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

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

Events

* January 29 – Poet

Dana Gioia Michael Dana Gioia (; born December 24, 1950) is an American poet, literary critic, literary translator, and essayist. Since the early 1980s, Gioia has been considered part of the highly controversial and countercultural literary movements w ...

, who had retired early from his career as a corporate executive at General Foods to write full-time, becomes chair of the

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the feder ...

, the United States government's arts agency. * February 12 – After First Lady

Laura Bush Laura Lane Welch Bush (née Welch; born November 4, 1946) is an American educator who was the first lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009 as the wife of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States. Bush was previously the fir ...

invites a number of poets to the White House for this date, one of them,

Sam Hamill Sam Hamill (May 9, 1943 – April 14, 2018) was an American poet and the co-founder of Copper Canyon Press along with Bill O’Daly and Tree Swenson. He also initiated the Poets Against War movement (2003) in response to the Iraq War. In 2003 he ...

, starts organizing a protest in which poets would bring anti-war poems. The conference is postponed, but Hamill organizes a "Poets Against the War" Web site with contributions from others. More than 5,000 poems are contributed, including work by John Balaban,

Gregory Orr Gregory Orr may refer to: * Gregory Orr (filmmaker) (born 1954), American writer and director of documentary and fiction films * Gregory Orr (poet) Gregory Orr (born 1947 in Albany, New York, United States) is an American poet. Featured on Natio ...

Rita Dove Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as United States Poet Laureate, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have bee ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (March 24, 1919 – February 22, 2021) was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. An author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and ...

and

Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the ...

Stanley Kunitz Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (; July 28, 1905May 14, 2006) was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000. Biography Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massac ...

Marilyn Nelson Marilyn Nelson (born April 26, 1946) is an American poet, translator, biographer, and children's book author. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, and the former Poet Laureate of Connecticut. She is a winner of the Ruth ...

Jay Parini Jay Parini (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and academic. He is known for novels, poetry, biography, screenplays and criticism. He has published novels about Leo Tolstoy, Walter Benjamin, Paul the Apostle, Herman Melville, and a noveli ...

Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid (; born Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson on May 25, 1949) is an Antiguan–American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. Born in St. John's, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, she now lives in North Bennington, ...

Grace Paley Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007), Goodside, was an American short story author, poet, teacher, and political activist. Paley wrote three critically acclaimed collections of short stories, which were compiled in the Pulitzer Pr ...

and U.S. Poet Laureate

Billy Collins William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He was a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, retiring in 2016. Co ...

. Also on the Web site, W. S. Merwin contributes the statement: "To arrange a war in order to be re-elected outdoes even the means employed in the last presidential election. Mr. Bush and his plans are a greater danger to the United States than Saddam Hussein." The new group, "Poets Against the War", organizes poetry readings for February 12 across the country, demonstrating the strong links between many established poets and left-wing pacifism. * July 2 – In the aftermath of public controversy ignited by state poet laureate

Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous b ...

(b. 1934) reading his incendiary and anti-Semitic poem "Somebody Blew Up America" about the September 11th Attacks, and Baraka's subsequent refusals to resign from the position, New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey signs legislation abolishing the post of

Poet Laureate of New Jersey The poet laureate of New Jersey (statutorily known as ''New Jersey William Carlos Williams Citation of Merit'') was an honor presented biennially by the Governor of New Jersey to a distinguished New Jersey poet. Created in 1999, this position exis ...

. * Early November –

Carl Rakosi Carl Rakosi (November 6, 1903 – June 25, 2004) was the last surviving member of the Objectivist poets, still publishing and performing poetry well into his 90s. Early life Rakosi was born in Berlin and lived there and in Hungary until 191 ...

celebrates his 100th birthday with friends at the San Francisco Public Library.

* The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry is opened at

Queens University, Belfast The Queen's University of Belfast, commonly known as Queen's University Belfast (; abbreviated Queen's or QUB), is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The university received its charter in 1845 as part of ...

, this year. It houses the Heaney Media Archive, a unique record of Heaney's entire ''oeuvre'', as well as a full catalogue of his radio and television presentations. This same year Heaney decides to lodge a substantial portion of his literary archive at

Emory University Emory University is a private university, private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. Its main campu ...

. * ''Call: Review'', an American

little magazine In the United States, a little magazine is a magazine genre consisting of "artistic work which for reasons of commercial expediency is not acceptable to the money-minded periodicals or presses", according to a 1942 study by Frederick J. Hoffman, ...

, is founded by poet John Most.

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

Judith Beveridge Judith Beveridge (born 1956) is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic. She is a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award. Biography Judith Beveridge was born in London, England, arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. S ...

, ''Wolf Notes'', winner of the 2004 Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award *

Pam Brown Pamela Jane Barclay Brown (born 1948) is an Australian poet. Career Pam Brown was born in Seymour, Victoria. Most of her childhood was spent on military bases in Toowoomba and Brisbane. Since her early twenties, she has lived in Melbourne an ...

, ''Dear Deliria (New & Selected Poems),'' winner of the

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

NSW Premier's Award for Poetry. *

Laurie Duggan Laurence James Duggan (born 1949), known as Laurie 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. Sc ...

, ''Mangroves'' * John Kinsella, ''Peripheral Light'' * Alison Croggon, ''The Common Flesh: Poems 1980–2002'', Arc, *

Geoff Page Geoffrey Donald Page (born 7 July 1940) is an Australian poet, novelist, translator, teacher and jazz enthusiast. He has published 22 collections of poetry, as well as prose and verse novels. Poetry and jazz are his driving interests, and he ...

, editor ''The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets'', Indigo (anthology) *

Chris Wallace-Crabbe Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe (born 6 May 1934) is an Australian poet and emeritus professor in the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. Life and career Wallace-Crabbe was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. His father was Ke ...

, ''A Representative Human'', Brunswick: Gungurru Press

Canada

* Derek Beaulieu, ''with wax'' (Coach House Books) *

George Bowering George Harry Bowering, (born December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He was the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. Life and career Bowering was born in Penticton, British Columbia, and rai ...

, ''Baseball: A Poem in the Magic Number 9'' (Coach House Books) *

Di Brandt Di Brandt (''née'' Janzen; 31 January 1952) often stylized as di brandt, is a Canadian poet and scholar from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She became Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate in 2018. Life and career Brandt grew up in Reinland, a Mennonite farming ...

, ''Now You Care'' (Coach House Books) * Anne Compton, ''Opening the Island'' * Joe Denham, ''Flux'' * Jill Hartman, ''A Painted Elephant'' (Coach House Books) * Raymond Knister, ''After Exile''. complete poems compiled by Gregory Betts (Exile, 2003)Raymond Knister,
After Exile
'' (Toronto: Exile, 2003). Google Books, Web, Apr. 2, 2011 * Dennis Lee, ''Un''. Toronto: Anansi. *

Tim Lilburn Tim Lilburn (born 27 June 1950) is a Canadian poet and essayist. Lilburn was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. He obtained a B.A. from the University of Regina, a Master's Degree in Philosophy from Gonzaga University, and his PhD from McMaster Univ ...

, ''Kill-site'', winner of the Governor General's Award * Don McKay, ''Varves'', a chapbook * W.W.E. Ross, ''Irrealities, Sonnets & Laconics''. (Exile Editions, 2003)W.W.E. Ross, ''
Irrealities, Sonnets & Laconics
'. (Exile Editions, 2003), Google Books, Web, Apr. 8, 2011. * Anne Simpson ''Loop'', shortlisted for the 2003

Governor General's Award The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the governor general of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the ...

, winner of the 2004 Canadian

Griffin Poetry Prize The Griffin Poetry Prize is a Canadian poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin. Before 2022, two separate awards went to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language. I ...

, *

Raymond Souster Raymond Holmes Souster (January 15, 1921 – October 19, 2012) was a Canadian poet whose writing career spanned over 70 years. More than 50 volumes of his own poetry were published during his lifetime, and he edited or co-edited a dozen volumes ...

, ''Twenty-three New Poems''. Ottawa: Oberon Press.Notes on Life and Works
," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. * Nathalie Stephens, ''Paper City'' (Coach House Books) * Suzanne Zelazo, ''Parlance'' (Coach House Books)

India, in English

Hemant Divate Hemant Divate is a Marathi poet, editor, translator and publisher based in Mumbai Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial ...

, ''Virus Alert'', translated from the original Marathi language poetry- by Dilip Chitre;

Mumbai Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India with an estimated population of 12 ...

: Poetrywala * Jerry Pinto, ''Asylum and Other Poems'' (Poetry in English), Allied Publishers, * Sudeep Sen: ** ''Distracted Geography: An Archipelago of Intent'' (Poetry in English), Wings Press, ;

Leeds Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built aro ...

: Peepal Tree, ; (reprinted

New Delhi New Delhi (; ) is the Capital city, capital of India and a part of the Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the Government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Parliament ...

: Indialog Publications, 2004, )Web page title
"Sudeep Sen"
, Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 ** ''Prayer Flag'' (Poetry in English) with a compact disc and photographs;

New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York New York may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * ...

: Wings Press, 2003, ; Leeds: Peepal Tree, * Sachin Ketkar, ''A Dirge for the Dead Dog and other Incantations'' (Poetry in English),

: Sanbun Publishers *

Ajmer Rode Ajmer Rode is a Canadian author writing in Punjabi as well as in English. His first work was non-fiction ''Vishva Di Nuhar'' on Albert Einstein's Relativity in dialogue form inspired by Plato's ''Republic''. Published by the Punjabi University ...

, ''Selected Poems'', by a

Punjabi Punjabi, or Panjabi, most often refers to: * Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan * Punjabi language * Punjabis, Punjabi people * Punjabi dialects and languages Punjabi may also refer to: * Punjabi (horse), a ...

; Third Eye Publications,

Ireland

* Rosita Boland, ''Dissecting the Heart'', Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, *

Ciaran Carson Ciaran Gerard Carson ( Irish: ''Ciarán Gearóid Mac Carráin''; 9 October 1948 – 6 October 2019) was a Northern Ireland-born poet and novelist. Early life and education Ciaran Carson was born on 9 October 1948 in Belfast Belfast ...

, ''Breaking News'', Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, * Michael Coady, ''One Another'', (poems and prose), Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, *

Gerald Dawe Gerald Dawe (22 April 1952 – 29 May 2024) was an Irish poet, academic and literary critic. Life and career Gerald Dawe was born in north Belfast, Northern Ireland, and grew up with his mother, sister, and grandmother. He lived mostly in the S ...

, ''Lake Geneva'', Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,

New Zealand

* Jenny Bornholdt, ''Summer'' * Robin Hyde, ''Young Knowledge: the poems of Robin Hyde'', edited and introduced by Michele Leggott, Auckland: Auckland University Press, posthumous

Poets in ''Best New Zealand Poems''

Poems from these 25 poet s were selected by Elizabeth Smither for '' Best New Zealand Poems 2002'', published online this year: * Jenny Bornholdt *

Diana Bridge Diana Bridge (born 1942 in Wellington) is a New Zealand poet. She attended Queen Margaret College and Victoria University of Wellington. She lived most of her adult life in various parts of Asia, including India and China, and as an adult she ...

* Rachel Bush * Kate Camp * Glen Colqu houn * Murray Edmond *

Paula Green Paula Green (September 18, 1927 – December 4, 2015) was an American advertising executive, best known for writing the lyrics to the " Look for the Union Label" song for ILGWU and the Avis motto "We Try Harder". Green was one of the pion ...

Michael Harlow Michael Harlow (born 1937) is a poet, publisher, editor and librettist. A recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship (1986) and the University of Otago Robert Burns Fellowship (2009), he has twice been a poetry finalist in the New Z ...

* David Howard * Andrew Johnston * Anne Kennedy * Michele Leggott * Emma Neale * Bob Orr * Chris Orsman * Vincent O'Sullivan * Bill Sewell * Anna Smaill * Kendrick Smithyman *

C. K. Stead Christian Karlson "Karl" Stead (born 17 October 1932) is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism. He is one of New Zealand's most well-known and internationally celebrated writers. Early l ...

* Robert Sullivan * Jo Thorpe * Rae Varcoe * Louise Wrightson *

Sonja Yelich Sonja Yelich (; born 1965) is a New Zealand poet. She is the mother of singer Lorde. Early life Sonja Yelich () was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1965, into an immigrant family from the region of Dalmatia. She studied literature at the Univer ...

United Kingdom

* Gerry Cambridge, ''Madame Fi Fi's Farewell and other poems'', Luath Press, *

Vahni Capildeo Vahni Anthony Ezekiel Capildeo (born Surya Vahni Priya Capildeo, 1973) is a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer, and a member of the extended Capildeo family that has produced notable Trinidadian politicians and writers (including V. S. Nai ...

, ''No Traveller Returns'',

Caribbean The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America ...

poet *

Ciarán Carson Ciaran Gerard Carson ( Irish: ''Ciarán Gearóid Mac Carráin''; 9 October 1948 – 6 October 2019) was a Northern Ireland-born poet and novelist. Early life and education Ciaran Carson was born on 9 October 1948 in Belfast into an Irish-s ...

, ''Breaking News'', Gallery Press, Wake Forest University Press, awarded the 2003 Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection *

Carol Ann Duffy Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, and her term expired in 2019. She wa ...

, ''The Good Child's Guide to Rock N Roll'', Faber and Faber (children's poetry)O’Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page, title
"Carol Ann Duffy"
at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. 2009-05-08. *

James Fenton James Martin Fenton (born 25 April 1949) is an English poet, journalist and literary critic. He is a former Oxford Professor of Poetry. Life and career Born in Lincoln, Fenton grew up in Lincolnshire and Staffordshire, the son of Canon Jo ...

, ''The Love Bomb'', verse written as a libretto for a composer who rejected it; Penguin / Faber and Faber
Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 *

Lavinia Greenlaw Lavinia Elaine Greenlaw (born 30 July 1962) is an English poet, novelist and non-fiction writer. She won the Prix du Premier Roman with her first novel and her poetry has been shortlisted for awards that include the T. S. Eliot Prize, Forward Pri ...

, ''Minsk'', Faber and Faber *

Peter Redgrove Peter William Redgrove (2 January 1932 – 16 June 2003) was an English poet, who also wrote prose, novels and plays with his second wife Penelope Shuttle. Life and career Redgrove was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. He was educated at Ta ...

, ''Sheen'' * Simawe, Saadi, editor, ''Iraqi Poetry Today'', London: King's College,

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

* R. F. Foster, ''

W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats (, 13 June 186528 January 1939), popularly known as W. B. Yeats, was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer, and literary critic who was one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the ...

: A Life, Vol. II: The Arch-Poet 1915–1939'',

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books ...

* Matthew Campbell, editor, ''The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry'', Cambridge University Press

United States

Dick Allen Richard Anthony Allen (March 8, 1942 – December 7, 2020), nicknamed "Crash" and "the Wampum Walloper", was an American professional baseball player. During his 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he played as a first baseman and thir ...

, ''The Day Before: New Poems'' (Sarabande Books) * Mark Bibbins, ''Sky Lounge'' (Graywolf Press) *

Charles Bukowski Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German Americans, German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambien ...

, ''sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way'' (Ecco) *

Henri Cole Henri Cole (born May 9, 1956) is an American poet, who has published many collections of poetry and a memoir. His books have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Arabic. Biography Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to a ...

, ''Middle Earth'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" *

Cid Corman Cid (Sidney) Corman (June 29, 1924 – March 12, 2004) was an American poet, translator and editor, most notably of '' Origin'', who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century. Life Corman was bo ...

, ''Now/Now'' *

Annie Finch Annie Finch (born October 31, 1956) is an American poet, critic, editor, translator, playwright, and performer and the editor of the first major anthology of literature about abortion. Her poetry is known for its often incantatory use of rhythm, ...

, ''Calendars'' * Richard Greenfield, ''A Carnage in the Lovetress'' (University of California Press) *

John Hollander John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic. At the time of his death, he was Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, having previously taught at Connecticut College, Hunter C ...

, ''Picture Window'' * William Logan, ''Macbeth in Venice'' *

Howard Nemerov Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was an American poet. Nemerov was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of English and Distinguished Poet in Residence at Washington University in St. Louis. He was twice ...

, ''The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov'', edited by Daniel Anderson (Swallow/Ohio University) published posthumously); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" *

Mary Oliver Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in th ...

, ''Owls and Other Fantasies: poems and essays'' * Willie Perdomo, ''Smoking Lovely'' * James Reiss, ''Riff on Six: New and Selected Poems'' *

Kenneth Rexroth Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (December 22, 1905 – June 6, 1982) was an American poet, translator, and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement. Althoug ...

, ''Complete Poems'' (posthumous) *

Margaret Reynolds Margaret Reynolds (; born 19 July 1941) is a former Australian politician. She was a Senator for Queensland from 1983 to 1999, representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She held ministerial office in the Hawke government as Minister for L ...

, ''The Sappho History'' (scholarship), Palgrave Macmillan, * C. J. Sage, editor, ''And We The Creatures: Fifty-one Contemporary American Poets on Animal Rights and Appreciation'' (Dream Horse Press) *

Charles Simic Dušan Simić ( sr-cyr, Душан Симић, ; May 9, 1938 – January 9, 2023), known as Charles Simic, was a Serbian American poet and poetry co-editor of ''The Paris Review''. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for '' The W ...

, ''The Voice at 3:00 a.m.: Selected Late & New Poems'' (Harvest Books)(Harcourt); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" * Tracy K. Smith, ''The Body's Question'' won the

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

Cave Canem Prize for best first book by an African American poet (

Graywolf Press Graywolf Press is an independent, non-profit publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Graywolf Press collaborates with organizations such as the College of Saint Benedict, the Mel ...

) *

Rosmarie Waldrop Rosmarie Waldrop (born Rosmarie Sebald; August 24, 1935) is an American poet, novelist, translator, essayist and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958 and has settled in Providence, Rhode Island since the late ...

, ''Love, Like Pronouns'' (Omnidawn Publishing) *

William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. His '' Spring and All'' (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's '' The Waste Land'' (1922). ...

and

Louis Zukofsky Louis Zukofsky (January 23, 1904 – May 12, 1978) was an American poet. He was the primary instigator and theorist of the so-called "Objectivist" poets, a short lived collective of poets who after several decades of obscurity would reemerge a ...

, ''The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams & Louis Zukofsky'', edited by Barry Ahearn (Wesleyan University Press) *

Kirby Wright Kirby Michael Wright is an American writer best known for his 2005 coming-of-age island novel ''Punahou Blues'' and the epic novel ''Moloka'i Nui Ahina'', which is based on the life and times of Wright's paniolo grandmother. Both novels deal wit ...

, ''Before the City'' (Lemon Shark Press); winner of the San Diego Book Award for Poetry

Poets included in ''The Best American Poetry 2003''

The 75 poets included in ''

The Best American Poetry 2003 ''The Best American Poetry 2003'', a volume in ''The Best American Poetry series'', was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Yusef Komunyakaa. Ron Smith (American poet), Ron Smith, reviewing the book in The Richmond Times-Dispatch, wrote tha ...

'', edited by

David Lehman David Lehman (born June 11, 1948) is an American poet, non-fiction writer, and literary critic, and the founder and series editor for '' The Best American Poetry''. He was a writer and freelance journalist for fifteen years, writing for such pub ...

, co-edited this year by

Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa (born James William Brown; April 29, 1941) is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for '' ...

: *

Jonathan Aaron Jonathan Aaron is an American poet and author of four poetry collections: ''Second Sight Sight, Corridor, Journey to the Lost City,'' and ''Just About Anything.'' Life and education Aaron was born and raised in Massachusetts. He has a B.A. fro ...

* Beth Anderson * Nin Andrews *

Wendell Berry Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays o ...

Frank Bidart Frank Bidart (born May 27, 1939, Bakersfield, CA) is an American academic and poet, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Biography Bidart is a native of California and considered a career in acting or directing when he was young. In 19 ...

* Diann Blakely * Bruce Bond * Catherine Bowman *

Rosemary Catacalos Rosemary Catacalos (1943/1944 – June 17, 2022) was the 2013–2014 Texas Poet Laureate. A writer of Mexican and Greek ancestry, Catacalos was the first Latina named to the State post. Early life Catacalos was born in St Petersburg, Flori ...

Joshua Clover Joshua Clover (December 30, 1962 – April 26, 2025) was an American poet, writer, professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Davis, and revolutionary. Clover was a published scholar, poet, critic, and jour ...

* Michael S. Collins *

Carl Dennis Carl Dennis (born September 17, 1939) is an American poet and educator. His book ''Practical Gods'' won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Life and work Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 17, 1939, Dennis attended Oberlin College and the ...

* Susan Dickman *

Stephen Dunn Stephen Elliot Dunn (June 24, 1939June 24, 2021) was an American poet and educator who authored twenty-one collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2000 collection, ''Different Hours,'' and received an Academy Award i ...

Stuart Dybek Stuart Dybek (born April 10, 1942) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. Biography Dybek, a second-generation Polish American, was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods in the 1950s ...

Charles Fort Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932) was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena. The terms "Fortean" and "Forteana" are sometimes used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold w ...

* James Galvin *

Amy Gerstler Amy Gerstler (born 1956) is an American poet living in Los Angeles, California. She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. Biography Amy Gerstler was born in 1956. She is a graduate of Pitzer College a ...

Louise Glück Louise Elisabeth Glück ( ; April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existe ...

* Michael Goldman * Ray Gonzalez *

Linda Gregg Linda Alouise Gregg (September 9, 1942 – March 20, 2019) was an American poet. Biography Gregg was born in Suffern, New York. She grew up on the other side of the country, in Marin County, California. Gregg received both her Bachelor of Arts, ...

Mark Halliday Mark Halliday (born 1949 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American poet, professor and critic. He is author of seven collections of poetry, most recently ''Losers Dream On'' (University of Chicago Press, 2018), ''Thresherphobe'' (University of Chicag ...

* Michael S. Harper * Matthea Harvey * George V. Higgins *

Edward Hirsch Edward M. Hirsch (born January 20, 1950) is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published nine books of poems, including ''The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems'' (2010), which brings toget ...

Tony Hoagland Anthony Dey Hoagland (November 19, 1953 – October 23, 2018) was an American poet. His poetry collection, ''What Narcissism Means to Me'' (2003), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other honors included two grant ...

Richard Howard Richard Joseph Howard (October 13, 1929 – March 31, 2022), adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz, was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a graduate of Columbia University, ...

* Rodney Jones * Joy Katz * Brigit Pegeen Kelly *

Galway Kinnell Galway Mills Kinnell (February 1, 1927 – October 28, 2014) was an American poet. His dark poetry emphasized scenes and experiences in threatening, ego-less natural environments. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1982 collection, ''Se ...

Carolyn Kizer Carolyn Ashley Kizer (December 10, 1925 – October 9, 2014) was an American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985. According to an article at the Center for the Study of the Pacific N ...

* Jennifer L. Knox *

Kenneth Koch Kenneth Koch ( ; February 27, 1925 – July 6, 2002) was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77.) He was a prominent poet of the New York School of poetry. This was a loose group of poets inc ...

* John Koethe *

Ted Kooser Theodore J. Kooser (born April 25, 1939) is an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2005. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006. Kooser was one of the first poets laureate ...

* Philip Levine * J. D. McClatchy * W. S. Merwin * Stanley Moss * Heather Moss *

Paul Muldoon Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. At Princeton University he has been both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humani ...

* Peggy Munson *

* Daniel Nester *

Naomi Shihab Nye Naomi Shihab Nye (; born March 12, 1952) is an Arab American poet, editor, songwriter, and novelist. Born to a Palestinian father and an American mother, she began composing her first poetry at the age of six. In total, she has published or con ...

* Ishle Yi Park *

Robert Pinsky Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. He was the first United States Poet Laureate to serve three terms. Recognized worldwide, Pinsky's work has earned numerous accolades. Pinsky ...

Kevin Prufer Kevin D. Prufer (born 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet, novelist, academic, editor, and essayist. He is Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. Life Prufer graduated from Western Reserve Aca ...

Ed Roberson Charles Edwin (Ed) Roberson (born December 26, 1939) is a distinguished American poet, celebrated for his unique diction and intricacy in exploring the natural and cultural worlds. His poetic voice is informed by a background in science and visual ...

Vijay Seshadri Vijay Seshadri (born 13 February 1954) is an American poet, essayist and literary critic based in Brooklyn. Vijay won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, for '' 3 Sections''. Early life Vijay's parents immigrated to the United States from Bang ...

* Myra Shapiro * Alan Shapiro *

Bruce Smith Bruce Bernard Smith (born June 18, 1963) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end for 19 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Buffalo Bills. He played college football for the Vir ...

* Charlie Smith * Maura Stanton * Ruth Stone * James Tate * William Tremblay *

Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who served as United States Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2014. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection ''Native Guard'', and is a former Poet Laureate of Missi ...

David Wagoner David Russell Wagoner (June 5, 1926 – December 18, 2021) was an American poet, novelist, and educator. Biography David Russell Wagoner was born on June 5, 1926, in Massillon, Ohio. Raised in Whiting, Indiana, from the age of seven, Wagoner at ...

* Ronald Wallace *

Lewis Warsh Lewis Warsh (9 November 1944 – 15 November 2020) was an American poet, visual artist, professor, prose writer, editor, and publisher. He was a principal member of the second generation of the New York School poets,; however, he has said that � ...

* Susan Wheeler *

Richard Wilbur Richard Purdy Wilbur (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets, along with his friend Anthony Hecht, of the World War II generation, Wilbur's work, often employing rhyme, and c ...

* C. K. Williams * Terence Winch * David Wojahn *

Robert Wrigley Robert Wrigley (born 1951 in East St. Louis, Illinois) is an American poet and educator. Biography In 1971 Wrigley was inducted into the army, filing for discharge as a conscientious objector. He received his M.F.A. in Poetry from the Universi ...

* Anna Ziegler * Ahmos Zu-Bolton II

Works published in other languages

French language

France

* Seyhmus Dagtekin, ''Couleurs démêlées du ciel'', publisher: L'Harmattan;

Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *Kurds or Kurdish people *Kurdish language ** Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) **Central Kurdish (Sorani) **Southern Kurdish ** Laki Kurdish *Kurdish alphabets *Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes: **Southern ...

Turkish poet writing in French *

Abdellatif Laabi Abdellatif Laâbi (; born 1942) is a Moroccan poet, journalist, novelist, playwright, translator and political activist. Laâbi, then teaching French, founded with other poets the artistic journal Souffles, an important literary review in 1966 ...

, Moroccan author writing in French: ** ''L'automne promet'', La Différence, coll. Clepsydre, Paris ** ''Les Fruits du corps'', La Différence, coll. Clepsydre, Paris ** ''Œuvre poétique'', La Différence, coll. Œuvre complète, Paris

Canada, in French

* Denise Desautels, ''La marathonienne, avec estampes de Maria Cronopoulos'', Montréal: Éditions de la courte échelle * 2003 *

Jean Royer Jean Royer (31 October 1920 – 25 March 2011) was a French Catholic conservative politician who was a minister and mayor of Tours. Biography Mayor of Tours Born in Nevers, Nièvre, Royer was at first a teacher. In 1958 he was elected as a r ...

, ''Demeures du silence'', Trois-Rivières: Écrits des Forges / Esch-sur-Alzette: Éditions Phi

Germany

* Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Michael Krueger, guest editor, ''Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2004'' ("Poetry Yearbook 2004"), publisher: Beck; anthology * Daniel Falb,

Daniela Seel Daniela Seel (born 4 December 1974) is a German poet, translator, editor and publisher. Life and work Born in Frankfurt, Seel studied German studies, art history and philosophy in Bayreuth, Göttingen and Berlin. In 2003, she founded the publi ...

, and Andrew Potterof, ''die räumung dieser parks'' ("the clearance of these parks"), Kookbooks * Bjoern Kuligk and Jan Wagner, editors, ''Lyrik von Jetzt'' ("Poetry of Now"), publisher: Dumont Verlag, featuring poetry by 74 authors born since 1965 (''Lyrik von Jetzt 2'') followed in

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

Nepal

Bengali language

Bangladesh

* Chandan Chowdhury, ''Jabe he majhi, diksonnopur,'' Balaka prakash, Chittagong, Bangladesh

India

In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Bengali

* Debarati Mitra, ''Khonpa Bhare Achhe Tarar Dhuloy,'' Kolkata: Ananda Publishers;

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

, Bengali-language * Mallika Sengupta: ** ''Purushke Lekha Chithi'', Kolkata: Ananda PublishersWeb page title
"Mallika Sengupta"
, at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 ** Editor, ''Dui Banglar Meyeder Shreshtha kabita'', Kolkata: Upasana * Nirendranath Chakravarti, ''Bhalobasha Mondobasha'', Kolkata: Ananda Publishers;

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

-language * Udaya Narayana Singh, ''Kham-kheyali'', Kolkata: Ebang Mushayera

Other in India

* Gagan Gill, ''Thapak Thapak Dil Thapak Thapa,'' New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan;

-language * Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih, editor, ''Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from the Northeast'', North-Eastern Hill University; Kahsi-language * Kanaka Ha Ma, translator, ''Battalike'', a translation of

Javed Akhtar Javed Akhtar (born 1945) is an Indian screenwriter, lyricist and poet. Known for his work in Hindi cinema, he has won five National Film Awards, and received the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2007, two of India's highest civili ...

's ''Tarkash'' from the original

Urdu Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...

into

Kannada Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...

; Puttur, Karnataka: Karnataka Sangha *

Kutti Revathi S. Revathi (pen name: Kutti Revathi) is an Indian lyricist, poet, activist and doctor. She has published three books of poetry and is the editor of ''Panikkudam'', a literary quarterly for women's writing and also the first Tamil feminist magaz ...

, ''Thanimaiyin Aayiram Irakkaigal'' ("One Thousand Wings of Solitude"), Chennai: Panikkudam Pathippagam;

Tamil Tamil may refer to: People, culture and language * Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka, and some other parts of Asia **Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka ** Myanmar or Burmese Tamils, Tamil people of Ind ...

-language * Malathi Maithri, ''Neerindri Amaiyaathu Ulagu'', ("There Can Be No Earth Without Water"), Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathippagam;

-language * Nilmani Phookan, ''Alop Agota Ami Ki Kotha Pati Ashilo'', Guwahati, Assam: Students’ Store, Assamese-language *

Rajendra Kishore Panda Rajendra Kishore Panda (born 1944) is an Indian Odia language poet and novelist. He has published sixteen poetry collections. He was awarded the Gangadhar National Award in 2010, and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1985. He received the Kuvempu ...

; Oraya-language: ** ''Collected Poems – Sada Prusthha'', Bhubaneswar: Metanym, Oraya-languageWeb page title
"Rajendra Kishore Panda"
at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 26, 2010 ** ''Drohavakya'', Bhubaneswar: Metanym, ** ''Dujanari'', Bhubaneswar: Metanym, ** ''Vairagi Bhramar'', Bhubaneswar: Metanym, ** ''Satyottara'', Bhubaneswar: Metanym, ** ''Bahwarambhe'', Bhubaneswar: Metanym, * S. Joseph, ''Meenkaran'', Kottayam: DC Books, ;

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of ...

-language * Salma, ''Pachchai Devathai'', Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathippagam;

-language * Saroop Dhruv, Gujarati-language: ** ''Hastkshep'', Ahmedabad: Samvedan Sanskritic Manch, AhmedabadWeb page title
"Saroop Dhruv"
at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010 ** ''Sahiyara Suraj Ni Khoj Ma'', Ahmedabad: Samvedan Sanskritic Manch * Thangjam Ibopishak Singh, ''Manam'' ("The Human Scent"), Imphal: Writer's Forum;

Meitei language Meitei (; ) also known as Manipuri ), is a Tibeto-Burman language of northeast India. It is the official language and the lingua franca of Manipur and an additional official language in four districts of Assam. It is one of the scheduled ...

poet and academic * Rustam ( Rustam Singh), ''Rustam ki Kavitaen'', a collection of poetry in Hindi, (), Vani Prakashan, New Delhi.

Poland

* Ewa Lipska, ''Ja'' ("I"); Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackieWeb pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (i
English
an
Polish
), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website, "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010 * Bronisław Maj, ''Elegie, treny, sny''; Kraków: ZnakWeb pages titled "Maj Bronisław" (bot
English version
an
Polish version
), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography" section, retrieved March 2, 2010 *

Czesław Miłosz Czesław Miłosz ( , , ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish Americans, Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. He primarily wrote his poetry in Polish language, Polish. Regarded as one of the great poets of the ...

, ''Orfeusz i Eurydyka'' ("Orpheus and Eurydice"); Kraków: Wydawnictwo LiterackieWeb pages titled "Miłosz Czesław" (bot
English version
or translated titlesan
Polish version
or diacritical marks, at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010 *

Tomasz Różycki Tomasz Różycki (born 1970) is a Polish poet and translator. He studied Romance Languages at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and taught French at the Foreign Languages Teaching College in Opole. In addition to his teaching, he translated ...

, ''Świat i Antyświat'' ("World and Antiworld"), Warsaw: Lampa i Iskra BożaWeb page title
"Tomasz Różycki"
, at Culture.pl website, retrieved March 1, 2010 * Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki: ** ''Daleko stąd zostawiłem swoje dawne i niedawne ciało''Web page title
"Eugene Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (1962)"
, at the Biuro Literackie literary agency website, retrieved February 25, 2010 ** ''Przyczynek do nauki o nieistnieniu'' *

Adam Zagajewski Adam Zagajewski (21 June 1945 – 21 March 2021) was a Polish poet, novelist, translator, and essayist. He was awarded the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, the 2017 ...

, ''Powrót'', Kraków: a5Web page title
Zagajewski Adam"
, at the Instytut Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliografia: Poezja:" section, retrieved February 19, 2010 *

Wisława Szymborska Maria Wisława Anna SzymborskaVioletta Szostagazeta.pl, 9 February 2012. ostęp 11 February 2012 (; 2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish people, Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Liter ...

: ''Rymowanki dla dużych dzieci'' ("Rhymes for Big Kids")

Other languages

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until Death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, his death in 2005. In his you ...

, '' Roman Triptych. Meditations'', Polish poet published in the

Vatican City Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (; ), is a Landlocked country, landlocked sovereign state and city-state; it is enclaved within Rome, the capital city of Italy and Bishop of Rome, seat of the Catholic Church. It became inde ...

and in Italian translation (''Trittico romano, Meditazioni'') * Inga Kuznetsova, ''Sni-Sinitsi'' ("Chickadee Dreams"), winner of the Triumph youth prize and the Moscow Score Award for best first book;

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

Marie Šťastná Marie Šťastná (6 April 1981, Valašské Meziříčí, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic) is a Czech poet. She has a degree in Art History and History of Culture from the University of Ostrava. She participated in Ortenova Kutná Hora, a li ...

, ''Krajina s Ofélií'' ("Scenery with Ophelia"),

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south ...

* Yi Sha, ''Yi Sha shixuan'' ("Yi Sha's Poems"),

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

Awards and honors

Australia

* C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry:

Emma Lew Emma Lew (born 1962) is a contemporary Australian poet. Born in Melbourne, Emma Lew studied arts at Melbourne University and worked as a deckhand, shop assistant, proof-reader, and clerical assistant, only beginning to write poetry in 1993.

, ''Anything the Landlord Touches'' * Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: ''Mangroves'' by

University of Queensland Press University of Queensland Press (UQP) is an Australian publishing house based in Brisbane, Queensland. Founded in 1948 as a traditional university press, UQP now publishes books for general readers across fiction, non-fiction, poetry, children's ...

Grace Leven Prize for Poetry The Grace Leven Prize for Poetry was an annual poetry award in Australia, given in the name of Grace Leven who died in 1922. It was established by William Baylebridge who "made a provision for an annual poetry prize in memory of 'my benefactress ...

Stephen Edgar Stephen Edgar (born 1951) is an Australian poet, editor and indexer. Background and education Edgar was born in 1951 in Sydney, where he attended the prestigious Sydney Technical High School. After time spent living in London, he later return ...

, ''Lost in the Foreground'', Duffy & Snellgrove * Ipswich Poetry Feast: RT Edwards Awards – Open - Other Poetry First Prize,

Denis Kevans Peter Denis Kevans (15 January 1939–2005) was an Australian poet, songwriter and folk singer from Canberra. Known as Australia's ''"poet lorikeet"'', he wrote mainly on political, human rights and environmental topics. He also worked for 20 y ...

, ''Dots Before the Eyes''; Chairperson's Encouragement Award, Dan O’Donnell, ''Sydney's Central Station'' *

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.Jill Jones Jill Jones (born July 11, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress, who performed as a backing vocalist for Teena Marie and Prince in the 1980s. She is best known for her various collaborative works with Prince in the 1980s and 1990s ...

, ''Screens Jets Heaven''

Canada

Gerald Lampert Award The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is an annual literary award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet. It is presented in honour of poetry promoter Gerald Lampert. Each winner receive ...

: Kathy Mac, ''Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth'' * Archibald Lampman Award: Shane Rhodes, ''Holding Pattern'' * Atlantic Poetry Prize: Anne Compton, ''Opening the Island'' *

Governor General's Award for English-language poetry This is a list of recipients and nominees of the Governor General's Awards award for English-language poetry. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English language poetry or drama was divided.Tim Lilburn Tim Lilburn (born 27 June 1950) is a Canadian poet and essayist. Lilburn was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. He obtained a B.A. from the University of Regina, a Master's Degree in Philosophy from Gonzaga University, and his PhD from McMaster Univ ...

, ''Kill-site'' *

Governor General's Award for French-language poetry This is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for French language poetry or drama was divided. Winners and nominees 1980s 1990s 2000s ...

Pierre Nepveu Pierre Nepveu (born 16 September 1946 in Montreal, Quebec) is a French Canadian poet, novelist and essayist. As a scholar, he specializes in modern Quebec poetry, in particular the work of Gaston Miron. He taught at the French Studies Depar ...

, ''Lignes aériennes'' *

Canada:

Margaret Avison Margaret Avison, (April 23, 1918 – July 31, 2007) was a Canadian poet who twice won Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Prize.Michael Gnarowski,Avison, Margaret" ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Edmonton: Hurtig ...

, ''Concrete and Wild Carrot''; International, in the English Language:

, ''Moy sand and gravel'' *

Pat Lowther Award The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual Canadian literary award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. The award was established in 1980 to honour poet Pat Lowther, who was murdered by ...

Dionne Brand Dionne Brand (born 7 January 1953) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was Toronto's third Poet Laureate from September 2009 to November 2012 and first Black Poet Laureate. She was admitted to the Order of Canada in ...

, ''thirsty'' *

Prix Alain-Grandbois The Prix Alain-Grandbois or ''Alain Grandbois Prize'' is awarded each year to an author for a book of poetry.

: Danielle Fournier, ''Poèmes perdus en Hongrie'' *

Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada. One of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, the award was originally known as the B.C. Prize for Poet ...

: bill bissett, *

Prix Émile-Nelligan The Prix Émile-Nelligan is a literary award given annually by the Fondation Émile-Nelligan to a North American French language poet under the age of 35. It was named in honour of the Quebec poet Émile Nelligan and was first awarded in 1979, the ...

: Jean-Simon DesRochers, ''Parle seul''

New Zealand

* Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: *

Montana New Zealand Book Awards The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand. The awards began in 1996 as the merger of two literary awards events: the New Zealand Book Awards, which ran from 1976 to 1995, and the Goodman Fielder Wa ...

First-book award for poetry: Kay McKenzie Cooke, ''Feeding the Dogs'', University of Otago Press

United Kingdom

Cholmondeley Award The Cholmondeley Awards ( ) are annual awards for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. Since 1991 the award has bee ...

Michael Donaghy Michael Donaghy (May 24, 1954 – September 16, 2004) was a New York City poet and musician, who lived in London from 1985. Life and career Donaghy was born into an Irish family and grew up with his sister Patricia in the Bronx, New York, lo ...

Jackie Kay Jacqueline Margaret Kay (born 9 November 1961) is a Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works ''Other Lovers'' (1993), ''Trumpet'' (1998) and ''Red Dust Road'' (2011). Kay has won many awards, including the Somerset Maugham A ...

David Cohen Prize The David Cohen Prize for Literature (est. 1993) is a British literary award given to a writer, novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist or dramatist in recognition of an entire body of work, written in the English language. The prize is funde ...

Thom Gunn Thomson William "Thom" Gunn (29 August 1929 – 25 April 2004) was an English poet who was praised for his early verses in England, where he was associated with Movement (literature), The Movement, and his later poetry in America, where he adop ...

(joint winner with novelist

Beryl Bainbridge Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. She won the Whitbread Awards priz ...

) (joint winners) *

Eric Gregory Award The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given annually by the Society of Authors for a collection by United Kingdom poets under the age of 30. The award was founded in 1960 by Dr. Eric Gregory to support and encourage young poets. Past winne ...

Jen Hadfield Jen Hadfield (born 1978) is a British poet and visual artist. She has published four poetry collections. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003. Hadfield is the youngest female poet to be awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize, with her second collecti ...

, Zoë Brigley, Paul Batchelor,

Olivia Cole Olivia Carlena Cole (November 26, 1942 – January 19, 2018) was an American actress, best known for her Emmy Awards, Emmy Award-winning role in the 1977 miniseries ''Roots (1977 miniseries), Roots''. Early life and education Cole was born in M ...

, Sasha Dugdale, Anna Woodford *

Forward Poetry Prize The Forward Prizes for Poetry are major British awards for poetry, presented annually at a public ceremony in London. They were founded in 1992 by William Sieghart with the aim of celebrating excellence in poetry and increasing its audience. The ...

Best Collection:

, ''Breaking News'' (The Gallery Press); Best First Collection: A. B. Jackson, ''Fire Stations'' (Anvil Press) *

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry The King's Gold Medal for Poetry (known as Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry when the monarch is female) is awarded for a book of verse published by someone in any of the Commonwealth realms. Originally the award was open only to British subjects liv ...

: U. A. Fanthorpe * T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland):

Don Paterson Donald Paterson (born 1963 in Dundee) is a Scottish poet, writer and musician. His work has won several awards, including the Forward Poetry Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He was recipient of the Queen' ...

, ''Landing Light'' *

Whitbread Award The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland. Originally named the Whitbread Book Awards from 1971 to 2005 after its first sponsor, the Whitbread company, then ...

for poetry:

Mark Haddon Mark Haddon (born 26 September 1962) is an English novelist, best known for ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'' (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonweal ...

, ''

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'' is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon. Haddon and ''The Curious Incident'' won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year, the Commonwealth Writers' Pri ...

United States

Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major United States, 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, Pittsburgh, Penn ...

awarded to David Shumate for ''High Water Mark'' * American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, W.S. Merwin * Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Julie Sheehan for “Brown-headed Cow Birds” * Bollingen Prize for Poetry,

* Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Brian Teare, ''The Room Where I Was Born'' *

Frost Medal Frost is a thin layer of ice on a solid surface, which forms from water vapor that deposits onto a freezing surface. Frost forms when the air contains more water vapor than it can normally hold at a specific temperature. The process is similar ...

National Book Award The National Book Awards (NBA) are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors. ...

for poetry: C.K. Williams, ''The Singing'' *

Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress The poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress, commonly referred to as the United States poet laureate, serves as the official poet of the United States. During their term, the poet laureate seeks to raise the national consc ...

appointed *

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. The award came five years after the first Pulitzers were awarded in other categories; Joseph Pulitzer's will had not ment ...

(United States):

, ''Moy Sand and Gravel'' *

Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award The Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award is awarded to scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification. The award was named after the poet, critic, and translator Robert Fitzgerald. It was established in 1999 at ...

: George T. Wright *

Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize is awarded annually by The Poetry Foundation, which also publishes ''Poetry'' magazine. The prize was established in 1986 by Ruth Lilly. It honors a living U.S. poet whose "lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordin ...

Linda Pastan Linda Pastan (May 27, 1932 – January 30, 2023) was an American poet of Jewish background. From 1991 to 1995 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. She was known for writing short poems that address topics like family life, domesticity, motherhood ...

Wallace Stevens Award The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreac ...

Whiting Awards The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, ...

Major Jackson Major Jackson (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and professor at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of six collections of poetry: ''Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems 2002-2022'' (W.W. Norton, 2023), ''The Absurd Ma ...

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. The award is endowed by the family and friends of Geraldine Clinton Little, a poet an ...

: Gary Young, ''No Other Life'', Judge:

Angela Jackson Angela Jackson (born July 25, 1951) is an American poet, playwright, and novelist based in Chicago, Illinois. Jackson has been a member of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), a community that fosters the intellectual development ...

Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreac ...

Li-Young Lee Li-Young Lee (李立揚, pinyin: Lǐ Lìyáng) (born August 19, 1957) is an American poet. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. His maternal great-grandfather was Yuan Shikai, China's first Republican President, who attempted t ...

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in poetry" article: * March 16 – Susan McGowan (born

1907 Events January * January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Moment magnitude scale, Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000. February * February 9 – The "Mud March (suffragists), Mud March", the ...

Australian Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Aus ...

poet * June 28 –

Clem Christesen Clement Byrne Christesen (28 October 1911 – 28 June 2003) was the founder of the Australian literary magazine '' Meanjin''. He served as the magazine's editor from 1940 until 1974. Biography Early years Clement Byrne Christesen was born and ...

(born

1911 Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * January 3 ** 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 m ...

poet, founding editor of ''

Meanjin ''Meanjin'' (), formerly ''Meanjin Papers'' and ''Meanjin Quarterly'', is one of Australia's longest-running literary magazines. Established in 1940 in Brisbane, it moved to Melbourne in 1945 and as of 2008 is an editorially independent impri ...

'' * July 6 –

Kathleen Raine Kathleen Jessie Raine (14 June 1908 – 6 July 2003) was an English poet, critic and scholar, writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor. Known for her interest in various forms of spirituality, most prominently Plat ...

(born

1908 This is the longest year in either the Julian or Gregorian calendars, having a duration of 31622401.38 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or ephemeris time), measured according to the definition of mean solar time. Events January * January ...

), English poet and literary scholar * July 8 – Subhash Mukhopadhyay (born

1919 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (later Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off th ...

poet * July 9 – Josephine Jacobsen (born

American American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, p ...

poet, short story writer and critic * July 15 –

Roberto Bolaño Roberto is an Italian, Portuguese and Spanish variation of the male given name Robert. Notable people named Roberto include: * Roberto (footballer, born 1912) * Roberto (footballer, born 1977) * Roberto (footballer, born 1978) * Roberto (footb ...

, 50 (born

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...

), Chilean fiction writer, poet and essayist, liver disease * August 7 – F. T. Prince (born

1912 This year is notable for Sinking of the Titanic, the sinking of the ''Titanic'', which occurred on April 15. In Albania, this leap year runs with only 353 days as the country achieved switching from the Julian to Gregorian Calendar by skippin ...

), South African- English poet and academic * September 3 –

Alan Dugan Alan Dugan (February 12, 1923 – September 3, 2003) was an American poet. His first volume ''Poems'' published in 1961 was a chosen by the Yale Series of Younger Poets and went on to win the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer P ...

(born

1923 In Greece, this year contained only 352 days as 13 days was skipped to achieve the calendrical switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar. It happened there that Wednesday, 15 February ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Thursday, 1 March ' ...

poet * October 26 – Heinz Piontek (born

1925 Events January * January 1 – The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria (1925–1930), State of Syria. * January 3 – Benito Mussolini m ...

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writer * November 3 –

Rasul Gamzatov Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov (, ; rus, Расу́л Гамза́тович Гамза́тов, p=rɐˈsul ɡɐmˈzatəvʲɪtɕ ɡɐmˈzatəf, a=Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov.ru.vorb.oga; 8 September 19233 November 2003) was a Soviet and Russian po ...

, 80 (born

), Avarian/Soviet/Russian poet, "People's poet of Dagestan" * November 27 – Talal al-Rasheed, 41?, Saudi poet * December 12 – Fadwa Tuqan, 86 (born

1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's ...

Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...

poet * December 23 – John Newlove (born

Canadian Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ...

poet

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"A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the ''Representative Poetry Online'' Web site, University of Toronto {{Lists of poets 2000s in poetry *

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Works published in English

Australia

Canada

India, in English

Ireland

New Zealand

Poets in ''Best New Zealand Poems''

United Kingdom

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

United States

Poets included in ''The Best American Poetry 2003''

Works published in other languages

French language

France

Canada, in French

Germany

Nepal

Bengali language

Bangladesh

India

Bengali

Other in India

Poland

Other languages

Awards and honors

Australia

Canada

New Zealand

United Kingdom

United States

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