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

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Events

June 4 Events Pre-1600 * 1411 – King Charles VI grants a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries. *1525 – 1525 Bayham Abbey riot; Villagers from Kent and ...

– English publication of ''For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey through a Chinese Prison'' by

Liao Yiwu Liao Yiwu ( zh, c=廖亦武 , p=Liào Yìwǔ; also known as Lao Wei ( zh, 老威); born 16 June 1958) is a Chinese author, reporter, musician, and poet. He is a critic of Communist Party of China, China's Communist Party, for which he was impri ...

, recounting Yiwu's time following the

Tiananmen Square Tiananmen Square or Tian'anmen Square () is a city square in the city center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen ("''Gate of Heavenly Peace''") located to its north, which separates it from the Forbidden City. The square contains th ...

protests of June 4, 1989, and the four brutal years he spent in jail for writing the poem "Massacre". *

August 5 Events Pre-1600 * AD 25 – Guangwu claims the throne as Emperor of China, restoring the Han dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin dynasty. * 70 – Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem are ...

– PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) issues a call to action, demanding that the jailed 60-year-old Kazakh poet Aron Atabek be released from

solitary confinement Solitary confinement (also shortened to solitary) is a form of imprisonment in which an incarcerated person lives in a single Prison cell, cell with little or no contact with other people. It is a punitive tool used within the prison system to ...

, where he has been since December 2012 and where he will continue to stay until the end of 2014. This is his punishment for writing ''The Heart of Eurasia'', a blunt

critique Critique is a method of disciplined, systematic study of a written or oral discourse. Although critique is frequently understood as fault finding and negative judgment, Rodolphe Gasché (2007''The honor of thinking: critique, theory, philosophy ...

of President

Nursultan Nazarbayev Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev (born 6 July 1940) is a Kazakhstani politician who served as the first president of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019. He also held the special title of Elbasy from 2010 to 2022 and chairman of the Security Council of ...

and his government. Atabek is currently serving an 18-year prison sentence for other alleged crimes against the state. *

September 13 Events Pre-1600 *585 BC – Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia. *509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill ...

– Australians Graham Nunn and Andrew Slattery are accused of plagiarism over separate works which they have published. *

September 21 Events Pre-1600 * 455 – Emperor Avitus enters Italy with a Gallic army and consolidates his power. * 1170 – Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland: The Kingdom of Dublin falls to Anglo-Norman invaders. * 1217 – Livonian Crusa ...

– Ghanaian poet and diplomat

Kofi Awoonor Kofi Awoonor (born George Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor-Williams; 13 March 1935 – 21 September 2013) was a Ghanaian poet, author and diplomat. His work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people with contemporary and religious symbolism ...

is among those who are killed in the Westgate shopping mall shooting in

Nairobi Nairobi is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Kenya. The city lies in the south-central part of Kenya, at an elevation of . The name is derived from the Maasai language, Maasai phrase , which translates to 'place of cool waters', a ...

, Kenya. *

September 22 Events Pre-1600 * 904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government. * 1236 – The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the ...

– In the United Kingdom, poet C. J. Allen withdraws from the Forward Prize shortlist after admitting to plagiarism in some of his earlier work. He has been nominated in the category for "best single poem." Fellow poet Matthew Welton says he noticed last year that Allen had plagiarised some of his work.

Works published in English

Australia

Richard James Allen Richard James Allen (born 1960) is a contemporary Australian poet, dancer, actor and filmmaker. The former artistic director of the Poets Union Inc, and founding director of the Australian Poetry Festival, Allen was co-artistic director with Kar ...

, ''Fixing the Broken Nightingale'', Macau: ASM and Markwell: Cerberus Press – Flying Islands Books *Peter Boyle, ''Towns in the Great Desert'', Glebe: Puncher & Wattmann *Maree Dawes, ''brb'', Sydney: Spineless Wonders *Diane Fahey, ''The Stone Garden: Poems from Clare'', Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan *Luke Fischer, ''Paths of Flight'', North Fitzroy: Black Pepper *Alan Gould, ''Capital'', Glebe: Puncher and Wattmann, 2013 *

Les Wicks Les Wicks (born 15 June 1955) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has published more than fifteen books of poetry. Early life and education Wicks grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney. He studied for a Bachelor of Arts in Asian ...

, ''Sea of Heartbeak (Unexpected Resilience)'', Glebe: Puncher & Wattmann

Canada

* Gwen Benaway, ''Ceremonies for the Dead'' *Jason Christie, ''Unknown Actor'', Insomniac Press, London, ON * Barry Dempster, ''Invisible Dogs'', Brick Books, London, ON * Adam Dickinson, ''The Polymers'', Anansi, Toronto *

Don Domanski Don Domanski (April 29, 1950 – September 7, 2020) was a Canadian poet. Biography Domanski was born and raised in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and lived briefly in Toronto, Vancouver and Wolfville, before settling in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he lived ...

, ''Bite Down Little Whisper'', Brick Books, London, ON *Catherine Greenwood, ''The Lost Letters'', Brick Books, London, ON * Phil Hall, ''The Small Nouns Crying Faith'', BookThug, Toronto *Danny Jacobs, ''Songs That Remind Us of Factories'', Nightwood Editions, Gibsons, BC *Niki Koulouris. ''The Sea with No One in it.'' Erin, ON: The Porcupine's Quill *

Erín Moure Erín Moure (born 1955 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian poet and translator with 18 books of poetry, a coauthored book of poetry, a volume of essays, a book of articles on translation, a poetics, and two memoirs. She has translated or co-tran ...

, ''Pillage Laud: Cauterizations • Vocabularies • Cantigas • Topiary • Prose'', BookThug, Toronto * Sara Peters, ''1996'', Anansi, Toronto *

Shane Rhodes Shane Rhodes is a Canadian poet. Life He graduated from the University of New Brunswick, and currently lives in Ottawa. He is a two-time winner of the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry. In 2008, when his work ''The Bindery'' won the award, Rho ...

, ''X: Poems & Anti-Poems'', Nightwood Editions, Gibsons, BC *

Jacob Scheier Jacob Scheier (born February 2, 1980) is a Canadians, Canadian poet born in Toronto. His debut poetry collection, ''More to Keep Us Warm'', was published by ECW Press in 2007 and was named the winner of the 2008 Governor General's Awards, 2008 Gove ...

, ''Letter from Brooklyn'', ECW Press, Toronto

New Zealand

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 ...

, ''The Baker's Thumbprint'', Seraph Press *

Kate Camp Kate Camp (born 1972) is a New Zealand poet and author who currently resides in Wellington. Early life and education Camp was born in 1972 in Wellington, New Zealand. She attended Onslow College. She has a BA in English from the Victoria Unive ...

, Snow White’s Coffin, Victoria University Press

Poets in ''Best New Zealand Poems''

Poems from these 25 poets were selected by

Ian Wedde Ian Curtis Wedde (born 17 October 1946) is a New Zealand poet, fiction writer, critic, and art curator. Biography Born in Blenheim, New Zealand, Wedde lived in East Pakistan and England as a child before returning to New Zealand. He attended ...

for '' Best New Zealand Poems 2012'', published online this year: *

Sarah Jane Barnett Sarah (born Sarai) is a biblical matriarch, prophet, and major figure in Abrahamic religions. While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a pious woma ...

* Tony Beyer *

James Brown James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, and record producer. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century music, he is referred to by Honorific nick ...

* Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle *

Geoff Cochrane Geoffrey O'Neill Cochrane (1951 – November 2022) was a New Zealand poet, novelist and short story writer. He published 19 collections of poetry, a novel and a collection of short fiction. Many of his works were set in or around his hometown o ...

* Murray Edmond * John Gallas * Siobhan Harvey * Helen Heath * David Howard * Andrew Johnston * Anne Kennedy *

Aleksandra Lane Alexandra () is a female given name of Greek origin. It is the first attested form of its variants, including Alexander (, ). Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb (; meaning 'to defend') and (; GEN , ; meaning 'man'). Thus ...

* Michele Leggott * Frankie McMillan *

Gregory O'Brien Gregory Leo O’Brien (born 1961) is a New Zealand poet, painter, author and editor. He is also an art curator and writes art history and criticism for both adults and children. Life Born in Matamata in 1961, O'Brien trained as a journalist in ...

* Peter Olds *

Harry Ricketts Harry Ricketts (born 1950) is a poet, biographer, editor, anthologist, critic, academic, literary scholar and cricket writer. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and of a dozen British First World War poets. Life Ricketts was bor ...

* Sam Sampson * Kerrin P Sharpe * C K Stead * Richard von Sturmer *

Albert Wendt Albert Tuaopepe Wendt (born 27 October 1939) is a Samoan poet and writer who lives in New Zealand. He is one of the most influential writers in Oceania. His notable works include ''Sons for the Return Home'', published in 1973 (adapted into a ...

Ashleigh Young Ashleigh Young (born 1983) is a poet, essayist, editor and creative writing teacher. She received the Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes, Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2017 for her second book, a collection of personal essays titled ''C ...

United Kingdom

Dannie Abse Daniel Abse Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE FRSL (22 September 1923 – 28 September 2014) was a Welsh poet and physician. His poetry won him many awards. As a medic, he worked in a chest clinic for over 30 years. Early years ...

, ''Speak, Old Parrot'', Hutchinson. *

John Agard John Agard FRSL (born 21 June 1949) is a Guyanese-born British playwright, poet and children's writer. In 2012, he was selected for the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

, ''Travel Light Travel Dark'', Bloodaxe Books, Tarset, England. * Megan Beech, ''When I Grow Up I Want to be Mary Beard'', Burning Eye Books. *

Emily Berry Emily Berry (born 1981) is an English poet and writer. Early life Berry was born and raised in London and studied English literature at Leeds University, and Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. As of 2017, she was completing a ...

, ''Dear Boy'', Faber. * Julia Bird, ''Twenty-Four Seven Blossom'', Salt. * Rhian Edwards, ''Clueless Dogs'',

Welsh Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, of or about Wales * Welsh language, spoken in Wales * Welsh people, an ethnic group native to Wales Places * Welsh, Arkansas, U.S. * Welsh, Louisiana, U.S. * Welsh, Ohio, U.S. * Welsh Basin, during t ...

. * Amy Key, ''Luxe'', Salt Publishing, Cromer, England. *

Sinéad Morrissey Sinéad Morrissey (born 24 April 1972 in Portadown, County Armagh) is a Northern Irish poet. In January 2014 she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for her fifth collection ''Parallax: And Selected Poems, Parallax'' and in 2017 she won the Forward Priz ...

, ''Parallax'', Carcanet Press. *

Helen Mort Helen Mort (born 28 September 1985, Sheffield) is a British poet and novelist. She is a five-time winner of the Foyle Young Poets award, received an Eric Gregory Award from The Society of Authors in 2007, and won the Manchester Poetry Prize Yo ...

, ''Division Street'', Chatto & Windus, London, England. *

Heather Phillipson Heather Phillipson is a British artist working in a variety of media including video, sculpture, electronic music, large-scale installations, online works, text and drawing. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2022. Her work has been presen ...

, ''Instant-Flex 718'', Bloodaxe. * David Nickle Read, ''Vespertine's Wander''. * Christopher Reid, ''Six Bad Poets'', Faber. *

Michael Symmons Roberts Michael Symmons Roberts FRSL (born 1963) is a British poet. He has published eight collections of poetry, all with Cape (Random House), and has won the Forward Prize, the Costa Book Award and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, as well as major p ...

, ''Drysalter'', Jonathan Cape. *

Robin Robertson Robin Robertson (born in 1955) is a Scottish poet. Biography Robertson was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland, but has spent most of his professional life in London. After working as an editor at Penguin Books and Secker and War ...

, ''Hill of Doors'', Picador. * Susanna Roxman, ''Crossing the North Sea'', Dionysia Press, Edinburgh. This poetry collection is supported by Creative Scotland, formerly the Scottish Arts Council. * Miles Salter, ''Animals'', Valley Press, Scarborough, England. *

Claire Trévien Claire Trévien (born 1985) is a poet and academic. Biography She was born in Pont-l'Abbé, France in 1985. She obtained a PhD from the University of Warwick in 2012 on 'Revolutionary Prints as Spectacle' and has been published in a number of ...

, ''The Shipwrecked House'', Penned in the Margins, London, England.

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

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 ...

, '' 1914: Poetry Remembers'' (Faber & Faber) * Nathan Hamilton, editor. ''Dear World & Everyone In It'' (Bloodaxe Books) .

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

United States

*Carrie Olivia Adams, ''Forty-One Jane Doe's'', Ahsahta Press, Boise (includes DVD w/three short films by Adams) *

Rae Armantrout Rae Armantrout (born April 13, 1947) is an American poet generally associated with the Language poets. She has published more than two dozen books, including both poetry and prose. Armantrout was awarded the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Aw ...

, ''Just Saying'',

Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press is a university press that is part of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. The press is currently directed by Suzanna Tamminen, a published poet and essayist. History and overview Founded (in its present form ...

*Jennifer Atkinson, ''Canticle of the Night Path'', Parlor Press, Anderson, South Carolina *Elizabeth Bachinsky, ''The Hottest Summer in Recorded History'', Nightwood Editions. *Joshua Beckman, ''The Inside of an Apple'', Wave Books, New York & Seattle *Dodie Bellamy, ''Cunt Norton'', Les Figues Press, Los Angeles * Edmund Berrigan, ''Can It!'', Letter Machine Editions *

David Biespiel David Biespiel (born 1964) is an American poet, critic, memoirist, and novelist. He was born and raised in the Meyerland section of Houston, Texas. He is the founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland, Oregon and Poet-in-Resi ...

, ''Charming Gardeners'', University of Washington Press *

Robert Bly Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is '' Iron John: A Book About Men'' (1990), which spent 62 weeks on ...

, ''Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950 – 2013'', Norton, New York / London * Charlie Bondhus, ''All the Heat We Could Carry'', Main Street Rag * Ana Božičević, ''Rise in the Fall'', Birds, LLC. * Joseph Ceravolo, ''Collected Poems'', Wesleyan UP (Rosemary Ceravolo & Parker Smathers, editors) *Joel Chace, ''Kansoz'', Knives Forks & Spoons Press, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, UK *Dan Chelotti, ''X'', McSweeney's, San Francisco *

Clark Coolidge Clark Coolidge (born February 26, 1939) is an American poet. Background As a teenager, Coolidge attended Classical High School in Providence, Rhode Island. Coolidge briefly attended Brown University, where his father founded and taught in the musi ...

, ''Book Beginning What and Ending Away'', Fence Books *Brad Cran, ''Ink on Paper'', Nightwood Editions. * Michael Davidson, ''Bleed Through: New and Selected Poems'', Coffee House Books *Tishani Doshi, ''Everything Begins Elsewhere'', Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend * Marc DuCharme, ''The Unfinished: Books I-VI'', BlazeVOX, Buffalo *

Rachel Blau DuPlessis Rachel Blau DuPlessis (born December 14, 1941) is an American poet and essayist, known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist and contemporary poetry. Her work has been widely anthologized. Early life DuPlessis w ...

, ''Surge: Drafts 96 -114'',

Salt Publishing Salt Publishing is an independent publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched ''Salt Magazine'' in Western Australia. The journal rapidly developed an international reputation as a leading publisher of new poetry ...

* Craig Dworkin ''Remotes'', Little Red Leaves, Houston *Joshua Edwards, ''Imperial N'', Canarium Books. *Robert Fernandez, ''Pink Reef'', Canarium Books. * Adam Fitzgerald, ''The Late Parade'', WW Norton/Liveright *

Nada Gordon Nada Gordon (born 1964) is an American poet. She is a pioneer of Flarf poetry and a founding member of the Flarf Collective. Life Nada Gordon was born in 1964 in Oakland, California. Gordon was a precocious poet, exposed to poetry early by par ...

, ''Vile Lilt'', Roof, NYC * Noah Eli Gordon, ''The Year of the Rooster'',

Ahsahta Press Anthony Thomas Trusky (14 March 1944 – 28 November 2009) was an American professor, writer, editor, film historian, and book artist. He was known for promoting poetry of the American West, recovering the films of Nell Shipman, and rediscoverin ...

* Michael Gottlieb, ''Dear All'', Roof, NYC *

Brian Henry Brian Henry is an American poet, translator, editor, and literary critic. Biography Henry completed a B.A. at the College of William and Mary and an MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has published p ...

, ''Brother No One'',

*H. R. Hegnauer, ''Sir'', Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, Brooklyn *

Bob Hicok Bob Hicok (born 1960 Grand Ledge, Michigan) is an American poet. Life Hicok is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech, where he has taught since 2003 with the exception of the 2015-2016 academic year when he taught at Purdue as a full-t ...

, ''Elegy Owed'',

Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, founded in 1972 by Sam Hamill, Tree Swenson, Bill O'Daly, and Jim Gautney, specializing exclusively in the publication of poetry. It is located in Port Townsend, Washington. Copper C ...

Ernest Hilbert Ernest Hilbert (born 1970) is an American poet, critic, opera librettist, and editor. Biography Ernest Hilbert was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, and grew up in South Jersey. He graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's d ...

, ''All of You on the Good Earth''

Red Hen Press Red Hen Press is an American non-profit press located in Pasadena, California, and specializing in the publication of poetry, literary fiction, and nonfiction. The press is a member of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, and was a fin ...

, Los Angeles, CA *Nathan Hoks, ''The Narrow Circle'', Penguin, NYC / London *Paul Killebrew, ''Ethical Consciousness'', Canarium Books *Paul Klinger, ''Rubble Paper, Paper Rubble'', Further Other BookWorks, Austin, Texas *Christopher Kondrich, ''Contrapuntal'', Parlor Press, Anderson, South Carolina * Aaron Kunin, ''Grace Period: Notebooks, 1998–2007'', Letter Machine Editions *Doug Lang, ''Dérangé'', Primary Writing, Washington, D.C. *J. Vera Lee, ''Diary of Use'', TinFish, Kane’ohe, HI *

Paul Legault Paul Legault ( ; born June 25, 1985) is a Canadian-American poet. Life Legault was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and raised in Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Southern California, where he obtained a BFA in screenwriting, and the Univ ...

, ''The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation of

Emily Dickinson Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massac ...

's Complete Poems'', McSweeney's * Philip Levine, ''Sweet Will'', Prairie Lights Books *Kimberly Lyons, ''The Practice of Residue'', Subpress *

Adrian Matejka Adrian Matejka is an American poet and author of ''The Devil's Garden'' and ''Mixology''. His most decorated work is ''The Big Smoke'', which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was nominated for the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulit ...

-''The Big Smoke'', Penguin Books USA *

Mary Meriam Mary Meriam (born 1955) is an American poet and editor. She is a founding editor of Headmistress Press, one of the few presses (possibly the only press) in the United States specializing in lesbian poetry. Biography Mary Meriam was born in Pa ...

, ''Word Hot'',

Headmistress Press Headmistress Press is a small press based in Sequim, Washington. Founded in 2013, the press specializes in poetry by lesbian poets. Notable poets who have published collections with Headmistress include Janice Gould, Joy Ladin, Constance Merritt, ...

* W. S. Merwin, ''Selected Translations'',

* Jay MillAr, ''Timely Irreverence'', Nightwood Editions *Jane Miller, ''Thunderbird'',

, Port Townsend, WA * Geoffrey G. O'Brien, ''People on Sunday'', Wave Books, Seattle & New York *Lisa Olstein, ''Little Stranger'', Copper Canyon, Port Townsend * Rochelle Owens, ''Out of Ur: New & Selected Poems, 1961 – 2012'', Shearsman Books, Bristol, UK *

George Quasha George Quasha (born 1942) is an American artist and poet who works across media, exploring language, sculpture, drawing, video art, sound and music, installation, and performance. He lives and works in Barrytown, New York. Early life Quasha was ...

, ''Scorned Beauty Comes Up from Behind (preverbs)'', Between Editions, Barrytown, New York *Shin Yu Pai, ''Aux Arx'', La Alameda Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico * Holly Pester, ''Bark Leather'', Veer Books, London *Ethel Rackin, ''The Forever Notes'', Parlor Press, Anderson, South Carolina *Ray Ragota, ''A Motive for Disappearance'', Burning Deck, Providence *Sandra Ridley, ''The Counting House'', BookThug, Toronto *Jaime Robles, ''Hoard'', Shearsman, Bristol, UK *

Jerome Rothenberg Jerome Rothenberg (December 11, 1931 – April 21, 2024) was an American poet, translator and anthologist, noted for his work in the fields of ethnopoetics and performance poetry. Rothenberg co-founded the method of ethnopoetics with Dennis T ...

, ''Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader'', edited with

Heriberto Yépez Heriberto is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name Herbert. It may refer to: *Osvaldo Heriberto Hurtado Galeguillo (born 1957), Chilean retired footballer who played as a striker * Heriberto Araújo (born 1983), Spanish journa ...

, Black Widow Press, Boston *

Claude Royet-Journoud Claude Royet-Journoud (born 8 September 1941 in Lyon, France) is a contemporary French poet and artist living in Paris . Overview Royet-Journoud's publications in French include his tetralogy, published between 1972 and 1997: ''Le Renversement'', ...

, ''Four Elemental Bodies'', translated from the French by

Keith Waldrop Bernard Keith Waldrop (December 11, 1932 – July 27, 2023) was an American poet, translator, publisher, and academic. He won the National Book Award for Poetry for his 2009 collection ''Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy''. Early life and educ ...

Burning Deck Press Burning Deck was a small press specializing in the publication of experimental poetry and prose. Burning Deck was founded by the writers Keith Waldrop and Rosmarie Waldrop in 1961 and closed in 2017. Overview Although the Waldrops initially promot ...

*Aidan Semmens, ''The Book of Isaac'', Parlor Press, Anderson, South Carolina *Steve Shrader, ''The Arc of the Day / The Imperfectionist'', TinFish, Kane’ohe, HI *

Ron Silliman Ron Silliman (born August 5, 1946) is an American poet. He has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. He is often associated with language poetry. Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman w ...

, ''Revelator'', BookThug, Toronto, Canada *Ed Skoog, ''Rough Day'', Copper Canyon, Port Townsend * Sampson Starkweather, ''The First 4 Books of Sampson Starkweather'', Birds, LLC *Ed Steck, ''The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation'', Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, *Sarah Pemberton Strong, ''Tour of the Breath Gallery'', introduction by Robert A Fink, Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, Texas *Mark Tardi, ''Airport Music'', Burning Deck, Providence, Rhode Island * Habib Tengour, ''Crossings'', Post-Apollo Press, translated by

Marilyn Hacker Marilyn Hacker (born November 27, 1942) is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English emerita at the City College of New York. Her books of poetry include ''Presentation Piece'' (1974), which won the National Book Award, ...

, Sausalito, California *

Nayyirah Waheed Nayyirah Waheed is a writer and artist who has published two books of poetry and has been described as "perhaps the most famous poet on Instagram." While Waheed is a reclusive writer who doesn't reveal many details about her life, her poetry is fr ...

, ''salt'', self-published * Alli Warren, ''Here Come The Warm Jets'', City Lights, San Francisco *

Joshua Marie Wilkinson Joshua Marie Wilkinson (born December 2, 1977) is an American poet, editor, publisher, and filmmaker. Life He was born on December 2, 1977, and raised in Haller Lake neighborhood, Seattle, Washington. His given name is Joshua Wilson; his grandm ...

, ''Swamp Isthmus'', Black Ocean *

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 ...

, ''The Widow from Lake Bled'', Moon Pie Press, Westbrook, Maine *Lynn Xu, ''Debts & Lessons'', Omnidawn Publishing *

Anthologies in the United States

Lyn Hejinian Lyn Hejinian ( ; May 17, 1941 – February 24, 2024) was an American poet, essayist, translator, and publisher. She is often associated with the Language poets and is known for her landmark work ''My Life'' (Sun & Moon (publisher), Sun & Moon, 198 ...

Barrett Watten Barrett Watten (born October 3, 1948) is an American poet, editor, and educator associated with the Language poets. He is a professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, where he teaches modernism and cultural stu ...

, editors. ''A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982 – 1998''. (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut). Includes: Steve Benson,

Charles Bernstein Charles Bernstein may refer to: * Charles Bernstein (composer) (born 1943), American composer of film and television scores * Charles Bernstein (poet) (born 1950), American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar {{hndis, Bernstein, Cha ...

Beverly Dahlen Beverly Dahlen (born November 7, 1934) is an American poet who lives and works in San Francisco, CA. Life and work Dahlen is a native of Portland, Oregon, where she attended public schools. she moved with her family to Eureka, California, after W ...

Alan Davies Alan Roger Davies (; ; born 6 March 1966) is an English stand-up comedian, writer, actor and TV presenter. He is known for his portrayal of the title role in the BBC mystery drama series ''Jonathan Creek'' (1997–2016) and as the only permanen ...

, Robert Glück,

Susan Howe Susan Howe (born June 10, 1937) is an American poet, scholar, essayist, and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among other poetry movements.

George Lakoff George Philip Lakoff ( ; born May 24, 1941) is an American cognitive linguist and philosopher, best known for his thesis that people's lives are significantly influenced by the conceptual metaphors they use to explain complex phenomena. The ...

Jackson Mac Low Jackson Mac Low (September 12, 1922 – December 8, 2004) was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practitioner of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compos ...

Viktor Shklovsky Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky ( rus, Ви́ктор Бори́сович Шкло́вский, p=ˈʂklofskʲɪj; – 6 December 1984) was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer. He is one of the major figures asso ...

Kathy Acker Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 isputed– November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, critic, performance artist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that deal ...

, Bruce Andrews,

, Michael Davidson,

Johanna Drucker Johanna Drucker (born May 30, 1952) is an American author, book artist, visual theorist, and cultural critic. Her scholarly writing documents and critiques visual language: letterforms, typography, visual poetry, art, and lately, digital art a ...

, Carla Harryman, George Hartley,

Bob Perelman Bob Perelman (born December 2, 1947) is an American poet, critic, editor, and teacher. He was an early exponent of the Language poets, an avant-garde movement, originating in the 1970s. He has helped shape a "formally adventurous, politically e ...

Kit Robinson Kit Robinson (born May 17, 1949) is an American poet, translator, writer and musician. An early member of the San Francisco Language poets circle, he has published 28 books of poetry. Life and work Born in Evanston, Illinois, Robinson graduated ...

, Nick Robinson,

Leslie Scalapino Leslie Scalapino (July 25, 1944 – May 28, 2010) was an American poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets. Writes Hejinian: ...

Peter Seaton Peter Seaton (December 16, 1942 – May 18, 2010) was an American poet associated with the first wave of Language poetry in the 1970s. During the opening and middle years of Language poetry many of his long prose poems were published, widely ...

Warren Sonbert Warren Sonbert (June 26, 1947 – May 31, 1995) was an American experimental filmmaker whose work of nearly three decades began in New York in the mid-1960s, and continued in San Francisco throughout the second half of his life. Known for the exub ...

, Pierre Alferi,

Dodie Bellamy Dodie Bellamy (born 1951) is an American novelist, nonfiction author, journalist, educator and editor. Her book ''Cunt-Ups'' (2001) won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award. Her work is frequently associated with that of the New Narrative ...

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Arkadii Trofimovich Dragomoshchenko ( rus, Арка́дий Трофи́мович Драгомо́щенко, p=ɐrˈkadʲɪj trɐˈfʲiməvʲɪdʑ drəɡɐˈmoɕːɪnkə, a=Arkadiy Trofimovich Dragomoschyenko.ru.vorb.oga; 1946 – 12 September 2 ...

, Jerry Estrin,

Harryette Mullen Harryette Mullen (born July 1, 1953), Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles, is an American poet, short story writer, and literary scholar. Life Mullen was born in Florence, Alabama, grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, gradua ...

Ted Pearson Ted Pearson (born 1948 in Palo Alto, California) is an American poet. He is often associated with the Language poets. Life and work Pearson was born in 1948 in Palo Alto, California. He began studying music in 1960 and began writing poetry in 196 ...

, Andrew Ross,

Lorenzo Thomas Lorenzo Thomas (October 26, 1804 – March 2, 1875) was an American officer in the United States Army who was Adjutant General of the Army at the beginning of the American Civil War. After the war, he was appointed temporary Secretary of Wa ...

, Reva Wolf,

John Zorn John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conducting, conductor, saxophonist, arrangement, arranger and record producer, producer who "deliberately resists category". His Avant-garde music, avant-garde and experimental music, ex ...

Pierre Joris Pierre Joris (July 14, 1946 – February 26, 2025) was a Luxembourgish- American poet, essayist, translator, and anthologist. He moved between Europe, North Africa, and the United States for fifty-five years, publishing over eighty books of poet ...

(Editor), Habib Tengour, editor. ''Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature'' *Glenn O'Brien, editor. ''The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground'',

Library of America The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature. Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LOA has published more than 300 volumes by authors ...

. Includes: Mezz Mezzerow,

Miles Davis Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th century music, 20th-century music. Davis ado ...

, Henry Miller, Babs Gonzales, Art Pepper,

Neal Cassady Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. Cassady published only two short fragments of prose in his lif ...

Delmore Schwartz Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 – July 11, 1966) was an American poet and short story writer. Early life Schwartz was born in 1913 in Brooklyn, New York, where he also grew up. His parents, Harry and Rose, both Romanian Jews, separated when ...

Terry Southern Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to ...

, Annie Ross, Lord Buckley, Diane di Prima,

Jack Kerouac Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Of French-Canadian ...

Frank O’Hara Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American writer, poet, and art critic. A curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara became prominent in New York City's art world. O'Hara is regarded as a leading figure i ...

LeRoi Jones 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 ...

Lenny Bruce Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, free-wheeling, and critical style of come ...

Mort Sahl Morton Lyon Sahl (May 11, 1927 – October 26, 2021) was a Canadian-born American comedian, actor, and social Satire, satirist, considered the first modern comedian. He pioneered a style of social satire that pokes fun at political and current e ...

Bob Dylan Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his nearly 70-year ...

William S Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major Postmodern literature, postmodern author who influen ...

Ishmael Reed Ishmael Scott Reed (born February 22, 1938) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, composer, playwright, editor and publisher known for his Satire, satirical works challenging American political culture. Perhaps his best-known wor ...

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (;''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''"Warhol" born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol ...

Nick Tosches Nicholas P. Tosches (; October 23, 1949 – October 20, 2019) was an American journalist, novelist, biographer, and poet. His 1982 biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, ''Hellfire (Nick Tosches book), Hellfire'', was praised by ''Rolling Stone'' magazi ...

, Hunter S Thompson,

Iris Owens Iris Owens (1929–2008), also known by her pseudonym, Harriet Daimler, was an American novelist. Background Born Iris Klein in Brooklyn, New York, Owens graduated from Brooklyn College. During the 1950s and '60s she lived in Paris, where she was ...

, Lester Bangs,

Gary Indiana Gary Hoisington (July 16, 1950 – October 23, 2024), known as Gary Indiana, was an American writer, actor, artist, and cultural critic. He served as the art critic for the ''Village Voice'' weekly newspaper from 1985 to 1988. Indiana is best k ...

, Richard Prince, Emily XYZ,

Eric Bogosian Eric Michael Bogosian (; born April 24, 1953) is an American actor, playwright, monologuist, novelist, and historian. Descended from Armenian-American immigrants, he grew up in Watertown and Woburn, Massachusetts, and attended the University ...

George Carlin George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and author. Regarded as one of the greatest and most influential comedians of all time, he was dubbed "the dean of countercultur ...

, (eds.) ''America a Prophecy: A New Reading of American Poetry from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present'' (Station Hill Archive Editions) *TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson, editors. ''Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics'', Nightboat Books. Poets include Samuel Ace, Julian Talamantez Brolaski,

Micha Cárdenas Micha Cárdenas, stylized as micha cárdenas, is an American visual and performance artist who is an associate professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Performance, Play & Design at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Cárdenas' arti ...

, kari edwards, Duriel Harris, Joy Ladin, Dawn Lundy Martin,

Eileen Myles Eileen Myles (born December 9, 1949) is an American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades. Novelist Dennis Cooper has des ...

, Trish Salah, Max Wolf Valerio, John Wieners,

Kit Yan Kit Yan is a queer, transgender, and Chinese-American award-winning poet. He also writes plays and screenplays. Yan lives in New York. Early life Yan was born in Enping, China. As an infant, he moved to Hawaii and lived on Oahu until he was 18. ...

, Zoe Tuck *

Susan M. Schultz Susan M. Schultz (born 1958) is an American poet, critic, publisher and English professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She specializes in modern and contemporary poetry, American literature, and creative writing. She moved from Virginia ...

, editor. ''Jack London Is Dead: Contemporary Euro-American Poetry of Hawai'i (and Some Stories)'', Tinfish Press.-Contributors: Scott Abels, Diana Aehegma, Margo Berdeshevsky, Jim Chapson, M. Thomas Gammarino, Shantel Grace, Jaimie Gusman, Endi Bogue Hartigan, Anne Kennedy, Tyler McMahon, Evan Nagle, Janna Plant, Susan M. Schultz, Eric Paul Schaffer, Julia Wieting, Rob Wilson, and Meg Withers

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Robert Archambeau Robert Archambeau (18 April 1933 – 25 April 2022) was a Canadian ceramic artist and potter. He also had an academic career in post-secondary art studies. Personal history Born in Toledo, Ohio, United States, in 1933, he immigrated to Cana ...

. ''The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult World''

Poets in ''The Best American Poetry 2013''

The following poets appeared in ''The Best American Poetry 2013''.

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 ...

, general editor, and

Denise Duhamel Denise Duhamel (born 1961 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island) is an American poet. Background Duhamel received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been r ...

, guest editor (who selected the poetry): *

Kim Addonizio Kim Addonizio (born July 31, 1954) is an American poet and novelist. Life Addonizio was born in Washington, D.C., United States. She is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie (born Addonizio). She briefly atte ...

Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up ...

*Nathan Athanderson *Nin Andrews *

John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...

* Wendy Barker * Jan Beatty *

Bruce Bond Bruce Bond (born June 25, 1954) is an American poet and creative writing educator at the University of North Texas. Formal education & academic career Bond earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Pomona College, a Master of Arts degre ...

*Traci Brimhall *

Jericho Brown Jericho Brown (born April 14, 1976) is an American poet and writer. Born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, Brown has worked as an educator at institutions such as the University of Houston, the University of San Diego, and Emory University. Hi ...

Andrei Codrescu Andrei Codrescu (; born December 20, 1946) is a Romanian-born American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio. He is the winner of the Peabody Award for his film ''Road Scholar'' and the Ovid Prize for ...

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 ...

* Martha Collins *

Kwame Dawes Kwame Senu Neville Dawes (born 28 July 1962) is a Ghanaian poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, and former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina. He is now Professor of English at the University of N ...

* Connie Deanovich * Timothy Donnelly *

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 ...

* Daisy Fried *

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 ...

*Beckian Fritz Goldberg *

Terrance Hayes Terrance Hayes (born November 18, 1971) is an American poet and educator who has published seven poetry collections. His 2010 collection, ''Lighthead'', won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010. In 2014, he received a MacArthur Fellowship ...

Rebecca Hazelton Rebecca Hazelton Stafford (born 1978) is an American poet and editor. Early life Rebecca Hazelton was born in 1978 in Richmond, Virginia. She graduated from Davidson College in 2000, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in English; University of Notr ...

*Elizabeth Hazen *John Hennessy * David Hernandez *

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 ...

*Anna Maria Hong *

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 ...

Mark Jarman Mark F. Jarman (born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky) is an American poet and critic often identified with the New Narrative branch of the New Formalism; he was co-editor with Robert McDowell of ''The Reaper (magazine), The Reaper'' throughout the 1 ...

*Lauren Jensen *

A. Van Jordan A. Van Jordan (born 1965) is an American poet. He is a professor at Stanford University and was previously a college professor in the Department of English Language & Literature at the University of Michigan and distinguished visiting professor ...

Lawrence Joseph Lawrence Joseph (born 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American poet, writer, essayist, critic, lawyer, and professor of law. Early life and education Lawrence Joseph was born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan. Joseph's grandparents, Lebanese Mar ...

* Anna Journey *

Laura Kasischke Laura Kasischke is an American fiction writer and poet. She is best known for writing the novels ''Suspicious River'', ''The Life Before Her Eyes'' and '' White Bird in a Blizzard'', all of which have been adapted to film. Life and work She was ...

*Victoria Kelly * David Kirby *

Noelle Kocot } Noelle Kocot (born 1969) legal name Noelle Kocot-Tomblin, is an American poet. They are the author of nine full-length collections of poetry, including Ascent of the Mothers (Wave Books, 2023),'God's Green Earth'' (Wave Books, 2020)'', Phantom Pa ...

John Koethe John Koethe (born December 25, 1945) is an Americans, American poet, essayist and professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Biography Koethe is originally from San Diego, California. He was educated at Princeton Univ ...

Dorothea Lasky Dorothea Lasky is an American poet. She is currently an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University School of the Arts. Background and education She was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1978. She graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High Sc ...

Dorianne Laux Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952, in Augusta, Maine) is an American Poet, American poet. Biography Laux worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. in English from Mills College in ...

*Amy Lawless *Amy Lemmon * Thomas Lux *Anthony Madrid *Sally Wen Mao * Jen McClanaghan *

Campbell McGrath Campbell John McGrath (born January 26, 1962) is an American poet. He is the author of twelve full-length collections of poetry, including ''Seven Notebooks'' (Ecco Press, 2008), ''Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition'' (Ecco Press, 20 ...

*Jesse Millner *D. Nurske *

Ed Ochester Edwin Frank Ochester (September 15, 1939 – August 22, 2023) was an American poet and editor. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. For nearly twenty years, Ochester ser ...

Paisley Rekdal Paisley Rekdal is an American poet and former Poet Laureate of Utah. She is the author of a book of essays, ''The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In,'' the memoir ''Intimate,'' and six books of poetry. For her work, she ...

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 ...

*Anne Marie Roonie *

J. Allyn Rosser Jill Allyn Rosser (born 1957 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), who published under J. Allyn Rosser, is a contemporary American poet. Life She grew up in Sparta Township, New Jersey. She graduated from Middlebury College with a B.A. in French and Eng ...

* Mary Ruefle *Maureen Seaton *Tom Seibles *

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 ...

*Peter Jay Shippy *Mitch Sisskind * Aaron Smith *

Stephanie Strickland Stephanie Strickland (born February 22, 1942) is a poet living in New York City. She has published ten volumes of print poetry and co-authored twelve digital poems. Her files and papers are being collected by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book And ...

*Adrienne Su * James Tate *

Emma Trelles Emma Trelles is a Latina poet, writer, and professor. She served as poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California from 2021-2023. Life Trelles earned an MFA from Florida International University in the 1990s, where she was mentored by the poet C ...

David Trinidad David Trinidad (born 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is an American poet. David Trinidad was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in the San Fernando Valley. He attended California State University, Northridge, where he studied poetry with ...

Jean Valentine __NOTOC__ Jean Valentine (April 27, 1934December 29, 2020) was an American poet and the New York State Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010. Her poetry collection, ''Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003'', was awarded the 2004 N ...

* Paul Violi *

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 ...

Stacey Waite Stacey Waite is a poet—focusing on both slam and written verse—who also works as an Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Waite's poetry often explores themes of the body—of the intersections of gender, sexu ...

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 ...

*Angela Veronica Wong *Wendy Xu * Kevin Young *

Matthew Zapruder Matthew Zapruder (1967) is an American poet, editor, translator, and professor. His second poetry collection, ''The Pajamaist'', won the 2007 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and was chosen by ''Library Journal'' ...

Works published in English in other countries

* Myint Myint Khin, ''Poetry for Me'', Burmese medical consultant writing in English

Works published in other languages

* Antony Theodore, ''Im Schatten deiner Schwingen ich suche Zufluct'',

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pastor, educator and poet *

Gillo Dorfles Angelo Eugenio "Gillo" Dorfles (12 April 1910 – 2 March 2018) was an Italian art critic, painter, and philosopher. Biography Born in Trieste to a Gorizian father of Jewish descent and a Genoese mother, Dorfles graduated in medicine, specializ ...

, ''Poesie'',

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance languag ...

art critic, painter and philosopher *

Michel Houellebecq Michel Houellebecq (; born Michel Thomas on 26 February 1956) is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. H ...

, '' Configuration du dernier rivage'',

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poet *

Christine James Christine James FLSW (born 2 February 1954) is a Welsh poet and academic. She served as the first female Archdruid of Wales from June 2013 until June 2016. She first presided over the ceremonies at the National Eisteddfod in the 2013 Eisteddfod ...

, ''Rhwng y Llinellau'',

poet published in the United Kingdom

Awards and honors by country

Awards announced this year:

Canada awards and honours

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

: Nina Berkhout, ''Elseworlds'' * Atlantic Poetry Prize:

Lesley Choyce Lesley Choyce (born 21 March 1951) is a Canadian writer and publisher based in Nova Scotia. Choyce has written an extensive body of literature consisting of novels, non-fiction, children's literature, young adult novels, and poetry. Early life ...

, ''I'm Alive. I Believe in Everything'' *

2013 Governor General's Awards The shortlisted nominees for the 2013 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 2,"Governor General Literary Award finalists announced". ''Vancouver Sun'', October 2, 2013. and the winners were announced on November 13. ...

Katherena Vermette katherena vermette (born 29 January 1977) is a Canadian writer, who won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2013 for her collection ''North End Love Songs''. vermette is of Métis descent and originates from Winnipeg, Ma ...

, ''North End Love Songs'' (English);

René Lapierre René Lapierre (born 1953) is a Québécois writer and teacher. Mainly a poet and essayist, he has published over the last 30 years more than twenty books, among which are several essays on writing and theories of creation, social criticism, and ...

, ''Pour les désespérés seulement'' (French) *

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 ...

: **Canadian: David McFadden, ''What's the Score?'' **International, in the English Language:

Ghassan Zaqtan Ghassan Zaqtan (; born 1954) is a Palestinian poet, author of ten collections of poetry. He is also a novelist, editor. He was born in Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, and has lived in Jordan, Beirut, Damascus, and Tunis. His book “Like a Straw Bird i ...

translated by

Fady Joudah Fady Joudah (born 1971) is a Palestinian-American poet and physician. He is the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition for his collection of poems '' The Earth in the Attic''. Life Joudah was born in Austin, Texas Aus ...

, ''The Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems'' *

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 ...

: Gillian Savigny, ''Notebook M'' *

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 ...

Rachel Rose Rachel Rose (born September 20, 1970) is a Canadian/American poet, essayist and short story writer. She has published three collections of poetry, ''Giving My Body to Science'', ''Notes on Arrival and Departure'', and ''Song and Spectacle''. Her ...

, ''Song and Spectacle'' *

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

, ''Pour les désespérés seulement'' * Raymond Souster Award: A. F. Moritz, ''The New Measures'' *

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 ...

: Sarah de Leeuw, ''Geographies of a Lover'' *

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 ...

Michaël Trahan Michaël Trahan (born 1984) is a Canadian poet from Quebec.

, ''Nœud coulant''

France awards and honors

Prix Goncourt de la Poésie The Prix Goncourt ( , "The Goncourt Prize") is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward of only 10 euros, but resul ...

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 ...

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

: Chandrakant Devtale for ''Patthar Fenk Raha Hoon'' * Poetry Society India National Poetry Competition :

Mathew John The Poetry Society (India) was formed in July 1984 at New Delhi as a voluntary association to promote Indian poetry and to look after the interests of Indian Poets. The founding members included the Indian poets Keshav Malik, J P Das, H K Kaul ...

for

Another Letter from Another Father to Another Son The Poetry Society (India) was formed in July 1984 at New Delhi as a voluntary association to promote Indian poetry and to look after the interests of Indian Poets. The founding members included the Indian poets Keshav Malik, J P Das, H K Kaul ...

Tapan Kumar Pradhan Tapan Kumar Pradhan (born 22 October 1972) is an Indian poet, writer and translator from Odisha. He is best known for his poem collection "Kalahandi" which was awarded second place in Sahitya Akademi's Golden Jubilee ''Indian Literature'' Transl ...

for ''The Buddha Smiled''

New Zealand awards and honors

New Zealand Post 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 ...

: ** Poetry Award winner: Anne Kennedy, ''The Darling North''.

Auckland University Press Auckland University Press is a New Zealand publisher that produces creative and scholarly work for a general audience. Founded in 1966 and formally recognised as Auckland University Press in 1972, it is a publisher based within the University ...

** NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry: Helen Heath, ''Graft''.

Victoria University Press Te Herenga Waka University Press or THWUP (formerly Victoria University Press) is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand. As of 2022, the press had published around 800 books. History V ...

United Kingdom awards and honors

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 ...

Simon Armitage Simon Robert Armitage (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright, musician and novelist. He was appointed Poet Laureate on 10 May 2019. He is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds. He has published over 20 collections of poetr ...

Paul Farley Paul Farley FRSL (born 1965) is a British poet, writer and broadcaster. Life and work Farley was born in Liverpool. He studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art, and has lived in London, Brighton and Cumbria. His first collection of poetry ...

Lee Harwood Lee Harwood (6 June 1939 – 26 July 2015) was an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival. Life Travers Rafe Lee Harwood was born in Leicester to maths teacher Wilfred Travers Lee-Harwood and Grace Ladkin Harwood, who were then ...

Medbh McGuckian Medbh McGuckian (born as Maeve McCaughan on 12 August 1950) is a poet from Northern Ireland. Biography She was born the third of six children as Maeve McCaughan to Hugh and Margaret McCaughan in North Belfast. Her father was a school headmaste ...

Costa 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 ...

(formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry: ** Shortlist: * English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes: *

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 ...

(for a collection of poems by a poet under the age of 30): *

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:

, ''Drysalter ''( Cape Poetry) ***Shortlist: **Best First Collection: ***Shortlist: **Best Poem: Nick MacKinnon, The Metric System ***Shortlist: * Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry: **Shortlist: * Manchester Poetry Prize: * National Poet of Wales: *

National Poetry Competition The National Poetry Competition is an annual poetry prize established in 1978 in the United Kingdom. It is run by UK-based The Poetry Society and accepts entries from all over the world, with over 10,000 poems being submitted to the competition ...

Linda France Linda France is a British poet, writer and editor. She has published eight full-length poetry collections, a number of pamphlets, and was editor of the influential anthology, ''Sixty Women Poets''. France is the author of ''The Toast of the Kit- ...

for ''Bernard and Cerinthe'' *

T. S. Eliot Prize The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prize for poetry awarded by the T. S. Eliot Foundation. For many years it was awarded by the Eliots' Poetry Book Society (UK) for "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or t ...

: Sinead Morrissey for

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**Shortlist (announced in November 2013): 2013 Short List * ''The Times''/Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation:

United States awards and honors

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 ...

: Sarah Rose Nordgren for ''Best Bones'' * *

AML Award The AML Awards are given annually by the Association for Mormon Letters (AML) to the best work "by, for, and about Mormons." They are juried awards, chosen by a panel of judges. Citations for many of the awards can be found on the AML website. ...

for Poetry awarded Alex Caldiero for ''sonosuono'' (with recognition also to Susan Elizabeth Howe's collection ''Salt'' and

Lance Larsen Lance Larsen (born 1961 in Pocatello, Idaho) is an American poet. He served as poet laureate of Utah from 2012 to 2017. In 2007, he received the Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been published in Ame ...

's collection ''Genius Loci'' * ''Best Translated Book Award'' (BTBA) – Poetry Finalists for 2013 BTBA (see note) Charles-wright 05

Bollingen Prize The Bollingen Prize for Poetry is a literary honor bestowed on an American poet. Every two years, the award recognizes a poet for best new volume of work or lifetime achievement. It is awarded without nominations or submissions by the Beinecke R ...

: Charles Wright – Judges:

Susan Howe Susan Howe (born June 10, 1937) is an American poet, scholar, essayist, and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among other poetry movements.

;

Geoffrey O'Brien Geoffrey O'Brien (born 1948) is an American poet, editor, book and film critic, translator, and cultural historian. In 1992, he joined the staff of the Library of America as executive editor, becoming editor-in-chief in 1998. Biography O'Brien ...

; Joan Richardson *

Jackson Poetry Prize Poets & Writers, Inc. is one of the largest nonprofit literary organizations in the United States serving poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The organization publishes a bi-monthly magazine called ''Poets & Writers Magazine'' ...

: –

Arthur Sze Arthur Sze (; ; born December 1, 1950) is an American poet, translator, and professor. Since 1972, he has published ten collections of poetry. Sze's ninth collection ''Compass Rose'' (2014) was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Sz ...

*
Kinereth Gensler Award
from

Alice James Books Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in New Gloucester, Maine. History and mission "Alice James Books was founded as a co-operative press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MA in 1973 by five women and two men: ...

: Cecily Parks for ''O’Nights'' *

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards are a pair of American prizes based at Claremont Graduate University. They are given to poets for their collections of poetry written in the English language, by a citizen or legal resident alien of the U ...

Marianne Boruch Marianne Boruch (born June 19, 1950) is an American poet whose published work also includes essays on poetry, sometimes in relation to other fields (music, visual art, ornithology, medicine, aviation, etc.) and a memoir about a hitchhiking trip t ...

of West Lafayette, Indiana, for her collection ''The Book of Hours''
The Kundiman Poetry Prize
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and

Kundiman Kundiman is a genre of traditional Filipino ballads, predominantly with romantic themes. The lyrics of the kundiman are written in Tagalog. The melody is characterized by a smooth, flowing and gentle rhythm with dramatic intervals. Kundima ...

: Lo Kwa Mei-en for ''Yearling'' *

Lambda Literary Award Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by Lambda Literary Foundation, Lambda Literary to recognize the crucial role LGBTQ+ writers play in shaping the world. The Lammys celebrate the very best in LGBTQ+ literatur ...

: ** Gay Poetry: Stephen S. Mills, ''He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices'' ** Lesbian Poetry:

Etel Adnan Etel Adnan (; 24 February 1925 – 14 November 2021) was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist. In 2003, Adnan was named "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today" by the academic journal '' ...

, ''Sea and Fog'' *

Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 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 ...

: *

National Book Award for Poetry The National Book Award for Poetry is one of five annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers".

Mary Szybist Mary Szybist (born 20 September 1970) is an American poet. She won the National Book Award for Poetry for her collection ''Incarnadine''. Life She grew up in Pennsylvania, earned her Bachelor of Arts, B.A. and M.T. (Master of Teaching) from the ...

for ''Incarnadine'' (Graywolf Press) **Finalists:

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 ...

, Metaphysical Dog (Farrar, Straus and Giroux);

Lucie Brock-Broido Lucie Brock-Broido born "Lucy Brock" (May 22, 1956 – March 6, 2018) was an American poet, widely acclaimed as one of the most distinctive and influential voices of her generation. Noteworthy for her work as a teacher, Brock-Broido served as ...

, Stay, Illusion (Alfred A. Knopf);

, The Big Smoke (Penguin Poets/Penguin Group USA); Matt Rasmussen, Black Aperture (Louisiana State University Press) **Longlist: – Roger Bonair-Agard, Bury My Clothes (Haymarket Books) ; –

, So Recently Rent a World, New and Selected Poems: 1968–2012 (Coffee House Press); –

Brenda Hillman Brenda Hillman (born March 27, 1951, in Tucson, Arizona) is an American poet and translator. She is the author of ten collections of poetry: ''White Dress'', ''Fortress'', ''Death Tractates'', ''Bright Existence'', ''Loose Sugar'', ''Cascadia'', ' ...

, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (Wesleyan University Press) ; – Diane Raptosh, American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press) ; – Martha Ronk, Transfer of Qualities (Omnidawn Publishing) **Judges:

Nikky Finney Nikky Finney (born Lynn Carol Finney on August 26, 1957, in Conway, South Carolina) is an American poet. She was the Guy Davenport Endowed Professor of English at the University of Kentucky for twenty years. In 2013, she accepted a position at ...

Ada Limón Ada Limón (born March 28, 1976) is an American poet. On July 12, 2022, she was named the 24th United States Poet Laureate, Poet Laureate of the United States by the Librarian of Congress. This made her the first Latinas, Latina to be Poet Laurea ...

D. A. Powell Douglas A. Powell (born May 16, 1963) is an American poet. Life and career Powell lived in various places growing up, then graduated high school from Lindhurst High School in Olivehurst, California. He then worked in a number of jobs before even ...

, Jahan Ramazani,

Craig Morgan Teicher Craig Morgan Teicher (born 1979) is an American author, poet and literary critic. His poetry collection, ''The Trembling Answers'', won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 2018. He currently lives in New Jersey. Biography Teicher was born in N ...

National Book Critics Circle Award The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".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 ...

for ''Metaphysical Dog'' * ''

The New Criterion ''The New Criterion'' is a New York–based monthly literary magazine and journal of artistic and cultural criticism, edited by Roger Kimball (editor and publisher) and James Panero (executive editor). It has sections for criticism of poetry ...

'' Poetry Prize:

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 ...

for ''This Shadowy Place''; Judges:

Debora Greger Debora Greger (born 1949) is an American poet as well as a visual artist. She was raised in Richland, Washington. She attended the University of Washington and then the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She then went on to hold fellowships at the Fine Art ...

David Yezzi David Dalton Yezzi (born 1966) is an American poet, editor, actor, and professor. He currently teaches poetry in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. Life Yezzi was born in Albany, New York Roger Kimball Roger Kimball (born 1953) is an American art critic and Conservatism, conservative social commentator. He is the editor and publisher of ''The New Criterion'' and the publisher of Encounter Books. Kimball first gained notice in the early 1990s w ...

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is given by PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) to honor a poetry translation published in the preceding year. The award should not be confused with the PEN Translation Prize. The award is one of many ...

: Molly Weigel for ''The Shock of the Lenders and Other Poems'' by Jorge Santiago Perednik *

Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry ''Prairie Schooner'' is a literary magazine published quarterly at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with the cooperation of UNL's English Department and the University of Nebraska Press. It is based in Lincoln, Nebraska and was first publis ...

: R. A. Villanueva for
Reliquaria
' *

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):

Sharon Olds Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. She won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

for "Stag's Leap"; Jury:

Carl Phillips Carl Phillips (born 23 July 1959) is an American writer and poet. He is a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2023, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his '' Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020.'' ...

Maurice Manning Maurice Manning (born 14 June 1943) is an Irish academic and former Fine Gael politician. Manning was a member of the Oireachtas for 21 years, serving in both the Dáil and the Seanad. On 12 March 2009 he was elected Chancellor of the Natio ...

, C.D. Wright. **Finalists:

Jack Gilbert Jack Gilbert (February 18, 1925 – November 13, 2012) was an American poet. Gilbert was acquainted with Jack Spicer and Allen Ginsberg, both prominent figureheads of the Beat Movement, but is not considered a Beat Poet; he described himself a ...

for ''Collected Poems'' and

Bruce Weigl Bruce Weigl (born January 27, 1949, Lorain, Ohio) is an American contemporary poet whose work engages profoundly with experience of both Americans and Vietnamese during and after the Vietnam war. Biography Weigl enlisted in the United States Ar ...

for "The Abundance of Nothing". * Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award: John Taylor for ''Selected Poems'' by Lorenzo Calogero *

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 ...

: Marie Ponsot *

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 ...

: Philip Levine * Walt Whitman Prize – Chris Hosea for ''Put Your Hands In'' ; – Judge:

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, ...

: Ishion Hutchinson, Rowan Ricardo Phillips * Yale Younger Series: Eryn Green for his collection, ''Eruv'' – Judge:

From the Poetry Society of America

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 ...

Shelley Memorial Award The Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, was established by the will of Mary P. Sears, and named after the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The prize is given to a living American poet selected with reference to genius and need, and is ...

Lucia Perillo Lucia Maria Perillo (September 30, 1958 – October 16, 2016) was an American poet. In 2000, Perillo was recognized with a "genius grant" as part of the MacArthur Fellows Program. Life and career Perillo was born in Manhattan on September 30, 19 ...

Martín Espada Martín Espada (born 1957) is a Puerto Rican-American poet, and a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches poetry. Puerto Rico has frequently been featured as a theme in his poems. Life and career Espada was born ...

– Judges:

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 ...

Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America "to honor the memory and poetry of Emily Dickinson, for a poem inspired by Dickinson though not necessarily in her style.""PSA Annual Awar ...

: Greg Wrenn; Finalists: Heather Cousins / Jacquelyn Pope – Judge: Brian Teare * Lyric Poetry Award: Micah Bateman; Finalists: Bruce Bond / Andrea Carter Brown – Judge:

Carolyne Wright Carolyne Wright (born in 1949, in Bellingham, Washington) is an American poet. Life She studied at Seattle University, New York University, and graduated from Syracuse University with master's and doctoral degrees. She has held visiting creative ...

* Lucille Medwick Memorial Award: Gary Young; Finalists: Bruce Bond / Diana Khoi Nguyen – Judge: Patricia Smith * Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award: Elyse Fenton; Finalists: Meena Alexander / Lia Purpura – Judge:

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 ...

* Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: Lizza Rodriguez; Finalists: Sarah George / Jack Hunt – Judge:

Gabrielle Calvocoressi Gabrielle Calvocoressi is an American poet, editor, essayist, and professor. Life and career Gabrielle Calvocoressi was born in 1974 in central Connecticut. Their family owned movie theaters, including a drive-in, in several small towns across ...

* George Bogin Memorial Award: Paula Bohince; Finalists: Jamaal May / Lucy Ricciardi – Judge:

Cate Marvin Cate Marvin is an American poet. Life She graduated from Marlboro College (BA, 1993), University of Houston (MFA, 1997), University of Iowa (MFA, 1999) and University of Cincinnati (Ph.D., 2003) She has taught at the College of Staten Island, Cit ...

* Robert H. Winner Memorial Award: Carol Light Finalist: C. E. Perry – Judge:

* Cecil Hemley Memorial Award: Ted Mathys – Judge:

Alice Notley Alice Elizabeth Notley (November 8, 1945 – May 19, 2025) was an American poet. Notley came to prominence as a member of the second generation of the New York School of poetry—although she always denied being involved with the New York Schoo ...

Norma Farber First Book Award The Norma Farber First Book Award is given by the Poetry Society of America "for a first book of original poetry written by an American and published in either a hard or soft cover in a standard edition during the calendar year". Poetry Society of ...

: Nick Twemlow for ''Palm Trees'' (Green Lantern Press, 2012); – Judge:

Timothy Liu Timothy Liu (born 1965 in San Jose, California) is an American poet and the author of such books as ''Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse'', ''For Dust Thou Art'', ''Of Thee I Sing'', ''Hard Evidence'', ''Say Goodnight'', ''Burnt Offer ...

**Finalist'': Robert Ostrom for ''The Youngest Butcher in Illinois'' (YesYes Books, 2012) *

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 ...

Naomi Replansky Naomi Replansky (May 23, 1918 – January 7, 2023) was an American poet and translator. ''The New York Times'' described her poetry as investigating "social history through individual lives". While her writing initially received little critical ...

for ''Collected Poems'' (Black Sparrow, David R. Godine) – Judge: B. H. Fairchild **Finalists for WCW Award: Kathleen Flenniken for ''Plume'';

for ''On The Spectrum of Possible Deaths''; and Patrica Smith for ''Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah''

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in poetry" article: *January 10 – Evan S. Connell, Jr., 88 (born

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)

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novelist, poet and short-story writer. *January 20 – Toyo Shibata, 101 (born

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), female

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poet. *January 29 –

Anselm Hollo Anselm Paul Alexis Hollo (12 April 1934 – 29 January 2013) was a Finnish poet and translator. He lived in the United States from 1967 until his death in January 2013. Hollo published more than forty titles of poetry in the United Kingdom and ...

, 78 (born

1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...

), Finnish poet resident in the U.S. since 1967. *January 24 –

Lucien Stryk Lucien Stryk (April 7, 1924 – January 24, 2013) was an American poet, translator of Buddhist literature and Zen poetry, and former English professor at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Biography Stryk was born in Poland on April 7, 1924, a ...

, 88 (born

) American poet, Zen scholar and translator. *March 2 –

Thomas McEvilley Thomas McEvilley (; July 13, 1939 – March 2, 2013) was an American art critic, poet, novelist, and scholar. He was a Distinguished Lecturer in Art History at Rice UniversityThomas McEvilley, G. Roger Denson (1996), ''Capacity: : History, t ...

, 73 (born

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), American art critic, poet and novelist. *March 21 –

Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe (; born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature. His first novel ''Things Fall Apart'' ( ...

, 82 (born

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writer, perhaps best known for

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, also published many volumes of poetry, including his ''Collected Poems'' in 2005. *March 30 –

Daniel Hoffman Daniel Gerard Hoffman (April 3, 1923 – March 30, 2013) was an American poet, essayist, and academic. He was appointed the twenty-second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1973. Early life and education Hoffman wa ...

, 89 (born

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), Poet Laureate of the U.S. in 1973 and 1974. * May 5 –

Sarah Kirsch Sarah Kirsch (; 16 April 1935 – 5 May 2013) was a German poet. Biography Sarah Kirsch was originally born Ingrid Bernstein in Limlingerode, Prussian Saxony but had changed her first name to Sarah in order to protest against her father's ...

, 78 (born

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), East

poet. * August 17 –

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 ...

, 83 (born

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), American poet and literary critic. * August 30 –

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish Irish poetry, poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is ''Death of a Naturalist'' (1966), his first m ...

, 74 (born

), Irish poet, playwright, translator and critic, winner of the 1995

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. * September 23 –

Álvaro Mutis Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo (August 25, 1923 – September 22, 2013) was a Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist. His best-known work is the novel sequence '' The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll'', which revolves around the character o ...

, 90 (born

), Colombian poet, novelist and essayist.Álvaro Mutis muere a la edad de 90 años en México

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