winning Filipino Australian poet, editor, and reviewer currently residing in Wales. A prolific writer, Alvarez has had her work featured in various publications in Australia, Canada, England, the Philippines, Ireland, Russia, Scotland, Wales, the USA, South Africa, and...
  
  , Judith Beveridge
  Judith Beveridge
  Judith Beveridge is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic.-Biography:Judith Beveridge was born in London, England, arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. Completing a BA at UTS she has worked in libraries, teaching, as a researcher and in environmental regeneration...
  
  , Sarah K. Bell, Jen Jewel Brown, Anne Elvey, Lisa Gorton, Clive James
  Clive James
  Clive James, AM is an Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet and memoirist, best known for his autobiographical series Unreliable Memoirs, for his chat shows and documentaries on British television and for his prolific journalism...
  
  , 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...
  
  , 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...
  
  , Peter Porter
  Peter Porter (poet)
  Peter Neville Frederick Porter, OAM was a British-based Australian poet.-Life:Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1929. His mother, Marion, died of a burst gall-bladder in 1938. He attended the Church of England Grammar School and left school at 18, and went to work as a trainee journalist...
  
  , Thomas Shapcott, Alex Skovron, 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...
  
  , and 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:...
  
  .
• 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, 109 pp; 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 978-1-876044-62-6
• Emma Jones
  Emma Jones (poet)
  Emma Jones is an Australian poet. Her first poetry collection, The Striped World, was published by Faber & Faber in 2009.Jones was raised in Concord, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney. Her father was Australian; her British mother had emigrated to Australia...
  
  , The Striped World, winner of the 2009 Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award; Faber and Faber
  Faber and Faber
  Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T. S. Eliot. Faber has a rich tradition of publishing a wide range of fiction, non fiction, drama, film and music...
  
  
• 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...
  
   and Kate Waterhouse, editors, Motherlode: Australian Women's Poetry 1986 - 2008, 120 poets represented, 342 pp, Glebe, New South Wales: Puncher and Wattmann, ISBN 978-1-921450-16-7, anthology
• Martin Langford:
  • editor, Harbour City Poems: Sydney in Verse 1788-2008, Glebe, New South Wales: Puncher and Wattmann, ISBN 978-1-921450-17-4, anthology
  • The Human Project: New and Selected Poems
• 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...
  
  , Killing the Black Dog, Black Inc., ISBN 978-1-86395-447-1
• 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 Bee Hut, Black Inc., ISBN 978-1-86395-446-4
• Nathan Shepherdson, Apples With Human Skin, St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-3741-6
• Alan Wearne
  Alan Wearne
  Alan Wearne is an Australian poet.Alan Wearne was born and grew up in Melbourne. He studied history at Monash University where he met the poets Laurie Duggan and John A. Scott...
  
  , guest editor, The Best Australian Poetry 2009, University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-3736-2
• Les Wicks
  Les Wicks
  Les Wicks is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting. This includes the publication of eight books of poetry.-Life:...
  
    The Ambrosiacs (Island Press (Australia)
  Island Press (Australia)
  Island Press is an Australian publisher of poetry and other interests.Island Press was founded in 1970 by Canadian poet, musician and Sydney University lecturer Philip Roberts. He lived on Scotland Island at that time, hence the name. In 1973 Philip moved to Bundeena...
  
  )
  • editor, Guide to Sydney Beaches Meuse Press
    Meuse Press
    Meuse Press http://meusepress.tripod.com/Meuse.htm is an Australian Press publishing a range of “poetry outreach” projects in a number of media ranging from a literary magazine to poetry published on the surface of a river. Founded by Bill Farrow & Les Wicks...
    
    

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...

• 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:...
  
  , Listening: The Last Poems, posthumously published
• Robert Bringhurst
  Robert Bringhurst
  Robert Bringhurst is a Canadian poet, typographer and author. He is the author of The Elements of Typographic Style – a reference book of typefaces, glyphs and the visual and geometric arrangement of type...
  
  , Selected Poems
• Jan Conn
  Jan Conn
  Jan E. Conn is a Canadian geneticist and poet. She resides in Great Barrington, Massachusetts where she does research on mosquito genetics at the Wadsworth Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, New York State Department of Health in Albany, New York. She has also written six books of...
  
  , Botero's Beautiful Horses, Brick Books
• Barry Dempster
  Barry Dempster
  Barry Edward Dempster is a Canadian poet and novelist.Dempster was born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario.Two of his collections, Fables For Isolated Men and The Burning Alphabet , were nominated for Governor General's Awards...
  
  , Love Outlandish, Brick Books
• Kate Eichhorn and Heather Milne, editors, Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women's Poetry and Poetics, Coach House Books, ISBN 978-1-55245-221-9; an anthology of 15 poets: Nicole Brossard
  Nicole Brossard
  Nicole Brossard, O.C. is a leading French Canadian formalist poet and novelist.She lives in Outremont, a former city in Montreal, Quebec. She wrote her first collection in 1965, Aube à la maison. The collection L'Echo bouge beau marks a break in the evolution of her poetry...
  
  , Margaret Christakos
  Margaret Christakos
  Margaret Christakos is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto.-Life:Christakos was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario. Christakos received her B.F.A. in Visual Arts from York University in 1985. She lived in Montreal from 1985 to 1987, settling in Toronto in 1988. She went on to pursue an M.A...
  
  , Susan Holbrook, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Karen Mac Cormack
  Karen Mac Cormack
  Karen Mac Cormack is a contemporary experimental poet. She holds dual British/Canadian citizenship, and lived for many years in Toronto; more recently, she moved to Buffalo, New York, when her husband, the poet Steve McCaffery, was hired by SUNY-Buffalo for the David Gray Chair.Mac Cormack is the...
  
  , Daphne Marlatt
  Daphne Marlatt
  Daphne Marlatt, née Buckle, CM , is a Canadian poet who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia....
  
  , Erín Moure
  Erin Mouré
  Erin Mouré is a Canadian poet and translator of poetry from languages which include, French, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish to English. Her mother Mary Irene was born 1924 in Galicia, Poland and moved to Canada in 1929. Erin’s father is William Moure born in Ottawa Canada in 1925...
  
  , M. NourbeSe Philip
  M. NourbeSe Philip
  Marlene Nourbese Philip , usually credited as M. NourbeSe Philip, is a Canadian poet, novelist, playwright, essayist and short story writer.-Life and Works:...
  
  , 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...
  
  , Lisa Robertson
  Lisa Robertson
  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:...
  
  , Gail Scott, Nathalie Stephens, Catriona Strang, Rita Wong
  Rita Wong
  -Biography:Wong grew up in Calgary, Alberta and currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the author of two books of poetry, monkeypuzzle and forage. Her work investigates the relationships between social justice, ecology, decolonization, and contemporary poetics...
  
  , and Rachel Zolf
  Rachel Zolf
  Rachel Zolf is a Canadian poet and literary editor. She is the author of four poetry collections. Human Resources won the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award...
  
  
• Kim Goldberg
  Kim Goldberg
  Kim Goldberg is an American-born writer who has lived in Canada since the 1970s. She is the author of four non-fiction books and two collections of poetry. Much of her published work has addressed contemporary social and environmental issues including poverty, homelessness, aboriginal rights,...
  
  , Red Zone, Pig Squash Press
• Chris Hutchinson, Other People's Lives, Brick Books
• Adeena Karasick, Amuse Bouche
• Douglas Lochhead
  Douglas Lochhead
  Douglas Lochhead, FRSC was a Canadian poet who lived in Sackville, New Brunswick, of which town he was the official poet laureate...
  
  , Looking into Trees
• Jeanette Lynes, The New Blue Distance
• Susan Musgrave
  Susan Musgrave
  Susan Musgrave is a Canadian poet and children's writer. She was born in Santa Cruz, California to Canadian parents, and currently lives in British Columbia, dividing her time between Sidney and the Queen Charlotte Islands....
  
  , When the World Is Not Our Home: Selected Poems, 1985-2000
• Marguerite Pigeon, Inventory
• 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...
  
  , Expressway, Coach House Books
• James Reaney
  James Reaney
  James Crerar Reaney was an influential Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor, "whose works transform small-town Ontario life into the realm of dream and symbol."...
  
  , The Essential James Reaney. Brian Bartlett, ed., Porcupine’s Quill
• Laisha Rosnau
  Laisha Rosnau
  Laisha Rosnau is a Canadian novelist and poet.Born in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Rosnau grew up in Vernon, British Columbia. She has worked as a child-care worker, a landscaper, a waitress, a fruit picker, an interpretive guide, a journalist, and an editor...
  
  , Lousy Explorers, Nightwood Editions
• Stephen Rowe, Never More There, Nightwood Editions
• Carolyn Smart
  Carolyn Smart
  Carolyn Smart is an author, mostly of poetry, who lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She currently teaches Contemporary Canadian Literature and Creative Writing at Queen's University....
  
  , Hooked, Brick Books
• Carmine Starnino
  Carmine Starnino
  Carmine Starnino is a Canadian poet, essayist, educator, and editor.He was born in Montreal, Quebec, into an Italian heritage. His first poetry collection The New World was nominated for the 1997 A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award...
  
  , This Way Out, Gaspereau Press
• Fred Wah
  Fred Wah
  Frederick James Wah is a Canadian poet, novelist, and scholar.Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, but grew up in the interior of British Columbia. His Canadian-born father was raised in China, the son of a Chinese father and a Scots-Irish mother. Fred Wah's mother was a Swedish-born...
  
  , Is a Door
• David Zieroth
  David Zieroth
  David Dale Zieroth is a Canadian poet. He won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1999 for How I Joined Humanity at Last, and the Governor General's Award for English language poetry in 2009 for The Fly in Autumn.-Works:*Clearing: Poems from a Journey *Mid-River *When the Stones Fly Up *The Weight...
  
  , The Fly in Autumn, Harbour Publishing

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...

, Indian poetry 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...

• I Vi Ramakrsnan and Anju Makhija, editors, We Speak in Changing Languages: Indian Women Poets 1990-2007, anthology, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi
• Yash Sharma, Tale of a Virgin River, translated into English by Anil Sehgal from the original Dogri; released with a CD of six songs composed and sung by the poet's daughter, Seema Anil Sehgal, a prominent singer; published in Singapore
• Eunice de Souza
  Eunice De Souza
  Eunice de Souza is a contemporary Indian English language poet, literary critic and novelist. Among her notable books of poetry is Women in Dutch painting .-Early life and education:...
  
  , A Necklace of Skulls, Collected 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: Penguin
• Arundhathi Subramaniam
  Arundhathi Subramaniam
  Arundhathi Subramaniam is a woman poet and writer and web editor based in Mumbai.Arundhathi Subramaniam has published three collections of poetry: On Cleaning Bookshelves and Where I Live and Where I Live: New & Selected Poems brought out by Bloodaxe Books in 2009...
  
  , editor, Hot is the Moon: Poems and Stories of Women in Kannada, Tamil, Konkani And Tulu, anthology in various languages, with translations into English; Mumbai: Sparrow
• Uddipana Goswami
  Uddipana Goswami
  Uddipana Goswami is an Indian poet, academic, editor, author and media consultant. She is from Assam, India.She is the author of the poetry collection We Called the River Read : Poems from a Violent Homeland...
  
  , We Called the River Red ( 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...
  
   ), Authorspress

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...

• Michael Coady, Going by Water, Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press
• Ray Givans, Tolstoy in Love, 82 pages, ISBN 978-1-906614-08-9
• Kerry Hardie, Only This Room, Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press
• Ron Houchin, Museum Crows, 84 pages, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Press, ISBN 978-1-907056-17-8
• Dorothy Molloy, Long-distance Swimmer, 60 pages, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Press, ISBN 978-1-907056-21-5, posthumously published (died 2004
  2004 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* April 1 — Foetry.com Web site is launched for the announced purpose of "Exposing fraudulent contests. Tracking the sycophants...
  
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• 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...
  
  , Wayside Shrines, 40 pages, Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-479-4
• Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
  Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
  Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is an Irish poet born in Cork .-Life:Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is the daughter of Eilís Dillon and Professor Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin. She was educated at University College Cork and The University of Oxford. She lives in Dublin with her husband Macdara Woods, and they have one...
  
  , The Sun-fish, Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press
• 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:...
  
  , Best of Irish Poetry 2010, Southword Editions, including work by 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...
  
  , 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...
  
  , 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...
  
  , Michael McKimm
  Michael McKimm
  Michael McKimm is a poet from Northern Ireland. His debut collection of poetry is Still This Need .-Early years and education:...
  
  , Leanne O'Sullivan, Leontia Flynn
  Leontia Flynn
  Leontia Flynn is an Irish poet born in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. Flynn grew up in Ballyloughlin, south County Down, between the towns of Newcastle and Dundrum, very close to the well known Murlough Nature Reserve...
  
  , Eva Bourke
  Eva Bourke
  Eva Bourke is an Irish poet.Bourke was born in Germany but has lived for much of her life in Galway, Ireland. She studied German Literature and History of Art at the University of Munich. She has had five volumes of her own work published, as well as publications as editor and translator.She is a...
  
   and Kerry Hardie
• Peggy O'Brien, Frog Spotting, 87 pages, Dedalus Press, ISBN 978-1-906614-06-5
• Stephen Roger Powers
  Stephen Roger Powers
  Stephen Roger Powers is an American poet, writer, and comedian. He is currently Assistant Professor of English at Gordon College .-Biography:...
  
  , The Follower's Tale, 100 pages, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Press, ISBN 978-1-907056-20-8
• 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:...
  
  , Uttering Her Name, 126 pages, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Press, ISBN 978-1-907056-19-2
• A.E. Stringer, Human Costume, 100 pages, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Press, ISBN 978-1-907056-18-5
• Enda Wyley, To Wake to This, Dedalus Press, ISBN 978-1-906614-11-9

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...

• James Byrne
  James Byrne (poet)
  James Byrne is a British poet and Editor of The Wolf magazine . He was born in Buckinghamshire in 1977 and his first book of poems Passages of Time was published in 2002 and included some of his earliest poems. A second collection, Blood/Sugar, was published by Arc Publications in November 2009....
  
  , Blood/Sugar, ISBN 978-1-906570-29-3
• Caroline Grigson, editor, The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter: Haydn's Tuneful Voice (Hunter, 1742
  1742 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Jonathan Swift suffers what appears to have been a stroke, losing the ability to speak and realizing his worst fears of becoming mentally disabled...
  
  –1821
  1821 in poetry
  — words chiselled onto the tombstone of John Keats, at his requestNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Saturday Evening Post founded in Philadelphia...
  
  , wrote lyrics to much of Haydn's music) Liverpool University Press
  Liverpool University Press
  Liverpool University Press, founded in 1899, is the third oldest university press in England after Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press....
  
   (Liverpool English Texts and Studies) ISBN 978-1-84631-191-8
• Brian Henry
  Brian Henry
  Brian Henry is an American poet, translator, editor, and literary critic. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.-Education:Henry completed a BA at the College of William and Mary and an MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst....
  
  , Quarantine::Contagion, ISBN 978-1-906570-13-2
• Luke Kennard
  Luke Kennard
  Luke Kennard is a British poet, playwright and academic born in 1982.His first prose-poems collection - The Solex Brothers was published by Stride, and won him an Eric Gregory Award in 2005...
  
  , The Migraine Hotel, Salt, 96 pages, ISBN 978-1-84471-555-8
• Herbert Lomas
  Herbert Lomas (poet)
  Herbert Lomas was a British poet and translator. He served in the infantry from 1943 to 1946). He then graduated from University of Liverpool, and taught at the University of Helsinki and Borough Road College....
  
  , A Casual Knack of Living: Collected Poems, contains all nine of the author's previous poetry books and one previously unpublished book of poems; 428 pages, ISBN 978-1-906570-41-5
• 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...
  
  , Night Train (with artist Birtley Aris), Flambard Press
• Ruth Padel
  Ruth Padel
  Ruth Sophia Padel is a British poet, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Society of London. She also writes non-fiction and more recently fiction, broadcasts on wildlife, poetry and literature for BBC Radio 3 and 4, and is Writer in Residence at The Environment Institute,...
  
  , Darwin: A Life in Poems, the author is his great-granddaughter
• Matthew Welton, We needed coffee but..., 96 pages, Carcanet Press, ISBN 978-1-84777-002-8

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

• Gerard Carruthers, editor, Scottish Poems
• Fiona Sampson
  Fiona Sampson
  -Life :Born in London, Sampson grew up in the West Country, on the west coast of Wales and in Gloucestershire. She was educated at the Royal Academy of Music, and following a brief career as a concert violinist, studied at Oxford University, where she won the Newdigate Prize...
  
  , editor, A Century of Poetry Review, Carcanet Press, ISBN 978-1-84777-016-5

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

• Zachary Leader
  Zachary Leader
  Zachary Leader is a professor of English Literature at Roehampton University. He was an undergraduate at Northwestern University, and later pursued graduate study both at Trinity College, Cambridge and at Harvard University. Though born in the U.S. and remaining an American citizen, Leader has...
  
  , editor, The Movement Reconsidere: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, and Their Contemporaries, Oxford University Press (April 2009)
• Contemporary Poetry: Poets and Poetry since 1990 (Cambridge Contexts in Literature) Cambridge University Press, 1st edition ISBN 978-0-521-71248-4

United States

• Sherman Alexie
  Sherman Alexie
  Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. is a writer, poet, filmmaker, and occasional comedian. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American. Two of Alexie's best known works are The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven , a book of short stories and Smoke Signals, a film...
  
  , Face, the author's first collection in nine years, Hanging Loose Press (April)
• Stuart Taylor James, Heart Well Worn: The LWAs, 143 pages, PublishAmerica, Baltimore, MD, ISBN 978-1-4489-6438-3
• Miguel Algarín
  Miguel Algarín
  Miguel Algarín , is a Puerto Rican poet, writer, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café, and retired Rutgers University professor of English.-Early years:...
  
  , Survival Supervivencia, essays and poems
• Simone dos Anjos, Comedies, Iowa City, Iowa: Cosa Nostra Editions
• Philip Appleman
  Philip Appleman
  Philip D. Appleman is an American poet. He is the distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington....
  
  , Karma, Dharma, Pudding & Pie Quantuck Lane Press (April)
• Rae Armantrout
  Rae Armantrout
  Rae Armantrout is an American poet generally associated with the Language Poets. Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California but grew up in San Diego. She has published ten books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies...
  
  , Versed
  Versed
  Versed is a book of poetry written by Rae Armantrout and published by Wesleyan University Press in 2009 . It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.-Awards:...
  
  , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
  National Book Critics Circle Award
  The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle to promote the finest books and reviews published in English....
  
   for Poetry and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize
  2010 Pulitzer Prize
  The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on Monday, April 12, 2010. In journalism, The Washington Post won four awards while The New York Times won three. For the first time, an online source, ProPublica, won in what had previously been the sole province of print. A musical, Next to Normal, won the...
  
   for Poetry; Wesleyan University Press
  Wesleyan University Press
  Wesleyan University Press is a university press that is part of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. The Press is currently directed by Suzanna Tamminen, a published poet and essayist...
  
  
• Anny Ballardini, Ghost Dance in 33 Movements Otoliths, ISBN 978-0-9805096-8-7
• Richard Bauch, These Extremes
• David Biespiel
  David Biespiel
  David Biespiel is an American poet who was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, raised in Houston, Texas, and educated at Stanford University, University of Maryland, and Boston University...
  
  , The Book of Men and Women
• Jules Boykoff
  Jules Boykoff
  Jules Boykoff is a professor and author. His research areas include social movements, the suppression of dissent, and the role of the mass media in US politics, especially regarding coverage of climate change issues...
  
  , Hegemonic Love Potion, Factory School, Brooklyn, New York
• Joel Brouwer
  Joel Brouwer
  Joel Brouwer is an American poet, professor and critic. His most recent poetry collection is And So .He is also the author of Exactly What Happened, which received the Larry Levis Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University, and Centuries, a National Book Critics Circle "Notable Book."In addition...
  
  , And So, Four Way, ISBN 978-1-884800-91-7
• Louis Cabri, that can’t, Nomados, Vancouver
• Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Apocalyptic Swing (August), Persea
• C. P. Cavafy, translated from the Greek by Daniel Mendelsohn
  Daniel Mendelsohn
  -Life and career:Mendelsohn was born on Long Island. He graduated with a B. A. in Classics from the University of Virginia, which he attended from 1978 to 1982 as an Echols Scholar, and received his M. A. and Ph. D. in Classics from Princeton University, where he was a Mellon Fellow in the...
  
  :
  • Collected Poems, Knopf, ISBN 978-0-375-40096-4
  • The Unfinished Poems, C.P. Cavafy, 30 poems, left in various stages of completion by Cavafy when he died in 1933, discovered in the Cavafy Archive in the 1960s by George Savidis, the poet's editor, and published in a scholarly Greek edition by Renata Lavagnini in 1994; Knopf, ISBN 978-0-307-26546-3
• Kelly Cherry
  Kelly Cherry
  Kelly Cherry is an author, poet, and the Poet Laureate of Virginia,. A resident of Halifax, Virginia, she was named the state's Poet Laureate by Governor Bob McDonnell in July 2010...
  
  , The Retreats of Thought
• Florence Earle Coates
  Florence Earle Coates
  -Biography:She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Granddaughter of noted abolitionist and philanthropist Thomas Earle, and eldest daughter of Philadelphia lawyer George H. Earle, Sr. and Mrs. Frances Van Leer Earle, Mrs...
  
   (1850–1927), Victi Resurgunt. Published posthumously. A 26-page pamphlet of fifteen "fugitive" patriotic and war poems written by Mrs. Coates. The poems were originally published in various periodicals and texts between the years 1915 and 1922, and have been compiled and organized into pamphlet format. ISBN 978-0-615-30926-2
• Arda Collins
  Arda Collins
  -Life:Collins was an intern, working up to research assistant, and then assistant director, of Public television documentaries, from 1997-2003.She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow....
  
  , It Is Daylight, 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....
  
  's sixth pick as judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition; Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-14888-6 (April)
• Ben Doller
  Ben Doller
  Ben Doller is an American poet & writer.-Life:He graduated from the State University of New York at Oswego, and West Virginia University....
  
  , (né Doyle), FAQ, Ahsahta, ISBN 9780934103067
• Rita Dove
  Rita Dove
  Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and author. From 1993-1995 she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now popularly known as "U.S. Poet Laureate"...
  
  , Sonata Mulattica, Norton, ISBN 978-0-393-07008-8 (April)
• Brett Evans
  Brett Evans
  Brett Evans is a South African football defender and midfielder for Premier Soccer League club Ajax Cape Town....
  
  , Slosh Models, Brooklyn: Factory School
• Elvis Dino Esquivel, Llantos del silencio, CNX Press, ISBN 978-1-4421-1885-0
• Peter Ganick, arranger, White Sky Books, Puhos, Finland
• Molly Gaudry, We Take Me Apart: A Novel(la) [in verse], Mud Luscious Press
• 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...
  
  , The Dance Most of All, Knopf, ISBN 978-0-307-27076-4 (April)
• 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...
  
  , In Search of Small Gods, Copper Canyon Press (April)
• Michael Heller
  Michael Heller (poet)
  Michael Heller , is an American poet, essayist and critic. Among his many books are Exigent Futures, In The Builded Place, Wordflow and Living Root: A Memoir. He wrote the libretto for the opera, Benjamin, based on the life of Walter Benjamin...
  
  , Eschaton, Jersey City, New Jersey: Talisman House
• Leland Hickman
  Leland Hickman
  Leland Hickman was an American poet, editor, actor, and literary magazine publisher. During his lifetime, Hickman was best known as the publisher and editor of the influential magazine Temblor which was noted for the publication of many east and west coast language-related poets...
  
  , Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman, edited by Stephen Motika
  Stephen Motika
  -Life and work:Motika is the publisher of Nightboat Books, a literary non-profit publisher based in New York's Upper Delaware River Valley. He is the editor of Leland Hickman's Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman , and the author of the chapbook, "Arrival and At Mono" which was...
  
   (Preface by Dennis Phillips and Afterwords by Bill Mohr), Nightboat Books
• Ernest Hilbert
  Ernest Hilbert
  Ernest Hilbert is an American poet, critic, and editor born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1970.-Biography:Hilbert graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Rutgers University in 1993. He also received a Master's Degree and Doctorate in English Literature...
  
  , Sixty Sonnets, Boston: Red Hen.
• 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...
  
  , Selected Poems, Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-12156-8; including "Mercian Hymns"
• Lucy Ives, My Thousand Novel, Iowa City, Iowa: Cosa Nostra Editions
• Marilyn Kallet, Packing Light
• Erica Kaufman, Censory Impulse, Factory School, Brooklyn, New York
• 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....
  
  , Cinema Muto
• Burt Kimmelman
  Burt Kimmelman
  Burt Kimmelman is an American poet and scholar.-Life and work:Kimmelman is noted for his astute criticism of modern and postmodern American poetry and the development of the poetics of authorship in medieval Europe and is a celebrated poet within the tradition of William Carlos Williams.Kimmelman...
  
  , As If Free, Talisman, Jersey City, New Jersey
• Natalie Knight, Archipelagos, Punch Press, Buffalo
• Jennifer Kronovet, Awayward, debut book of poetry, selected by 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....
  
   for BOA's A. Poulin Jr. prize; BOA, ISBN 978-1-934414-18-7
• Matthew Landis, Like a Moth From His Death Mouth, privately printed, Philadelphia
• Timothy Liu
  Timothy Liu
  Timothy Liu is an American poet and the author of such books as Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse, For Dust Thou Art, Of Thee I Sing, Hard Evidence, Say Goodnight, Burnt Offerings and Vox Angelica. He is also the editor of Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry...
  
  , Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse, Talisman House, Jersey City, New Jersey
• Lewis MacAdams
  Lewis MacAdams
  Lewis MacAdams is an American poet, journalist, political activist, and filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles, California.-Life and work:...
  
  , Lyrics, Palo Alto, California: Blue Press
• Randall Mann
  Randall Mann
  Randall Mann is an American poet.He was born in Provo, Utah in 1972, the only son to Olympic Track and Field medalist, Ralph Mann. He is the author of Breakfast with Thom Gunn , Complaint in the Garden , winner of the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry, and co-author of the textbook Writing Poems...
  
  , Breakfast with Thom Gunn, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-50344-8

• Clay Matthews, Runoff, BlazeVOX, Buffalo, New York
• Campbell McGrath
  Campbell McGrath
  Campbell McGrath is a notable modern American poet. He is the author of nine full-length collections of poetry, including his most recent, Seven Notebooks , Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition , and In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys .- Life :McGrath was born in Chicago, Illinois, and...
  
  , Shannon, about the youngest member of the Lewis and Clark expedition
  Lewis and Clark Expedition
  The Lewis and Clark Expedition, or ″Corps of Discovery Expedition" was the first transcontinental expedition to the Pacific Coast by the United States. Commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson and led by two Virginia-born veterans of Indian wars in the Ohio Valley, Meriwether Lewis and William...
  
  
• Barry McKinnon
  Barry McKinnon
  Barry Benjamin McKinnon is a Canadian poet.Born in Calgary, Alberta, he taught English at the College of New Caledonia in Prince George, British Columbia.-Bibliography:* The Golden Daybreak Hair. Toronto, ON: Aliquondo Press, 1967....
  
  , In the Millennium, New Star Books, Vancouver BC / Point Roberts, Washington
• Deborah Meadows, Goodbye Tissues, Shearsman Books, Exeter, UK
• Didi Menendez, For Love of an Armadillo, GOSS 183:: Casa Menendez, Bloomington, Illinois
• Sheila Murphy
  Sheila Murphy
  Sheila E. Murphy is an American text and visual poet who has been writing and publishing actively since 1978. She currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona.She earned:...
  
   & mIEKAL aND, How to Spell the Sound of Everything, Xerox Sutra Editions, West Lima, Wisconsin
• 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:...
  
  , Evidence, 44 poems, Beacon Press (April)
• Simon Pettet, Hearth, Talisman House, Jersey City, New Jersey
• D. A. Powell
  D. A. Powell
  -Life and career:Powell lived in various places growing up, then graduated high school from Lindhurst High School in Linda, California. He then worked in a number of jobs before eventually settling in Santa Rosa, California, where he attended Sonoma State University. He earned a bachelor's degree...
  
  , Chronic, Graywolf Press
  Graywolf Press
  Graywolf Press is an independent, non-profit publisher located in St. Paul, Minnesota. Founded on a dedication to the creation and promotion of thoughtful and imaginative contemporary literature essential to a vital and diverse culture, Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.Now...
  
  , winner of the 2010 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
• Hilda Raz, What Happens
• Kit Robinson
  Kit Robinson
  Kit Robinson is an American poet and translator. An early member of the San Francisco Language poets circle, he has published 20 books of poetry.-Life and work:...
  
  , The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems, 1976–2003, Adventures in Poetry, Princeton, New Jersey
• Ce Rosenow, Pacific, Mountain Gate Press, Hillsboro, Oregon
• 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...
  
  , Poems 1959–2009, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ISBN 978-0-374-12655-1 (April)
• Mohammad Shaheen
  Mohammad Shaheen
  Mohammad Shaheen is a professor of English literature at the University of Jordan since 1985. Shaheen holds a PhD degree in English literature from Cambridge University. He is the author of many books, including E.M. Forster and the Politics of Imperialism...
  
  , translation from the original Arabic
  Arabic poetry
  Arabic poetry is the earliest form of Arabic literature. Present knowledge of poetry in Arabic dates from the 6th century, but oral poetry is believed to predate that. Arabic poetry is categorized into two main types, rhymed, or measured, and prose, with the former greatly preceding the latter...
  
   of the late Mahmoud Darwish
  Mahmoud Darwish
  Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet...
  
  , Almond Blossoms and Beyond, Interlink (March)
• Frank Sherlock, Over Here, Factory School, Brooklyn, New York
• Louis Simpson
  Louis Simpson
  Louis Aston Marantz Simpson is an American poet. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At The End Of The Open Road.-Life:...
  
  , Struggling Times. Rochester, New York: BOA Editions. ISBN 978-1-934414-20-0. This is the Jamaica-born Simpson's 18th collection.
• Logan Ryan Smith, Tracks, Ypolita Press, San Francisco, California
• Elizabeth Swados
  Elizabeth Swados
  Elizabeth Swados is an American writer, composer, musician, and theatre director. While some of her subject matter is humorous, such as her satirical look at Ronald Reagan, Rap Master Ronnie, and Doonesbury - both collaborations with Garry Trudeau - much of her work deals with dark issues such as...
  
  , The One and Only Human Galaxy, Hanging Loose Press (April)
• Eleanor Ross Taylor
  Eleanor Ross Taylor
  Eleanor Ross Taylor is an American poet who has published six collections from 1960 to 2009. Her work received little recognition until 1998, but since then has received several of the major poetry prizes...
  
  , Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems
• Simon Thompson
  Simon Thompson
  Simon Thompson is an athlete from Australia. He competes in triathlon.Thompson trains with the Tridents Triathlon Club in Canberra and is coached by Ben Gathercole. http://www.tridents.com.au...
  
  , Why Does It Feel So Late?, New Star Books, Vancouver BC / Point Roberts, Washington
• Sotère Torregian
  Sotère Torregian
  Sotère Torregian is an American poet, born in Newark, New Jersey on June 25, 1941. He attended Rutgers University, and taught briefly at the Free University of New York and Stanford University, where he helped establish the Afro-American studies program in 1969. In the mid-1960s he was associated...
  
  , Envoy, (preface by Andrew Joron
  Andrew Joron
  Andrew Joron is an American writer of experimental poetry. He began by writing science fiction poetry. Joron's later poetry, combining scientific and philosophical ideas with the sonic properties of language, has been compared to the work of the Russian Futurist Velimir Khlebnikov...
  
  ), Punch Press, Buffalo, New York
• Pamela Ushuk, Crazy Love
• Fred Wah
  Fred Wah
  Frederick James Wah is a Canadian poet, novelist, and scholar.Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, but grew up in the interior of British Columbia. His Canadian-born father was raised in China, the son of a Chinese father and a Scots-Irish mother. Fred Wah's mother was a Swedish-born...
  
  , The False Laws of Narrative: The Poetry of Fred Wah, selected with an introduction by Louis Cabri; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Anne Waldman
  Anne Waldman
  Anne Waldman is an American poet.Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist....
  
  , Manatee/ Humanity, Penguin, ISBN 978-0-14-311521-2 book-length poem taking its form and concerns from a Tibetan Buddhist ritual and from the poet's close encounter with a Manatee
• Keith Waldrop
  Keith Waldrop
  Keith Waldrop is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, and has translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès, among others. A recent translation is Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal .With his wife Rosmarie Waldrop, he co-edits Burning Deck Press...
  
  :
  • Translator from the original French
    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:...
    
     of Charles Baudelaire
    Charles Baudelaire
    Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the nineteenth century...
    
    , Paris Spleen: Little Poems in Prose, Wesleyan University Press (May)
  • Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy, University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-25878-5 Waldrop has long been a major force in American avant-garde poetics, and this substantial new volume is big news indeed. Comprising three sequences—each almost a book in itself—plus an epilogue, and received the National Book Award (see below)
• Peter Waterhouse
  Peter Waterhouse
  Peter Waterhouse is an Austrian writer and translator.Born in Berlin of a British father and an Austrian mother, he studied German and English literature at the University of Vienna, and later in Los Angeles, where he completed a PhD on Paul Celan...
  
  , Language Death Night Outside: Poem / Novel, translated by 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...
  
  ; Burning Deck, Providence, Rhode Island
• Emily Wilson
  Emily Wilson
  Emily R. Wilson is a British classicist who is currently Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of A. N. Wilson and Katherine Duncan-Jones and the sister of the food writer Bee Wilson...
  
  , Micrographia, title from Robert Hooke
  Robert Hooke
  Robert Hooke FRS was an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath.His adult life comprised three distinct periods: as a scientific inquirer lacking money; achieving great wealth and standing through his reputation for hard work and scrupulous honesty following the great fire of 1666, but...
  
  's 1665 scientific study of the natural world through a microscope; University of Iowa Press, ISBN 978-1-58729-801-1

Anthologies in the United States

• 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:...
  
  , general editor, 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....
  
  , editor, The Best American Poetry 2009 ISBN 978-0-7432-9976-3 (September 2009)
• Honor Moore
  Honor Moore
  Honor Moore is an American writer of poetry, creative nonfiction and plays.She is the author of three collections of poems: Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir; two works of nonfiction, The White Blackbird and The Bishop's Daughter; and the play Mourning Pictures, which was produced on Broadway and...
  
  , Poems from the Women's Movement (April), work from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Library of America
• mIEKAL aND, editor, "Anthology Spidertangle", representative work of more than 50 visual poets, ISBN 978-1-4382-5818-8, Xexoxial Editions

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

• International Who's Who in Poetry 2009, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-85743-483-5
• Pierre Joris
  Pierre Joris
  Pierre Joris, born in Strasbourg, France in 1946 and raised in Ettelbruck, Luxembourg, is a poet and translator. He left Luxembourg at nineteen and since then has lived in the US, Great Britain, North Africa and France...
  
  , Justifying the Margins, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, UK; essays, criticism via poetics

Poets in The Best American Poetry 2009

The Best American Poetry 2009

The Best American Poetry 2009, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by poet David Wagoner, guest editor, who made the final selections, and David Lehman, the general editor for the series....

These poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2009

The Best American Poetry 2009

The Best American Poetry 2009, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by poet David Wagoner, guest editor, who made the final selections, and David Lehman, the general editor for the series....

, with 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:...

, general editor, and 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....

, guest editor (who selected the poetry):

• 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...
  
  
• Caleb Barber
• Mark Bibbins
• Bruce Bond
  Bruce Bond
  Bruce Bond is a poet, editor for American Literary Review , and an English professor at the University of North Texas.His poetry has been featured in a variety of literary publications, such as: The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Georgia Review, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review, and Poetry,...
  
  
• Marianne Boruch
  Marianne Boruch
  Marianne Boruch is an American poet. She graduated from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1979, and after teaching at Tunghai University in Taiwan, and at the University of Maine at Farmington, went on to develop the MFA program in creative writing at...
  
  
• Fleda Brown
  Fleda Brown
  Fleda Brown is an American poet and author. She is also known as Fleda Brown Jackson.-Biography:Fleda Brown was born in Columbia, Missouri, and raised in Fayetteville, Arkansas. In 1978 she joined the University of Delaware English Department. There she founded the Poets in the Schools Program,...
  
  
• Catherine Carter
• Suzanne Cleary
• 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...
  
  
• Rob Cook
  Rob Cook
  Rob Cook is a Republican member of the Montana Legislature. He was elected to House District 27 which represents the Conrad area.-References:...
  
  
• James Cummins
  James Cummins
  James Cummins is an American poet.- Biography :Cummins teaches at the University of Cincinnati and is the curator of the Elliston Poetry Collection. He is married to the poet and art critic, Maureen Bloomfield...
  
  
• Mark Doty
  Mark Doty
  Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist.-Biography:He was born in Maryville, Tennessee, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont.In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

• Alice Friman
• Margaret Gibson
  Margaret Gibson (poet)
  -Life:Margaret Gibson grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and was educated at Hollins College, and the University of Virginia. She went to Yaddo in 1975.Gibson has been a Visiting Professor at The University of Connecticut since 1993....
  
  
• Douglas Goetsch
• Albert Goldbarth
  Albert Goldbarth
  Albert Goldbarth is an American poet born January 31, 1948 in Chicago. He is known for his prolific production, his gregarious tone, his eclectic interests and his distinctive 'talky' style. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and won the National Book Critics Circle award in 1991 and 2001, the only...
  
  
• Barbara Goldberg
• Michael J. Grabell
• Debora Greger
  Debora Greger
  Debora Greger is an award-winning American poet as well as a visual artist.She was raised in Richland, Washington....
  
  
• Jennifer Grotz
  Jennifer Grotz
  Jennifer Grotz is an American poet and translator who teaches English and creative writing at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers and at the University of Rochester, where she is Assistant Professor...
  
  
• Barbara Hamby
  Barbara Hamby
  -Life:She was born in New Orleans and raised in Hawaii. Her poems have been printed in numerous publications and her first book of poetry, Delirium , received literary recognition...
  
  
• Sarah Hannah
• Jerry Harp
• 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...
  
  

• Dolores Hayden
  Dolores Hayden
  Dolores Hayden is an American professor, urban historian, architect, author, and poet. She teaches architecture, urbanism, and American studies at Yale University.-Background:...
  
  
• Terrance Hayes
  Terrance Hayes
  Terrance Hayes is a prize-winning American poet. His recent poetry collection Lighthead won the National Book Award for Poetry...
  
  
• K. A. Hay
• 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...
  
  
• Daniel Hoffman
  Daniel Hoffman
  Daniel Gerard Hoffman is an American poet, essayist, and academic. He was appointed the twenty-second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1973.-Biography:Hoffman was born in New York City...
  
  
• Richard Howard
  Richard Howard
  Richard Howard is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he now teaches...
  
  
• P. Hurshell
• Michael Johnson (writer)
• Tina Kelley
• Maud Kelly
• Lance Larsen
• Phillis Levin
  Phillis Levin
  -Life:She is the daughter of Charlotte E. Levin and Herbert L. Levin of Yardley, Pa.Phillis Levin graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1976, and The Johns Hopkins University in 1977....
  
  

• Philip Levine
  Philip Levine (poet)
  Philip Levine is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for over thirty years at the English Department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well...
  
  
• Sarah Lindsay
  Sarah Lindsay
  Sarah Lindsay is an American poet from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In addition to writing the two chapbooks Bodies of Water and Insomniac's Lullabye, Lindsay has authored two books in the Grove Press Poetry Series: Primate Behavior and Mount Clutter...
  
  
• 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,...
  
  
• Joanie Mackowski
  Joanie Mackowski
  -Life:She grew up in Connecticut.She graduated from Wesleyan University, the University of Washington, was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, and from University of Missouri with a Ph.D.She taught at University of Cincinnati...
  
  
• Christine Marshall
  Christine Marshall
  Christine Marshall is an Olympic swimmer from the United States. She attends college at Texas A&M University, and swam for the Aggies from 2005-2009....
  
  
• Cleopatra Mathis
  Cleopatra Mathis
  Cleopatra Mathis is an American poet who since 1982 has been the Frederick Sessions Beebe Professor in the English department at Dartmouth College, where she is also director of the Creative Writing Program...
  
  
• J.D. McClatchy
  J.D. McClatchy
  J. D. "Sandy" McClatchy is an American poet and literary critic. He is editor of the Yale Review and president of The American Academy of Arts and Letters.-Life:...
  
  
• W. S. Merwin
  W. S. Merwin
  William Stanley Merwin is an American poet, credited with over 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, Merwin's writing influence derived from...
  
  
• Jude Nutter
• Sharon Olds
  Sharon Olds
  -Life:Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. She was raised as a “hellfire Calvinist”, as she describes it. She says she was by nature "a pagan and a pantheist" and notes "I was in a church where there was both great literary art and bad literary art, the great art being psalms and the bad...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Linda Pastan
  Linda Pastan
  Linda Pastan is an American poet of Jewish background. From 1991–1995 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. She is known for writing short poems that address topics like family life, domesticity, motherhood, the female experience, aging, death, loss and the fear of loss, as well as the...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

• Susan Blackwell Ramsey
• Keith Ratzlaff
• Adrienne Rich
  Adrienne Rich
  Adrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century."-Early life:...
  
  
• James Richardson
  James Richardson (poet)
  -Career & Education:James Richardson an American poet and critic. He is Professor of English & Creative Writing at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1980. He grew up in Garden City, New York and attended Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude in 1971. He earned his Ph.D...
  
  
• Pattiann Rogers
  Pattiann Rogers
  Pattiann Rogers is an American poet who has published 11 books and received numerous awards, grants and fellowships.She was born in Joplin, Missouri, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri in 1961...
  
  
• Gibbons Ruark
  Gibbons Ruark
  Gibbons Ruark is a contemporary American poet. Known for his deeply personal often elegiac lyrics about his native North Carolina and beloved Ireland, Ruark has had poetry in such publications as The New Yorker, The New Republic, and Poetry...
  
  
• John Rybicki
• Betsy Sholl
  Betsy Sholl
  Elizabeth "Betsy" Sholl is an American poet and a former poet laureate of Maine. She was appointed by Governor John Baldacci to the position in 2006 and held it until 2011. She is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently, Rough Cradle...
  
  
• Martha Silano
• Mitch Sisskind
• Tom Sleigh
  Tom Sleigh
  Tom Sleigh is an American poet, dramatist, essayist and academic, who currently lives in New York City. He has published seven books of original poetry, one full-length translation of Euripides' Herakles and a book of essays. At least five of his plays have been produced...
  
  
• Vincent Stanley

• Pamela Sutton
• Alexandra Teague
• Craig Morgan Teicher
• Natasha Trethewey
  Natasha Trethewey
  Natasha Trethewey is an American poet who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her 2006 collection, Native Guard.Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi. She earned the A.B. in English from the University of Georgia, an M.A. in poetry from Hollins University, and an M.F.A. in poetry from...
  
  
• Derek Walcott
  Derek Walcott
  Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros...
  
  
• Jeanne Murray Walker
  Jeanne Murray Walker
  Jeanne Murray Walker is an American poet.-Life:Jeanne Murray Walker was born Jeanne Murray in Parkers Prairie, Minnesota, the daughter of John Gerald and Erna Murray. In 1965, she won the Atlantic Monthly Award for both fiction and Poetry and was named the Atlantic Monthly Scholar at Bread Loaf...
  
  
• Ronald Wallace
  Ronald Wallace
  Ronald Wallace was Professor of Biblical Theology at Columbia Theological Seminary-Career Overview:* Brora, Minister without Charge* 1940 Minister, Pollock Church, Glasgow* Church of Scotland's Huts and Canteens...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Lisa Williams
  Lisa Williams
  Lisa Williams is a claimed psychic and healer who has starred in two shows on Lifetime TV: Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead and Lisa Williams: Voices From the Other Side ....
  
  
• Carolyne Wright
  Carolyne Wright
  -Life:She studied at Seattle University, New York University, and graduated from Syracuse University with master's and doctoral degrees.She has held visiting creative writing posts at Radcliffe College, Sweet Briar College, Emory University, University of Wyoming, University of Miami, Oklahoma...
  
  
• Debbie Yee
• Kevin Young
  Kevin Young (poet)
  Kevin Young is an American poet and teacher of poetry. Young graduated from Harvard College in 1992, was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University , and received his MFA from Brown University. While in Boston and Providence, he was part of the African-American poetry group, The Dark Room Collective...
  
  
• Matthew Zapruder
  Matthew Zapruder
  Matthew Zapruder is an American poet, editor, translator, and professor. His second poetry collection, The Pajamaist , won the 2007 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and was chosen by Library Journal as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006...
  
  

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:...

• Emily Dickinson
  Emily Dickinson
  Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life...
  
  , Poésies complètes, translated from the original English by Françoise Delphy; Flammarion
• Patrice Delbourg, editor, L'année poétique 2009 ("Poetry Year 2000"), French
  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:...
  
  -language poetry published in the past 12 months, Publisher: Seghers; ISBN 978-2-232-12308-5. an anthology
• Dominique Sorrente
  Dominique Sorrente
  Dominique Sorrente is a French poet. He was elected laureate by the Marseille Academy in 1983, and "Guy Levis Mano" laureate in 1984.- Biography :...
  
  , Pays sous les continents, un itinéraire poétique 1978-2008, MLD
• 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...
  
  , Chants de l'évidence, publisher: Autres Temps, ISBN 978-2-84521-338-8

French poetry in 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...

• Normand de Bellefeuille, Mon nom, Publisher: Éditions du Noroît; ISBN 978-2-89018-655-2; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetry
• René Lapierre, Traité de physique, Publisher: Les Herbes rouges; ISBN 978-2-89419-280-1; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetry
• Hélène Monette, Thérèse pour joie et orchestre, Publisher: Les Éditions du Boréal; ISBN 978-2-7646-0625-4; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetry
• Philippe More, Brouillons pour un siècle abstrait, Publisher: Poètes de brousse; ISBN 978-2-923338-20-0; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetry
• André Roy, Montreal, Les espions de Dieu, Publisher: Les Herbes rouges; ISBN 978-2-89419-282-5; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetry

French poetry in Switzerland

• Markus Hediger
  Markus Hediger
  Markus Hediger is a Swiss writer and translator.-Life:Markus Hediger was born in Zürich and brought up in Reinach, Aargau. From 1980 to 1990 he studied French literature, Literary criticism and Italian literature at University of Zurich.At the age of 16 he went to Paris for the first time...
  
  , En deçà de la lumière, Publisher: Éditions de l'Aire; ISBN 2-88108-886-4

German

• Christoph Buchwald, series editor, and Uljana Wolf, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2009 ("Yearbook of Poetry 2009"), including poems by Christian Ide Hintze
  Christian Ide Hintze
  Christian Ide Hintze is an Austrian poet and performance artist, who focuses on the transition from literary to cross-media forms.-Biography:...
  
  , Herta Müller
  Herta Müller
  Herta Müller is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet and essayist noted for her works depicting the effects of violence, cruelty and terror, usually in the setting of Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceauşescu regime which she experienced herself...
  
  , Harald Hartung, Marcel Beyer
  Marcel Beyer
  Marcel Beyer is a German writer.-Life:Marcel Beyer grew up in Kiel and Neuss. From 1987 to 1991 he studied German language and literature, English studies and Literary studies at the University of Siegen; in 1992 he obtained a Magister degree with a work on Friederike Mayröcker. Since 1987 he has...
  
  ; Frankfurt: Fischer (S.), 254 pages, ISBN 978-3-10-009655-5, an anthology
• Christoph Janacs, Die Zärtlichkeit von Stacheln; Salzburg: Tandem Edition
• Daniel Falb, Bancor, Kookbooks, 64 pages, ISBN 978-3-937445-39-7
• Monika Rinck (author, illustrator) and Andreas Töpfer (illustrator), Helle Verwirrung/Rincks Ding- und Tierleben: Gedichte & Zeichnungen ("Bright confusion/Rinck thing and animal life: Poems & Drawings"), Kookbooks, 200 pages, ISBN 978-3-937445-37-3
• Andre Rudolph (author) and Annette Kühn (illustrator), Fluglärm über den Palästen unsrer Restinnerlichkeit, luxbooks, 130 pages, ISBN 978-3-939557-90-6
• Uljana Wolf, falsche freunde: Prosa-Gedichte ("false friends: Prose Poems"), Kookbooks, 85 pages, ISBN 978-3-937445-38-0

Greece

• Phoebe Giannisi, Homerika, publisher: Kedros Editions
• Christoph Janacs, Zärtlichkeit mit Stacheln. Gedichte zu Adalbert Stifter ("The Tenderness of Quills: Poems by Adalbert Stifter"), Salzburg: Edition Tandem, 88 pages, ISBN 978-3-902606-17-4
• Giorgos Lillis, Bounds of the Labyrinth, publisher: Kedros Editions
• Yiannis Stigas, Isopalo Travma ("An Even Wound"), publisher: Kedros Editions
• Noveltly Within or Beyond Language, an anthology of young Greek poets, Athens: Gavriilidis Editions
• Christos Chrysoopoulos (Χρήστος Χρυσόοπουλος), Η άλλη Λώρα ("Another Laura"), criticism; Athens: Kastaniotis

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:

• Bharat Majhi, Dho, Bhubaneswar: Timepass, 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...
  
  , Oriya-language
• K. Siva Reddy, Aame Evaraite Matram, Hyderabad: Palapitta Prachuranalu, 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 :...
  
  -language
• Pratyush Guleri, editor and translator, Urvar Pradesh, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, ISBN 978-81-267-1812-2, anthology of poems translated from the original Himachali into Hindi
• S. Joseph
  S. Joseph
  S. Joseph is a Malayalam poet in the post modern era.His collections are Karutha Kallu , Meenkaran and Identity card .-External links:*...
  
  , Uppante Kooval Varakkunnu, winner of a Thiruvananthapuram Book Fair award for one of the ten best books of this year; Kottayam: DC Books, ISBN 978-81-264-2447-4; 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...
  
  -language
• Teji Grover and Rustam Singh, Teji aur Rustam Ki Kavitaen, selected poems of both poets, New Delhi: Harper Collins, ISBN 81-7223-879-7, Hindi-language
• Venkatapu Satyam, translator, Antarjanam, translated into 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...
  
   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 :...
  
   of K. Siva Reddy; Bangalore: Kannada Prakashana

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 ....

• Juliusz Erazm Bolek, Sens-or
• Tadeusz Dąbrowski
  Tadeusz Dąbrowski
  Tadeusz Dąbrowski is a Polish, poet, essayist, and critic. He is also the editor of the literary bimonthly Topos.Dąbrowski has been published in many journals in Poland and abroad Tadeusz Dąbrowski (born 1979) is a Polish, poet, essayist, and critic. He is also the editor of the literary...
  
  , Czarny kwadrat, winner of the 2009 Koscielski Foundation Prize (popularly known in Poland as the nagrodą Kościelskich, or "Koscielski award") for works by Polish writers under 40 years old
• Jerzy Jarniewicz, Makijaż (Make-up) Wrocław: Biuro Literackie
• Ryszard Krynicki, Wiersze wybrane; Kraków: Wydawnictwo a5
• Piotr Sommer, Rano na ziemi
• Wisława Szymborska, Tutaj ("Here")
• 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...
  
  , Rzeczywiste i nierzeczywiste staje się jednym ciałem.111 wierszy
• Adam Zagajewski
  Adam Zagajewski
  Adam Zagajewski is a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist.In 1982 he emigrated to Paris, but in 2002 he returned to Poland, and resides in Kraków. His poem "Try To Praise The Mutilated World", printed in The New Yorker, became famous after the 11 September attacks...
  
  , Niewidzialna ręka ("Invisibile Hand"), Kraków: Znak

Portuguese language

• Rosa Lia Dinelle, Enquanto os sinos plangem, poems in many different styles; Brazil
• Carlos Newton Júnior, editor, O cangaço na poesia brasileira, anthology; Brazil
• Arménio Vieira
  Arménio Vieira
  Arménio Adroaldo Vieira e Silva is a Cape Verdean and a Portuguese journalist. He elemented an activity during the 1960s, collaborated in SELÓ, Boletim de Cabo Verde, Vértice review, Raízes, Ponto & Vírgula, Fragmentos, and others....
  
  , O poema, a viagem, o sonho, Portugal

Russia

Books of poetry were published this year by Igor Bulatovsky, Ilya Kucherov, Dmitry Grigoryev, Natalya Chernykh, Aleksey Porvin, Boris Khersonsky, Aleksandr Mironov, Gali-Dana Zinger and Vadim Mesyats

Other languages

• 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...
  
  , Extravío en la luz ("Lost in the light"), Madrid: Casariego, six previously unpublished poems, ISBN 978-84-86760-84-7, 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....
  
  
• Jorge Volpi
  Jorge Volpi
  Jorge Luis Volpi Escalante is a Mexican author best known for his 1999 novel En busca de Klingsor. Volpi was born in Mexico City. He studied law and literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and received a PhD in Spanish philology at the University of Salamanca in Spain...
  
  , Oscuro bosque oscuro, novel in free verse, Spanish poetry
  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....
  
  -language, Mexico
• Rahman Henry, Traansundoree ( A Book of Poems), Bhashachitra, Dhaka
  Dhaka
  Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka Division. Dhaka is a megacity and one of the major cities of South Asia. Located on the banks of the Buriganga River, Dhaka, along with its metropolitan area, had a population of over 15 million in 2010, making it the largest city...
  
  , Bangladesh
  Bangladesh
  Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
  
  .

International

• 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...
  
  : Tomaž Šalamun
  Tomaz Salamun
  Tomaž Šalamun is a Slovenian poet. He was born in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia, and raised in Koper, Slovenia. He has published 39 collections of poetry in his native Slovenian language. Šalamun spent two years at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop in the 1970s and has lived for periods of time in...
  
   (Slovenia
  Slovenia
  Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
  
  )

Australia awards and honors

• 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...
  
  :
• 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...

 awards and honors

• 2008 Lampman-Scott Award (announced September 2009): Shane Rhodes
  Shane Rhodes
  -Life:He graduated from the University of New Brunswick.He lives in Ottawa, Canada.As the 2008 winner of the Lampman-Scott Award for Poetry, Shane Rhodes turned over half of the $1,500 prize money to the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, a First Nations health centre, according to a 2008 report...
  
  , The Bindery
• 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....
  
  : Canadian: A.F. Moritz, for The Sentinel
  • Others on the shortlist: Kevin Connolly
    Kevin Connolly (writer)
    -Biography:Kevin Connolly is a Canadian poet, free-lance editor and critic who was born in Biloxi, Mississippi and grew up in Maple, Ontario. Connolly has served as an editor for presses such as ECW Press, House of Anansi Press and Coach House Press...
    
    , Revolver; Jeramy Dodds
    Jeramy Dodds
    Jeramy Dodds is a Canadian poet.Born in Ajax, Ontario, Dodds grew up in Orono, Ontario. He studied English Literature and Anthropology at Trent University, Medieval Icelandic Studies at The University of Iceland, and has worked as a research archaeologist in Canada...
    
    , Crabwise to the Hounds
• 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: C.D. Wright, Rising, Falling, Hovering
  • Others on the shortlist: Mick Imlah
    Mick Imlah
    Michael Ogilvie Imlah , better known as Mick Imlah, was a Scottish poet and editor.-Background:Imlah was brought up in Milngavie near Glasgow, before moving to Beckenham, Kent in 1966. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he subsequently taught as a Junior Fellow...
    
    , The Lost Leader; Derek Mahon, Life on Earth; 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,...
    
    , Primitive Mentor
• Governor General's Award for English language poetry
  Governor General's Award for English language poetry
  This is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Awards award for English-language poetry. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English language poetry or drama was divided.-1980s:...
  
  : David Zieroth
  David Zieroth
  David Dale Zieroth is a Canadian poet. He won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1999 for How I Joined Humanity at Last, and the Governor General's Award for English language poetry in 2009 for The Fly in Autumn.-Works:*Clearing: Poems from a Journey *Mid-River *When the Stones Fly Up *The Weight...
  
  , The Fly in Autumn
  • Others on the shortlist: David McFadden
    David McFadden
    David William McFadden is a Canadian poet, fiction writer, and travel writer. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario and first started working there as a proofreader for the Hamilton Spectator newspaper. As he grew more renowned as a poet he quit the newspaper and became a full-time writer in 1976...
    
    , Be Calm, Honey, Philip Kevin Paul, Little Hunger; 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...
    
    , Expressway; Carmine Starnino
    Carmine Starnino
    Carmine Starnino is a Canadian poet, essayist, educator, and editor.He was born in Montreal, Quebec, into an Italian heritage. His first poetry collection The New World was nominated for the 1997 A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award...
    
    , This Way Out
• Governor General's Award for French language poetry
  Governor General's Award for French language poetry
  This is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for French language poetry or drama was divided.-1980s:*1981: Michel Beaulieu, ...
  
  : Hélène Monette, Thérèse pour joie et orchestre
  • Others on the shortlist: Normand de Bellefeuille, Mon nom; René Lapierre, Traité de physique; Philippe More, Brouillons pour un siècle abstrait; André Roy, Les espions de Dieu
• 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...
  
  :
• 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...
  
  :
• 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...
  
  :

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...

 awards and honors

• Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement (poetry): 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...
  
  
• 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): 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...
  
  , The Rocky Shore

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...

 awards and honors

• Cholmondeley Award
  Cholmondeley Award
  The Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966...
  
  :
• Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry:
  • Shortlist:
• David Cohen Prize
  David Cohen Prize
  The David Cohen Prize for Literature is a biennial British literary award given to a writer, novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist or dramatist in recognition of an entire body of work, written in the English language. The prize is funded by the John S. Cohen Foundation and administered by...
  
  : 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...
  
  
• English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes:
• Eric Gregory Award
  Eric Gregory Award
  The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission. The awards are up to a sum value of £24000 annually....
  
   (for a collection of poems by a poet under the age of 30):
• 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: 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...
    
    , Rain
    • Shortlist: Peter Porter
      Peter Porter (poet)
      Peter Neville Frederick Porter, OAM was a British-based Australian poet.-Life:Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1929. His mother, Marion, died of a burst gall-bladder in 1938. He attended the Church of England Grammar School and left school at 18, and went to work as a trainee journalist...
      
      ; Christopher Reid
      Christopher Reid
      Christopher Reid is a Hong Kong-born British poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer. He has been nominated twice for the Whitbread Awards in 1996 and in 1997. A contemporary of Martin Amis, he was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He is one of the exponents of Martian poetry which employs...
      
      , A Scattering
  • Best First Collection:
    • Shortlist:
• Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
  • Shortlist:
• Manchester Poetry Prize:
• National Poet of Wales:
• National Poetry Competition 2008:
• 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): Jen Hadfield
  Jen Hadfield
  Jen Hadfield is an English poet and artist.She won the 2008 T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry for her second collection, Nigh-No-Place...
  
  , Nigh-No-Place
  • Shortlist (announced in November 2008):
• The Times/Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation:

United States awards and honors

• 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 Bobby C. Rogers for Paper Anniversary
• O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize
  O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize
  The O.B. Hardison, Jr., Poetry Prize was awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library to honor a U.S. poet whose art and teaching demonstrated great imagination and daring...
  
  : Juliana Spahr
  Juliana Spahr
  Juliana Spahr is an American poet, critic, and editor. She is the recipient of the 2009 Hardison Poetry Prize awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library to honor a U.S...
  
    Judges: Claudia Rankine
  Claudia Rankine
  Claudia Rankine is an American poet and playwright born in 1963 and raised in Kingston, Jamaica and New York City. She has taught at Case Western Reserve University, Barnard College, University of Georgia, and in the writing program at the University of Houston. As of 2011, Rankine is the Henry G...
  
   and Joshua Weiner
  Joshua Weiner
  -Life:He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, taught at the Writing Program at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and at Northwestern University.He lives in Washington, D.C., and teaches at University of Maryland, College Park....
  
  
• Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: 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...
  
  
• National Book Award
  National Book Award
  The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
  
   for Poetry: Keith Waldrop
  Keith Waldrop
  Keith Waldrop is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, and has translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès, among others. A recent translation is Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal .With his wife Rosmarie Waldrop, he co-edits Burning Deck Press...
  
   for Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
• National Book Critics Circle Award
  National Book Critics Circle Award
  The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle to promote the finest books and reviews published in English....
  
   for Poetry: Rae Armantrout
  Rae Armantrout
  Rae Armantrout is an American poet generally associated with the Language Poets. Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California but grew up in San Diego. She has published ten books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies...
  
   for Versed
  Versed
  Versed is a book of poetry written by Rae Armantrout and published by Wesleyan University Press in 2009 . It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.-Awards:...
  
  
  • 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....
    
    , A Village Life, D.A. Powell, Chronic, Eleanor Ross Taylor
    Eleanor Ross Taylor
    Eleanor Ross Taylor is an American poet who has published six collections from 1960 to 2009. Her work received little recognition until 1998, but since then has received several of the major poetry prizes...
    
     Captive Voices, Rachel Zucker
    Rachel Zucker
    Rachel Zucker is an American poet born in New York City in 1971. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently, Museum of Accidents . She also co-edited the book Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections with fellow poet, Arielle Greenberg...
    
    , Museum of Accidents
• The New Criterion
  The New Criterion
  The New Criterion is a New York-based monthly literary magazine and journal of artistic and cultural criticism, edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball. It has sections for criticism of poetry, theater, art, music, the media, and books...
  
  Poetry Prize: William Virgil Davis
  William Virgil Davis
  William Virgil Davis is an American poet.He has published poems in Poetry, The Nation, The Hudson Review, The Georgia Review, The Hopkins Review, The Gettysburg Review, The New Criterion, The Sewanee Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Denver Quarterly, and Shenandoah, among others...
  
   for Landscape and Journey
• 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): W.S. Merwin for The Shadow of Sirius
  • Finalists: 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...
    
    , Watching the Spring Festival, and Ruth Stone
    Ruth Stone
    Ruth Stone was an American poet, author, and teacher.-Life and career:In 1959, after her husband, professor Walter Stone, committed suicide, she was forced to raise three daughters alone...
    
    , What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems
• Wallace Stevens Award: 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....
  
  
• PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
  PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
  The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation honors a poetry translation published in the preceding year.The award is separate from the similar PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize.-Winners:-See also:*American poetry*List of poetry awards...
  
  : Marilyn Hacker
  Marilyn Hacker
  Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English at the City College of New York....
  
   for her translation from the French of King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne
  Marie Etienne
  Marie Étienne is a French poet and novelist. In 2009, her book Roi des cent cavaliers and now translated into English as King of a Hundred Horseman won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation...
  
  
• 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...
  
   : Fanny Howe
  Fanny Howe
  Fanny Howe is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She has written many novels in prose collection. Howe was awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, presented annually by the Poetry Foundation to a living U.S...
  
  
• Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism: Ange Mlinko
  Ange Mlinko
  -Life:She graduated from Conestoga High School, St. John's College and Brown University.She edited the poetry ’zine Compound Eye. Her work has appeared in Boston Review, Colorado Review and Poetry Magazine...
  
  
• Los Angeles Times Book Prize: 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...
  
  , Practical Water (Wesleyan University Press)

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....
  
  : X.J. Kennedy
• 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...
  
  : Ron Padgett
  Ron Padgett
  Ron Padgett is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. Bean Spasms, Padget's first collection of poems, was published in 1967 and written with Ted Berrigan...
  
   and Gary Young
  Gary Young (poet)
  Gary Eugene Young is an American poet, printer and book artist. In 2010 he was named Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz county.-Life:He graduated from University of California Santa Cruz and University of California, Irvine, with an M.F.A....
  
  ; Judges: 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....
  
   and Christopher Buckley
  Christopher Buckley (poet)
  Christopher Buckley is an American poet.Buckley was born in Arcata, California. He graduated from St. Mary's College with a BA, San Diego State University with a MA, and University of California, Irvine with an MFA....
  
  
• 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,...
  
  : Richard Robbins
  Richard Robbins (poet)
  -Life:He grew up in Southern California and Montana.He graduated from San Diego State University, and University of Montana, with an M.F.A. in 1979, where he studied with Richard Hugo and Madeline DeFrees....
  
  ; Judge: Graham Foust
  Graham Foust
  Graham Foust is an American poet and currently is an associate professor at Saint Mary's College of California.-Early life:...
  
  

• Lyric Poetry Award: Susan Kinsolving
  Susan Kinsolving
  Susan Kinsolving is an American poet whose books include The White Eyelash, Dailies & Rushes and Among Flowers....
  
  ; Judge: Lucie Brock-Broido
  Lucie Brock-Broido
  Lucie Brock-Broido is the author of three collections of poetry. She has received many honors, including the Witter-Bynner prize of Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, the Harvard-Danforth Award for Distinction in Teaching, the Jerome J...
  
  
• Lucille Medwick Memorial Award: Wayne Miller; Judge: Elizabeth Alexander
  Elizabeth Alexander (poet)
  Elizabeth Alexander is an American poet, essayist, playwright, and a university professor.-Early life:Alexander was born in Harlem, New York City and grew up in Washington D.C. She is the daughter of former United States Secretary of the Army and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chairman...
  
  ; finalist:
• Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award: Melissa Kwasny; Judge: Ed Roberson
  Ed Roberson
  -Life:He was born and raised in Pittsburgh.Roberson lives in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he worked at Rutgers University, until 2002. In 2007, he was Visiting Writer in Residence at Northwestern University.His work appears in Callaloo-Awards:...
  
  ; finalists:
• Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: Grace Dunhame; Judge: Matthew Rohrer
  Matthew Rohrer
  Matthew Rohrer is an American poet.Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Rohrer was raised in Oklahoma. He earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from the University of Iowa.His first book of poetry, A Hummock in the Malookas , was selected by Mary Oliver...
  
  ; finalists:
• George Bogin Memorial Award: 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...
  
  ; Judge: John Yau
  John Yau
  John Yau is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978...
  
  
• Robert H. Winner Memorial Award: Eliot Khalil Wilson; Judge: Henri Cole
  Henri Cole
  Henri Cole is an award-winning American poet.-Biography:Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to an American father and French mother, and raised in Virginia, United States. His father, a North Carolinian, enlisted in the service after graduating from high school and, while stationed in...
  
  ; finalists:
• Cecil Hemley Memorial Award: Melissa Kwasny; Judge: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
  Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
  Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is a contemporary poet. Winner of two American Book Awards, her work is often associated with the Language School, the poetry of the New York School, phenomenology, and visual art...
  
  
• Norma Farber First Book Award: Richard Deming
  Richard Deming
  -Life:He graduated from the University of Buffalo with a Ph.d. He studied with Robert Creeley, Charles Bernstein and Susan Howe. In the past, he has taught at Wesleyan University...
  
   for Let's Not Call It Consequence; Judge: Martha Ronk
  Martha Ronk
  -Life:She graduated from Wellesley College, and Yale University with a Ph.D. She taught at Colorado University and Otis College of Art and Design, and Naropa University Summer Writing Program...
  
  
• 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....
  
  : 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...
  
   for All of It Singing; Judge: James Longenbach
  James Longenbach
  James Longenbach is an American critic and poet. His early critical work focused on modernist poetry , but he writes extensively about contemporary poetry, too, and has authored four books of poems: Threshold, Fleet River, Draft of a Letter, and The Iron Key...
  
  ; finalists:

From the Poetry Society of Virginia Student Poetry Contest

2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-3 Category – Grades 5 & 6

• 1st place Eloise H. Kelley, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “One Unique World”
• 2nd place Eliza D’Anieri, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “Piano Images”
• 3rd place Cullan Kerner, Winchester, Virginia for the poem “Benched”
• 1st Honorable Mention Graydon Nuk, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “The Bike"
• 2nd Honorable Mention Josephine Norris Cotton, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “A Cat’s Personality”
• 3rd Honorable Mention Sophia Rose Carbonneau, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “Florida’s Smiles”

2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-4 Category – Grades 7 & 8

• 1st place Nate Friant, Harbor, Maine for the poem “November Jay”
• 2nd place Ashley Harris, Mt. Kisco, NY for the poem “Lines”
• 3rd place Emma Moorhead, Bath, Maine for the poem “My Crayola”
• 1st Honorable Mention Lia Russell, Richmond, Virginia for the poem “Dogwood”
• 2nd Honorable Mention Amelia Neilson, Arrowsic, Maine for the poem “Harvested”

2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-5 Category – Grades 9 & 10

• 1st place Cassandra Gergely, Owings, Maryland for the poem “Sun Dreams”
• 2nd place Kelsey Tripp, Roanoke, Virginia for the poem “Clarity”
• 3rd place Aleck Berry, Williamsburg, Virginia for the poem “Golden Fried Love”

2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-6 Category – Grades 11 & 12

• 1st place Duncan Lyle, Manakin Sabot, Virginia for the poem “Smoking is not allowed in School”
• 2nd place Bianca LaBarbena, Edison, New Jersey for the poem “Haven”
• 3rd place Keenan Nathaniel Thompson, Richmond, Virginia for the poem “Sunflower Angel”
• 1st Honorable Mention Brown Farinholt, Richmond, Virginia for the poem “Your Temple”
• 2nd Honorable Mention Kara Wang, Saratoga, California for the poem “Longing”

2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-7 Category – Community College

• 1st place Tyler Iseley, Newport News, Virginia for the poem “Warrior”
• 2nd place Linda Arnott, Tucson, Arizona for the poem “The Corpse”

2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-8 Category – Undergraduate College

• 1st place Nathan W. Friedman, Roanoke, Virginia for the poem “Like Clara Bow”
• 2nd place Nicole Fegeas, Warrenton, Virginia for the poem “Semantics”
• 3rd place Audrey Walls, Richmond, Virginia for the poem “Piedmont Station”

2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Poetry Society Prize

• 1st place Abbie Hinchman, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “Where My Poems Hide”
• 2nd place Sophia Rose Carbonneau, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “How to be in a Play”
• 3rd place Maura Eileen Anderson, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “Late Night Wing: An Alphabet Poem”
• 1st Honorable Mention Daniel Mayer, Walpole, Maine for the poem “My Ascent and Descent”
• 2nd Honorable Mention Jacob Maxmin, Nobleboro, Maine for the poem “Holiday Helpers”
• 3rd Honorable Mention Virginia Hindman, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “Ignorance”

2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Jenkins Prize

• 1st place Kelsey Tripp, Roanoke, Virginia for the poem "Suppressed Voice"
• 2nd place Mikal Cardine, Warrington, Virginia for the poem "Lost"
• 3rd place Robyn Walters, Yorktown, Virginia for the poem "For the Love of Book"

2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Virginia Student Prize

• 1st place Brown Farinholt, Richmond, Virginia for the poem “Henrietta’s”
• 2nd place Mikal Cardine, Warrington, Virginia for the poem “Lonely”
• 3rd place Michelle Moses, Virginia Beach, Virginia for the poem “Novelty Love”
• 1st Honorable Mention Sam Perry, Dillwyn, Virginia for the poem “The Musician”
• 2nd Honorable Mention Philip Halsey, Richmond, Virginia for the poem “Spoiled”
• 3rd Honorable Mention Peter Chiappa, Yorktown, Virginia for the poem “Sonnet 31”

Awards and honors elsewhere

• 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 ....
  
  :
  • Gdynia Literary Prize
    Gdynia Literary Prize
    Gdynia Literary Prize is a Polish literary prize. It was established in 2006 by Wojciech Szczurek, mayor of Gdynia„The idea of Gdynia Literary Prize is to honour unique achievements of contemporary Polish authors which shall determine a strong and also permanent impulse to further intensify...
    
    , for poetry: 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...
    
    , Piosenka o zależnościach i uzależnieniach (2008
    2008 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* June — the release in the United Kingdom of a new film, The Edge of Love, Dylan Thomas' relationship with two women, starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys *...
    
    )
  • Nike Award
    Nike Award
    The NIKE Literary Award is one of the most prestigious awards for Polish literature. Established in 1997 and funded by Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's second largest daily paper, and the consulting company NICOM, it is conferred annually in October for the best book of a single living author writing in...
    
     for literature: 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...
    
    , Piosenka o zależnościach i uzależnieniach
• Portuguese
  Portuguese poetry
  -History:The earliest Portuguese poetry was produced in Galicia, today a Spanish province that shares some similarities with Portuguese culture. Like the troubadour culture in the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe, Galician-Portuguese poets sang the love for a woman, that often turned into...
  
  : Camões Prize
  Camões Prize
  The Camões Prize , named after Luís de Camões is the most important literary prize for the Portuguese language. It is awarded annually by the Portuguese Fundação Biblioteca Nacional and the Brazilian Departamento Nacional do Livro to the author of an outstanding work written in Portuguese.It...
  
  : Arménio Vieira
  Arménio Vieira
  Arménio Adroaldo Vieira e Silva is a Cape Verdean and a Portuguese journalist. He elemented an activity during the 1960s, collaborated in SELÓ, Boletim de Cabo Verde, Vértice review, Raízes, Ponto & Vírgula, Fragmentos, and others....
  
  
• 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....
  
  : Cervantes Prize: José Emilio Pacheco
  José Emilio Pacheco
  José Emilio Pacheco Berny is a Mexican essayist, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century....
  
  , Mexico

Deaths

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

• January 2 – Inger Christensen
  Inger Christensen
  Inger Christensen was a Danish poet, novelist, essayist and editor considered the foremost Danish poetic experimentalist of her generation.-Life and work:...
  
  , 73 (born 1935
  1935 in poetry
  Links to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, United Kingdom links to English poetry and Indian links to Indian poetry.-Events:* Canada -- Charles G.D...
  
  ), Danish poet, writer, novelist, essayist and children's book author
• January 4 – Gert Jonke
  Gert Jonke
  Gert Jonke was an Austrian poet, playwright and novelist.-Life:Jonke was born and educated in Klagenfurt, Austria. He attended the Gymnasium and the Conservatory...
  
  , 62, (born 1946
  1946 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* W. H. Auden becomes a U.S. citizen...
  
  ), Austrian poet, novelist playwright and screenwriter, of cancer
• January 10 – Mario Augusto Rodriguez Velez, 92 (born 1917
  1917 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* July — Siegfried Sassoon issues his "Soldier's Declaration" and is sent by the military authorities to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, where on August 17 Wilfred Owen introduces himself...
  
  ), Panamanian
  Latin American poetry
  Latin American poetry is the poetry of Latin America, mostly but not entirely written in Spanish or Portuguese. The unification of Indigenous and Spanish cultures produced a unique and extraordinary body of literature in Spanish America...
  
   journalist, essayist, dramatist, poet and storyteller, of a heart ailment (surname: Rodriguez Velez)
• January 11 – Milan Rufus
  Milan Rúfus
  Milan Rúfus was a Slovak poet, essayist, translator, children's writer and academic.He was born in Závažná Poruba, in the Zilina region. As a student at the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava he studied Slovak language and literature, and history...
  
  , 80 (born 1928
  1928 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Russian poets Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky found OBERIU , an avant-garde grouping of Russian post-Futurist poets in the 1920s-1930s* American poets Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen and Louis...
  
  ), Slovak poet and academic
• January 12 – Mick Imlah
  Mick Imlah
  Michael Ogilvie Imlah , better known as Mick Imlah, was a Scottish poet and editor.-Background:Imlah was brought up in Milngavie near Glasgow, before moving to Beckenham, Kent in 1966. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he subsequently taught as a Junior Fellow...
  
  , 52 (born 1956
  1956 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 27—Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath meet in Cambridge...
  
  ), British
  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...
  
   poet
• January 13 – W. D. Snodgrass, 83 (born 1926
  1926 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I at the age of 28 and originally buried in a mass grave, are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St...
  
  ), American poet and academic
• January 15 – Maurice Chappaz
  Maurice Chappaz
  Maurice Chappaz was a French-language Swiss poet and writer. He published more than 40 books and won several literary awards, including his country's most notable award, the Grand Prix Schiller, in 1997....
  
  , 92 (born 1916
  1916 in poetry
  -- Closing lines of "Easter 1916" by William Butler Yeats, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...
  
  ), Swiss, French
  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:...
  
  -language poet, writer and translator
• January 18 – Grigore Vieru
  Grigore Vieru
  Grigore Vieru was a Moldavian poet and writer. He is mostly known for his poems and books for children. His poetry is characterized by vivid natural scenery, patriotism, as well as a venerated image of the sacred mother...
  
  , 73 (born 1935
  1935 in poetry
  Links to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, United Kingdom links to English poetry and Indian links to Indian poetry.-Events:* Canada -- Charles G.D...
  
  ), a Moldovan poet writing in Romanian, strong promoter of the Romanian language in Moldova; died from a car accident
• January 27 – John Updike
  John Updike
  John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic....
  
  , 76 (born 1932
  1932 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*W. B. Yeats rents a house in Dublin....
  
  ), American novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet and writer
• January 30 – James Schevill
  James Schevill
  James Erwin Schevill was an American poet, critic, playwright and professor at San Francisco State University and Brown University, and the recipient of Guggenheim and Ford Foundation fellowships.-Summary:...
  
  , 88 (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:...
  
  ), American poet, critic, playwright and professor at San Francisco State and Brown University
• February 4 – Arnljot Eggen
  Arnljot Eggen
  Arnljot Eggen was a Norwegian poet, and has also written plays and children's books.He was born in Tolga. He made his literary debut in 1951, with the poetry collection Eld og is. He was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for the children's book Den lange streiken...
  
  , (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:...
  
  ), Norwegian poet, playwright and author of children's books
• February 5 – Subedar Mahmoodmiya Mohammad Imam, popularly known as "Asim Randeri", 104 (born 1904
  1904 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Nobel Prize in Literature is shared by French poet Frédéric Mistral and Spanish dramatist José Echegaray y Eizaguirre....
  
  ), Indian
  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...
  
  , Gujarati-language ghazal poet
• February 9:
  • Kazys Bradūnas
    Kazys Bradunas
    Kazys Bradūnas was a Lithuanian émigré poet and editor. He was born in Kiršai, Vilkaviškis.He graduated from Vilnius University where he studied Lithuanian language and literature. During the post-war period he lived in Displaced Persons camps in Germany. In 1944 Bradūnas emigrated to the U.S.,...
    
    , 91, Lithuanian poet and editor
  • Don Maclennan
    Don Maclennan
    Donald Alasdair Calum Maclennan was a South African poet, critic, playwright and English professor.He published a number of plays, short stories, collections of poems and scholarly works....
    
    , 80 (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...
    
    ), English-born 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, critic and academic
• February 13 – Bahtiyar Vahabzade (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....
  
  ), Azerbaijani poet, philologist
  Philology
  Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...
  
  
• February 20 – Christopher Nolan
  Christopher Nolan (author)
  Christopher Nolan was an Irish poet and author, son of Joseph and Bernadette Nolan. He grew up in Mullingar, Ireland, but later moved to Dublin to attend college. He was educated at the Central Remedial Clinic School, Mount Temple Comprehensive School and at Trinity College, Dublin. His first...
  
  , 43 (born 1965
  1965 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Meic Stephens founds Poetry Wales...
  
  ), 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 and author
• February 25 – Bill Holm
  Bill Holm (poet)
  Bill Holm was an American poet, essayist, memoirist, and musician.Holm was born on a farm north of Minneota, Minnesota in 1943 and attended Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota where he graduated in 1965. Later, he attended the University of Kansas...
  
  , 65 (born 1943
  1943 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* September 12 – Abraham Sutzkever, a Polish Jew writing poetry in Yiddish, escapes the Vilna Ghetto with his wife and hides in the forests. Sutzkever and fellow Yiddish poet Shmerke...
  
  ), American poet, writer and academic, from complications of pneumonia
• March 4 – Triztán Vindtorn
  Triztán Vindtorn
  Triztán Vindtorn , born Kjell Erik Larsen, was a Norwegian poet and performance artist from Drammen. He made his literary debut with the poetry collection Sentrifuge in 1970....
  
   (born 1942
  1942 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* George Oppen forces his induction into the U.S. Army....
  
  ), Norwegian poet and performance artist
• March 12 – Blanca Varela
  Blanca Varela
  - Biography :Varela was born in Lima.Her mother was a composer who authored many famous creole waltzes. She studied at the National University of San Marcos where she met other future writers such as Sebastián Salazar Bondy, Javier Sologuren, Jorge Eduardo Eielson, and her future husband, the...
  
  , 82 (born 1926
  1926 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I at the age of 28 and originally buried in a mass grave, are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St...
  
  ), Peruvian poet
• March 13 – James Purdy
  James Purdy
  James Otis Purdy was a controversial American novelist, short story-writer, poet, and playwright who, since his debut in 1956, published over a dozen novels, and many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages. He has been praised by...
  
  , 94, (born 1914
  1914 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 29 – Yone Noguchi lectures on "The Japanese Hokku Poetry" at Magdalen College, Oxford...
  
  ), American novelist, poet and playwright
• March 17 – Jane Mayhall
  Jane Mayhall
  Jane Mayhall Katz was an American poet whose writing first received attention later in life, and was influenced by her transition from her youth in Kentucky to the hustle and bustle of life in New York City and her grief over the death of her husband...
  
  , 90, (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...
  
  ), American poet and novelist
• April 3 – Alexei Parshchikov
  Alexei Parshchikov
  Alexei Maximovich Parshchikov was a Russian poet, critic, and translator.Born in Olga, Primorsky Krai, Russian SFSR to the family of a famous physician, Maxim Reiderman , and a surgeon, L.S. Parschikova, Parshchikov was raised in the Ukrainian SSR and attended the Kiev Academy of Agriculture...
  
  , 54,(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...
  
  ), Russian poet, critic and translator
• April 8 – Henri Meschonnic
  Henri Meschonnic
  Henry Meschonnic was a French poet, linguist and theoretician of language, and essayist....
  
  , 77, (born 1932
  1932 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*W. B. Yeats rents a house in Dublin....
  
  ), French
  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:...
  
   poet, linguist, translator and theoretician
• April 10 – Deborah Digges
  Deborah Digges
  -Biography:She was born Deborah Leah Sugarbaker in Jefferson City, Missouri, on February 6, 1950. Her father was a physican and her mother was a nurse; she was the sixth child in a family of ten children....
  
   (born 1950
  1950 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Charles Olson publishes his seminal essay, Projective Verse. In this, he called for a poetry of "open field" composition to replace traditional closed poetic forms with an improvised form that should...
  
  ), American poet and academic
• April 12 – Franklin Rosemont
  Franklin Rosemont
  Franklin Rosemont was a poet, artist, historian, street speaker, and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group...
  
   (born 1943
  1943 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* September 12 – Abraham Sutzkever, a Polish Jew writing poetry in Yiddish, escapes the Vilna Ghetto with his wife and hides in the forests. Sutzkever and fellow Yiddish poet Shmerke...
  
  ), American Surrealist poet, labor historian and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group
  Chicago Surrealist Group
  The Chicago Surrealist Group was founded in Chicago, Illinois in July, 1966 by Franklin and Penelope Rosemont after a 1965 trip to Paris, during which they had been in contact with André Breton...
  
  
• April 13 – Stefan Brecht
  Stefan Brecht
  Stefan Brecht was a German-born American poet, critic and scholar of theater.The son of playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht and actress Helene Weigel, Stefan Brecht was born in Berlin. He chose to stay in the United States when his family, who had arrived in Santa Monica, California in 1941,...
  
   (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...
  
  ), 84, German-born American  poet, critic and scholar of theater; son of 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...
  
   and Helene Weigel
  Helene Weigel
  Helene Weigel was a distinguished German actress. She was the second wife of Bertolt Brecht, and together they had a son Stefan Brecht and daughter Barbara Brecht-Schall .The daughter of a Jewish lawyer, she became a Communist Party member from 1930 and Artistic Director of the...
  
  
• April 28 – U. A. Fanthorpe
  U. A. Fanthorpe
  Ursula Askham Fanthorpe, CBE, FRSL was an English poet. She published as UA Fanthorpe.-Early life:She was educated in Surrey and at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she received a first-class degree in English language and literature, and subsequently taught English at Cheltenham Ladies' College...
  
   (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...
  
  ), 79, 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...
  
   poet
• April 29, but date uncertain – 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...
  
   (born 1967
  1967 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK....
  
  ), 41, American poet, fell climbing a volcano in Japan while collecting material for his next book.
• May 1 –3 – Bantu Mwaura
  Bantu Mwaura
  Bantu Mwaura was an award winning performing artist, director, playwright, storyteller, poet and university lecturer from Kenya. He was also a political and human rights activist and a cultural theorist who has worked mostly with civil society using theatre and performance in human rights and...
  
  , 40, Kenyan human-rights activist, actor, director, poet and storyteller who wrote poetry in English, Swahili
  Swahili language
  Swahili or Kiswahili is a Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Mozambique Channel coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique, including the Comoro Islands. It is also spoken by ethnic minority groups in Somalia...
  
   and Gikuyu
  Gikuyu language
  Gikuyu or Kikuyu is a language of the Bantu family spoken primarily by the Kikuyu people of Kenya. Numbering about 6 million , they are the largest ethnic group in Kenya. Gikuyu is spoken in the area between Nyeri and Nairobi. Gikuyu is one of the five languages of the Thagichu subgroup of the...
  
  
• May 7 – Robin Blaser
  Robin Blaser
  Robin Francis Blaser was an author and poet in both the United States and Canada.-Personal background:Born in Denver, Colorado, Blaser grew up in Idaho, and came to Berkeley, California, in 1944. There he met Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, becoming a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance of...
  
  , (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....
  
  ), 83, American-born Canadian
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
   poet, 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....
  
   winner
• May 10 – James Kirkup
  James Kirkup
  James Falconer Kirkup, FRSL was a prolific English poet, translator and travel writer. He was brought up in South Shields, and educated at South Shields Secondary School and Durham University. He wrote over 30 books, including autobiographies, novels and plays...
  
  , 91, 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...
  
   poet, translator and travel writer, from a stroke
• May 17 – Mario Benedetti
  Mario Benedetti
  Mario Benedetti was an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet....
  
  , 88 (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:...
  
  ), Uruguayan, poet, author and journalist
• May 22 – Alexander Mezhirov
  Alexander Mezhirov
  Alexander Petrovich Mezhirov was a Soviet and Russian poet, translator and critic....
  
  , 86, (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:...
  
  ), Russian poet, translator and critic
• May 31 – Kamala Das
  Kamala Das
  Kamala Suraiyya was a major Indian English poet and literateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala state, South India...
  
  , 75, (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...
  
  ), Indian
  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...
  
   short-story writer and poet who wrote 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...
  
   and 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...
  
  
• June 3 – David Bromige
  David Bromige
  David Mansfield Bromige is a Canadian poet who resided in northern California from 1962 onward. Bromige published thirty books, each one so different from the others as to seem to be the work of a different author...
  
  , 75, (born 1933
  1933 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* A. E. Housman delivers his influential Leslie Stephen lecture, "The Name and Nature of Poetry", in which he asserted that poetry's function is "to transfuse emotion—not to transmit thought but...
  
  ), English-born Canadian poet who resided in California
  California
  California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
  
  , winner of the Pushcart Prize
  Pushcart Prize
  The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....
  
  .
• June 8:
  • Harold Norse
    Harold Norse
    Harold Norse was an American writer who created a body of work using the American idiom of everyday language and images. One of the expatriate artists of the Beat generation, Norse was widely published and anthologized.- Life :Born Harold Rosen to an unmarried Lithuanian Jewish immigrant in Brooklyn...
    
    , 92, (born 1916
    1916 in poetry
    -- Closing lines of "Easter 1916" by William Butler Yeats, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...
    
    ), American poet and memoirist. Considered among Beat poets.
  • Habib Tanvir
    Habib Tanvir
    Habib Tanvir was one of the most popular Indian Urdu, Hindi playwrights, a theatre director, poet and actor. He is the writer of plays such as, Agra Bazar and Charandas Chor...
    
    , 85 (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:...
    
    ), popular Hindi playwright, theatre director, poet and actor
• June 24 – Steven Wells
  Steven Wells
  Steven Wells was a British journalist, author, comedian and notable punk poet born in Swindon, Wiltshire. He is best remembered for ranting poetry and his provocative, unapologetic music journalism. In June 2006, he wrote in the Philadelphia Weekly about his treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma...
  
  , 49 (born 1960
  1960 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* August Derleth launches the poetry magazine, Hawk and Whippoorwill....
  
  ), 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...
  
   music critic, journalist, screenwriter, poet, novelist, film producer and publisher
• July 3 – Alauddin Al-Azad
  Alauddin Al-Azad
  Alauddin Al-Azad, was a modern Bangladeshi author, novelist, and poet. He Passed SSC.1947, HSC.1949. From Dhaka University he passed BA at 1953 and MA.1954 as the same university. He received his PhD. degree from London University in 1970 for his work 'Iswar Gupter Jeebon o...
  
  , 77 (born 1932
  1932 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*W. B. Yeats rents a house in Dublin....
  
  ), 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...
  
   novelist, writer, poet, literary critic and academic
• August 6 – Wahyu Sulaiman Rendra, born Willibrordus Surendra Broto Rendra, popularly known as W. S. Rendra and also known as "Si Burung Merak" and "The Peacock", 74 (born 1935
  1935 in poetry
  Links to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, United Kingdom links to English poetry and Indian links to Indian poetry.-Events:* Canada -- Charles G.D...
  
  ), Indonesian poet
• August 8 – Alfonso Calderon Squadritto, 78 (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, ....
  
  ), Chilean poet, writer, memoirist and poetry anthologist
• August 16 – Alistair Campbell
  Alistair Campbell (poet)
  Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, ONZM was a New Zealand poet, playwright, and novelist. His father was a New Zealand Scot and his mother a Cook Island Maori from Penrhyn Island.-Biography:...
  
  , 84 (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....
  
  ), New Zealand poet, writer and editor, and once the husband of fellow poet 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:...
  
  
• August 19:
  • Dic Jones
    Dic Jones
    Dic Jones , was a Welsh language poet and the Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales.He was born Richard Lewis Jones at Tre'r-ddôl in Ceredigion. The son of a farmer, Jones himself farmed on at Fferm yr Hendre at Blaenannerch in Aberporth...
    
    , 75, Welsh
    Welsh poetry
    Welsh poetry may refer to poetry in the Welsh language, Anglo-Welsh poetry, or other poetry written in Wales or by Welsh poets.-History:Wales has one of the earliest literary traditions in Northern Europe, stretching back to the days of Aneirin Welsh poetry may refer to poetry in the Welsh...
    
     poet
  • Lina Kasdagli (also spelled "Lina Kasdaglē"), 88 (born 1912
    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:...
    
    ), Greek poet and translator
• August 27 – Sergey Mikhalkov
  Sergey Mikhalkov
  Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov was a Soviet and Russian author of children's books and satirical fables who had the opportunity to write the lyrics of his country's national anthem on three different occasions, spanning almost 60 years.-Life and career:...
  
  , 96 (born 1913
  1913 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 8—Harold Monro founds the Poetry Bookshop in London...
  
  ), Russian writer and poet, co-author of the lyrics of the National Anthem of the Soviet Union
  National Anthem of the Soviet Union
  The National Anthem of the Soviet Union or the State Anthem of the USSR was introduced during World War II on March 15, 1944, replacing The Internationale as the official national anthem of the Soviet Union as well as the national anthem of the Russian SFSR...
  
  and National Anthem of Russia
  National Anthem of Russia
  The National Anthem of the Russian Federation is the name of the official national anthem of Russia. Its musical composition and lyrics were adopted from the anthem of the Soviet Union, composed by Alexander Alexandrov, and lyricists Sergey Mikhalkov and Gabriel El-Registan. The Soviet anthem was...
  
  
• September 3 – *Christine D'Haen
  Christine D'Haen
  Christine D'haen was a Flemish author and poet. She was born in Sint-Amandsberg and died at Bruges....
  
  , 85, Belgian poet
• September 11:
• *Sarane Alexandrian
  Sarane Alexandrian
  Sarane Alexandrian was a French philosopher, essayist, and art critic. He served as the last secretary of surrealist André Breton. Alexandrian was an advocate of the philosophy Nietzsche advanced in The Gay Science...
  
  , 82, French
  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:...
  
   art historian, philosopher and poet
  • Jim Carroll
    Jim Carroll
    James Dennis "Jim" Carroll was an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which was made into the 1995 film of the same name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll.-Biography:Carroll was born to a...
    
    , 59 (born 1949
    1949 in poetry
    Links to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, United Kingdom links to English poetry and Indian links to Indian poetry.-Events:...
    
    ), American poet, author and musician.
• September 15 – Wayne Brown
  Wayne Brown (author)
  Wayne Vincent Brown was a columnist, poet and fiction writer, and a teacher and mentor to numerous Caribbean writers.-Early life:...
  
  , 65 (born 1944
  1944 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The first and second lines of Paul Verlaine's 1866 poem Chanson d'automne were broadcast by the Allies over Radio Londres this year as a message in code to the...
  
  ), Trinidadian writer and poet
• September 27 – Gaya Prasad Tiwari, 89, Hindi poet in 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...
  
   and twice winner of the Hindi Sahitya Akademi Award, died after being hit by a train as he was crossing the tracks (hard of hearing, he apparently didn't hear the train coming)
• September 30 – Rafael Arozarena
  Rafael Arozarena
  Rafael Arozarena was a Spanish poet and novelist who was born in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. He studied medicine and after that he started writing books, because writing is what he likes most and what he usually does. He spent his youth under the influence of the Spanish Civil War and the...
  
  , 86, Spanish
  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....
  
   writer and poet
• October 1 – Cintio Vitier
  Cintio Vitier
  Cintio Vitier was a Cuban poet, essayist, and novelist. Upon winning the Juan Rulfo Prize, the award jury called him "one of the most important writers of his generation".-Early life:...
  
  , 88, Cuban
• October 18 – Lenore Kandel
  Lenore Kandel
  Lenore Kandel was an American poet.Kandel was briefly notorious as the author of a short book of poetry, The Love Book...
  
  , 77, American, died of lung cancer
  Lung cancer
  Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...
  
  
• November 1 – Alda Merini
  Alda Merini
  Alda Merini was a renowned Italian writer and poet.She was born in Milan and died there aged 78.Alda Merini started her poetic career when she was really young and soon she gained the attention and the admiration of many famous italian writers, like Giorgio Manganelli, Salvatore Quasimodo and Pier...
  
  , 78, 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....
  
  
• November 15 – Anna Mendelssohn
  Anna Mendelssohn
  Anna Mendelssohn , who wrote under the name Grace Lake, was a British writer, poet and political activist...
  
  , 61, British
  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...
  
   poet and political activist, brain tumour
• December 10 – Dilip Chitre
  Dilip Chitre
  Dilip Purushottam Chitre was one of the foremost Indian writers and critics to emerge in the post Independence India. Apart from being a very important bilingual writer, writing in Marathi and English, he was also a painter and filmmaker.-Biography:He was born in Baroda on 17 September 1938...
  
  , 71 (born 1938
  1938 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* In Nazi Germany, the Reichsschrifttumskammer banned German expressionist poet Gottfried Benn from further writing.-Australia:* Rex Ingamells and Ian Tilbrook, Conditional Culture, published in...
  
  ), Indian writer who wrote in Marathi
  Marathi language
  Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...
  
   and English. He was also a painter and filmmaker. His Ekun Kavita or Collected Poems were published in the 1990s. His most famous translation is of the celebrated 17th century Marathi bhakti poet Tukaram
  Tukaram
  Sant Tukaram was a prominent Varkari Sant and spiritual poet during a Bhakti movement in India.Sant Tukaram was born and lived most of his life in Dehu, a town close to Pune in Mahārāshtra, India. He was born to a couple with the family name "More", the descendent of the Mourya Clan with first...
  
  .
• December 20 – Vera Rich
  Vera Rich
  Vera Rich was a British poet, journalist, historian, and translator from Belarusian and Ukrainian.Born in London, she studied at St Hilda's College of University of Oxford and Bedford College, London...
  
  , 73 (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;...
  
  ), British
  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...
  
   poet, journalist, historian, and translator
• December 24 – Jim Chastain, 46 (born 1963
  1963 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 26 – Raghunath Vishnu Pandit, an Indian poet who wrote in both Konkani and Marathi languages, publishes five books of poems this day* The Belfast Group, a discussion group of poets in...
  
  ), American poet,
• December 24/25? – Rachel Wetzsteon
  Rachel Wetzsteon
  -Life:Born in New York City, New York, the daughter of editor Ross Wetzsteon , she graduated from Yale University in 1989, where she studied with Marie Borroff, and John Hollander....
  
  , 42 (born 1967
  1967 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK....
  
  ), American poet, poetry editor of The New Republic
  The New Republic
  The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...
  
   at the time of her death, from suicide
  Suicide
  Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...
  
  
• December 26 – Dennis Brutus
  Dennis Brutus
  Dennis Vincent Brutus was a South African activist, educator, journalist and poet best known for his campaign to have apartheid South Africa banned from the Olympic Games.-Life and work:...
  
  , 85 (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...
  
  ), South African poet and anti-Apartheid
  Anti-Apartheid Movement
  Anti-Apartheid Movement , originally known as the Boycott Movement, was a British organization that was at the center of the international movement opposing South Africa's system of apartheid and supporting South Africa's Blacks....
  
   activist. He was imprisoned and incarcerated in the cell next to Nelson Mandela
  Nelson Mandela
  Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing...
  
  's on Robben Island
  Robben Island
  Robben Island is an island in Table Bay, 6.9 km west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa. The name is Dutch for "seal island". Robben Island is roughly oval in shape, 3.3 km long north-south, and 1.9 km wide, with an area of 5.07 km². It is flat and only a...
  
   from 1963 to 1965.
• December 30 –Ruth Lilly
  Ruth Lilly
  Ruth Lilly was an American philanthropist. She was the daughter of Josiah K. Lilly, Jr., and Ruth Lilly, and the sole living heiress to the Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical fortune built by her great grandfather, Colonel Eli Lilly.Lilly made headlines in November 2002 when she pledged stock...
  
  , 94, American philanthropist
  Philanthropist
  A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes...
  
   (Eli Lilly and Company
  Eli Lilly and Company
  Eli Lilly and Company is a global pharmaceutical company. Eli Lilly's global headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States...
  
  ), established $100,000 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...
  
   and donated $200 million to Poetry magazine

See also

• Poetry
  Poetry
  Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
  
  
• List of poetry awards