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

Irish poetry

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

 or France

French poetry

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

).

Events

June 12 – A poet and student, Ayat al-Ghermezi

Ayat al-Ghermezi

Ayat Hassan Mohammed Al-Qurmezi is a poet and student at the Faculty of Teachers in Bahrain.The Bahrain Aid Flotilla is being launched in her honor...

 of Bahrain, is sentenced to a year in prison as part of that kingdom's crackdown on Shiite protesters calling for greater rights. Ayat was arrested earlier on March 30 for reciting a poem critical of the government and cursing the current prime minister Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa during 2011 Bahraini uprising

2011 Bahraini uprising

The 2011 Bahraini uprising, sometimes called the February 14 Revolution is a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain...

 in Pearl Square

Pearl Roundabout

Pearl Roundabout or Lulu Roundabout was a roundabout located near the financial district of Manama, Bahrain...

, the main gathering place for demonstrators, in February of this year.

India

Indian poetry

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

, in English

Indian Poetry in English

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

• Vivek Narayanan, Universal Beach, 80 pages, ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni (SPD, dist.), ISBN 978-1-9346391-0-8

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...

• Hal Duncan
  Hal Duncan
  Hal Duncan is a Scottish science fiction and fantasy writer who published two novels, one novella, three poetry collections and several short stories.His works have been listed in the New Weird genre but he denies that such genre was even known to him at the time...
  
  , Songs for the Devil and Death, 172 pages, Papaverua Press, ISBN 978-1907881046
• Ralph Pordzik, Pretending to See Elephants, 58 pages, Lulu Press, ISBN 978-1-4457-5568-7
• William Walker (age 97), The Poetry of Flt Lt William Walker AE, The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust
• Carol Watts, Occasionals, Reality Street, 88 pp., ISBN 978-1-874400-52-3

United States

• Seth Abramson
  Seth Abramson
  Seth Abramson is an American poet, attorney, editor, and freelance journalist.-Life:Abramson is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop...
  
  , Northerners, 72 pages, New Issues Press
  New Issues Press
  New Issues Press is a literary press associated with Western Michigan University. It was founded by poet and Western Michigan University professor Herbert S. Scott...
  
  , ISBN 978-1-930974-96-4
• Ammiel Alcalay
  Ammiel Alcalay
  Ammiel Alcalay is an American poet, scholar, critic, translator, and prose stylist. Born and raised in Boston, he is a first-generation American, son of Sephardic Jews from São Tomé and Príncipe...
  
  , “neither wit nor gold” (from them), 88 pp., Ugly Duckling Presse, ISBN 978-1-933254-84-5
• Will Alexander
  Will Alexander (poet)
  Will Alexander is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and visual artist. He was the recipient of a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry in 2001 and a California Arts Council Fellowship in 2002...
  
  , Compression & Purity, 100 pp., City Lights, ISBN 978-0-87286-541-9
• 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...
  
  , Money Shot, 80 pages, Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-819-57130-4
• Ernesto Cardenal
  Ernesto Cardenal
  Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal Martínez is a Nicaraguan Catholic priest and was one of the most famous liberation theologians of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, a party he has since left. From 1979 to 1987 he served as Nicaragua's first culture minister. He is also famous as a poet...
  
  , The Origin of the Species and Other Poems, translated & introduced by John Lyons
  John Lyons
  John Lyons is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.At the 2001 general election, he was elected to the British House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Strathkelvin and Bearsden....
  
  , foreword by 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....
  
  , 168 pp., Texas Tech University Press, ISBN 978-0-89672-689-5
• 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...
  
  , Horoscopes for the Dead, 128 pages, Random House, ISBN 978-140-006492-2
• William Corbett, The Whalen Poem, 64 pages, Hanging Loose Press, ISBN 978-1-93490-913-3
• Joshua Corey, Severance Songs, 84 pages, Tupelo Press, 978-1-932195-92-7
• Forrest Gander
  Forrest Gander
  Forrest Gander is an American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and translator.Born in the Mojave Desert, he was raised in Virginia where he attended The College of William and Mary, majoring in geology, a subject referenced frequently in both his poems and essays. He received an M.A...
  
  , Core Samples from the World, 96 pages, New Directions, ISBN 978-0-8112-1887-0
• Jane Hirshfield
  Jane Hirshfield
  Jane Hirshfield is an American poet.-Biography:Jane Hirshfield was born in New York City and received her bachelor's degree from Princeton University in the school's first graduating class to include women. She later studied at the San Francisco Zen Center, including three years of monastic...
  
  , Come, Thief, 108 pages, Knopf, ISBN 978-0-307-59542-3
• Harmony Holiday, Negro League Baseball, 104 pages, Fence Books, ISBN 978-1-934200-42-1
• Susan Howe
  Susan Howe
  Susan Howe is a American poet, scholar, essayist and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among others poetry movements. Her work is often classified as Postmodern because it expands traditional notions of genre...
  
  , That This, 112 pages, New Directions, ISBN 978-0-811-21918-1
• David Meltzer
  David Meltzer
  David Meltzer is an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has described him as "one of the greats of post-World-War-Two San Francisco poets and musicians." Meltzer came to prominence with inclusion of his work in the anthology, The...
  
  , When I Was A Poet, 150 pages, City Lights
  City Lights Bookstore
  City Lights is an independent bookstore-publisher combination that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics. It also houses the nonprofit City Lights Foundation, which publishes selected titles related to San Francisco culture. It was founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence...
  
  , ISBN 978-0-87286-516-7
• Anna Moschovakis, You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, 132 pages, Coffee House Press, ISBN 978-1-566-89250-6
• Alice Notley
  Alice Notley
  Alice Notley is an American poet. She was born in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. She received a B.A. from Barnard College in 1967 and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969. She married poet Ted Berrigan in 1972, with whom she was active in...
  
  , Culture of One, 160 pages, Penguin, ISBN 978-0-143-11893-0
• Edward Nudelman, What Looks Like an Elephant, 116 pp., Lummox Press, ISBN 978-1-929878-91-8
• Ovid
  Ovid
  Publius Ovidius Naso , known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria...
  
  , Love Poems, Letters and Remedies of Ovid, transl. by David R. Slavitt; introd. by Michael Dirda
  Michael Dirda
  Michael Dirda , a Fulbright Fellowship recipient, is a Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic for the Washington Post.-Career:Having studied at Oberlin College for his undergraduate degree, Dirda took a Ph.D. from Cornell University in comparative literature. In 1978 Dirda started writing for the...
  
  , 384 pp., Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-05904-7
• Michael Palmer
  Michael Palmer
  Michael Palmer is an American poet and translator. He attended Harvard University where he earned a BA in French and a MA in Comparative Literature. He has worked extensively with Contemporary dance for over thirty years and has collaborated with many composers and visual artists...
  
  , Thread, 112 pages, New Directions, ISBN 978-0-8112-1921-1
• 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...
  
  , Destroyer and Preserver, 96 pages, Wave, ISBN 978-1-933517-50-6
• Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
  
  , The Essential Tagore, ed. by Fakrul Alam & Radha Chakravarty, 864 pp., Belknap-Harvard, ISBN 978-0-674-05790-6
• Tyrone Williams, Pink Tie, Hooke Press,
• Elizabeth Willis
  Elizabeth Willis
  Elizabeth Willis is an American poet, literary critic and professor of literature and creative writing at Wesleyan University. Her most notable work includes four major books of poetry and a scholarly collection of essays on Lorine Niedecker which she edited...
  
  , Address, 80 pages, Wesleyan, ISBN 978-0-819-57098-7
• 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,...
  
  , Fall Higher, Copper Canyon Press, ISBN 978-1-55659-311-6

Anthologies in the United States

• Kenneth Goldsmith
  Kenneth Goldsmith
  Kenneth Goldsmith is an American poet. He is the founding editor of UbuWeb, teaches Poetics and Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania and is Senior Editor of PennSound. He hosted a weekly radio show at WFMU from 1995 until June 2010...
  
   (ed.); Craig Dworkin (ed.) - Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, 656 pages. Northwestern University Press, ISBN 978-0-810-12711-1
• Sarah Palin
  Sarah Palin
  Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician, commentator and author. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice-presidency.She was...
  
  ; Michael Solomon (ed.) – I Hope Like Heck
  I Hope Like Heck
  I Hope Like Heck: The Selected Poems of Sarah Palin is a 2011 anthology of 50 found poems in emails by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, edited by Michael Solomon...
  
  , 64 pages. Byliner, ISBN 9781614520092

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

• Charles Bernstein
  Charles Bernstein
  Charles Bernstein is an American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein holds the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the most prominent members of the Language poets . In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American...
  
  , Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions, 296 pages, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-04477-4
• Robert Duncan
  Robert Duncan (poet)
  Robert Duncan was an American poet and a student of H.D. and the Western esoteric tradition who spent most of his career in and around San Francisco. Though associated with any number of literary traditions and schools, Duncan is often identified with the poets of the New American Poetry and Black...
  
  , The H.D. Book, 696 pages, University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-26075-7
• Oren Izenberg, Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life, 272 pages, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-1-4866-3
• Christopher Nealon, The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century, 202 pages, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-0-5872-9

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 ....

• Leszek Engelking
  Leszek Engelking
  Leszek Engelking - Polish poet, short-story writer, critic, essayist, scholar, and translator....
  
  , Muzeum dzieciństwa (Museum of Childhood, WBPiCAK) ISBN 978-83-62717-13-2
• Julia Hartwig, Gorzkie żale (Lenten Psalms, Wydawnictwo a5) ISBN 978-83-61298-30-4

Other languages

Bangla :

• Rahman Henry - Sorrow and some other happiness. (Dukkho O Aro Kichu Ananda); Bhashachitra, Dhaka, Bangladesh. ISBN 978-9-848-4-7102-9 – Bengali poetry
  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...
  
  
• Chandan chowdhury - Monument of crow (Kaker vaskorjo); Ittadi grantho prakash, Dhaka, Bangladesh. ISBN 984-7-028-9-0207-4 – Bengali poetry
  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...
  
  

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:
• 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:
    • Shortlist:
  • Best First Collection:
    • Shortlist:
  • Best Poem:
    • Shortlist:
• Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
  • Shortlist:
• Manchester Poetry Prize:
• National Poet of Wales:
• National Poetry Competition 2010:
• 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):
  • Shortlist (announced in November 201): 2011 Short List
• 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...
  
  :
• Bollingen Prize
  Bollingen Prize
  The Bollingen Prize for Poetry, which is currently awarded every two years by Beinecke Library of Yale University, is a literary honor bestowed on an American poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement.-Inception and controversy:The...
  
  : Susan Howe
  Susan Howe
  Susan Howe is a American poet, scholar, essayist and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among others poetry movements. Her work is often classified as Postmodern because it expands traditional notions of genre...
  
   – Judges: Peter Gizzi
  Peter Gizzi
  Peter Gizzi is an award-winning American poet and renowned editor of the American poet Jack Spicer. He attended Brown University, New York University and the State University of New York at Buffalo.-Life and career:...
  
  , Marjorie Perloff
  Marjorie Perloff
  Marjorie Perloff is an Austrian-born U.S. poetry critic.Perloff was born Gabriele Mintz into a secularized Jewish family in Vienna. Faced with Nazi terror, her family emigrated in 1938 when she was six-and-a-half, going first to Zürich and then to the United States, settling in Riverdale, New York...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize:
• 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:
• 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: [note: the 2011 award will be announced in March 2012]
• 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:
• 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): to Kay Ryan
  Kay Ryan
  Kay Ryan is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. Ryan was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate, from 2008 to 2010...
  
   for The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
  • Finalists: The Common Man by Maurice Manning
    Maurice Manning (poet)
    Maurice Manning is an American poet. His first collection of poems, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Award, chosen by W.S. Merwin....
    
     and Break the Glass 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....
    
    
• Wallace Stevens Award:
• 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...
  
  : – Judge:
• PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
  PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
  The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry is given biennially to an American poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to date represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature.Awardees:...
  
  :
• Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award:
• 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...
  
   : David Ferry
  David Ferry (poet)
  David Ferry is an American poet, translator, and educator. He has published eight collections of his poetry and a volume of literary criticism.-Life:...
  
  
• Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award:
• It was announced August 9, 2011 that 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...
  
   was named Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (United States Poet Laureate).

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....
  
  :
• 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...
  
  : – Judges:
• 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,...
  
  : – Judge:
• Lyric Poetry Award: – Judge:
• Lucille Medwick Memorial Award: – Judge: ; finalist:
• Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award: – Judge: ; finalists:
• Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: – Judge: ; finalists:
• George Bogin Memorial Award: – Judge:
• Robert H. Winner Memorial Award: – Judge: ; finalists:
• Cecil Hemley Memorial Award: – Judge:
• Norma Farber First Book Award
  Norma Farber First Book Award
  The Norma Farber First Book Award is given by the Poetry Society of America "for a first book of original poetry written by an American and published in either a hard or soft cover in a standard edition during the calendar year"....
  
  : – Judge:
• 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....
  
  : – Judge: ; finalists:

From the Poetry Society of Virginia Student Poetry Contest

2011 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Category 8: Virginia Student Prize :: Judge: Dr. Kate Simpson, Winchester, VA

• 1st Place - Jake Robinson of Virginia Beach, VA for the poem “Makings of Men”
• 2nd Place - Mikal Cardine of Midland, VA for the poem “Remember”
• 3rd Place - Kira Tomlin of Front Royal, VA for the poem “Caught In Silence”
• 1st Honorable Mention - Elliott Warren of Richmond, VA for the poem “Time Does Not Heal”
• 2nd Honorable Mention - Franklin Ewing of Richmond, VA for the poem “Against Kosovel”
• 3rd Honorable Mention - Andre Aganbi of Chester, VA for the poem “Classic Scene”

2011 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Category 7: College/University :: Judge: Bob Kelly, Newport News, VA

• 1st Place Ishaway Friestad of Norfolk, VA for the poem “Super Nova”
• 3rd Place Lauren "Wren" Brown of Springfield, VA for the poem “Spiral”

2011 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Category 6: Grades 11 & 12 :: Judge: Nancy Powell, Hampton, VA

• 1st Place Franklin Ewing of Richmond, VA for the poem “Think”
• 2nd Place Bridget Jamison of Vienna, VA for the poem “The Dance”
• 3rd Place Stephen Wood of Richmond, VA for the poem “On The Rechristening of High Fructose Corn Syrup”

2011 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Category 5: Grades 9 & 10:: Judge: Pete Freas, Chesapeake, VA

• 1st Place Hannah Wilson of Oak Park, IL for the poem “I came from a mother…”
• 2nd Place Hannah Srajer of Oak Park, IL for the poem “Crusade”
• 2nd Place Olivia O'Sullivan of Oak Park, IL for the poem “weekday drinking…”
• 3rd Place Natalie Richardson of Oak Park, IL for the poem “his curious fingers…”
• 3rd Place Yuliya Semibratova of Oak Park, IL for the poem “not red, nor white, nor blue…”
• 1st Honorable Mention Rory Dunn of Fredericksburg, VA for the poem “The Feeling”

2011 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Category 4: Grades 7 & 8 :: Judge: ijil Rainbow Hawk Giver, Norfolk, VA

• 1st Place Tess Hinchman of West Bath, ME for the poem “March 15”
• 2nd Place Sam Herter of Brunswick, ME for the poem “Fears: Age 7”
• 3rd Place Lilly Richardson of Whitefield, ME for the poem “Do You Remember?”
• 1st Honorable Mention Sophia Carbonneau of Alna, ME for the poem “This Is Just To Say”
• 1st Honorable Mention Sabrina Sammel of Stafford, VA for the poem “Silence”
• 2nd Honorable Mention Morganne Elkins of Edgecomb, ME for the poem “Don”
• 2nd Honorable Mention Caleb Rinderer of Newport News, VA for the poem “Country Daybreak”
• 3rd Honorable Mention Rex Reilly of Miami Beach, FL for the poem “Chocolate”

Deaths

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

• January 5 – Malangatana Ngwenya
  Malangatana Ngwenya
  Malangatana Valente Ngwenya was a Mozambican painter and poet. He frequently exhibited work under his first name alone. He died on January 5, 2011 in Matosinhos, Portugal.-Life:...
  
  , age 74 (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;...
  
  ) – Mozambican poet and painter
• January 10 – María Elena Walsh
  María Elena Walsh
  María Elena Walsh was an Argentine poet, novelist, musician, dramaturge, writer and composer, mainly known for her songs and books for children.-Biography:...
  
  , age 80 (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, ....
  
  ) – Argentine musician, poet and writer ("Manuelita la tortuga
  Manuelita la tortuga
  "Manuelita la tortuga" is an Argentine song by María Elena Walsh starring a fictional character with the same name. In its native country it is a well-known children's song. The 1999 film Manuelita was adapted from the song.. A French version of the son was written and made famous by Argentine...
  
  ")
• January 11 – Susana Chávez
  Susana Chávez
  Susana Chávez was a Mexican poet and human rights activist who was born and lived most of her life in her hometown of Ciudad Juárez....
  
  , age 36 (born 1974
  1974 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman....
  
  ) –, Mexican poet and human rights activist, strangled
• January 20 – F. A. Nettelbeck
  F. A. Nettelbeck
  Frederick Arthur Nettelbeck was an American poet. In the early 1970s he began work on a long poem that was published in 1979: Bug Death. Bug Death was created using cut-up and collage texts combined with original writing. His literary magazine, This Is Important , published such writers as William S...
  
  , age 60 (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
• January 20 – Reynolds Price
  Reynolds Price
  Reynolds Price was an American novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price had a lifelong interest in ancient languages and Biblical scholarship...
  
  , age 77 (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...
  
  ) – American novelist, occasional poet, and scholar of the work of John Milton
  John Milton
  John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell...
  
  
• January 23 – Novica Tadić
  Novica Tadic
  Novica Tadić was a Serbian poet. He was born in a small village in Montenegro and spent most of his life in Belgrade....
  
  , age 62 (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:...
  
  ) – Yugoslavian poet
• January 26 – R. F. Langley
  R. F. Langley
  Roger Francis Langley was an English poet and diarist. During his life, he was loosely affiliated with the Cambridge poetry scene.-Life and work:...
  
  , age 72 (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...
  
  ) – 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
  Poet
  A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
  
   and diarist, loosely affiliated with the Cambridge poetry scene.
• February 3 – Édouard Glissant
  Édouard Glissant
  Édouard Glissant was a Martinican writer, poet and literary critic. He is widely recognised as one of the most influential figures in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary.-Life:...
  
  , age 82, (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...
  
  ) – French-Martiniquan poet and writer.
• February 6 – Andrée Chedid
  Andrée Chedid
  Andrée Chedid was a French poet and novelist of Lebanese descent.-Life:Chedid was born in Cairo on 20 March 1920. When she was ten, she was sent to a boarding school, where she learned English and French. At fourteen, she left for Europe. She then returned to Cairo to go...
  
  , 90, Egyptian-born French poet and novelist.
• February 11 – Bo Carpelan
  Bo Carpelan
  Baron Bo Gustaf Bertelsson Carpelan was a Finnish poet and author. He published his first book of poems in 1946, and received his Ph.D. in 1960. Carpelan, who wrote in Swedish, composed numerous books of verse, as well as several novels and short stories. He is the only person as of yet to have...
  
  , 84, Finnish poet and author.
  
• February 25 – Aminath Faiza
  Aminath Faiza
  Aminath Faiza was a Maldivian Dhivehi language poet and author. Aminath Faiza began to write poetry at the age of 16...
  
  , 82, Maldivian poet and author.
• February 25 – Justinas Marcinkevičius
  Justinas Marcinkevicius
  Justinas Marcinkevičius was a prominent Lithuanian poet and playwright.-Life and career:Marcinkevičius was born in 1930 in Važatkiemis, Prienai district. In 1954 he graduated from Vilnius University History and Philology faculty with a degree in Lithuanian language and Literature. He joined the...
  
  , 80, Lithuanian poet and playwright.
• March 2 – John Haines
  John Haines
  John Haines was an American poet and educator who had served as the poet laureate of Alaska.John Meade Haines, who was born in Norfolk, Virginia, published nine collections of poetry. He was appointed the Poet Laureate of Alaska in 1969. A collection of critical essays about his poetry, The...
  
  , 86, American poet and educator, former poet laureate of Alaska
• April 2 – Paul Violi
  Paul Violi
  Paul Randolph Violi was an American poet born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Splurge, Fracas, The Curious Builder, Likewise, and most recently Overnight...
  
  , 66, American poet
• April 25 – Ira Cohen
  Ira Cohen
  Ira Cohen was an American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker.Cohen lived in Morocco and in New York City in the 1960s, he was in Kathmandu in the 1970s and traveled the world in the 1980s, before returning to New York, where he spent the rest of his life...
  
  , 76 (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...
  
  ), American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker
• May 19 – William Kloefkorn
  William Kloefkorn
  William Charles "Bill" Kloefkorn , was a Nebraska poet and educator based in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was the author of twelve collections of poetry, two short story collections, a collection of children's Christmas stories, and four memoirs...
  
  , 78 (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...
  
  ), American poet and former "Nebraska State Poet"
• May 23 – Roberto Sosa, 81 (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, ....
  
  ), Honduran poet
• May 25:
  • Edwin Honig
    Edwin Honig
    Edwin Honig was an American poet, playwright, and translator.-Life:He has published ten books of poetry, eight books of translation, five books of criticism and fiction, three books of plays....
    
    , 91 (born 1919
    1919 in poetry
    —From A Prayer for My Daughter by W. B. Yeats, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Two paintings by E. E...
    
    ), American poet, critic and translator known for his English renditions of seminal works of Spanish and Portuguese literature
  • Yannis Varveris
    Yannis Varveris
    Yannis Varveris was an award winning Greek poet, critic and translator.Varveris was born and died in Athens. He read Law at the University of Athens. His first collection of poems was published in 1975...
    
    , 56 (born 1955
    1955 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Group, a British poetry movement, starts meeting in London with gatherings taking place once a week, on Friday evenings, at first at Hobsbaum's flat and later at the house of Edward Lucie-Smith...
    
    ), Greek poet, critic and translator
• May 27 – Gil Scott-Heron
  Gil Scott-Heron
  Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s...
  
  , 62 (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, spoken-word musician and author who helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression and spoken-word poetry

• May 29 – Da Real One, 46, American poet (Def Poetry
  Def Poetry
  Def Poetry, also known as Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry or Def Poetry Jam, which was co-founded by Bruce George, Danny Simmons and Deborah Pointer, is an HBO television series produced by hip-hop music entrepreneur Russell Simmons. The series presents performances by established spoken word...
  
  ) gunned down in North Miami.
• June 2 – Josephine Hart
  Josephine Hart
  Josephine Hart, Lady Saatchi was an Irish-born British writer, theatrical producer and television presenter...
  
  , 69 (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....
  
  ), Irish-born British novelist and poetry promoter. As director of Haymarket Publishing, a founder of Gallery Poets and West End Poetry Hour.
• June 21 – Robert Kroetsch
  Robert Kroetsch
  Robert Kroetsch, OC was a Canadian novelist, poet and non-fiction writer. In his fiction and critical essays, as well as in the journal he co-founded, Boundary 2, he was the single most influential figure in Canada in introducing ideas about postmodernism.He was born in Heisler, Alberta...
  
  , OC
  Order of Canada
  The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit...
  
  , 83 (born 1927
  1927 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* T. S. Eliot enters the Church of England and assumes British citizenship-Canada:...
  
  ), 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...
  
   novelist, poet
  Poet
  A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
  
   and non-fiction writer.
• August 22 - Samuel Menashe
  Samuel Menashe
  Samuel Menashe was an American poet. Born in New York City as Samuel Menashe Weisberg, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Menashe grew up in Elmhurst, Queens, and graduated from Townsend Harris High School and Queens College. During World War II he served in the US Army infantry, and in...
  
  , 85 (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....
  
  ), American poet and the first poet to receive "The Neglected Masters Award", given by the The Poetry Foundation of America
  Poetry Foundation
  The Poetry Foundation is a Chicago-based American foundation created to promote poetry in the wider culture. It was formed from Poetry magazine, which it continues to publish, with a 2003 gift of $200 million from philanthropist Ruth Lilly....
  
  , which he received in 2004.
• August 24 - Seyhan Erözçelik
  Seyhan Erözçelik
  Seyhan Erözçelik was a Turkish poet.-Biography:He was born in 1962 in Bartın, Turkey, a town in the Black Sea region. He studied psychology at Boğazici University and Oriental languages at Istanbul University. In 1986, he co-founded the Siir Ati publishing house, which published over forty titles...
  
  , 49 (born 1962
  1962 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Writers in the Soviet Union this year were allowed to publish criticism of Joseph Stalin and were given more freedom generally, although many were severely criticized for doing so...
  
  ), a Turkish
  Turkish people
  Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...
  
   poet.
• September 4 - Hugh Fox
  Hugh Fox
  Hugh Bernard Fox Jr. was a writer, novelist, poet and anthropologist and one of the founders of the Pushcart Prize for literature...
  
  , 79 (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....
  
  ) - prolific U.S. novelist and poet and one of the founders 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....
  
  .
• October 18 - Andrea Zanzotto
  Andrea Zanzotto
  -Biography:Andrea Zanzotto was born in Pieve di Soligo , Italy to Giovanni and Carmela Bernardi.His father, Giovanni , had received degrees from the École supèrieure de peinture at Brussels and the Academy of Fine Arts at Bologna...
  
  , 90 (born 1921
  1921 in poetry
  — Wilfred Owen, concluding lines of Dulce et Decorum Est, published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...
  
  ), Italian poet.
• November 10 - Ivan Martin Jirous
  Ivan Martin Jirous
  Ivan Martin Jirous was a Czech poet, best known for being the artistic director of the Czech psychedelic rock group The Plastic People of the Universe and later one of the organizers of the Czech underground during the communist regime...
  
  , 67 (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...
  
  , Czech poet
• November 24 - Andrzej Mandalian, 85 (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...
  
  ), Polish poet

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