2010 in poetry
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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 19 - For the first time since 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:...

    , an anonymous black-clad man, known as the Poe Toaster
    Poe Toaster
    The Poe Toaster is an unofficial nickname given to a mysterious person who, from approximately 1949 until 2009, paid an annual tribute to American author Edgar Allan Poe by visiting the stone marking his original grave in Baltimore, Maryland in the early hours of January 19, Poe's birthday...

    , failed to show up at the tomb of Edgar Allan Poe
    Edgar Allan Poe
    Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...

     at the Westminster Hall and Burying Ground
    Westminster Hall and Burying Ground
    The Westminster Hall and Burying Ground is a graveyard and former church located at 519 West Fayette Street in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Occupying the southeast corner of Fayette and Greene Street on the west side of downtown Baltimore, the site is probably most famous as the burial site...

    , early on the morning of Poe's birthday. The absence of the man, who would toast Poe with Cognac and leave three red roses at the grave (along with the rest of the Cognac), disappointed more than 30 people who stayed up all night to be present at the appearance.
  • March 27 - The Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline Project, designed to become the largest database
    Database
    A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...

     of women poets in the world, was launched in Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

     at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
    National Museum of Women in the Arts
    The National Museum of Women in the Arts , located in Washington, D.C. is the only museum solely dedicated to celebrating women’s achievements in the visual, performing, and literary arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay...

    . The database will feature biographical information about female poets, as well as photos of them and, when possible, reprints of their work.
  • April 12 - 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...

     wins the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
    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 her collection 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:...

    . "Having also won 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....

    , after being named a finalist for the National Book Award
    National Book Award for Poetry
    The National Book Award for Poetry has been given since 1950 and is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens...

    , Armantrout is only the third poet to win two out of the three awards in one year."
  • May 1 - 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...

    , writing in Poetry
    Poetry (magazine)
    Poetry , published in Chicago, Illinois since 1912, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Published by the Poetry Foundation and currently edited by Christian Wiman, the magazine has a circulation of 30,000 and prints 300 poems per year out of approximately...

    , suggests (in an essay titled "This Land Is Our Land") that the insularity of America's poets has left them with a minimal presence in American civic discourse and a minuscule public role in the life of American democracy.
  • November 26 - Japanese government honors Canadian poet
    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...

     Joy Kogawa
    Joy Kogawa
    Joy Nozomi Kogawa, CM, OBC is a Canadian poet and novelist of Japanese descent.-Life:Born Joy Nozomi Nakayama in Vancouver, British Columbia, she was sent with her family to the internment camp for Japanese Canadians at Slocan during World War II...

     with the Order of the Rising Sun
    Order of the Rising Sun
    The is a Japanese order, established in 1875 by Emperor Meiji of Japan. The Order was the first national decoration awarded by the Japanese Government, created on April 10, 1875 by decree of the Council of State. The badge features rays of sunlight from the rising sun...

     "for her contribution to the understanding and preservation of Japanese Canadian history."

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

  • Adam Robertson, editor, Best Australian Poems 2010, Black Inc., anthology with works by


  • Ali Alizadeh
    Ali Alizadeh
    Ali Alizadeh is an Iranian football player.Alizadeh has played for Fajr and Persepolis, before joining Esteghlal. He is well known for his long throw-ins which are often thrown more than 30 metres, passing by the front of the opponent goal....

    ,
  • Chris Andrews,
  • Meera Atkinson,
  • Luke Beesley,
  • 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...

    ,
  • Judith Bishop
    Judith Bishop
    Judith Bishop is a contemporary Australian poet, linguist and translator.-Biography:Judith Bishop was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1972. She holds a DPhil from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Melbourne. In 1994 she received the Rae and Edith Bennett...

    ,
  • Ken Bolton
    Ken Bolton
    Ken Bolton is an Australian poet and art critic.Bolton was born in Sydney and studied fine arts at the University of Sydney, where he also tutored. In the late 70s he edited the poetry magazine Magic Sam and began the small press Sea Cruise Books with Anna Couani. His first book of poems, Four...

    ,
  • Peter Boyle
    Peter Boyle
    Peter Lawrence Boyle, Jr. was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof Young Frankenstein ....

    ,
  • Michael Brennan
    Michael Brennan (poet)
    Michael Brennan, born in Sydney in 1973, is an Australian poet based in Tokyo.His first volume of poetry, The Imageless World, won the Mary Gilmore Award...

    ,
  • David Brooks
    David Brooks (author)
    David Gordon Brooks is an Australian author.He graduated from the Australian National University in 1974. He married Alison Summers in 1975. Brooks and Summers then studied abroad and received their M.A. degrees from the University of Toronto...

    ,
  • Jen Jewel Brown,
  • Pam Brown
    Pam Brown
    Pam Brown is an Australian poet.- Career :Brown was born in Seymour, Victoria, and her childhood was spent in on military bases in Toowoomba and Brisbane. Since her early twenties, she has mostly lived in Sydney...

    ,
  • Allison Browning,
  • Joanne Burns
    Joanne Burns
    Joanne Burns is a contemporary Australian poet and prose writer, with a strong emphasis on performance in her work.-Biography:...

    ,
  • Elizabeth Campbell
    Elizabeth Campbell
    Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell was one of the first and most prominent public television pioneers in the United States...

    ,
  • Bonny Cassidy,
  • Eileen Chong
    Eileen Chong
    Eileen Chong is a contemporary Australian poet.- Biography :Eileen Chong was born in 1980 in Singapore. She majored in Linguistics and Literature at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and obtained her Diploma in Education at National Institute of Education, Singapore...

    ,
  • Justin Clemens
    Justin Clemens
    Justin Clemens is an Australian philosopher, translator, social critic, and poet. He is primarily known today for his work on Alain Badiou as an editor, translator, and scholar writing, speaking, and lecturing on the impact of Badiou's thought in this contemporary juncture.A former instructor in...

    ,
  • Stuart Cooke,
  • Nathan Curnow,
  • Luke Davies
    Luke Davies
    Luke Davies is an Australian writer of novels, poetry and screenplays, born in Sydney in 1962.Davies' first poetry collection, Four Plots for Magnets, was published in 1982, when he was twenty....

    ,
  • Bruce Dawe
    Bruce Dawe
    Donald Bruce Dawe AO is an Australian poet, and is considered by many as one of the most influential Australian poets of all time.-Early life:...

    ,

  • Tricia Dearborn,
  • B. R. Dionysius
    B. R. Dionysius
    B. R. Dionysius is an Australian poet, editor, arts administrator and educator.B. R. Dionysius was born in Dalby, Queensland. He was the chairperson of Fringe Arts Collective Inc from 1994 to 2001; directed the Brisbane Writers Fringe Festival from 1993 to 1996, and directed the Subverse:...

    ,
  • Lucy Dougan,
  • Laurie Duggan
    Laurie Duggan
    Laurence "Laurie" James Duggan is an Australian poet, editor, and translator.-Life:Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne and attended Monash University, where his friends included the poets Alan Wearne and John A. Scott. Both he and Scott won the Monash Poetry Prize...

    ,
  • Will Eaves,
  • Ali Cobby Eckermann,
  • 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...

    ,
  • Chris Edwards,
  • Anne Elvey,
  • Brook Emery,
  • Kate Fagan,
  • Mike Farrell
    Michael Farrell (poet)
    -Biography:Michael Farrell was born in Bombala, New South Wales in 1965. He presently lives in Melbourne, where he is the Australian editor of Slope magazine.-Awards:* Harri Jones Memorial Prize, 1999: winner...

    ,
  • Susan Fealy,
  • Liam Ferney
    Liam Ferney
    Liam Ferney is a Brisbane poet whose work has been published widely in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. His first collection of poetry, Popular Mechanics , was published in 2004....

    ,
  • S.J. Finn,
  • Lionel Fogarty
    Lionel Fogarty
    Lionel Fogarty is an Indigenous Australian poet and political activist.He was born in 1958 at Barambah in Queensland where he grew up. He has been involved in Aboriginal activism from his teenage years, mainly in Southern Queensland on issues such as Land Rights, Aboriginal health and deaths in...

    ,
  • Adam Ford,
  • Adam Formosa,
  • Angela Gardner,
  • Claire Gaskin,
  • Jane Gibian,
  • Keri Glastonbury,

  • Lisa Gorton,
  • Robert Gray
    Robert Gray (poet)
    Robert William Geoffrey Gray is an Australian poet, freelance writer, and critic.-Biography:Gray grew up in Coffs Harbour and was educated in a country town on the north coast of New South Wales. He trained there as a journalist, and since then has worked in Sydney as an editor, advertising...

    ,
  • Martin Harrison
    Martin Harrison
    Martin Allen Harrison is a former American football defensive end who played ten seasons in the National Football League for the San Francisco 49ers, the Minnesota Vikings, and the Seattle Seahawks. He played college football for the University of Washington...

    ,
  • Kevin Hart,
  • Matt Hetherington,
  • Barry Hill
    Barry Hill (writer)
    Barry Hill is an Australian historian, poet, journalist and academic.Hill was born in Melbourne, Australia. He studied at the University of Melbourne gaining his Bachelor of Arts , Bachelor of Education and a Doctor of Philosophy and from there went to London where he gained his Master of Arts ...

    ,
  • Sarah Holland Batt,
  • L. K. Holt,
  • Duncan Hose,
  • Lisa Jacobson,
  • Carol Jenkins,
  • A. Frances Johnson,
  • Jill Jones
    Jill Jones
    Jill Jones is an American singer and songwriter, who was a backing vocalist for Teena Marie and Prince in the 1980s.-Biography:...

    ,
  • Frank Kellaway,
  • Peter Kenneally,
  • Graeme Kinross-Smith,
  • John Kinsella,
  • Andy Kissane
    Andy Kissane
    Andy Kissane is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based writer. He has won several awards for his writing, including the Red Earth Poetry Award, the Sydney Writers' Festival Poetry Olympics, the John Shaw Neilson Award, the Publisher's Cup Cricket Poetry Award, the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry and...

    ,
  • Anna Krien,
  • Mike Ladd
    Mike Ladd (poet)
    Mike Ladd is an Australian poet and radio presenter.Mike Ladd was born in Berkeley, California while his Australian parents were living and working in America, but he returned to Australia when he was one year old, and grew up in the Adelaide Hills...

    ,
  • Martin Langford,
  • Anthony Lawrence
    Anthony Lawrence
    -Biography:Born in Tamworth, New South Wales, Anthony Lawrence left school at 16, and has worked variously as a jackeroo, fisherman, teacher and writer. Lawrence has received a number of Australia Council for the Arts Literature Board Grants and has won numerous awards for his poetry, including the...

    ,

  • Michelle Leber,
  • Geoffrey Lehmann
    Geoffrey lehmann
    Geoffrey Lehmann is an Australian poet, children's writer, and tax lawyer. Lehmann grew up in McMahon's Point, Sydney, and attended high school at the Shore School in North Sydney. He graduated in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney in 1960 and 1963 respectively...

    ,
  • Kate Lilley
    Kate Lilley
    -Early life:Kate Lilley was born in Perth, Western Australia and moved to Sydney with her family. She is the daughter of writers Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley....

    ,
  • Debbie Lim,
  • Astrid Lorange,
  • Cameron Lowe,
  • Roberta Lowing,
  • Anthony Lynch
    Anthony Lynch
    Anthony Lynch is an Irish sportsperson. He plays Gaelic football with his local club Naomh Abán and has been a member of the Cork senior inter-county team since 1999.-Club:...

    ,
  • Jennifer Maiden
    Jennifer Maiden
    Jennifer Maiden is a contemporary Australian poet.Jennifer Maiden was born in Penrith, New South Wales. She began publishing professionally in the late 1960s and has been active in Sydney's literary scene since then. She took a BA at Macquarie University in the early 1970s...

    ,
  • Rhyll McMaster
    Rhyll McMaster
    Rhyll McMaster is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist. She has worked as a secretary, a nurse and a sheep farmer. She now lives in Sydney and has written full-time since 2000....

    ,
  • Kate Middleton,
  • Peter Minter,
  • Anne Morgan
    Anne Morgan (author)
    Anne Morgan is an Australian children's author-Biography:Anne Morgan is an Australian writer of children’s books and poetry.Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she has taught in remote locations in the Northern Territory...

    ,
  • Derek Motion,
  • 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...

    ,
  • Jenni Nixon,
  • Nguyen Tien Hoang,
  • Geoff Page
    Geoff Page
    Geoffrey Donald Page is an Australian poet, translator, teacher and jazz enthusiast.He has published over seventeen collections of poetry, as well as prose and verse novels. Poetry and jazz are his driving interests, and he has also written a biography of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann...

    ,
  • Pi.0,
  • Claire Potter,
  • Peter Rose,
  • Josephine Rowe,

  • Robyn Rowland,
  • Brendan Ryan,
  • Gig Ryan
    Gig Ryan
    Gig Ryan, born Elizabeth Anna Martina Ryan, 5 November 1956, is an Australian poet, and daughter of notable Australian surgeon Peter John Ryan...

    ,
  • Thomas Shapcott,
  • Craig Sherborn,
  • Andrew Slattery,
  • Vivian Smith
    Vivian Smith
    Vivian Brian Smith is an Australian poet. He is considered one of the most lyrical and observant Australian poets of his generation....

    ,
  • Peter Steele
    Peter Steele
    Peter Thomas Ratajczyk , better known by his stage name Peter Steele, was the lead singer, bassist, and composer for the gothic metal band Type O Negative...

    ,
  • James Stuart,
  • Maria Takolander
    Maria Takolander
    Maria Takolander, born in Melbourne in 1973, is an Australian poet and literary critic. She is a lecturer at Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, in the areas of Literary Studies and Professional and Creative Writing. She has published many poems in literary journals, and her work has frequently...

    ,
  • Hugh Tolhurst,
  • 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...

    ,
  • Mark Tredinnick,
  • Louise Wakeling,
  • 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:...

    ,
  • Meredith Wattison,
  • Petra White
    Petra White
    Petra White is an Australian poet. Petra was born in Adelaide in 1975, the eldest of six children, and now lives in Melbourne, where she works, for the moment, as a public servant...

    ,
  • Chloe Wilson,
  • Ouyang Yu
    Ouyang Yu
    Ouyang Yu is a contemporary Chinese-Australian author, translator and academic.Ouyang Yu was born in the People's Republic of China, arriving in Australia in 1991 to study for a Ph. D. at La Trobe University which he completed in 1995. Since then his literary output has been prodigious...



  • Grant Caldwell, glass clouds, Five Islands Press
  • 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...

    , Taller When Prone, Black Inc., ISBN 978-1-86395-470-9
  • 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...

    , Love Poems, Black Inc., ISBN 978-1-86395-492-1
  • Ron Pretty, Postcards From the Centre
  • Thomas Shapcott, Parts of Us, University of Queensland Press
  • 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...

    , Starlight: 150 Poems, University of Queensland Press
    University of Queensland Press
    Established in 1948, University of Queensland Press is a dynamic publishing house known for its innovative philosophy and commitment to producing books of high quality and cultural significance...


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

  • Anne Carson
    Anne Carson
    Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987....

    , Nox, New Directions, described by one reviewer as "not really a 'book' at all, but rather a box of material connected accordion-style (in one folded, ribbon-like page many yards long) about the death of her deeply troubled older brother Michael" and including a translation of Catullus 101
    Catullus 101
    Catullus 101 is an elegiac poem written by the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus. It is addressed to Catullus' dead brother or, strictly speaking, to the "mute ashes" which are the only remaining evidence of his brother's body....

    ; Canadian published in the United States
  • Jen Currin, The Inquisition Yours, Toronto: Coach House Press, ISBN 978-1-55245-230-1
  • Kevin McPherson Eckhoff, Rhapsodomancy, Toronto: Coach House Press, ISBN 978-1-55245-231-8
  • Kenneth Leslie
    Kenneth Leslie
    Kenneth Leslie was a Canadian poet and songwriter, and an influential political activist in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. He was the founder and editor of The Protestant Digest , which had a peak circulation of over 50,000 subscribers...

    , The Essential Kenneth Leslie. [Ed. Zachariah Wells] Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2010. ISBN 0889843287, ISBN 9780889843288
  • A. F. Mortiz, editor, The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2010, work by the winners of the 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....

    , House of Anansi Press, 112 pages, ISBN 978-0-88784-955-8
  • 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."...

    , A Suit of Nettles. Porcupine's Quill.
  • 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:...

    , R's Boat, 96 pages, "New California Poetry" series of the University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-26240-9, written by a Canadian poet living in and published in the United States
  • Priscila Uppal, Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998-2010, Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 192 pages, ISBN 978-1-85224-860-4, Canadian author published in the United Kingdom
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...


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...

  • Arun Kamal, Naye Ilake Mein, translated from the original Hindi into English by Giriraj Kiradoo, New Delhi
    New Delhi
    New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...

    : Sahitya Akademi
    Sahitya Akademi
    The Sahitya Akademi ', India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India...

    , India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

     2010.
  • J. T. Jayasingh, editor, New Voices, anthology; Thiruvananthapuram: Roots and Wings
  • Tabish Khair
    Tabish Khair
    Tabish Khair is an Indian English author and associate professor in the Department of English, University of Aarhus in Denmark...

    , Man of Glass ( 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: Harper Collins, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

     2010. ISBN 81-7223-979-3
  • Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih and Robin Ngangom
    Robin Ngangom
    Robin S Ngangom is an Indian poet and translator from Manipur, North Eastern India.-Biography:Robin Singh Ngangom was born in Imphal, Manipur of North Eastern India. He is a bilingual poet who writes in English and Manipuri. He studied literature at St Edmund's College and the North Eastern Hill...

    , editors, Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India
  • Srinivas Sistla, Amuktamalyada, translated 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 Krishna Deva Raya's classic epic; Visakhapatnam, Andra Pradesh: Drusya Kala Deepika
  • Anindita Sengupta, "City of Water" ( 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...

     )., Bangalore
    Bangalore
    Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

    : Sahitya Akademi
    Sahitya Akademi
    The Sahitya Akademi ', India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India...

    , India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

     2010.

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...

  • Anthony Cronin
    Anthony Cronin
    Anthony Cronin is an Irish poet. He received the Marten Toonder Award for his contribution to Irish literature....

    , The Fall, 120 pages, New Island Press, ISBN 978-1-84840-068-9
  • Theo Dorgan
    Theo Dorgan
    Theo Dorgan is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He currently lives in Dublin.- Career :Dorgan's poetry collections are The Ordinary House of Love ; Rosa Mundi; and Sappho’s Daughter...

    , Greek, Dedalus Press, ISBN 978-1-906614-17-1
  • 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...

    , Human Chain
    Human Chain (poetry)
    Human Chain is the twelfth collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. It won the Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection 2010 award and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award for 2011. This was Heaney's second Irish Times Poetry Now Award, previously winning in 2007 for District and...

    , 85 pages, Faber & Faber
  • Thomas Kilroy
    Thomas Kilroy
    Thomas F. Kilroy is an Irish playwright and novelist.He was born in Green Street, Callan, County Kilkenny and studied at University College, Dublin. In his early career he was play editor at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin...

    , Christ, Deliver Us, Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press
  • Alan Moore How Now! Anvil Press Poetry
    Anvil Press Poetry
    Anvil Press Poetry is an independent poetry publisher based in Greenwich, south-east London. It was founded in 1968 by Peter Jay and specialises in contemporary English poets, with a leavening of Irish and American, and in a range of translated poetry, from ancient classics to modern and...

    , ISBN 978-0-85646-432-4
  • 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...

    , Maggot
  • Micheal O'Siadhail
    Micheal O'Siadhail
    Micheal O'Siadhail is an Irish poet. Among his awards are The Marten Toonder Prize and The Irish American Culture Institute Prize for Literature.-Early life:Micheal O'Siadhail was born into a middle class Dublin family...

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

    , Bloodaxe Books

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...

  • 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:...

    , Dragon Talk, Bloodaxe Books
  • Jill Bialosky
    Jill Bialosky
    Jill Bialosky is an American poet, book editor, and novelist.She studied at Ohio University and received an M.A. in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, as well as an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She is the author of the poetry collections, The End of Desire, Subterranean, and ...

    , The Skiers: Selected Poems, 144 pages, ISBN 978-1-904614-93-7
  • Matthew Caley, Apparently, Bloodaxe Books
  • Stewart Conn
    Stewart Conn
    Stewart Conn is a Scottish poet and playwright, born in Hillhead, Glasgow . His father was a minister Kelvinside Church but the family moved to Kilmarnock, Ayrshire in 1941 when he was five. During the 60s and 70s he worked for the BBC at their offices off Queen Margaret Drive and moved to...

    , The Breakfast Room, Bloodaxe Books
  • Razmic Davoyan, Whispers and Breath of the Meadows, translated from the original Armenian by Armine Tamrazian, introduction by W. N. Herbert
    W. N. Herbert
    W. N. Herbert, also known as Bill Herbert is a poet from Dundee, Scotland. He writes in both English and Scots. He and Richard Price founded the poetry magazine Gairfish. Educated at Brasenose College he currently teaches at Newcastle University...

    , 172 pages, ISBN 9781904614470
  • Katie Donovan, Rootling, Bloodaxe Books
  • 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...

    , Love Poems, a selection, 84 pages, Picador, ISBN 978-0-330-51271-8
  • Bernardine Evaristo
    Bernardine Evaristo
    Bernardine Evaristo MBE FRSL FRSA is a British author.She was born in London to an English mother and Nigerian Father and was raised in Woolwich, south east London.-Work:Evaristo is the author of six books that include:...

     & Daljit Nagra
    Daljit Nagra
    Daljit Nagra is a British poet whose debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! — a title alluding to W. H. Auden's Look, Stranger!, D. H. Lawrence's Look! We have come through! and by epigraph also to Matthew Arnold's 'Dover Beach' — was published by Faber in February 2007...

    . editors, Ten: New poets from Spread the Word, an anthology, with work by Mir Mahfuz Ali, Rowyda Amin, Malika Booker, Roger Robinson, Karen McCarthy, Nick Makoha, Denise Saul, Seni Seniviratne, Shazea Quraishi and Janet Kofi Tsekpo; Bloodaxe Books
  • Ruth Fainlight
    Ruth Fainlight
    Ruth Fainlight , is a poet, short story writer, translator and librettist.-Life and career:Fainlight was born in New York, but has mainly lived in England since she was fifteen, having also spent some years living in France and Spain. She studied for two years at the Birmingham and Brighton...

    , New & Collected Poems, Bloodaxe Books
  • Sylva Fischerová, The Swing in the Middle of Chaos, translated by Stuart Friebert and Sylva Fischerova from the original Czech; Bloodaxe Books
  • Roy Fisher
    Roy Fisher
    Roy Fisher is a British poet and jazz pianist. He was one of the first British writers to absorb the poetics of William Carlos Williams and the Black Mountain poets into the British poetic tradition. Fisher was a key precursor of the British Poetry Revival.Fisher was born in Handsworth, Birmingham...

    , Standard Midland, Bloodaxe Books
  • Cheryl Follon, Dirty Looks, Bloodaxe Books
  • Miriam Gamble, The Squirrels Are Dead, Bloodaxe Books
  • Bill Griffiths
    Bill Griffiths
    Bill Griffiths was a poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar associated with the British Poetry Revival.-Overview:...

    , Collected Earlier Poems (1966 – 80), Reality Street, Sussex
  • 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...

    , Human Chain
    Human Chain (poetry)
    Human Chain is the twelfth collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. It won the Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection 2010 award and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award for 2011. This was Heaney's second Irish Times Poetry Now Award, previously winning in 2007 for District and...

    , Faber and Faber
  • Tony Hoagland
    Tony Hoagland
    Anthony Dey Hoagland is an American poet and writer. His poetry collection 2003, What Narcissism Means to Me, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and a...

    , Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, Bloodaxe Books
  • Helen Ivory
    Helen Ivory
    Helen Ivory is an English poet, tutor and editor.She was born in Luton but has lived in Norwich since 1990. In 1999 she won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors....

    , The Breakfast Machine, Bloodaxe Books
  • Arun Kolatkar
    Arun Kolatkar
    Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar was a poet from Maharashtra, India. Writing in both Marathi and English, his poems found humor in many everyday matters. His poetry had an influence on modern Marathi poets...

    , Collected Poems in English, edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
    Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
    Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is a noted Indian poet, anthologist, literary critic and translator.- Biography :Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was born in Lahore 1947. He has published four collections of poetry in English and one of translation...

    , Marathi
    Marathi poetry
    -Earliest Prominent Marathi Poetry:The two poets, Namadev and Dnyaneshwar , wrote the earliest significant poetry in Marathi. They were respectively born in 1270 and 1275 CE in Maharashtra, India, and both wrote religious poetry. A little over 400 verses in the so-called “abhang” form are...

    - and English-language poet of 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...

    , published in the United Kingdom, Bloodaxe Books; posthumous (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...

    )
  • Gwyneth Lewis
    Gwyneth Lewis
    Gwyneth Lewis is a Welsh poet, and was the first National Poet for Wales.-Biography:Born into a Welsh speaking family, Lewis's father started teaching her English when her mother went into hospital to give birth to her sister....

    , A Hospital Odyssey, Bloodaxe Books
  • Kona Macphee, Perfect Blue, Bloodaxe Books
  • Harry Martinson
    Harry Martinson
    Harry Martinson was a Swedish sailor, author and poet. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson. The choice for Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson was very controversial as both were on the...

    , Chickweed Wintergreen,translated from the original Swedish by Robin Fulton
    Robin Fulton
    Robin Fulton , is a Scottish poet and translator. He has lived in Stavanger, Norway, since 1973 working as a university lecturer- Fulton holds a PhD from Edinburgh University....

    , Bloodaxe Books
  • Grace Nichols
    Grace Nichols
    Grace Nichols is a Guyanese poet. She was born in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1950. After working in Guyana as a teacher and journalist, she emigrated to the UK in 1977. Much of her poetry is characterised by Caribbean rhythms and culture, and influenced by Guyanese and Amerindian folklore.Her first...

    , I Have Crossed an Ocean, Bloodaxe Books
  • Micheal O'Siadhail
    Micheal O'Siadhail
    Micheal O'Siadhail is an Irish poet. Among his awards are The Marten Toonder Prize and The Irish American Culture Institute Prize for Literature.-Early life:Micheal O'Siadhail was born into a middle class Dublin family...

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

     poet published in the United Kingdom, Bloodaxe Books
  • 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, Faber & Faber
  • Mario Petrucci, i tulips, Enitharmon Press, 112, pages, ISBN 978-1-904634-93-5
  • Ralph Pordzik, Hotel Salvador Dali and Other Poems, Lulu Press, 49 pages, ISBN 978-1-4457-2224-5
  • Peter Reading
    Peter Reading
    Peter Reading was an English poet and the author of 26 collections of poetry. He is known for his choice of ugly subject matter, and use of classical metres. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry describes his verse as "strongly anti-romantic, disenchanted and usually satirical"...

    , Vendage Tardive, Bloodaxe Books
  • Robin Robertson
    Robin Robertson
    Robin Robertson is a Scottish poet.-Biography:Robertson was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland, but has spent most of his professional life in London...

    , The Wrecking Light, 112 pages, Picador, ISBN 978-0-330-51548-1
  • Anna Robinson, The Finders of London, Enitharmon Press, 64, pages, ISBN 978-1-904634-94-2
  • Lawrence Sail
    Lawrence Sail
    -Biography:Sail was born in London and brought up in Exeter. He studied French and German at Oxford University and subsequently taught for some years in Kenya, before returning to the UK, where he taught at Blundell's School and, later, Exeter School...

    , Waking Dreams, Bloodaxe Books
  • Penelope Shuttle
    Penelope Shuttle
    -Life:Shuttle "left school at 17, completing her first novel when she was 20." Her home is in Falmouth, Cornwall since 1970. She married the poet Peter Redgrove, who died in 2003, and they have a daughter, Zoe...

    , Sandgrain and Hourglass, Bloodaxe Books
  • 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:...

    , Voices in the Distance, Bloodaxe Books
  • John Stammers
    John Stammers
    -Life:Stammers read philosophy at King's College London and is an Associate of Kings' College. He took up writing poetry in his 40s, joining Michael Donaghy’s City University poetry group. Stammers now teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London and City Lit. In 2002/03 he was appointed...

    , Interior Night, 64 pages, Picador, ISBN 978-0-330-51338-8
  • Pia Tafdrup
    Pia Tafdrup
    Pia Tafdrup is a Danish writer; primarily a poet, she has also written a novel and two plays, as well as works for radio....

    , Tarkovsky's Horses and other poems, translated by David McDuff
    David McDuff
    David McDuff is a British translator, editor and literary critic.He attended the University of Edinburgh, where he studied Russian and German...

     from the original Danish; Bloodaxe Books
  • Marina Tsvetaeva
    Marina Tsvetaeva
    Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian and Soviet poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed it. In an attempt to save her daughter Irina from...

    , Art in the Light of Conscience, translated by Angela Livingstone from the original Russian; Bloodaxe Books
  • Brian Turner
    Brian Turner (American poet)
    Brian Turner is an American poet, essayist, and professor. He won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award for his debut collection, Here, Bullet, the first of many awards and honors received for this collection of poems about his experience as a soldier in the Iraq War...

    , Phantom Noise, Bloodaxe Books
  • Chase Twichell
    Chase Twichell
    Chase Twichell is an American poet, professor, and publisher, the founder in 1999, of Ausable Press. Her most recent poetry collection is Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been, which earned her Claremont Graduate University's prestigious $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award....

    , Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been, Bloodaxe Books
  • Priscila Uppal, Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998-2010, Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 192 pages, ISBN 978-1-85224-860-4, Canadian
    Canadian poetry
    - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

     author published in the United Kingdom

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

  • Anthony Astbury, editor, A Field of Large Desires: A Greville Press Anthology 1975-2010, Carcanet Press, ISBN 978-1-84777-050-9
  • Roddy Lumsden
    Roddy Lumsden
    Roddy Lumsden is a Scottish poet, who was born in St Andrews. He has published five collections of poetry, a number of chapbooks and a collection of trivia, as well as editing a generational anthology of British and Irish poets of the 1990s and 2000s, Identity Parade, among other...

    , editor, Identity Parade: New British & Irish Poets, anthology; Bloodaxe Books
Poets included: Patience Agbabi
Patience Agbabi
Patience Agbabi is a British poet and performer with a particular emphasis on the spoken word. Although her poetry is hard-hitting in addressing contemporary themes, her work often makes use of strong formal constraints, including traditional poetic forms...

, Jonathan Asser, Tiffany Atkinson, Simon Barraclough, Paul Batchelor, Kate Bingham, Julia Bird, Patrick Brandon, David Briggs, Andy Brown, Judy Brown, Colette Bryce
Colette Bryce
Colette Bryce is a critically acclaimed poet from Derry, Northern Ireland. Bryce lived in London until 2002 when she moved to Scotland, followed by a move to the North East of England in 2005...

, Matthew Caley, Siobhan Campbell, Vahni Capildeo
Vahni Capildeo
Surya Vahni Priya Capildeo is a Trinidadian writer, and a member of the extended Capildeo family which has produced notable Trinidadian politicians and writers ....

, Melanie Challenger, Kate Clanchy
Kate Clanchy
-Life:She was educated in Edinburgh and Oxford University. She lived in London's East End for several years, before moving to Oxfordshire where she now works as a teacher, journalist and freelance writer....

, Polly Clark, Julia Copus
Julia Copus
Julia Copus is a British poet and radio dramatist.-Career:Copus' books of poetry include The Shuttered Eye , which won her an Eric Gregory Award and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and In Defence of Adultery...

, Sarah Corbett, Claire Crowther, Tim Cumming, Ailbhe Darcy, Peter Davidson, Nick Drake, Sasha Dugdale, Chris Emery
Chris Emery
Chris Emery also known as Chris Hamilton-Emery born in Manchester, England, on November 23, 1963 is a British poet and literary publisher.- Biography :...

, Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo MBE FRSL FRSA is a British author.She was born in London to an English mother and Nigerian Father and was raised in Woolwich, south east London.-Work:Evaristo is the author of six books that include:...

, Paul Farley
Paul Farley
Paul Farley is an award-winning English poet. He studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art, and has lived in London, Brighton and Cumbria...

, 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...

, Annie Freud, Alan Gillis, Jane Griffiths
Jane Griffiths (poet)
-Career and writings:Griffiths was born in Exeter, England, and brought up in the Netherlands. She studied English at Oxford University, where she won the Newdigate prize for her poem "The House"...

, Vona Groarke
Vona Groarke
Vona Groarke is an Irish poet.Groarke was born in Edgeworthstown in the Irish midlands in 1964, and attended Trinity College, Dublin, and University College, Cork...

, 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...

, Sophie Hannah
Sophie Hannah
Sophie Hannah is an English-born poet and novelist. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 she was a junior research fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford...

, Tracey Herd, Kevin Higgins, Matthew Hollis, A. B. Jackson
A. B. Jackson
The Scottish poet Andrew Buchanan Jackson was born on 19 June 1965, in Glasgow.His family soon moved to the town of Bramhall in Cheshire, where he received his primary school education...

, Anthony Joseph
Anthony Joseph
Anthony Joseph is a British poet, novelist, musician and lecturer.Joseph was born in Trinidad and was raised by his grandparents. He began writing as a young child and cites his main influences as the Calypso, surrealism, jazz, the spiritual Baptist church that his grandparents attended, and the...

, 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...

, Nick Laird
Nick Laird
Nicholas 'Nick' Laird is a novelist and poet who was born, and grew up, in Cookstown, County Tyrone. He studied at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he attained a first in English. He went on to work at the global law firm Allen & Overy in London for six years, before leaving to concentrate...

, Sarah Law, Frances Leviston
Frances Leviston
Frances Leviston is a British poet.Born in Edinburgh, Frances Leviston later moved to Sheffield. She studied at St Hilda's College in Oxford University, where she read English. Leviston then began an MA in Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. There she won their Ictus Prize in 2004,...

, Gwyneth Lewis
Gwyneth Lewis
Gwyneth Lewis is a Welsh poet, and was the first National Poet for Wales.-Biography:Born into a Welsh speaking family, Lewis's father started teaching her English when her mother went into hospital to give birth to her sister....

, John McAuliffe, Chris McCabe, Helen Macdonald
Helen MacDonald
Helen MacDonald may refer to:* Helen MacDonald , member of the Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly from 2000 to 2007* Helen MacDonald , Canadian politician, former leader of the New Democrats...

, Patrick McGuinness
Patrick McGuinness (writer)
Patrick McGuinness is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Oxford University, and is also known as a poet and novelist.- Life :...

, Kona Macphee, Peter Manson
Peter Manson
Peter Manson is a contemporary Scottish poet. His books include Between Cup and Lip . For the Good of Liars , Adjunct: an Undigest , Before and After Mallarmé , Two renga Peter Manson (born 1969) is a contemporary Scottish poet. His books include Between Cup and Lip (Miami University Press,...

, D. S. Marriott, Sam Meekings, Sinéad Morrissey
Sinead Morrissey
Sinéad Morrissey is a poet from Northern Ireland.-Life:Raised in Belfast, she was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where she took BA and PhD degrees, and won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1990...

, Daljit Nagra
Daljit Nagra
Daljit Nagra is a British poet whose debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! — a title alluding to W. H. Auden's Look, Stranger!, D. H. Lawrence's Look! We have come through! and by epigraph also to Matthew Arnold's 'Dover Beach' — was published by Faber in February 2007...

, Caitríona O'Reilly
Caitriona O'Reilly
Caitríona O'Reilly is an Irish poet and critic. She took BA and PhD degrees in Archaeology and English at Trinity College, Dublin, and was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her poetry collection, The Nowhere Birds ; she has also held the Harper-Wood Studentship from St John's...

, Alice Oswald
Alice Oswald
-Career:Oswald read Classics at New College, Oxford, has worked as a gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden, and today lives with her husband, the playwright Peter Oswald , and her three children in Devon, in the South-West of England....

, Katherine Pierpoint, Clare Pollard
Clare Pollard
Clare Pollard is an English poet and playwright. Born in 1978 and raised in Bolton, Pollard read English at Cambridge University. She published her first collection, The Heavy-Petting Zoo, with Bloodaxe in 1998 aged 19. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2000, and has gone on to write three more...

, Jacob Polley
Jacob Polley
Jacob Polley is a British poet, born in Carlisle, Cumbria.He graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in 1997....

, Diana Pooley, Richard Price
Richard Price (poet)
Richard Price is a contemporary Scottish poet, novelist, and translator. -Life:He grew up in Renfrewshire.He studied at Napier College, in journalism, and graduated the University of Strathclyde in English and Librarianship, with a joint first.He earned a PhD at University of...

, Sally Read, Deryn Rees-Jones
Deryn Rees-Jones
Deryn Rees-Jones is an Anglo Welsh poet, who lives and works in Liverpool. Although, Rees-Jones has spent much of her life in Liverpool, she spent much of her childhood in the family home of Eglwys-bach in North Wales and she thinks of herself as a Welsh writer....

, Neil Rollinson
Neil Rollinson
-Life:He studied at Newcastle University, but then moved to London.He was writer in residence at Wordworth’s Dove Cottage.He was 2007 writer-in-residence at Manchester's Centre For New Writing.He tutors at the Arvon Centre.-Awards:...

, Jacob Sam-la Rose, Antony Rowland, James Sheard, Zoë Skoulding
Zoë Skoulding
Zoë Skoulding , is a poet, writer, musician, performer, and also a lecturer in creative writing.Since 1994 she has edited the creative writing magazine Skald, more recently alongside co-editor Ian Davidson with whom she also writes collaboratively, and is the current editor of Poetry Wales.She has...

, Catherine Smith, Jean Sprackland
Jean Sprackland
Jean Sprackland is an English poet, the author of three collections of poetry published since 1997.-Biography:Originally from Burton upon Trent, Jean Sprackland studied English and Philosophy at the University of Kent at Canterbury, then taught for a few years before beginning to write poetry at...

, John Stammers
John Stammers
-Life:Stammers read philosophy at King's College London and is an Associate of Kings' College. He took up writing poetry in his 40s, joining Michael Donaghy’s City University poetry group. Stammers now teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London and City Lit. In 2002/03 he was appointed...

, Greta Stoddart, Sandra Tappenden, Tim Turnbull, Julian Turner
Julian Turner
Julian Turner is a British poet and mental health worker. Turner was born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, then moved to Cheshire in 1955...

, Mark Waldron, Ahren Warner
Ahren Warner
Ahren Warner is a British poet born in 1986. His first book, Confer , was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection...

, Tim Wells, Matthew Welton, David Wheatley, Sam Willetts, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, Tamar Yoseloff.
  • George Szirtes
    George Szirtes
    George Szirtes is a Hungarian-born British poet, writing in English, as well as a translator from the Hungarian language into English. He has lived in the United Kingdom for most of his life.-Life:...

    , New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation, 300 pages, ISBN 978-1-906570-50-7

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

  • 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,...

    , Silent Letters of the Alphabet, series of public lectures at Newcastle University, Bloodaxe Books
  • George Szirtes
    George Szirtes
    George Szirtes is a Hungarian-born British poet, writing in English, as well as a translator from the Hungarian language into English. He has lived in the United Kingdom for most of his life.-Life:...

    , Fortinbras at the Fishhouses, series of public lectures at Newcastle University, Bloodaxe Books

United States

  • Nicky Beer, The Diminishing House, 77 pages, Carnegie Mellon University Press, ISBN 978-0-88748-516-9
  • Millicent Borges Accardi
    Millicent Borges Accardi
    Millicent Borges Accardi is a Portuguese-American poet. She has received literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts , CantoMundo, the California Arts Council, Barbara Deming Foundation, and Formby Special Collections at Texas Tech University for research on the writer/activist...

    , Injuring Eternity, 108 pages, World Nouveau Press, ISBN 13: 9780982886540
  • Elizabeth Bradfield, Approaching Ice: Poems, 112 pages, Persea, ISBN 978-0-89255-355-6
  • 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...

    , All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems of Charles Bernstein, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ISBN 978-0-374-10344-6
  • 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...

    , Selections, introduction by Jennifer Moxley
    Jennifer Moxley
    Jennifer Moxley is an American poet, editor, and translator who was born in San Diego, California. She currently teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Maine and resides in Maine with her partner, Steve Evans.- Poetry :...

    , translations by many hands, University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Julie Carr
    Julie Carr
    Julie Carr is an American poet who has recently been awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.She graduated from Barnard College with a BA in 1988, from New York University with an MFA in 1997, and from University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D...

    , 100 Notes on Violence, Ahsahta Press, Boise, ID
  • Anne Carson
    Anne Carson
    Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987....

    , Nox, New Directions, described by one reviewer as "not really a 'book' at all, but rather a box of material connected accordion-style (in one folded, ribbon-like page many yards long) about the death of her deeply troubled older brother Michael" and including a translation of Catullus 101
    Catullus 101
    Catullus 101 is an elegiac poem written by the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus. It is addressed to Catullus' dead brother or, strictly speaking, to the "mute ashes" which are the only remaining evidence of his brother's body....

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

     published in the United States
  • 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...

    , Ballistics: Poems, 128 pages, Random House, ISBN 978-0-8129-7561-1
  • Bei Dao
    Bei Dao
    Bei Dao is the pseudonym of Chinese poet Zhao Zhenkai . He was born in Beijing, his pseudonym was chosen because he came from the north and because of his preference for solitude...

    , author, and Eliot Weinberger
    Eliot Weinberger
    Eliot Weinberger is a contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator. His work regularly appears in translation and has been published in some thirty languages...

    , translator and editor, The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems, a bilingual English/Chinese
    Chinese poetry
    Chinese poetry is poetry written, spoken, or chanted in the Chinese language, which includes various versions of Chinese language, including Classical Chinese, Standard Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Yue Chinese, as well as many other historical and vernacular varieties of the Chinese language...

     edition of poems written in Chinese by Bei Dao; preface by Bei Dao, afterward by Eliot Weinberger; 304 pages; New Directions, ISBN 978-0-8112-1848-1
  • Todd F. Davis
    Todd F. Davis
    Todd F. Davis is a prize-winning American poet and critic.- Life and Work :Todd F. Davis is Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Penn State University’s Altoona College...

    , The Least of These: Poems, 140 pages, Michigan State University Press, ISBN 978-0-87013-875-1
  • Camille Dungy
    Camille Dungy
    Camille T. Dungy is an American poet and professor. She is author of two poetry collections, most recently, Suck on the Marrow . Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including Antioch Review, Carolina Quarterly, The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, The Crab Orchard...

    , Suck on the Marrow, 88 pages, Red Hen Press, ISBN 978-1-59709-468-9
  • Rachel Blau DuPlessis
    Rachel Blau DuPlessis
    Rachel Blau DuPlessis an American poet and essayist, is known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist and contemporary poetry.-Life and work:...

    , Pitch: Drafts 77 – 95, Salt Publishing
    Salt Publishing
    Salt Publishing is an independent publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched Salt Magazine in Western Australia. The journal rapidly developed an international reputation as a leading publisher of new poetry and poetics...

    , London
  • Larry Eigner
    Larry Eigner
    Laurence Joel Eigner / Larry Eigner was an American poet of the second half of the twentieth century and one of the principal figures of the Black Mountain School....

    , The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner, edited by Curtis Faville and Robert Grenier
    Robert Grenier (poet)
    Robert Grenier is a contemporary American poet associated with the Language School. He was founding co-editor of the influential magazine This...

    , Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 2010, (Vol. I: 1937–1958; Vol. II: 1958–1966; Vol. III: 1966–1978; Vol. IV: 1978–1995); ISBN 978-0-8047-5090-5
  • Aaron Fagan, Echo Train, Salt Publishing
    Salt Publishing
    Salt Publishing is an independent publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched Salt Magazine in Western Australia. The journal rapidly developed an international reputation as a leading publisher of new poetry and poetics...

    , London, ISBN 978-1-84471-749-1
  • Elyse Fenton, Clamor, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, Cleveland, OH
  • Musharraf Ali Farooqi
    Musharraf Ali Farooqi
    Musharraf Ali Farooqi is a Pakistani-Canadian writer, translator and journalist.-Biography:Farooqi received his early education in Hyderabad, at St...

    , translator, Rococo and Other Worlds: Selected Poems, translation from the original Urdu
    Urdu poetry
    Urdu poetry is a rich tradition of poetry and has many different types and forms. Borrowing much from the Persian language, it is today an important part of Pakistani and North Indian culture....

     of Afzal Ahmed Syed, 120 pages, Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-8195-6933-2
  • Nada Gordon, Scented Rushes, Roof Books,
  • Nathalie Handal
    Nathalie Handal
    Nathalie Handal is a French-American poet and playwright of Palestinian origin. She has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world.-Biography:...

    , Love and Strange Horses, 91 pages; University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Robert Hass
    Robert Hass
    Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials.-Life:...

    , The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems, Ecco Press, ISBN 0-06-192382-6
  • Terrance Hayes
    Terrance Hayes
    Terrance Hayes is a prize-winning American poet. His recent poetry collection Lighthead won the National Book Award for Poetry...

    , Lighthead, Penguin, New York / London
  • Tony Hoagland
    Tony Hoagland
    Anthony Dey Hoagland is an American poet and writer. His poetry collection 2003, What Narcissism Means to Me, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and a...

    , Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems, the author's first collection in seven years, 100 pages, 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...

    , ISBN 978-1-55597-549-4
  • Brenda Iijima, If Not Metaphoric, Ahsahta Press, Boise, ID
  • Carrie Jerrell, After the Revival, 80 pages, Waywiser Press, ISBN 978-1-904130-38-3
  • 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...

    , Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems, City Lights, San Francisco
  • Reb Livingston, God Damsel, No Tell Books, Reston VA
  • Ben Lerner
    Ben Lerner
    Benjamin S. Lerner is an American poet, novelist, and critic. He was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of fifty-two sonnets, . In 2004, Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry...

    , Mean Free Path, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA ISBN 978-1-55659-314-7
  • Shane McCrae
    Shane McCrae
    Shane McCrae is an American poet. He is the author of the poetry collection Mule and the recipient of a 2011 Whiting Writers' Award...

    , Mule, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, Cleveland, OH
  • Mark McMorris
    Mark McMorris
    Mark McMorris is a Canadian snowboarder who is the first to complete a backside triple cork 1440.McMorris competed at his first FIS Snowboard World Cup during the 2009-2010 season placing eighth in the big air event in Quebec City...

    , Entrepôt, 90 pages, Coffee House Press, ISBN 978-1-56689-236-0
  • John McNeeley, 39, 260 pages, CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1-4499-9779-3
  • Deborah Meadows, Depleted Burden Down, Factory School, Queens, NY
  • Erika Meitner
    Erika Meitner
    Erika Meitner is an American poet.She graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in 1996, and from the University of Virginia with an MFA, and where she is studying for a doctorate in religious studies. She taught at University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of...

    , Ideal Cities, 86 pages; Harper Perennial
  • Simone Muench, Orange Crush: Poems, 88 pages, Sarabande Books, ISBN 978-1-932511-79-6
  • Sawako Nakayasu, Texture Notes, Letter Machine Editions, Chicago / Denver
  • Travis Nichols
    Travis Nichols
    Travis Nichols is an American poet. He was born in Ames, Iowa in 1979 and now lives in Chicago where he works as an editor at the Poetry Foundation.A graduate of the University of Georgia and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst...

    , Iowa, Letter Machine Editions, Chicago / Denver
  • Tamae K. Prindle, translator, On Knowing Oneself Too Well: Selected Poems of Ishikawa Takuboku
    Ishikawa Takuboku
    was a Japanese poet. He died of tuberculosis. Well known as both a tanka and 'modern-style' or 'free-style' poet, he began as a member of the Myōjō group of naturalist poets but later joined the "socialistic" group of Japanese poets and renounced naturalism.-Major works:His major works were two...

    , translated from the original Japanese of the tanka
    Waka (poetry)
    Waka or Yamato uta is a genre of classical Japanese verse and one of the major genres of Japanese literature...

     poems written until the author's death in 1912
    1912 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore takes a sheaf of his translated works to England, where they impress William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Bridges, Ernest Rhys, Thomas Sturge Moore, and others...

     at age 26, 146 pages, Syllabic Press, ISBN 978-0-615-34562-8
  • Barbara Ras
    Barbara Ras
    Barbara Ras is an American poet, translator and publisher. Her most recent poetry collection is The Last Skin , which was preceded by One Hidden Stuff , and her first collection is Bite Every Sorrow .-Life:She graduated from Simmons College, and University...

    , The Last Skin, Penguin, New York / London
  • Atsuro Riley
    Atsuro Riley
    Atsuro Riley is an American poet.He is the author of Romey's Order . His work has appeared in Poetry, McSweeney's, and The Threepenny Review...

    , Romey's Order, 54 pages; University of Chicago 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:...

    , R's Boat, 96 pages, "New California Poetry" series of the University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-26240-9, written by a Canadian
    Canadian poetry
    - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

     poet living in and published in the United States
  • Marc Rosen, James P. Wagner, coeditors and compilers, Perspectives: Poetry Concerning Autism and Other Disabilities, 178 pages, Local Gems Poetry Press, ISBN 978-0-557-57112-3
  • R. M. Ryan
    R. M. Ryan
    R. M. Ryan is the author of Vaudeville in the Dark, which was lauded by the New York Times as "written at the juncture of rapture and rupture." He is also the author of Goldilocks in Later Life and The Golden Rules...

    , Vaudeville in the Dark, 68 pages; Louisiana State University Press
  • Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    Benjamin Alire Saenz
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz is an award-winning American poet, novelist and writer of children's books.-Life:He was born at Old Picacho, New Mexico, the fourth of seven children, and was raised on a small farm near Mesilla, New Mexico....

    , The Book of What Remains, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend, WA
  • Sonia Sanchez
    Sonia Sanchez
    Sonia Sanchez is an African American poet most often associated with the Black Arts Movement. She has authored over a dozen books of poetry, as well as plays and children's books...

    , Morning Haiku, 144 pages, Beacon Press, ISBN 978-0-8070-6910-3
  • Sherod Santos
    Sherod Santos
    Sherod Santos is an American poet, essayist and professor. His most recent poetry collection is forthcoming, The Intricated Soul: New & Selected Poems...

    , The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems, 164 pages, W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 978-0-393-07216-7
  • Leslie Scalapino
    Leslie Scalapino
    Leslie Scalapino was a United States poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets. A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of...

    , Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows, Starcherone Books, ISBN 978-0-9788811-9-1
  • Steven Seymour, translator, If There is Something to Desire: One Hundred Poems, translated from the original Russian of his wife, Vera Pavlova
    Vera Pavlova
    Vera Anatolyevna Pavlova is a Russian poet whose work has been published in The New Yorker.-External links:**...

    , 128 pages, Knopf, ISBN 978-0-307-27225-6
  • Melissa Stein
    Melissa Stein
    Melissa Stein is an American poet. She holds an MA in creative writing from the University of California at Davis, and is a freelance editor and writer in San Francisco....

    , Rough Honey, 98 pages; American Poetry Review
  • Edwin Torres
    Edwin Torres (poet)
    Edwin Torres is a "Nuyorican" poet.-Early years:Torres's parents moved from Puerto Rico and settled in the borough of The Bronx in New York City. His father died when he was young and he was then raised by his mother and her brother Martin. Martin provided comfort and family support...

    , In the Function of Extreme Circumstances, Nightboat Books, Callicoon, NY
  • Nguyen Trai, Beyond the Court Gate: Selected Poems, edited & translated by Nguyen Do & Paul Hoover
    Paul Hoover
    Paul Hoover is an American poet and editor born in Harrisonburg, Virginia.His work has been associated with the New York School poets and innovative practices such as New York School and language poetry....

    , Counterpath, Denver, 2010
  • Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
    Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
    Frederick Goddard Tuckerman was an American poet, remembered mostly for his sonnet series. Apart from the 1860 publication of his book Poems, which included approximately two-fifths of his lifetime sonnet output and other poetic works in a variety of forms, the remainder of his poetry was...

    , Selected Poems, edited by Ben Mazer with an introduction by Stephen Burt
    Stephen Burt
    Stephen Burt is a literary critic, poet, and a professor who teaches at Harvard University.-Elliptical Poetry:Burt received significant attention for coining the term "elliptical poetry" in a 1998 book review of Susan Wheeler's book, Smokes, in Boston Review magazine...

    , Belknap Press (Harvard University Press), Cambridge, MA
  • Connie Wanek
    Connie Wanek
    -Life:She was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico. In 1989 she moved with her family to Duluth, Minnesota where she now lives....

    , On Speaking Terms, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend, WA
  • Karen Weiser, To Light Out, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn
  • C.D. Wright, One With Others (Copper Canyon Press
    Copper Canyon Press
    Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, specializing in the publication of poetry and located in the picturesque town of Port Townsend, Washington. Since 1972, the Press has published poetry exclusively and has established an international reputation for its commitment to...

    )
  • 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...

    , Come On All You Ghosts, 111 pages; Copper Canyon Press

Anthologies in the United States

  • David Fideler and Sabrineh Fideler, editors and translators, Love's Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, 240 pages, New World Library, ISBN 978-1-57731-890-3
  • David Groff
    David Groff
    -Biography:Groff graduated from the University of Iowa, with an MFA, and MA. He has taught at University of Iowa, Rutgers University, and NYU, and at William Paterson University....

     and Philip Clark
    Philip Clark
    Philip Corriston Clark was an American rugby union player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the American rugby union team, which won the gold medal.-External links:*...

    , Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS, 240 pages, Alyson Books, ISBN 978-1-59350-153-2
  • Naomi Shihab Nye
    Naomi Shihab Nye
    Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet, songwriter, and novelist. She was born to a Palestinian father and American mother. Although she regards herself as a "wandering poet", she refers to San Antonio as her home.-Career:...

    , Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25, for "young adults", 256 pages, Greenwillow Books, ISBN 978-0-06-189637-8
  • 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...

    , editor, The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing, 150 poems arranged to correspond with the grieving process, grouped by: Reckoning, Remembrance, Rituals, Recovery and Redemption; 336 pages, Bloomsbury USA, ISBN 978-1-60819-033-1

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

  • Robert Archambeau
    Robert Archambeau (poet)
    Robert Archambeau is a poet and literary critic, whose works include the books Citation Suite, Home and Variations, and Laureates and Heretics, and the edited collections Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias, The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing, and Letters of Blood:...

    , Laureates and Heretics: Six Careers in American Poetry (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press) ISBN 978-0-268-02036-1
  • Norma Cole
    Norma Cole
    Norma Cole is a contemporary American poet, visual artist, and frequent translator from the French. A member of the circle of poets around Robert Duncan in the '80s, and a fellow traveler of San Francisco's language poets, Cole is also allied with contemporary French poets.-Life and work:A...

    , To Be At Music: Essays & Talks (Richmond, CA: Omnidawn Publishing) ISBN 978-1-890650-44-5
  • Stephen Ratcliffe
    Stephen Ratcliffe
    Stephen Ratcliffe is a contemporary U.S. poet and critic who has published numerous books of poetry and three books of criticism. He lives in Bolinas, CA and is the publisher of Avenue B Press...

    , Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet (Denver, CO: Counterpath Press, 2010)

Poets in The Best American Poetry 2010

These poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2010, 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 Amy Gerstler
Amy Gerstler
Amy Gerstler is an American poet. Her books of poetry include Ghost Girl ; Medicine - finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Poetry Award; Crown of Weeds ; Nerve Storm ; Bitter Angel - winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - The True Bride and Dearest Creature, .Described by the Los...

, guest editor (who selected the poetry):
  • Dick Allen
    Dick Allen (poet)
    Dick Allen is an American poet, literary critic and academic born in Troy, New York who is serving a five-year term as poet laureate of the state of Connecticut from July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2015....

  • 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...

  • Sandra Beasley
    Sandra Beasley
    Sandra Beasley is an American poet and non-fiction writer.-Background:Beasley graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, earned a B.A. in English magna cum laude from the University of Virginia, and later received an MFA degree from American University...

  • Mark Bibbins
  • Todd Boss
  • 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,...

  • Anne Carson
    Anne Carson
    Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987....

  • Tom Clark
    Tom Clark (poet)
    Tom Clark is an American poet, editor and biographer. Clark was born on the Near West Side of Chicago and educated at the University of Michigan where he received a Hopwood Award for poetry. On March 22, 1968, he married Angelica Heinegg, at St. Mark’s Church, New York City...

  • David Clewell
    David Clewell
    -Life:He graduated from University of Wisconsin and Washington University with an M.F.A.He teaches at Webster University.His work has appeared Harper's, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, The Georgia Review, Ontario Review, New Letters, and Yankee.He lives in St...

  • Michael Collier
    Michael Collier (poet)
    Michael Robert Collier is an American poet, teacher, creative writing program administrator and editor. He has published five books of original poetry, a translation of Euripedes' Medea, a book of prose pieces about poetry, and has edited three anthologies of poetry. From 2001 to 2004 he was the...

  • 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...

  • Dennis Cooper
    Dennis Cooper
    Dennis Cooper is an American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist.-Career:Cooper grew up the son of a wealthy businessman in Arcadia, California. His first forays into literature came early, focusing on imitations of Rimbaud, Verlaine, de Sade, and Baudelaire...

  • Kate Daniels
    Kate Daniels
    for the Kate Daniels urban fantasy mystery series, see Ilona AndrewsKate Daniels is an American poet.-Life:...


  • Peter Davis
  • Tim Dlugos
    Tim Dlugos
    Tim Dlugos was an American poet.Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, he grew up in Arlington, Virginia....

  • 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...

  • Thomas Sayers Ellis
    Thomas Sayers Ellis
    Thomas Sayers Ellis is a poet, photographer, and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, and a core faculty member of the Lesley University Low Residency MFA Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts...

  • Lynn Emanuel
    Lynn Emanuel
    Lynn Collins Emanuel is an American poet. Some of her poetry collections include Then, Suddenly— and Noose and Hook ....

  • Elaine Equi
    Elaine Equi
    Elaine Equi is an American poet.Equi was born in Oak Park, Illinois and grew up in the Chicago area. Since 1988 she has lived in New York with her husband, poet Jerome Sala. She currently teaches creative writing in the Master of Fine Arts programs at City College of New York and The New School...

  • Jill Alexander Essbaum
    Jill Alexander Essbaum
    Jill Alexander Essbaum is a Christian erotic poet distinguished as the author of the 1999 Bakeless Prize winner in poetry, Heaven, the 2005 collection of sonnets, Oh Forbidden, and the full length collections Harlot and Necropolis...

  • B. H. Fairchild
    B. H. Fairchild
    B.H. Fairchild is an award-winning American poet and former college professor. His most recent book is Usher , and his poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, TriQuarterly, The Hudson Review, Salmagundi, The...

  • Vievee Francis
  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Amy Glynn Greacen
  • Sonia Greenfield

  • Kelle Groom
  • Gabriel Gudding
    Gabriel Gudding
    -Life:Gudding was born in a Norwegian-American part of northwestern Minnesota.Gudding attended The Evergreen State College, an experimental school in Olympia, Washington, Purdue University and Cornell University. He is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Illinois State University...

  • Kimiko Hahn
    Kimiko Hahn
    Kimiko Hahn is an American poet and instructor of poetry.-Personal:Hahn received a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa and an M.A...

  • 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...

  • Terrance Hayes
    Terrance Hayes
    Terrance Hayes is a prize-winning American poet. His recent poetry collection Lighthead won the National Book Award for Poetry...

  • Bob Hicok
    Bob Hicok
    -Life:Hicok is an associate professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech. He is from Michigan and before teaching owned and ran a successful automotive die design business...

  • Rodney Jones
    Rodney Jones
    Rodney Jones is an American poet and professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Jones was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Peter I.B...

  • Michaela Kahn
  • Brigit Pegeen Kelly
    Brigit Pegeen Kelly
    Brigit Pegeen Kelly is an award-winning American poet.-Life:She is married to , a poet and fiction writer.She taught at the University of California at Irvine, Purdue University, and Warren Wilson College....

  • Corinne Lee
    Corinne Lee
    Corinne Lee is an author of poems, short stories, and essays.-Biography:She graduated from Palos Verdes High School in 1980, and the University of Southern California, in 1983, and the Iowa Writers Workshop....

  • Hailey Leithauser
  • Dolly Lemke
  • Maurice Manning
    Maurice Manning
    Maurice Manning is a former Irish Fine Gael politician. Manning was a member of the Oireachtas for 21 years, serving in both the Dáil and the Seanad. Since August 2002 he has been President of the Irish Human Rights Commission...


  • Adrian Matejka
    Adrian Matejka
    Adrian Matejka is an African-American poet. His most recent book is Mixology . He graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale with an MFA. He is a Cave Canem Workshop fellow...

  • Shane McCrae
    Shane McCrae
    Shane McCrae is an American poet. He is the author of the poetry collection Mule and the recipient of a 2011 Whiting Writers' Award...

  • Jeffrey McDaniel
    Jeffrey McDaniel
    Jeffrey McDaniel is an American poet. He has published four books of poetry, most recently 'The Endarkenment' . He is the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts...

  • 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...

  • Sarah Murphy
    Sarah Murphy
    Sarah Murphy is a New Zealand biathlete. She represented New Zealand at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She was the first Kiwi Olympic biathlete....

  • Eileen Myles
    Eileen Myles
    Eileen Myles is an American poet who has also worked in fiction, non-fiction, and theater.She won a 2010 Shelley Memorial Award.-Early life and career:...

  • Camille Norton
    Camille Norton
    -Life:She studied with Martha Collins, Linda Dittmar, and Lois Rudnick at University of Massachusetts, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst; graduated from University of Massachusetts Boston, and Harvard University with a M.A...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Gregory Pardlo
    Gregory Pardlo
    Gregory Pardlo is an American poet, writer, and professor. His poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Poet Lore, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and on National Public Radio...

  • Lucia Perillo
    Lucia Perillo
    -Life:Lucia Perillo grew up in the suburbs of New York City in the 1960s. She graduated from McGill University in Montreal in 1979 with a major in wildlife management, and subsequently worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She completed her M.A...

  • Carl Phillips
    Carl Phillips
    Carl Phillips is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis....

  • 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...

  • J. Allyn Rosser
    J. Allyn Rosser
    Jill Allyn Rosser , who published under J. Allyn Rosser, is a contemporary American poet.-Life:She grew up in Sparta, New Jersey....

  • James Schuyler
    James Schuyler
    James Marcus Schuyler was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1980 collection The Morning of the Poem...

  • Tim Seibles
    Tim Seibles
    Tim Seibles is an American poet and professor. He is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, Buffalo Head Solos...

  • David Shapiro
    David Shapiro (poet)
    David Shapiro is an American poet, literary critic, and art historian. He has written some twenty volumes of poetry, literary, and art criticism...

  • Charles Simic
    Charles Simic
    Dušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet, and was co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.-Early years:...

  • Frank Stanford
    Frank Stanford
    Frank Stanford was a prolific American poet. He is most known for his epic, The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You— a labyrinthine, highly lexical book absent stanzas and punctuation...

  • Gerald Stern
    Gerald Stern
    Gerald Stern is an American poet. His work became widely recognized after the 1977 publication of Lucky Life, which was that year's Lamont Poetry Selection, and of a series of essays on writing poetry in American Poetry Review. He has subsequently been given many prestigious awards for his...

  • Stephen Campbell Sutherland
  • James Tate
    James Tate (writer)
    James Tate is an American poet whose work has earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters...

  • David Trinidad
    David Trinidad
    -Biography:Trinidad was born in Los Angeles, California. In the early 1980s, he was one of a group of poets who were active at the Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center in Venice, California. Other members of this group included Dennis Cooper, Bob Flanagan, and Amy Gerstler. As editor of Sherwood...

  • Chase Twichell
    Chase Twichell
    Chase Twichell is an American poet, professor, and publisher, the founder in 1999, of Ausable Press. Her most recent poetry collection is Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been, which earned her Claremont Graduate University's prestigious $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award....


  • John Updike
    John Updike
    John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic....

  • 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...

  • G.C. Waldrep
    G.C. Waldrep
    George Calvin Waldrep is an American poet and historian. -Biography:Waldrep earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees in History at Harvard University and Duke University, respectively, before receiving an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa.He was visiting professor at Kenyon...

  • J. E. Wei
  • Dara Wier
    Dara Wier
    Dara Wier is an American poet and the author of eleven books of poetry, including most recently SELECTED POEMS from Wave Books. Awards include the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from the American Poetry Review, Pushcart Prize, San Francisco Poetry Center Prize. Her work is in Best American Poetry...

  • Terence Winch
    Terence Winch
    -Biography:Terence Patrick Winch was born in New York City in 1945. He grew up in an Irish neighborhood in the Bronx, the child of Irish immigrants. In 1971, he moved to Washington, DC, where he became involved with the Mass Transit readings in Dupont Circle. He published the first issue of Mass...

  • Catherine Wing
  • Mark Wunderlich
    Mark Wunderlich
    Mark Wunderlich ) is an American poet. He was born in Winona, Minnesota and grew up in a rural setting near the town of Fountain City, Wisconsin...

  • Matthew Yeager
  • 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,...

  • 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...


Danish language

  • Jöannes Nielsen, Broer af sultne ord ("Bridges of Hungry Words"), translated from the Faeroese by Erik Skyum-Nielsen, ISBN 978-87-92286-17-8, 52 pages
  • Andrea Petri, Kulørte balletfantasier ("Colored Ballet Fantasies"), ISBN 978-87-92467-65-2, 41 pages
  • Allan Strandby Nielsen, Hvis der ikke er sandstorme, så er der nok noget andet ("If There Are Sandstorms, Then There Is Probably Something Else"), ISBN 978-87-02-09049-9, 88 pages

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:...

  • Marc Alyn
    Marc Alyn
    Marc Alyn , is a French poet.-Life:He was mobilized to Algeria in 1957.He lived far from Paris, a farmhouse in Uzès, Gard....

    , Anthologie poétique amoureuse, 330 pages, Ecriture, ISBN 978-2-909240-98-5
  • Luc Bérimont, Poésies Complètes, publisher: Presses Universitaires d'Angers
  • Abdellatif Laabi
    Abdellatif Laabi
    Abdellatif Laâbi is a Moroccan poet, born in 1942 in Fes, Morocco.Laâbi, then teaching French, founded with other poets the artistic journal Souffles, an important literary review in 1966...

    , Oeuvre poétique II, publisher: La Différence
  • Yvon Le Men, Le Tour du monde en 80 poèmes, publisher: Flammarion
  • Bernard Noël
    Bernard Noël
    Bernard Noël is a French writer and poet. He received the Grand Prix national de la poésie in 1992 and the Prix Robert Ganzo in 2010....

    , Les Plumes d'éros ("The Feathers of Eros"), Works, Volume 1, poetry and prose, 448 pages, Galimard, ISBN 978-2-84682-349-4
  • Sergio Badilla Castillo
    Sergio Badilla Castillo
    Sergio Badilla Castillo is a Chilean poet and the founder of poetic transrealism in contemporary poetry...

     Ville Asiégée. Al Manar. Voix Vives de Méditerraée. Juillet 2010

Anthologies in France
  • Marie-Claire Bancquart, editor, Couleurs femmes: Poèmes de 57 femmes, Le Castor Astral
  • Christine Planté, editor, Femmes poètes du XIXe siècle: Une anthologie, PUL
  • Erhan Turgut, editor, Voix de femmes. Anthologie de femmes poètes et photographes du monde, Turquoise Editions

Germany

  • 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...

    , Ein weltgewandtes Land: Gedichte. Zweisprachig ("A Worldly Country: Poems"), a bilingual English/German edition; translated into German by Gerhard Falkner, Jan Wagner, Ron Winkler, Uljana Wolf et. a. 340 pages, luxbooks, ISBN 978-3-939557-26-5
  • Tadeusz Dabrowski
    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...

    , Schwarzes Quadrat auf schwarzem Grund. Zweisprachig a bilingual Polish/German edition; translated into German by Andre Rudolph, Monika Rinck, 140 pages, luxbooks, ISBN 978-3-939557-94-4
  • Rolf Haufs, Tanzstunde auf See: Gedichte, 128 pages, Hanser, ISBN 978-3-446-20678-6
  • Martina Hefter, Nach den Diskotheken: Gedichte, 80 pages, Kookbooks, ISBN 978-3-937445-41-0
  • 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...

    , Alle Gedichte: Gedichte ("Complete Poems"), 160 pages, Jung und Jung, ISBN 978-3-902497-65-9
  • Nadja Küchenmeister, Alle Geister: Gedichte, 104 pages, Schöffling, ISBN 978-3-89561-225-1
  • Ben Lerner
    Ben Lerner
    Benjamin S. Lerner is an American poet, novelist, and critic. He was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of fifty-two sonnets, . In 2004, Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry...

    , Die Lichtenbergfiguren: Gedichte. Zweisprachig ("The Lichtenberg Figures: Poems"), a bilingual English/German edition; translated into German by Steffen Popp, 70 pages, luxbooks, ISBN 978-3-939557-42-5
  • Gwendolyn McEwen Die T. E. Lawrence Gedichte: Gedichte. Zweisprachig, a bilingual English/German edition; translated into German by Christine Koschel, 160 pages, Edition Rugerup, ISBN 978-91-89034-26-6
  • Benard Noel, Körperextrakte: Gedichte. Zweisprachig, a bilingual French/German edition; translated into German by Angela Sanmann, 106 pages, Das Wunderhorn, ISBN 978-3-88423-349-8
  • Jörn Pfennig, Grondlos Zärtlich: Gedichte ("Unwarranted Tenderness: Poems"), 116 pages, Talberg, ISBN 978-3-9813473-0-2
  • Marion Poschmann, Geistersehen: Gedichte ("Seeing Ghosts"), 126 pages, Suhrkamp, ISBN 978-3-518-42129-17
  • Marcus Roloff, Im toten Winkel des goldenen Schnitts, 72 pages, Gutleut, ISBN 978-3-936826-49-4
  • Doris Runge
    Doris Runge
    Doris Runge is a German writer.She was the daughter of a manufacturer whose business was expropriated after World War II. Her family moved to Neukirchen in Schleswig-Holstein in 1953, and he attended schools in Oldenburg and Lubeck before following high education in Kiel where she became a teacher...

    , Was da auftaucht: Gedichte, 84 pages, dtv, ISBN 978-3-421-04485-3
  • Lutz Seiler, Felderlatein: Gedichte, 102 pages, Suhrkamp, ISBN 978-3-518-42169-7
  • Ernest Wichner Bin ganz wie aufgesperrt, 47 pages, Das Wunderhorn, ISBN 978-3-88423-352-8
  • Ron Winkler, Frenetische Stille: Gedichte ("Frenetic Silence: Poems"), 96 pages, Berlin Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8270-0920-3

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 ....

  • Jacek Gutorow, Na brzegu rzeki; publisher: Biuro Literackie
  • Jiří Kolář
    Jirí Kolár
    Jiří Kolář was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. His work was divided between literary and visual art.- Life :Kolář came from a poor family of a baker and a seamstress...

    , Sposób użycia i inne wiersze, selected, translated from the original Czech and annotated by Leszek Engelking
    Leszek Engelking
    Leszek Engelking - Polish poet, short-story writer, critic, essayist, scholar, and translator....

    ; publisher: Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT
  • Urszula Kozioł, Horrendum; publisher: Wydawnictwo Literackie
  • Ewa Lipska
    Ewa Lipska
    Ewa Lipska, born October 8, 1945, in Kraków is a Polish poet from the generation of the Polish "New Wave." Collections of her verse have been translated into English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German and Hungarian...

    , Pogłos; publisher: Wydawnictwo Literackie
  • Andrzej Sosnowski, Poems (untranslated title); publisher: Biuro Literackie
  • Bohdan Zadura, Węgierskie lato. Przekłady z poetów węgierskich, translated from the original Hungarian; publisher: Biuro Literacke
  • 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...

    , Wiersze wybrane (Selected Poems), publisher: Wydawnictwp a5

Spanish language

  • Sergio Badilla Castillo
    Sergio Badilla Castillo
    Sergio Badilla Castillo is a Chilean poet and the founder of poetic transrealism in contemporary poetry...

     Ok Atacama. Pentagrama edicions. Julio 2010, Santiago de Chile,

Other languages

  • Bei Dao
    Bei Dao
    Bei Dao is the pseudonym of Chinese poet Zhao Zhenkai . He was born in Beijing, his pseudonym was chosen because he came from the north and because of his preference for solitude...

    , author, and Eliot Weinberger
    Eliot Weinberger
    Eliot Weinberger is a contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator. His work regularly appears in translation and has been published in some thirty languages...

    , translator and editor, The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems, a bilingual English/Chinese
    Chinese poetry
    Chinese poetry is poetry written, spoken, or chanted in the Chinese language, which includes various versions of Chinese language, including Classical Chinese, Standard Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Yue Chinese, as well as many other historical and vernacular varieties of the Chinese language...

     edition of poems written in Chinese by Bei Dao; preface by Bei Dao, afterward by Eliot Weinberger; 304 pages; New Directions, ISBN 978-0-8112-1848-1; published in the United States
  • János Háy, Egy szerelmes vers története ("The Story of a Love Poem"), Palatinus; Hungary

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...

    : Lyubomir Levchev (Bulgaria
    Bulgaria
    Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

    )

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

  • Archibald Lampman Award
    Archibald Lampman Award
    The Archibald Lampman Award is an annual Canadian literary award, created by Blaine Marchand, and presented by the literary magazine Arc, for the year's best work of poetry by a writer living in the National Capital Region.- History :...

    :
  • Atlantic Poetry Prize
    Atlantic Poetry Prize
    The Atlantic Poetry Prize is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, to the best work of poetry published by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.-Winners:*1998 - Carmelita McGrath, To the New World...

    :
  • 2010 Governor General's Awards
    2010 Governor General's Awards
    The shortlisted nominees for the 2010 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 13, and winning titles were announced on November 16...

    .
  • 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: Karen Solie
      Karen Solie
      Karen Solie is a Canadian poet.Born in Moose Jaw, Solie grew up on the family farm in southwest Saskatchewan. Over the years, she has worked as a farm hand, an espresso jerk, a groundskeeper, a newspaper reporter/photographer, an academic research assistant, and an English teacher...

      , Pigeon
    • International, in the English Language: Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
      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
    • Lifetime Recognition Award: 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:...

  • 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:
  • 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):

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: 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
    • 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: Seamus Heaney
        Seamus Heaney
        Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...

         (for Human Chain
        Human Chain (poetry)
        Human Chain is the twelfth collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. It won the Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection 2010 award and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award for 2011. This was Heaney's second Irish Times Poetry Now Award, previously winning in 2007 for District and...

        ), Lachlan Mackinnon
        Lachlan Mackinnon
        Lachlan Mackinnon is a contemporary Scottish poet, critic and literary journalist. He was born in Aberdeen and educated at Charterhouse and Oxford. He recently took early retirement from his job as a teacher of English at Winchester College and moved to Ely with his partner, the poet Wendy Cope...

         (for Small Hours), Sinéad Morrissey
        Sinead Morrissey
        Sinéad Morrissey is a poet from Northern Ireland.-Life:Raised in Belfast, she was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where she took BA and PhD degrees, and won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1990...

         (for Through the Square Window), and 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...

         (for Rough Music), Robin Robertson
        Robin Robertson
        Robin Robertson is a Scottish poet.-Biography:Robertson was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland, but has spent most of his professional life in London...

         (for The Wrecking Light), Jo Shapcott
        Jo Shapcott
        Jo Shapcott FRSL, is an English poet, editor and lecturer who has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Award.-Career:...

         (for Of Mutability)
    • Best First Collection:
      • Shortlist: Christian Campbell (for Running the Dusk), Hilary Menos
        Hilary Menos
        Hillary Menos is an English poet, born in Luton in 1964. She studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Wadham College, Oxford, then worked as a food journalist and restaurant critic in London before moving to Devon to renovate a Domesday Manor...

         (for Berg), Abegail Morley (for How to Pour Madness into a Teacup), Helen Oswald (for Learning Gravity), Steve Spence (for A Curious Shipwreck), and Sam Willetts (for New Light for the Old Dark)
    • Best Poem:
      • Shortlist: Kate Bingham (for On Highgate Hill), Julia Copus
        Julia Copus
        Julia Copus is a British poet and radio dramatist.-Career:Copus' books of poetry include The Shuttered Eye , which won her an Eric Gregory Award and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and In Defence of Adultery...

         (for An Easy Passage), Lydia Fulleylove (for Night Drive), Chris Jones (for Sentences), Ian Pindar (for Mrs Beltinska in the Bath), and Lee Sands (for The Reach)
  • Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
    • Shortlist:
  • Manchester Poetry Prize:
  • Michael Marks Award for Pamphlet of the Year: "Advice On Wearing Animal Prints" Selima Hill (Flarestack Poets)
  • 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): 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...

    , White Egrets
    • Shortlist (announced in November 2010): 2010 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...

     awarded to Glenn Shaheen for Predatory
  • Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: 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....

    , Ninety-fifth Street
  • 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: "Lighthead" by Terrance Hayes
    Terrance Hayes
    Terrance Hayes is a prize-winning American poet. His recent poetry collection Lighthead won the National Book Award 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: to C.D. Wright for One With Others
  • Poet Laureate of Virginia
    Poet Laureate of Virginia
    The position of Poet Laureate of Virginia was established December 18, 1936 by the General Assembly.Originally the Poet Laureate of Virginia was appointed without outside consultation by the General Assembly, usually for one year. The procedure was later changed and most recently codified in 1998...

    : 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...

    , two year appointment 2010 to 2012
  • 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): 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:...

    • Finalists: Tryst by Angie Estes
      Angie Estes
      Angie Estes is an American poet, and professor at Ashland University.She graduated from the University of Oregon with an M.A. and Ph.D. in English.She taught at California Polytechnic State University, and at Oberlin College, and at The Ohio State University...

       and Inseminating the Elephant by Lucia Perillo
      Lucia Perillo
      -Life:Lucia Perillo grew up in the suburbs of New York City in the 1960s. She graduated from McGill University in Montreal in 1979 with a major in wildlife management, and subsequently worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She completed her M.A...

  • Wallace Stevens Award: Galway Kinnell
    Galway Kinnell
    Galway Kinnell is an American poet. He was Poet Laureate of Vermont from 1989 to 1993. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are "St...

  • 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...

    : Anne Carson
    Anne Carson
    Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987....

     for translation from the Greek of An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra
    Electra (Sophocles)
    Electra or Elektra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes and the Oedipus at Colonus lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career.Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan...

     by Sophokles; Orestes
    Orestes (play)
    Orestes is an Ancient Greek play by Euripides that follows the events of Orestes after he had murdered his mother.-Background:...

     by Euripides
    Euripides
    Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most...

    . Judge: Richard Sieburth
    Richard Sieburth
    Richard Sieburth is a translator, essayist, editor, and literary scholar. He has gained widespread recognition for his numerous translations from both German and French literature, receiving a number of awards and prizes for his work. Sieburth is considered an authority on literary modernism,...

  • 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:...

    : 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....

  • Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award: Paul Vangelisti
    Paul Vangelisti
    Paul Vangelisti is an United States poet and broadcaster. He graduated from the University of San Francisco in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy...

  • 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...

     : 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...

  • Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award: 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...

     for Chronic

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....

    : Lucille Clifton
    Lucille Clifton
    Lucille Clifton was an American writer and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979–1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland...

  • 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...

    : Kenneth Irby
    Kenneth Irby
    Kenneth Irby is an American poet. He won a 2010 Shelley Memorial Award.He is sometimes associated with the Black Mountain poets, especially with Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, and Ed Dorn....

     / Eileen Myles
    Eileen Myles
    Eileen Myles is an American poet who has also worked in fiction, non-fiction, and theater.She won a 2010 Shelley Memorial Award.-Early life and career:...

      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,...

    : Marlene Rosen Fine Judge: Marie Ponsot
    Marie Ponsot
    Marie Ponsot, née Birmingham is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.-Life:Ponsot was born in Brooklyn, New York, but along with her brother grew up in Jamaica, Queens. She was already writing poems as a child, some of which were published in the Brooklyn Daily...

  • Lyric Poetry Award: Ira Sadoff
    Ira Sadoff
    Ira Sadoff is an award winning and widely anthologized poet, critic, novelist and short story writer.-Life:Sadoff was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He earned a B.A. from Cornell University in industrial and labor relations and an M.F.A. from the University of...

      Judge: Megan O'Rourke
  • Lucille Medwick Memorial Award: Sandra Stone Judge: Juan Felipe Herrera
    Juan Felipe Herrera
    Juan Felipe Herrera is a poet, performer, writer, cartoonist, teacher, and activist.The only son of María de la Luz Quintana and Felipe Emilio Herrera, the three were campesinos living from crop to crop, and from tractor to trailer to tents on the roads of the San Joaquín Valley, Southern...

    ; finalist:
  • Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award: Rebecca Morgan Frank Judge: 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....

    ; finalists:
  • Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: Liya Person-Rechtman Judge: 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....

    ; finalists:
  • George Bogin Memorial Award: Sawnie Morris Judge:Hettie Jones
    Hettie Jones
    Hettie Jones is best known as the former wife of Amiri Baraka, known as LeRoi Jones at the time of their marriage, but is also a writer herself. They have two children, Kellie and Lisa Jones....

  • Robert H. Winner Memorial Award: Leslie Williams Judge: David St. John
    David St. John
    -Biography:Born in Fresno, California, he was educated at California State University, Fresno, where he studied with poet Philip Levine, and at the University of Iowa, receiving an M.F.A. in 1974...

     ; finalists:
  • Cecil Hemley Memorial Award: Karla Kelsey Judge: Forrest Gander
    Forrest Gander
    Forrest Gander is an American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and translator.Born in the Mojave Desert, he was raised in Virginia where he attended The College of William and Mary, majoring in geology, a subject referenced frequently in both his poems and essays. He received an M.A...

  • 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"....

    : Scott Coffel Judge: Edward Hirsch
    Edward Hirsch
    Edward Hirsch is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published eight books of poems, including The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems , which brings together thirty-five years of work. He is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial...

  • 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....

    : 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...

      Judge: Lynn Emanuel
    Lynn Emanuel
    Lynn Collins Emanuel is an American poet. Some of her poetry collections include Then, Suddenly— and Noose and Hook ....

    ; finalists:

From the Poetry Society of Virginia Student Poetry Contest

2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Poetry Society Prize
  • 1st place Catherine Ray, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “Where Poems Hide For Me”
  • 2nd place Sophia Rose Carbonneau, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “Alter Ego”
  • 3rd place Abbie Hinchman, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “What’s in My Journal”
  • 1st Honorable Mention Abbey Hutchins, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “Wabanaki”
  • 2nd Honorable Mention Hari Srinivasan, Cupertino, CA for the poem “Non-Entity”
  • 3rd Honorable Mention Sophie Bell, Pound Ridge, NY for the poem “The Calming Book”


2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Jenkins Prize
  • 1st place Edyt Dickstein, Livingston, NJ for the poem "Promises"


2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Virginia Student Prize
  • 1st place Lauren Rae (Wren) Brown, Springfield, VA for the poem “Truly (Louis XVI’s monologue)”
  • 2nd place Meredith Makhoul, Richmond VA for the poem “Intersection of Patterson and Chopt”
  • 3rd place Taylor Knight, Richmond, VA for the poem “Father”
  • 1st Honorable Mention Audrey Crothers, Virginia Beach, VA for the poem “Odysseus Returns”
  • 2nd Honorable Mention James Ruml, Richmond, VA for the poem “I Wanted”
  • 3rd Honorable Mention Hunter Johnson, Richmond, VA for the poem “English Class”


2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-8 Category – Undergraduate College
  • 1st place Chelsea Henderson, Charlottesville, VA for the poem “Indignities”
  • 2nd place Stephanie Wang, Roslyn, NY for the poem “He Wrote My Name In Snow”
  • 3rd place Audrey Walls, Richmond, VA for the poem “My Sister, January 1989”
  • 1st Honoralbe Mention Liam Kane-Grade, Prairie du Sac, WI for the poem “Ants in the Rain”
  • 2nd Honorable Mention Nathan W. Friedman, Richmond, VA for the poem, “Re-enactors”


2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-5 Category – Grades 9 & 10
  • 1st place Amber Brown, Oak Park, IL for the poem “Moon”
  • 2nd place Alexis Mia Phillips, Oak Park IL for the poem “Case# 07CR0304”
  • 3rd place Damiano R. Girona, Newport News, VA for the poem “Natural Love”


2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-4 Category – Grades 7 & 8
  • 1st place Maria Abrams, Bedford, NY for the poem “Sentences”
  • 2nd place Domonique, Hampton, VA for the poem “Just Because”
  • 3rd place Heidi Ziegra, Edgecomb, ME for the poem “Blue Jay, Black Cat”
  • 1st Honorable Mention Corey Albright, Bedford NY, for the poem “The Bus”
  • 2nd Honorable Mention Abby Williams, Richmond, VA for the poem “Devotion”
  • 3rd Honorable Mention Abbey Hutchins for the poem “Together”

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  • January 1 – Bingo Gazingo
    Bingo Gazingo
    Murray Wachs, better known as Bingo Gazingo , was an elderly poet and former postal worker from New York City. Two versions, each also titled Bingo Gazingo, have been released of the only single-artist album ever released by WFMU -- the first on cassette, the second on CD...

    , 85, American performance poet
    Performance poetry
    Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience. During the 1980s, the term came into popular usage to describe poetry written or composed for performance rather than print distribution.-History:...

    , struck by car
  • January 8 – Slavka Maneva
    Slavka Maneva
    Slavka Maneva was a Macedonian writer and poet. She was born and died in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. She finished her literature studies at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Skopje, and has worked as a professor of Macedonian language and literature, now publishing children's books...

    , 75, Macedonian
    Macedonian language
    Macedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...

     writer and poet
  • January 11 – Fina de Calderón
    Fina de Calderón
    Fina de Calderón was a Spanish writer, poet, songwriter, and musician. Her song " Caracola " was the Spanish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964, performed by Los TNT.-Life:...

    , 82, 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....

  • January 14 – P. K. Page
    P. K. Page
    Patricia Kathleen Page, CC, OBC, FRSC , commonly known as P. K. Page, was a Canadian poet. She was the author of over 30 published books: of poetry, fiction, travel diaries, essays, children's books, and an autobiography.By special resolution of the United Nations, in 2001 Page's poem "Planet...

    , 93 (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:...

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

     poet
  • January 20:
    • Taner Baybars, 73, Cypriot-born 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 painter
    • Avrom Sutzkever, 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...

      ), Israeli, Yiddish-language poet
  • February 6 – Robert Dana
    Robert Dana
    -External links:Links to poems*, poetry by Robert Dana including "Heat", "A Short History of the Middle West", and "Beach Attitudes" on The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor*, poetry by Robert Dana including the poem "Rapture" on Anhinga Press....

    , 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...

    ), American poet, was the poet laureate for the State of Iowa
    Iowa
    Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...

     from 2004–2008, pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...

    .
  • February 13 – Lucille Clifton
    Lucille Clifton
    Lucille Clifton was an American writer and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979–1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland...

    , 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;...

    ), American poet and former 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 Maryland
    Maryland
    Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

     (1974–1985).
  • March 12 – Todd Moore, 72 (born 1937
    1937 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Iowa Writers' Workshop founded by Paul Engle at the University of Iowa...

    ), American poet
  • March 14 – Vinda Karandikar
    Vinda Karandikar
    Govind Vināyak Karandikar , better known as Vindā Karandikar , was a well-known Marathi poet and writer. He was also an essayist, literary critic, and a translator....

    , 91, (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...

    ), 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...

    , Marathi
    Marathi poetry
    -Earliest Prominent Marathi Poetry:The two poets, Namadev and Dnyaneshwar , wrote the earliest significant poetry in Marathi. They were respectively born in 1270 and 1275 CE in Maharashtra, India, and both wrote religious poetry. A little over 400 verses in the so-called “abhang” form are...

    -language poet and writer, after short illness. http://www.ptinews.com/news/563689_Marathi-writer-Karandikar-passes-away
  • March 20 – Ai
    Ai (poet)
    Florence Anthony was a National Book Award winning American poet and educator who legally changed her name to Ai Ogawa...

    , 62, (born 1947
    1947 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time....

    ), an American poet whose book Vice (1999) won the National Book Award for Poetry
    National Book Award for Poetry
    The National Book Award for Poetry has been given since 1950 and is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens...

    . Born Florence Anthony, she legally changed her name to Ai.
  • April 2 – Carolyn M. Rodgers
    Carolyn Rodgers
    Carolyn Marie Rodgers was a Chicago-based American poet and a founder of one of America’s oldest and largest black presses, Third World Press...

    , 69, (born 1940
    1940 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* English poet and writer Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice...

    ), was an American poet based in Chicago, participated in Gwendolyn Brooks
    Gwendolyn Brooks
    Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.-Biography:...

    's Writers Workshops and gained prominence as part of the Black Arts Movement
    Black Arts Movement
    The Black Arts Movement or BAM is the artistic branch of the Black Power movement. It was started in Harlem by writer and activist Amiri Baraka...

    .
  • April 5 – William Neill, 88, (born 1922
    1922 in poetry
    — Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry established...

    ), Scottish poet.
  • April 23 – 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...

    , 81, (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...

    ), was an Australian-born British 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...

    . Associated with referred to in Britain as The Group
    The Group (literature)
    The Group was an informal group of poets who met in London from the mid 1950s to the mid 1960s. As a poetic movement in Great Britain it is often seen as a being the successor to The Movement.-Cambridge:...

    , he was also recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia.
  • May 6 – Hoàng Cầm, 88 (born 1922
    1922 in poetry
    — Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry established...

    ), Vietnamese
    Vietnamese literature
    Vietnamese literature is literature, both oral and written, created largely by Vietnamese-speaking people, although Francophone Vietnamese and English-speaking Vietnamese authors in Australia and the United States are counted by many critics as part of the national tradition...

     poet and playwright
  • May 7 – Rane Arroyo
    Rane Arroyo
    Rane Ramón Arroyo was an American poet, playwright, and scholar of Puerto Rican descent who wrote numerous books and received many literary awards. He was a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Toledo in Ohio. His work deals extensively with issues of immigration, Latino...

    , 55, (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...

    ), American poet and playwright.
  • May 10 – David Chaloner
    David Chaloner
    David Chaloner was an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival, and a prominent British designer.-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...

    ), 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...

     designer (of interior public spaces) and poet
  • May 17:
    • Mukhran Machavariani
      Mukhran Machavariani
      Mukhran Machavariani was a Georgian poet, a member of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia from 1990 until 1992, and a recipient of the Shota Rustaveli State Prize of Georgia. From 1988 until 1990 he was the Chairman of the Union of Georgian Writers....

       , 81 (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...

      ), Georgian poet, died while delivering a speech on the stage of the Rustaveli Theatre on the occasion of the 85th birthday of a fellow poet, Pridon Khalvashi
    • Judson Crews
      Judson Crews
      Judson Crews was an American poet, bookseller and small press publisher.Crews was born and raised in Waco, Texas. He first opened his Motive Bookshop and issued his first Motive Press publications in Waco. In 1947 he moved both concerns to Taos, New Mexico and married Taos photographer Mildred...

      , 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...

      ), American poet, small press publisher, and bookseller.

  • May 18:
    • Edoardo Sanguineti
      Edoardo Sanguineti
      Edoardo Sanguineti was an Italian writer who was born in Genoa.-Biography:During the 1960s he was a leader of the neo avant-garde Gruppo 63 movement, founded in 1963 at Solunto....

      , 79, (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, ....

      ), 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....

       poet, playwright, critic and winner of the Bagutta Prize
      Bagutta Prize
      The Bagutta Prize is an Italian literary prize.It originated in Milan's Bagutta Ristorante. The writer Riccardo Bacchelli discovered the restaurant and soon he had numerous friends who would dine together and discuss books. On 11 November 1927 they decided to create a literary prize and named it...

      .
    • Peter Seaton
      Peter Seaton
      Peter Seaton was a U.S. poet associated with the first wave of Language poetry in the 1970s. During the opening and middle years of Language poetry many of his long prose poems were published, widely read and influential...

      , 67, (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....

      ), American poet associated with the Language poetry movement, of an apparent heart attack.
  • May 20 – Alberto Valcárcel Acuña, 65, Peruvian
    Peruvian literature
    The term Peruvian literature not only refers to literature produced in the independent Republic of Peru, but also to literature produced in the Viceroyalty of Peru during the country's colonial period, and to oral artistic forms created by diverse ethnic groups that existed in the area during the...

     In a tribute to Valcarcel organized by Argentine poet Gabriel Impaglione, 30 poets recited free-verse poems on May 31.
  • May 21 – Driek van Wissen
    Driek van Wissen
    Driek van Wissen was a Dutch poet. He was born in Groningen. On January 26, 2005 he was chosen as the Dichter des Vaderlands , following Gerrit Komrij. In 1987 the Dutch literary magazine De Tweede Ronde honored him by awarding him the Kees-Stip Prize for his career work and use of light verse...

    , 66, Dutch poet, intracranial hemorrhage
  • May 22 – Veturi Sundararama Murthy , 74, Telugu
    Telugu literature
    The Telugu literature or Telugu Sahityam is one of the most precious possessions of the literary products of India. Telugu literature is rich reserve of poems, stories, dramas and puranas. It flowered in the early 16th century under the Vijayanagar empire, of which Telugu was one of the court...

    -language 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...

     poet, journalist, writer and lyricist in the Indian cinema, cardiac arrest.
  • May 28 – Leslie Scalapino
    Leslie Scalapino
    Leslie Scalapino was a United States poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets. A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of...

    , 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...

    ), American poet, playwright
    Playwright
    A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

    , and editor
    Editor
    The term editor may refer to:As a person who does editing:* Editor in chief, having final responsibility for a publication's operations and policies* Copy editing, making formatting changes and other improvements to text...

    , winner of the American Book Award
    American Book Award
    The American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation. It seeks to recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre...

    .
  • May 30 – Peter Orlovsky
    Peter Orlovsky
    Peter Anton Orlovsky was an American poet.-Life and work:Orlovsky was born in the Lower East Side of New York City, the son of Katherine and Oleg Orlovsky, a Russian immigrant. He was raised in poverty and was forced to drop out of Newtown High School in his senior year so he could support his...

    , 76, (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 lifelong companion of Beat Generation
    Beat generation
    The Beat Generation refers to a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired...

     poet Allen Ginsberg
    Allen Ginsberg
    Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression...

    .
  • June 1 – Andrei Voznesensky, 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...

    ), Russian poet
  • June 7:
    • José Albi
      José Albi
      José Albi Fita was a Spanish poet, literary critic, and translator. He was the honorary president of the Asociación Valenciana de Escritores y Críticos Literarios...

      , 88 (born 1922
      1922 in poetry
      — Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry established...

      ), 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....

       poet, literary critic and translator
    • Ndoc Gjetja
      Ndoc Gjetja
      Ndoc Gjetja was an Albanian poet. He died after a long illness.-External links:*...

      , 66 (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...

      ), Albanian poet and magazine editor, after long illness

  • June 16 – Allen Hoey
    Allen Hoey
    Allen Hoey was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic who received numerous honors during his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his 2008 collection of poems Country Music.-Life:...

    , 57 (born 1952
    1952 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* November — The Group British poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s began at Downing College, Cambridge University, Philip Hobsbaum along with two friends — Tony Davis and Neil Morris...

    ), American poet who received a Pulitzer prize nomination for his 2008 collection Country Music,, of a heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    .
  • June 18 – Jose Saramago
    José Saramago
    José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor. Harold Bloom has described Saramago as "a...

    , 87 (born 1922
    1922 in poetry
    — Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry established...

    ), 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...

     novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, communist political commentator and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for literature
  • July 2 – Tommy Tabermann
    Tommy Tabermann
    Tommy Tabermann was a Finnish contemporary poet and politician, radio personality and journalist...

    , 62 (born 1947
    1947 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time....

    ), Finnish
    Finnish poetry
    Finnish poetry is the poetry of the Finnish language. It has its roots in the early folk music of the area, and still has a thriving presence today.The most well-known opus of Finnish poetry is the mythical epic Kalevala, compiled by Elias Lönnrot....

     poet and politician
  • July 3 – Roberto Piva
    Roberto Piva
    Roberto Piva was a Brazilian poet and writer. He died from complications from Parkinson's disease.-Bibliography:Booklet* Ode a Fernando Pessoa, 1961Individual works...

    , 72 (born 1937
    1937 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Iowa Writers' Workshop founded by Paul Engle at the University of Iowa...

    ), Brazilian poet and writer
  • July 5 – Pete Morgan
    Pete Morgan
    Colin Peter Morgan was a British poet, lyricist and television documentary author and presenter.Morgan's career as a poet began in the mid-1950s when he was 16 and living alone in London. He entered the British Army and rose to the rank of infantry platoon commander while serving in West Germany...

    , 71 (born 1939
    1939 in poetry
    — W. H. Auden, from "September 1, 1939"Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Last issue of The Criterion is published....

    ), 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...

  • July 12 – Tuli Kupferberg
    Tuli Kupferberg
    Naphtali "Tuli" Kupferberg was an American counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs.-Biography:...

    , 86, American Beat poet and singer
  • August 3 – Marilyn Buck
    Marilyn Buck
    Marilyn Jean Buck was an American Marxist revolutionary, convict, and feminist poet, who was imprisoned for her participation in the 1979 prison escape of Assata Shakur, the 1981 Brinks robbery and the 1983 U.S. Senate bombing...

    , 62 (born 1947
    1947 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time....

    ), radical American left-wing terrorist and poet
  • August 15 – Ghazi Abdul Rahman Algosaibi, 70, (born 1940
    1940 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* English poet and writer Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice...

    ), Saudi Arabian
    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...

     statesman, writer, novelist and poet
  • August 16 – Narayan Gangaram Surve (Devanagari
    Devanagari
    Devanagari |deva]]" and "nāgarī" ), also called Nagari , is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal...

    : नारायण गंगाराम सुर्वे), 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...

    ), 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...

    , Marathi
    Marathi poetry
    -Earliest Prominent Marathi Poetry:The two poets, Namadev and Dnyaneshwar , wrote the earliest significant poetry in Marathi. They were respectively born in 1270 and 1275 CE in Maharashtra, India, and both wrote religious poetry. A little over 400 verses in the so-called “abhang” form are...

    -language poet
  • August 17:
    • Ludvik Kundera
      Ludvík Kundera
      Ludvík Kundera was a Czech writer, translator, poet, playwright, editor and literary historian. He was a notable exponent of the Czech avant-garde literature and a prolific translator of German authors. In 2007, he received the Medal of Merit for service to the Republic...

      , 90 (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:...

      ), Czech writer, translator, poet, playwright, editor and literary historian; a cousin of Milan Kundera
      Milan Kundera
      Milan Kundera , born 1 April 1929, is a writer of Czech origin who has lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Joke. Kundera has written in...

    • Edwin Morgan, 90 (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:...

      ), Scottish poet in English and Scots, appointed first "Scottish Makar" (national poet of Scotland) in 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...

      , an honor which he held the rest of his life
  • August 27:
    • George Hitchcock
      George Hitchcock (poet)
      George Parks Hitchcock was an American actor, poet, playwright, teacher, labor activist, publisher, and painter. He is best known for creating Kayak, a poetry magazine that he published as a one-man operation from 1964 to 1984...

      , 96 (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
      United States
      The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

       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...

      ; editor
      Editor
      The term editor may refer to:As a person who does editing:* Editor in chief, having final responsibility for a publication's operations and policies* Copy editing, making formatting changes and other improvements to text...

       and publisher of Kayak magazine and books.
    • Ravindra Kelekar
      Ravindra Kelekar
      Ravindra Kelekar was a noted Indian author who wrote primarily in the Konkani language, though he also wrote in Marathi and Hindi. A Gandhian activist, freedom fighter and a pioneer in the modern Konkani movement, he is a well known Konkani scholar, linguist, and creative thinker...

      , 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....

      ), India
      India
      India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

      n author
      Author
      An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

      , 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 activist, after short illness.
  • September 3:
    • Micky Burn
      Micky Burn
      Michael Clive "Micky" Burn, MC was an English journalist, commando, writer and poet.-Early life:By his own admission, in earlier life he "had been drawn to three autocracies: German National Socialism, Communism, and the Roman Catholic Church." Burn's father was secretary and solicitor to the...

      , 97 (born 1912
      1912 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore takes a sheaf of his translated works to England, where they impress William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Bridges, Ernest Rhys, Thomas Sturge Moore, and others...

      ), 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...

       writer, journalist, World War II commando and prize-winning poet
    • Carmelo Arden Quin
      Carmelo Arden Quin
      The artist Carmelo Arden Quin was born in Rivera, Uruguay. Before he moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina during the early 1940s, he lived in Uruguay and Brazil. In 1946 Arden moved to Paris and returned to Argentina during the 1950s. He has been a poet, political writer, painter, sculptor and...

      , 97 (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...

      ), Uruguayan poet, political writer, painter, sculptor and co-founder of the international artistic movement “Madi”
  • September 27:
    • Michael Gizzi
      Michael Gizzi
      Michael Gizzi was an American poet.-Life:Michael Gizzi was born in Schenectady, New York in 1949 to Carolyn and Anthony Gizzi. He had two brothers, Peter and Thomas Gizzi...

      , 61 (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
      United States
      The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

       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 editor
      Editor
      The term editor may refer to:As a person who does editing:* Editor in chief, having final responsibility for a publication's operations and policies* Copy editing, making formatting changes and other improvements to text...

      , author of more than 10 books of poetry
    • Carmelo Arden Quin
      Carmelo Arden Quin
      The artist Carmelo Arden Quin was born in Rivera, Uruguay. Before he moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina during the early 1940s, he lived in Uruguay and Brazil. In 1946 Arden moved to Paris and returned to Argentina during the 1950s. He has been a poet, political writer, painter, sculptor and...

      , 97 (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...

      ), Uruguayan poet, painter and sculptor
  • October 21:
    • A. Ayyappan
      A. Ayyappan
      A. Ayyappan was a Malayalam poet in the modernist period. Born in a wealthy goldsmith's family, in Nemom, Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala, he became a non-conformist member of reading Malayali families. He had a very tragic childhood. His father, Arumukham, died when he was only one year old, perhaps...

      , 61 (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:...

      ), Indian poet
    • Kjell Landmark
      Kjell Landmark
      Kjell Landmark was a Norwegian poet and politician, born in Arendal. He was one of the founders of the party Sosialistisk Folkeparti, today's Socialist Left. He was central in the struggle against Norwegian membership of the European Economic Community, which ended in a 1972 referendum rejecting...

      , 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, ....

      ), Norwegian poet and politician
  • October 22 – Alí Chumacero
    Ali Chumacero
    Alí Chumacero Lora was a Mexican poet.-Career:Chumacero was born in Acaponeta, Nayarit. He was the joint editor of Tierra Nueva magazine from 1940-42. He edited Letras de México and El Hijo Pródigo....

    , 92 (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...

    ), Mexican writer and poet
  • November 4:
    • Viola Fischerová
      Viola Fischerová
      Viola Fischerová was a Czech poet, and translator.-Life:She was daughter of Joseph Louis Fischer; her half sister is Sylviá Fischerová.She studied Slavic studies at universities in Brno and Prague....

      , 75 (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...

      ), Czech poet
    • Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta
      Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta
      Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta was a poet, editor, author, and teacher. One of the country's most respected writers, Dimalanta published several books of poetry, criticism, drama, and prose and edited various literary anthologies. In 1999, she received Southeast Asia's highest literary honor, the S.E.A...

      , 76 (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...

      ), Filipino poet
  • November 5 – Adrian Păunescu
    Adrian Paunescu
    Adrian Păunescu was a Romanian poet, journalist, and politician. Though criticised for praising dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, Păunescu was called "Romania's most famous poet" in a Associated Press story, quoted by the New York Times.-Life:Born in Copăceni, Bălţi County, in what is now the Republic...

    , 67 (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...

    ), Romanian author, poet and politician.
  • November 9 – Ektor Kaknavatos
    Ektor Kaknavatos
    Ektor Kaknavatos is the pen name of Greek poet and essayist Yorgis Kontoyorgis , who was born in Peireus, Greece. Between 1937 and 1941 he studied mathematics in Athens...

    , 90 (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:...

    ), Greek poet, pen name
    Pen name
    A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...

     of Yorgis Kontoyorgis.
  • November 11 – Carlos Edmundo de Ory
    Carlos Edmundo de Ory
    Carlos Edmundo de Ory was born in the Spanish city of Cadiz, was a Spanish avant-garde poet.Ory was fundamental in modernizing post-Spanish Civil War poetry by creating work that engaged major twentieth-century European avant-gardes such as Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism...

    , 87 (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:...

    ), Spanish poet, leukemia.
  • November 29 – Bella Akhmadulina, 73, (born 1937
    1937 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Iowa Writers' Workshop founded by Paul Engle at the University of Iowa...

    ), Soviet
    Soviet Union
    The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

     and Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n 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...

    , short story
    Short story
    A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

     writer and translator.
  • December 23 – Janine Pommy Vega
    Janine Pommy Vega
    Janine Pommy Vega was an American poet associated with the Beats.Vega grew up in Union City, New Jersey. At the age of sixteen, inspired by Jack Kerouac's On the Road, she travelled to Manhattan to become involved in the Beat scene there.In 1962, Vega moved to Europe with her husband, painter...

    , 68, (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....

    ) American Beat Generation
    Beat generation
    The Beat Generation refers to a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired...

     poet.

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