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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published in English 2.1 Australia 2.2 Canada 2.3 New Zealand 2.3.1 Anthologies in New Zealand 2.4 United Kindgom 2.5 United States 2.5.1 Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States 2.5.2 Anthologies in the United States 2.5.2.1 Poets appearing in The Best American Poetry 2000 3 Works published in other languages 3.1 French language 3.1.1 Canada 3.1.2 France 3.2 Spain 4 Awards and honors 4.1 Australia 4.2 Canada 4.3 New Zealand 4.4 United Kingdom 4.5 United States 5 Deaths 6 References 7 Notes 8 See also

Events

• Griffin Poetry Prize is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English language internationally. This page gives a chronological list of years in poetry (descending order Events January 20 &mdash Miller Williams of Arkansas reads his poem "Of History and Hope" at President Clinton's inauguration Events Samizdat poetry magazine founded in Chicago (it will run until 2004) Events July 1 &mdash Scotland's Parliament opened with the singing of Robert Burns' "A Man's a Man For A'That" instead of "God Save Events Immediately after the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks W Events March 16: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the Events January 29 &mdash Poet Dana Gioia, who had retired early from his career as a corporate executive at General Foods to write full time becomes The year 1997 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1998 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1999 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 2001 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 2002 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 2003 in literature involved some significant events and new books Decades and years Decades and years A century (from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred is One hundred consecutive Years Centuries are numbered ordinally (e The twentieth century of the Common Era began on The 21st century is the current century of the Christian Era or Common Era in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. The 22nd century of the Common Era will span the years 2101&ndash2200 of the Gregorian calendar. See also List of centuries, History This is a list of Decades in history including links to corresponding articles with more information about them This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 The 2010s Decade is a period of 10 years that will begin on January 1, 2010 and will end on December 31, 2019. The 2020s is the 3rd decade of the 21st century of the Anno Domini ( common) era The 2030s will begin on January 1, 2030 and end on December 31, 2039. This page indexes the individual Years pages Twenty-first century Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada 's most generous poetry award.
• February — Janice Mirikitani succeeds Lawrence Ferlinghetti as San Francisco's Poet Laureate
• October 3 — Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" named Britain's favorite children's poem in a BBC poll
• October 3 — Justin Trudeau quotes from Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods" at the funeral of his father, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
• October 4 — National Poetry Day in Great Britain: 300 school children at the Royal Festival Hall along with 4,000 other people nationwide perfor Agbabi's "Word," setting a new Guinness World Record for simultaneous mass performance of a poem
• Spike Milligan made an honorary knight
• In the film Pandaemonium, released this year, the lives of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in particular their collaboration on the "Lyrical Ballads," are discussed. Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling on March 24, 1919) is an American Poet and painter, and the co-founder of Events 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's Edward Lear ( 12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English Artist, Illustrator and Writer known "The Owl and the Pussycat" is a famous nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1871 Events 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's Robert Lee Frost (March 26 1874 &ndash January 29 1963 was an American Poet. Events 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas Royal Festival Hall is a concert dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London, England. Patience Agbabi (born 1965 is a British Poet and Performer with a particular emphasis on the spoken word Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records (and in previous U Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan KBE ( 16 April, 1918 &ndash 27 February 2002) known as Spike Milligan, was an Anglo Pandaemonium is a 2000 Film, directed by Julien Temple, screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 21 October 1772 &ndash 25 July 1834) was an English Poet, Critic and philosopher

Works published in English

Australia

• Les Murray:
  • Learning Human: Selected Poems, Farrar Straus Giroux, also published as Learning Human, New Selected Poems, Carcanet, 2001shortlisted for the 2001 International Griffin Poetry Prize^[1]
  • An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Poems, Brunswick: Gungurru

Canada

• Roo Borson, Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei, ISBN 1-894078-09-8 (by Pain Not Bread) American-Canadian
• George Elliott Clarke, Whylah Falls, Vancouver: Polestar, revised edition of book which originally appeared in 1990, ISBN 1-896095-50-X (revised edition number) Canada
• Don McKay, Another Gravity (Canada)^[2]
• John Pass, Water Stair (ISBN 0-88982-179-8) Canada
• Anne Simpson, Light Falls Through You, winner of the Gerald Lampert Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize) ISBN 0-7710-8077-8, Canada

New Zealand

• Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Poems 1960-2000, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books^[3]
• Nick Ascroft, From the Author Of
• Jenny Bornholdt, These Days
• Glenn Colquhoun, An Explanation of Poetry to My Father
• Paula Green, Chrome
• Murray Edmond, Laminations
• Andrew Johnston, Birds of Europe
• Cilla McQueen, Markings, poetry and drawings, Otago University Press^[4]

Anthologies in New Zealand

• Jenny Bornholdt and Gregory O'Brien, editors, My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems, Random House New Zealand ISBN-10: 0908877811, ISBN-13: 978-0908877812
• Alan Brunton, Murray Edmond, Michele Leggott, editors, Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960-1975, Auckland: Auckland University Press
• Lauris Edmond, editor, New Zealand Love Poems: An Oxford Anthology, posthumous^[5]

United Kindgom

• Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Poems 1960-2000, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books^[3]
• James Fenton: The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures^[6]
• Elaine Feinstein, Gold, Carcanet
• Thom Gunn, Collected Poems
• Glyn Maxwell, The Boys at Twilight: Poems, 1990-1995, Houghton Mifflin (a New York Times "notable book of the year"), Briton and poetry editor of The New Republic living in the United States
• Sulpicia, The Poems of Sulpicia, ancient Roman poet translated by John Heath-Stubbs

United States

• John Ashbery:
  • Your Name Here
  • As Umbrellas Follow Rain
• Bei Dao, Unlock, English translation by Eliot Weinberger & Iona Man-Cheong (New Directions) ISBN 0-8112-1447-8
• Joseph Brodsky: Collected Poems in English, 1972-1999, edited by Ann Kjellberg, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux^[7] Russian-American; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Gwendolyn Brooks, In Montgomery
• Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours, Knopf (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Paul Celan, Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan (Translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov)
• Michael S. Harper, Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected Poems^[8]
• Fanny Howe, Fanny Howe: Selected Poems
• Kenneth Koch, New Addresses: Poems, Knopf (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Stanley Kunitz, The Collected Poems, Norton (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Stanley Lombardo (translator), Odyssey by Homer, Hackett (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Glyn Maxwell, The Boys at Twilight: Poems, 1990-1995, Houghton Mifflin (a New York Times "notable book of the year"), Briton and poetry editor of The New Republic living in the United States
• Constance Merritt, A Protocol for Touch: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, selected by Eleanor Wilner
• W. S. Merwin (translator). Australian literature began soon after the settlement of the country by Europeans Common themes include indigenous and settler identity alienation exile and relationship Leslie Allan Murray, AO (born 17 October 1938) known as Les Murray, is an Australian Poet, anthologist and critic The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada 's most generous poetry award. Chris Keith Wallace-Crabbe (born 6 May 1934) is an Australian Poet and Emeritus Professor in The Australian Centre University of Melbourne Criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes Ruth Elizabeth Borson, who writes under the name Roo Borson (born 20 January 1952 in Berkeley California) is a Canadian Poet Pain Not Bread is a collaborative writing group formed in 1990 by Roo Borson, Kim Maltman, and Andy Patton. The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong Criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes George Elliott Clarke (born February 12 1960) is a Canadian Poet and Playwright. Whylah Falls is a long Narrative poem (or " Verse novel " by George Elliott Clarke, published in book form in 1990 Events Allen Ginsberg crowned "Majelis King" in Prague on May Day Works published in English Australia Criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes Don McKay (born 1942 is an award-winning Canadian Poet, editor, and Educator. Criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes John Pass (born 1947 in Sheffield, England) is a Canadian poet Criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes Anne Allison Simpson (born 1956) is a Canadian Poet and Novelist. The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet 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 Criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes New Zealand claims as its own many writers even those immigrants born overseas like South African-born Robin Hyde, or those emigrants who went into Exile but Fleur Adcock, CNZM, OBE (born February 10 1934 in New Zealand) is a Poet and an editor of English and Northern Irish ancestry who has Events Bob Dylan releases his The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, album with his most influential early songwriting Jennifer Mary Bornholdt (born 1 November 1960) is an award-winning New Zealand poet and anthologist Dr Glenn Colquhoun, born in Papakura Auckland in 1964 is a New Zealand poet Paula Green (born September 18, 1927) is an American advertising executive best known for writing the lyrics to the "Look for the Union Label" song Andrew Johnston (b 1963 is an award-winning New Zealand poet and journalist who works as an editor for the International Herald Tribune in Paris Cilla McQueen (born 1949 in Birmingham England) is a Poet and three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. Jennifer Mary Bornholdt (born 1 November 1960) is an award-winning New Zealand poet and anthologist Michele Leggott, poet and literary scholar was born in Stratford New Zealand, in 1956 Lauris Dorothy Edmond ( April 2, 1924 - January 28, 2000) was a New Zealand poet and writer The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day Fleur Adcock, CNZM, OBE (born February 10 1934 in New Zealand) is a Poet and an editor of English and Northern Irish ancestry who has Events Bob Dylan releases his The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, album with his most influential early songwriting James Fenton (born April 25, 1949, Lincoln England) has been at various times a Journalist, Poet, literary critic Elaine Feinstein is poet novelist short-story writer playwright biographer and translator and was born on 24 October 1930 in Bootle Lancashire Thom Gunn ( 29 August 1929 - 25 April 2004) was an Anglo-American poet Glyn Maxwell (born in 1962 is a British poet Early life Maxwell's parents are Welsh (his mother acted in the premiere of Dylan Thomas 's Under Milk The New Republic ( TNR) is an American Magazine of politics and the arts Sulpicia was the name of two Roman women reputed in antiquity as Poets Sulpicia I The earlier Sulpicia is the only known woman from Ancient John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs OBE ( 9 July 1918 - 26 December[[ 006]] was an English Poet and Translator, known The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is Bei Dao ("Northern Island" is another name for Zhifu Island. Eliot Weinberger (born 6 February 1949) is a contemporary American writer Essayist, editor, and Translator. Joseph Brodsky ( May 24, 1940 — January 28, 1996) born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Иосиф Александрович Бродский This article is about literature from Russia For the song by Maxïmo Park, see Our Earthly Pleasures. The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks ( June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an Pulitzer Prize- winning African-American Poet Anne Carson ( June 21, 1950) is a Canadian Poet, Essayist Translator, and a Professor of Classics Paul Celan (ˈpaʊl tseˈlaːn November 23, 1920 – approximately April 20, 1970) was the most frequently used Pseudonym of Heather McHugh (born 1948 is an American Poet. She was born in San Diego California, but was raised in Virginia. Michael Steven Harper (born March 18, 1938) is an American poet from Brooklyn who has published ten books of poetry Fanny Howe (born 1940 in Boston Massachusetts is an American Poet, Novelist and Short story writer Kenneth Koch ( 27 February 1925 – 6 July 2002) was an American poet playwright and professor active from the 1950s until Stanley Jasspon Kunitz /'kjunɪts/ ( July 29, 1905 – May 14, 2006) was an American Poet who served two years (1974&ndash1976 Stanley F Lombardo (born 1943 is an American Professor of Classics at the University of Kansas. The Odyssey ( Greek: Ὀδύσσεια or Odússeia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. Homer ( Ancient Greek:, Homēros) is a legendary ancient Greek epic Poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Glyn Maxwell (born in 1962 is a British poet Early life Maxwell's parents are Welsh (his mother acted in the premiere of Dylan Thomas 's Under Milk The New Republic ( TNR) is an American Magazine of politics and the arts Constance Merritt is an American Poet. Born in Pine Bluff Arkansas in 1966 and educated at the Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock William Stanley Merwin (born September 30 1927 in New York City) is an American poet Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri, Knopf (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Grazyna Miller, Sull'onda del respiro (On the Wave of Breath)
• Michael O'Brien, Sills: Selected Poems, Zoland
• Mary Oliver, The Leaf and the Cloud (prose poem)
• Grace Paley, Begin Again: Collected Poems
• Michael Palmer, The Promises of Glass
• Carl Phillips, Pastoral^[9]
• Robert Pinsky, Jersey Rain (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Michael Ryan, A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing (essays)
• Gjertrud Schnackenberg:
  • The Throne of Labdacus, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
  • Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992, ISBN 0-374-52754-7
• Derek Walcott, The Prodigal (West Indian)
• Louis Zukofsky, Wesleyan University Press begins publishing The Wesleyan Centennial Edition of the Complete Critical Writings of Louis Zukofsky (posthumous)

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

• John Ashbery, Other Traditions (Harvard University Press), thoughts on six poets (John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John Wheelwright, Laura Riding, and David Schubert); from his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures (criticism) ISBN 9780674003156 ISBN 0674003152
• Helen Vendler, Seamus Heaney, ISBN 0674002059

Anthologies in the United States

• Stephen Berg, David Bonanno, and Arthur Vogelsang, editors, The Body Electric, anthology of poetry published in The American Poetry Review, 1972-1999. The Divine Comedy Grażyna Miller (born January 29, 1957) is a poet born in Poland. Michael O'Brien (b 1939 is an award-winning American poet He began his poetry career as part of the "Eventorium" a relatively obscure group of New York Mary Oliver (b September 10, 1935) is an American Poet. Life Oliver was born to Edward William and Helen M Grace Paley ( December 11 1922 – August 22 2007) was an American Short story writer poet and Political Michael Palmer (born May 11, 1943 in Manhattan, New York is a contemporary American poet and Translator. This page is about Carl Phillips the writer for information about Carl Phillips the programmer visit Carl Phillips (programmer Carl Phillips (born 1959 is an American Robert Pinsky (born October 20 1940) is an American Poet, Essayist, literary critic, and Translator. Michael Ryan (born 1946) has been teaching creative writing and literature at University of California Irvine since 1990 Gjertrud Schnackenberg (born 1953) is an award-winning American Poet. Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a West Indies poet playwright writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English. Louis Zukofsky ( January 23, 1904 – May 12, 1978) was one of the most important second-generation American John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is John Clare ( 13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864) was an English Poet, in his time commonly known as "the Northamptonshire Thomas Lovell Beddoes ( June 30, 1803 – January 26, 1849) was an English Poet and Dramatist. Raymond Roussel ( Paris, January 20, 1877 - Palermo, July 14, 1933) was a French Poet, Novelist The text of this page is transcribed from reference #1 below John Wheelwright (1592&ndash 15 November[[ 679]] was born in Saleby, Lincolnshire, Laura (Riding Jackson ( January 16, 1901 – September 2, 1991) was an American Poet, Critic, Novelist The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard University was established in 1925 as an annual lectureship in "poetry in the broadest sense" and named Helen Hennessy Vendler (born 1933) is a leading American critic of poetry The American Poetry Review (APR is an American Poetry Magazine printed every other month and printed on tabloid-sized newsprint (W. W. Norton & Company), 820 pages

Poets appearing in The Best American Poetry 2000

These 75 poets had poems published in The Best American Poetry 2000, edited by David Lehman, with Rita Dove as guest editor:

Kim Addonizio Pamela Alexander A. R. Ammons Julianna Baggott Erin Belieu Richard Blanco Janet Bowdan Grace Butcher Lucille Clifton Billy Collins Jim Daniels Gregory Djanikian Denise Duhamel Christopher Edgar

Karl Elder Lynn Emanuel B. H. Fairchild Charles Fort Frank X. Gaspar Elton Glaser Ray Gonzalez Jennifer Grotz Thom Gunn Mark Halliday Barbara Hamby Forrest Hamer Brenda Hillman Marsha Janson Mark Jarman

Patricia Spears Jones Rodney Jones Donald Justice Olena Kalytiak Davis David Kirby Carolyn Kizer Lynne Knight Yusef Komunyakaa Thomas Lux Lynne McMahon W. S. Merwin Susan Mitchell Jean Nordhaus Mary Oliver Michael Palmer

Paul Perry Carl Phillips Robert Pinsky Donald Platt Stanley Plumly Lawrence Raab Thomas Rabbitt Mary Jo Salter Rebecca Seiferle Brenda Shaughnessy Laurie Sheck Reginald Shepherd Rudy Delgado Jr. The Best American Poetry 2000 (ISBN 0-743-20033-0 a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor The Best American Poetry 2000 (ISBN 0-743-20033-0 a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor David Lehman (born 1948 in New York City is the series editor for The Best American Poetry series and a Poet. Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952 in Akron, Ohio, USA is an American Poet and Author. Kim Addonizio (born July 31, 1954) is an award-winning American poet and novelist A R Ammons, or Archie Randolph Ammons, ( February 18, 1926 &ndash February 25, 2001) was an award-winning major American Lucille Clifton (born June 27, 1936) is an American Poet, Writer, and educator from New York. William A ("Billy" Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet. James Raymond Daniels (b 1956 in Warren, Michigan) is an American Poet and Writer. Denise Duhamel is an American poet. She was born in Woonsocket, RI, in 1961 Lynn Collins Emanuel (b 14 March 1949 is an American Poet who won the 1992 National Poetry Series Open Competition for The Dig. BH Fairchild is an award-winning American poet and college professor Charles Hoy Fort ( 6 August, 1874 &ndash 3 May, 1932) was a Dutch-American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena Frank Xavier Gaspar (born 1946 is an American Poet and Novelist. Ramón Gonzalez is a Professional wrestler who has wrestled in Mexico, Japan, as well as with the XWF in the United States, and Jennifer Grotz (born 1971 is an American poet and translator who teaches English and creative writing at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers and at Thom Gunn ( 29 August 1929 - 25 April 2004) was an Anglo-American poet Mark Halliday (born 1949 is a noted American poet Life Halliday earned his B Barbara Hamby (born 1952 is an American Poet, fiction writer editor and critic Mark Jarman (born June 5 1952) is an American poet and critic often identified with the New Narrative branch of the New Formalism; he was co-editor with Rodney Jones is an American Poet and professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Donald Justice (born in Miami Florida, August 12, 1925 - died in Iowa City Iowa, August 6, 2004) was an American Olena Kalytiak Davis is an American poet Her first book in 1997 And Her Soul Out Of Nothing was published by the University of Wisconsin Press and received plaudits David Kirby is the name of several persons David Kirby (journalist, American journalist David Kirby (poet (born 1944 American poet Carolyn Ashley Kizer (born December 10 1925) is a Pulitzer Prize -winning American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism Yusef Komunyakaa (b 1947-04-29) is an American poet who currently teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers Thomas Lux (born December 10, 1946) is an American Poet. Biography Thomas Lux was born in Northampton Massachusetts William Stanley Merwin (born September 30 1927 in New York City) is an American poet Susan Mitchell (born in 1944 is an American Poet who wrote the poetry collections Rapture and Erotikon. Mary Oliver (b September 10, 1935) is an American Poet. Life Oliver was born to Edward William and Helen M Michael Palmer (born May 11, 1943 in Manhattan, New York is a contemporary American poet and Translator. Paul Perry is an Australian Racehorse trainer based in Broadmeadow New South Wales. This page is about Carl Phillips the writer for information about Carl Phillips the programmer visit Carl Phillips (programmer Carl Phillips (born 1959 is an American Robert Pinsky (born October 20 1940) is an American Poet, Essayist, literary critic, and Translator. Stanley Plumly (born 1939 is an American poet who is professor of English and co-director of University of Maryland College Park 's creative writing program Mary Cathy Song Gary Soto

Gabriel Spera A. E. Stallings Susan Stewart Adrienne Su Pamela Sutton Dorothea Tanning Natasha Trethewey Quincy Troupe Reetika Vazirani Paul Violi Derek Walcott Richard Wilbur Susan Wood John Yau Dean Young

Works published in other languages

French language

Canada

• Pierre Labrie, À tout hasard

France

• Jean-Claude Pinson, Fado (avec fantomes et flacons)
• Jacqueline Risset, Les instants
• Andre du Bouchet, L'emportement du muet

Spain

• Matilde Camus, Prisma de emociones ("Prism of emotions")

Awards and honors

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: John Millett, Iceman
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, Mines
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Lucy Dougan, Memory Shell

Canada

• Gerald Lampert Award
• Archibald Lampman Award
• Atlantic Poetry Prize
• See 2000 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Cathy Song (born 1955) is a poet born and raised in Hawaii. She is the 1982 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for her collection Picture Gary Soto (born April 1952) is an American Author and Poet. Biography Soto was born and raised in Fresno, California Alicia Elsbeth Stallings (born 1968) is an American Poet. She coordinates the poetry workshopfor the Athens Centre which takes place on Spetses Susan Stewart may be Susan McKinney Stewart (1847-1918 African-American physician Susan Stewart (poet (born 1952 American poet and critic Dorothea Tanning (born August 25 1910) is an American painter printmaker sculptor and writer Natasha Trethewey (born 1966) is an American poet, who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr born July 22, 1939, in St Louis, Missouri, is a Poet, editor (recently the Styx River Reetika Vazirani (1962-2003 was an American poet On July 16, 2003, while housesitting in Washington D Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a West Indies poet playwright writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English. Richard Purdy Wilbur (born March 1, 1921) is an American Poet. John Yau (born 1950) is an American poet and Critic who lives in New York City. Dean Young (1955- is a contemporary American poet in the poetic lineage of John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch. Criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes Pierre Labrie ( 23 April, 1972 —) is a Québécois Poet, born at Mont-Joli Quebec. French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other Languages of André du Bouchet ( April 7 1924 – April 19 2001) was a French Poet. Spanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Matilde Camus (born 26 September, 1919 in Santander) is a Spanish Poet who has written research works Australian literature began soon after the settlement of the country by Europeans Common themes include indigenous and settler identity alienation exile and relationship 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 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 Jennifer Maiden (born 7 April 1949) is a contemporary Australian Poet. The Mary Gilmore Prize for the best first book of poetry is given to a first book of poetry from the previous two years prior to 1998 it was awarded annually Canadian poetry is Poetry written in Canada, by Canadians There are three distinct branches of Canadian poetry French-Canadian poetry (mostly written The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet The Archibald Lampman Award is an annual Canadian Literary award, created by Blaine Marchand and for the last few years presented by the literary magazine 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 The 2000 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented by Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, and Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman of
• Pat Lowther Award
• Prix Alain-Grandbois
• Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award

New Zealand

• Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
• Montana New Zealand Book Awards (no poetry winner this year):
  • First-book award for poetry: Glenn Colquhoun, The Art of Walking Upright, Steele Roberts
  • A. 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 The Prix Alain-Grandbois or Alain Grandbois Prize is awarded each year to an author for a book of Poetry. The Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award, established in 1996, was an annual prize given by the Canadian Poetry Association. New Zealand claims as its own many writers even those immigrants born overseas like South African-born Robin Hyde, or those emigrants who went into Exile but The Montana New Zealand Book Awards are a series of literary awards to works of New Zealand citizens Dr Glenn Colquhoun, born in Papakura Auckland in 1964 is a New Zealand poet W. Reed Lifetime Achievement Award: Allen Curnow

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Alistair Elliot, Michael Hamburger, Adrian Henri, Carole Satyamurti
• Eric Gregory Award: Eleanor Margolies, Antony Rowland, Antony Dunn, Karen Goodwin, Clare Pollard
• Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Michael Donaghy, Conjure (Picador)
• Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Andrew Waterhouse, In (The Rialto)
• Samuel Johnson Prize: David Cairns, Berlioz: Volume 2
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Edwin Morgan
• T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Michael Longley, The Weather in Japan
• Whitbread Award for poetry: John Burnside, The Asylum Dance

United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Quan Barry for Asylum
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Eleanor Ross Taylor
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Corey Marks, "Renunciation", and (separately) Christopher Patton, "Broken Ground"
• Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, David Ferry for Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations
• Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Rudy Delgado Jr. Thomas Allen Munro Curnow ONZ CBE ( June 17, 1911 – September 23, 2001) was a New Zealand Poet and The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day The Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for Poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Michael Hamburger OBE ( 22 March 1924 – 7 June 2007) was a noted British translator, Poet, Adrian Henri ( 10 April 1932 The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission Antony Dunn is an English poet and dramatist He was born in London in 1973 The Forward Poetry Prizes were created in 1991 The aim of the prizes is to extend the audience for contemporary poetry Michael Donaghy ( May 24 1954 &ndash September 16 2004) was a Poet and Musician, born in New York. The Forward Poetry Prizes were created in 1991 The aim of the prizes is to extend the audience for contemporary poetry The Samuel Johnson Prize is one of the world's most prestigious awards for Non-fiction writing David Cairns is a British journalist non-fiction writer and musician The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry is awarded for a book of verse published by someone from the United Kingdom or a Commonwealth realm Edwin George Morgan OBE (born April 27, 1920) is a Scottish poet and translator who is associated with the Scottish Renaissance 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" Michael Longley (born 27 July, 1939 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish Poet. The Costa Book Awards are among the United Kingdom 's most prestigious literary awards For the American gay activist and inventor (1916-2008 see John Burnside (inventor. The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major American Literary award for a first full-length book of Poetry in the English language The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize administered by the Sewanee Review and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has Eleanor Ross Taylor is an American Poet. She was born in North Carolina in 1920 and graduated from Woman's College now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro The Bernard F Conners Prize for Poetry is given by the Paris Review "for the finest poem over 200 lines published in The Paris Review in a given year" according to Christopher David Patton (born March 15, 1971 in Houston Texas) is an American actor who been acting since early childhood and voice acting for The Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry is awarded biennially by the Library of Congress on behalf of the nation in recognition for the most distinguished David Ferry may refer to David Ferry (actor, Canadian-born actor David Ferry (poet, American poet and translator;See The Brittingham Prize in Poetry is a major United States Literary award for a book of Poetry chosen from an open competition , A Path Between Houses
• Frost Medal: Anthony Hecht
• National Book Award for poetry: Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
• Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Stanley Kunitz appointed
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: C.K. Williams, Repair
• Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: T. The Frost Medal is an award of the Poetry Society of America for lifetime achievement Anthony Evan Hecht, ( January 16 1923 &ndash October 20 2004) was an American Poet. The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Lucille Clifton (born June 27, 1936) is an American Poet, Writer, and educator from New York. The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress is appointed by the United States Librarian of Congress and earns a stipend of $35000 a year Stanley Jasspon Kunitz /'kjunɪts/ ( July 29, 1905 – May 14, 2006) was an American Poet who served two years (1974&ndash1976 The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author Charles Kenneth Williams (b November 4 1936, Newark New Jersey) is an American poet The Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award is awarded to scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification V. F. Brogan
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Carl Dennis
• Wallace Stevens Award: Frank Bidart
• William Carlos Williams Award: Kathleen Peirce, The Oval Hour (Iowa Poetry Prize), Judge: Jean Valentine
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Lyn Hejinian

Deaths

• January 2 – Roland Flint, United States, at 66, of cancer
• April 21 – Al Purdy, Canada, at 81, of lung cancer
• April 21 – Douglas Oliver, United Kingdom
• May 14 – Karl Shapiro, at 86
• September 25 – R.S. Thomas, 87, Anglo-Welsh poet
• June 9 – Ernst Jandl (born 1925), Austrian poet, author and translator
• June 26 – Judith Wright, United States, 85, of a heart attack
• July 13 – Alex Derwent Hope, 92, poet
• November 29 – William Scammell
• December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, of cancer
• December 20 – Adrian Henry
• Date not known:
  • Yehuda Amichai (born 1924), Israeli poet
  • Edgar Bowers, at 75, of non-Hodgkins' lymphoma
  • John Bruce (poet), Canada
  • Lauris Edmond (born 1924), New Zealand
  • Libby Scheier, Canada

References

1. ^ [1]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
2. ^ [2]Web page titled "Griffin Poetry Prize 2007" at the Griffen Poetry Prize Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
3. ^ ^{a b} Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
4. ^ Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library
5. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
6. ^ [3]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
7. ^ [4] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
8. ^ Web page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008
9. ^ McClatchy, J. The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize is awarded annually by The Poetry Foundation; the Foundation also publishes ''Poetry''. Carl Dennis (born September 17, 1939) an American poet and educator wrote Practical Gods, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for poetry The Wallace Stevens Award is a major annual American literary award for mastery of poetry in the English language Frank Bidart (born 1939 in Bakersfield California) is an American academic and award-winning poet 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 Kathleen Peirce (born 1956) is an American Poet. Life Kathleen Peirce was born in Moline, Illinois. Jean Valentine (born 1934) is an American Poet. She was born in Chicago, received a bachelor of arts degree at Radcliffe College, The Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, or "Academy Fellowship" was the first award of its kind in the United States Lyn Hejinian (born May 17, 1941) is a United States Poet, essayist translator and publisher 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Events 366 - The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers invading the Roman Empire. 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Notes

• "A Timeline of English Poetry" at the Representative Poetry Online website, University of Toronto

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of poetry awards

This article is about the University of Toronto's St George Campus This page gives a chronological list of years in poetry (descending order This is a list of awards that are or have been given out to writers of Poetry, either for a specific poem collection of poems or body of work

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