2009 in poetry

none 2009 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events January 5 – The Turkish government announces it will posthumously restore the citizenship it had stripped from influential poet Nâzım Hikmet, a Marxist who died in 1963 as an exile in the Soviet Union. https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7812797.stm January 9, 2009 BBC News Turkey rehabilitates poet Hikmet January 6, 2009 https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090107100225/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7812797.stm 2009-01-07 live January 20 – Poet Elizabeth Alexander reads "Praise Song for the Day" at presidential inauguration of President Barack Obama. February 9 – Eritrean poet and broadcaster Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu is arbitrarily arrested and begins 6 years imprisonment without trial.Schriever Julia München Die Freiheit, zu sagen, was ist https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-mebrahtu-pressefreiheit-lyrikerin-portraet-1.5085035 2020-10-26 2022-11-11 Süddeutsche Zeitung de March 16 – Nicholas Hughes, 47, the son of the poets Ted Hughes (British poet laureate 1984–98) and Sylvia Plath, who famously committed suicide in 1963 when her son was a year old, hangs himself in his home in Alaska. He had suffered from depression. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/mar/23/sylvia-plath-son-kills-himself March 24, 2009 London The Guardian Stephen Bates Son of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes kills himself March 23, 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090325024450/http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/23/sylvia-plath-son-kills-himself 25 March 2009 live May 1 – Carol Ann Duffy is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the first woman appointed to the position in its 341-year history, a position that has been held by, among others, John Dryden (whom Charles II named the first official poet laureate ),https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/01/carol-ann-duffy-poet-laureate1 London The Guardian Charlotte Higgins Carol Ann Duffy becomes first woman poet laureate May 1, 2009 1 August 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090505045142/http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/01/carol-ann-duffy-poet-laureate1 5 May 2009 live Tennyson, Wordsworth and Cecil Day-Lewis. Duffy is also the first Scot and the first openly gay occupant of the post. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/world/europe/02poet.html?_r=2&ref=global-home The New York Times Sarah Lyall After 341 Years, British Poet Laureate Is a Woman May 2, 2009 1 August 2009 Carol Ann Duffy at the Rylands Library in Manchester Friday morning May 5 – Posthumous publication of J. R. R. Tolkien's narrative poem The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún in alliterative verse based on the 13th century Poetic Edda and probably written in the 1930s. May 16 & May 25 – Ruth Padel becomes the first female ever elected Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/17/ruth-padel-oxford-poetry-professor London The Guardian David Batty Ruth Padel elected first female Oxford professor of poetry May 17, 2009 29 January 2010 but resigns nine days later after she is alleged to have been involved in what some sources refer to as a smear campaign against Derek Walcott, her leading rival for the post.Cole Olivia http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23689480-details/Nobel+winner+quits+Oxford+poetry+race+over+sex+claim+dirty+tricks/article.do https://archive.today/20130505103023/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23689480-details/Nobel+winner+quits+Oxford+poetry+race+over+sex+claim+dirty+tricks/article.do dead May 5, 2013 Nobel Winner Quits Oxford Poetry Race Over Sex Claims The London Evening Standard May 12, 2009 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/25/ruth-padel-oxford-poetry-resigns London The Guardian Oxford professor of poetry Ruth Padel resigns May 25, 2009 29 January 2010 June 25 – American pop singer Michael Jackson dies of an acute propofol intoxication at the age of 50. July 30 – Last Post, a poem by Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, is read on the BBC Radio 4 programme Today. Commissioned by the BBC to mark the deaths of Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, two of the last three surviving British veterans of the World War I, it is read on the day of Allingham's funeral. September 18 – The film Bright Star, about John Keats and his relationship with Fanny Brawne, is released in the United States, and on November 6 in the United Kingdom. The film's title is a reference to a sonnet by Keats, "Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art", written at the time of the love affair. Jane Campion directed the movie. A Room and a Half, a Russian film directed by Andrey Khrzhanovsky and based on the life of Russian–American poet Joseph Brodsky, is released. It is distributed in the United States in 2010. https://movies.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/movies/20room.html?ref=arts The New York Times Stephen Holden Poet in Exile, Still Gripping His Memories January 20, 2010 20 January 2010 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 Robert Adamson, The Best Australian Poems, Black Inc., 978-1-86395-452-5, anthology including works by Ivy Alvarez, Judith Beveridge, Sarah K. Bell, Jen Jewel Brown, Anne Elvey, Lisa Gorton, Clive James, Les Murray, Dorothy Porter, Peter Porter, Thomas Shapcott, Alex Skovron, John Tranter, and Chris Wallace-Crabbe.Web page titled "The Best Australian Poems 2009" at the Black Inc. Web site, retrieved February 20, 2011Cordite Poetry Review https://web.archive.org/web/20110302230318/http://www.cordite.org.au/newsblog/best-australian-poemspoetry-2009 2011-03-02 Stephen Edgar, Other Summers, 109 pp; Melbourne: Black Pepper, 978-1-876044-62-6 Jennifer Harrison and Kate Waterhouse, editors, Motherlode: Australian Women's Poetry 1986 – 2008, 120 poets represented, 342 pp, Glebe, New South Wales: Puncher and Wattmann, 978-1-921450-16-7, anthology Emma Jones, The Striped World, winner of the 2009 Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award; Faber and Faber Martin Langford: editor, Harbour City Poems: Sydney in Verse 1788–2008, Glebe, New South Wales: Puncher and Wattmann, 978-1-921450-17-4, anthology The Human Project: New and Selected Poems Leonard, John (ed.), The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry, Puncher & Wattmann. 978-1-9214-5029-7 John Kinsella, The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry, Penguin Group (Australia) Les Murray, Killing the Black Dog, Black Inc., 978-1-86395-447-1 Page, Geoff (ed.), 60 Classic Australian Poems (an anthology), University of New South Wales Press. 978-1-9214-1079-6 Dorothy Porter, The Bee Hut, Black Inc., 978-1-86395-446-4 Nathan Shepherdson, Apples With Human Skin, St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 978-0-7022-3741-6 Alan Wearne, guest editor, The Best Australian Poetry 2009, University of Queensland Press, 978-0-7022-3736-2 Les Wicks The Ambrosiacs (Island Press (Australia)) editor, Guide to Sydney Beaches Meuse Press Canada Margaret Avison, Listening: The Last Poems, posthumously publishedBritannica (2010), "English: Canada" Robert Bringhurst, Selected Poems Jan Conn, Botero's Beautiful Horses, Brick Books Barry Dempster, Love Outlandish, Brick Books Kate Eichhorn and Heather Milne, editors, Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women's Poetry and Poetics, Coach House Books, 978-1-55245-221-9; an anthology of 15 poets: Nicole Brossard, Margaret Christakos, Susan Holbrook, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Karen Mac Cormack, Daphne Marlatt, Erín Moure, M. NourbeSe Philip, Sina Queyras, Lisa Robertson, Gail Scott, Nathalie Stephens, Catriona Strang, Rita Wong, and Rachel Zolf Kim Goldberg, Red Zone, Pig Squash Press Chris Hutchinson, Other People's Lives, Brick Books Adeena Karasick, Amuse Bouche Douglas Lochhead, Looking into Trees Jeanette Lynes, The New Blue Distance Susan Musgrave, When the World Is Not Our Home: Selected Poems, 1985–2000 Soraya Peerbaye, Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names Marguerite Pigeon, Inventory Sina Queyras, Expressway, Coach House Books James Reaney, The Essential James Reaney. Brian Bartlett, ed., Porcupine's Quill Laisha Rosnau, Lousy Explorers, Nightwood Editions Stephen Rowe, Never More There, Nightwood Editions Carolyn Smart, Hooked, Brick Books Carmine Starnino, This Way Out, Gaspereau Press Fred Wah, Is a Door David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn, Harbour Publishing India, Indian poetry in English Anju Makhija, E V Ramakrishan, editors, We Speak in Changing Languages: Indian Women Poets 1990–2007, anthology, New Delhi: Sahitya AkademiSearch results page, WorldCat website, retrieved August 10, 2010 Anthony Theodore, The Song of My Dance and Dance of My Dreams, 978-14-389511-9-5 Arundhathi Subramaniam, editor, Hot is the Moon: Poems and Stories of Women in Kannada, Tamil, Konkani And Tulu, anthology in various languages, with translations into English; Mumbai: SparrowWeb page titled "Vaidehi" https://web.archive.org/web/20120406234011/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14723 April 6, 2012 at the Poetry International website; also, Sheth, Priya, "Sparrow Publication presents 'Hot is the Moon'" https://web.archive.org/web/20120307175520/http://www.mumbaimirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=Lifestyle%20-%20Leisure&sectid=79&contentid=2009021220090212211704694908e51a5 2012-03-07 , February 12, 2009, Mumbai Mirror, both retrieved August 2, 2010 Eunice de Souza, A Necklace of Skulls, Collected Poems ( Poetry in English), New Delhi: PenguinWeb page titled "Eunice de Souza" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919131732/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=16077 September 19, 2011 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010 Uddipana Goswami, We Called the River Red ( Poetry in English ), AuthorspressAmbika Ananth, "Ambika Ananth – ‘We Called the river Red’" https://web.archive.org/web/20120302085403/http://www.museindia.com/viewarticle.asp?myr=2010&issid=31&id=1997 2012-03-02 , book review, Issue 31: May–June 2010, Muse India website, retrieved July 16, 2010 Yash Sharma, Tale of a Virgin River, translated into English by Anil Sehgal from the original Dogri; released with a CD of six songs composed and sung by the poet's daughter, Seema Anil Sehgal, a prominent singer; published in Singapore"Dogri book released in Singapore", August 28, "Tribune News Service", as published at the "J&K Plus" website of The Tribune of Chandigarh, India, retrieved July 6, 2010 Ireland thumb|Seamus Heaney addresses the Law Society (University College Dublin), this year Michael Coady, Going by Water, Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press Ray Givans, Tolstoy in Love, 82 pages, 978-1-906614-08-9 Kerry Hardie, Only This Room, Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press Ron Houchin, Museum Crows, 84 pages, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Press, 978-1-907056-17-8 Dorothy Molloy, Long-distance Swimmer, 60 pages, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Press, 978-1-907056-21-5, posthumously published (died 2004) Paul Muldoon, Wayside Shrines, 40 pages, Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press, 978-1-85235-479-4 Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Sun-fish, Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press Matthew Sweeney, Best of Irish Poetry 2010, Southword Editions, including work by Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, Michael McKimm, Leanne O'Sullivan, Leontia Flynn, Eva Bourke and Kerry Hardie Peggy O'Brien, Frog Spotting, 87 pages, Dedalus Press, 978-1-906614-06-5 Stephen Roger Powers, The Follower's Tale, 100 pages, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Press, 978-1-907056-20-8 Gabriel Rosenstock, Uttering Her Name, 126 pages, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Press, 978-1-907056-19-2 A.E. Stringer, Human Costume, 100 pages, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Press, 978-1-907056-18-5 Enda Wyley, To Wake to This, Dedalus Press, 978-1-906614-11-9 New Zealand Stephanie de Montalk, Vivid Familiar, Victoria University Press 9780864735980 Jessica Le Bas Walking to Africa, Auckland University Press 9781869404468 Tusiata Avia, Bloodclot, Victoria University Press 9780864735935 Poets in Best New Zealand Poems Poems from these 25 poets were selected by James Brown for Best New Zealand Poems 2008, published online this year: Johanna Aitchison Hinemoana Baker Emma Barnes David Beach Peter Bland Jenny Bornholdt Amy Brown Cliff Fell Joan Fleming Bernadette Hall Sam Hunt Lynn Jenner Michele Leggott Jean McCormack Emma Neale Gregory O'Brien Bob Orr Chris Orsman Richard Reeve Sam Sampson Kerrin P. Sharpe Tim Upperton Richard von Sturmer Tom Weston Sonja Yelich United Kingdom James Byrne, Blood/Sugar, 978-1-906570-29-3 Caroline Grigson, editor, The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter: Haydn's Tuneful Voice (Hunter, 1742–1821, wrote lyrics to much of Haydn's music) Liverpool University Press (Liverpool English Texts and Studies) 978-1-84631-191-8 Brian Henry, Quarantine::Contagion, 978-1-906570-13-2 Luke Kennard, The Migraine Hotel, Salt, 96 pages, 978-1-84471-555-8 Herbert Lomas, A Casual Knack of Living: Collected Poems, contains all nine of the author's previous poetry books and one previously unpublished book of poems; 428 pages, 978-1-906570-41-5 Sean O'Brien, Night Train (with artist Birtley Aris), Flambard Press Ruth Padel, Darwin: A Life in Poems, the author is his great-granddaughterBritannica (2010) "English: United Kingdom" Christopher Reid, A Scattering (2009 Costa Book Awards book of the year) Matthew Welton, We needed coffee but..., 96 pages, Carcanet Press, 978-1-84777-002-8 Anthologies in the United Kingdom Gerard Carruthers, editor, Scottish Poems Fiona Sampson, editor, A Century of Poetry Review, Carcanet Press, 978-1-84777-016-5 Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom Zachary Leader, editor, The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, and Their Contemporaries, Oxford University Press (April 2009)Web page titled "20th and 21st Century" https://web.archive.org/web/20090226023558/http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/catalogues/literature/twentieth.pdf 2009-02-26 , Oxford University Press website, retrieved December 10, 2008 Contemporary Poetry: Poets and Poetry since 1990 (Cambridge Contexts in Literature) Cambridge University Press, 1st edition 978-0-521-71248-4 United States Sherman Alexie, Face, the author's first collection in nine years, Hanging Loose Press (April)Web page titled "Spring 2009 Hardcovers: Poetry" at Publishers Weekly website, retrieved March 12, 2009 Miguel Algarín, Survival Supervivencia, essays and poemsBritannica (2010), "English: United States" Simone dos Anjos, Comedies, Iowa City, Iowa: Cosa Nostra Editions Philip Appleman, Karma, Dharma, Pudding & Pie Quantuck Lane Press (April) Rae Armantrout, Versed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Wesleyan University Press Renée Ashley, Basic Heart Anny Ballardini, Ghost Dance in 33 Movements Otoliths, 978-0-9805096-8-7 Richard Bauch, These Extremes David Biespiel, The Book of Men and Women Jules Boykoff, Hegemonic Love Potion, Factory School, Brooklyn, New York Joel Brouwer, And So, Four Way, 978-1-884800-91-7Web page titled "Fiction Book Reviews", dated March 16, 2009, at Publishers Weekly website, retrieved March 24, 2009 Louis Cabri, that can’t, Nomados, Vancouver Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Apocalyptic Swing (August), Persea C. P. Cavafy, translated from the Greek by Daniel Mendelsohn: Collected Poems, Knopf, 978-0-375-40096-4 The Unfinished Poems, C.P. Cavafy, 30 poems, left in various stages of completion by Cavafy when he died in 1933, discovered in the Cavafy Archive in the 1960s by George Savidis, the poet's editor, and published in a scholarly Greek edition by Renata Lavagnini in 1994; Knopf, 978-0-307-26546-3 Kelly Cherry, The Retreats of Thought Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927), Victi Resurgunt. Published posthumously. A 26-page pamphlet of fifteen "fugitive" patriotic and war poems written by Mrs. Coates. The poems were originally published in various periodicals and texts between the years 1915 and 1922, and have been compiled and organized into pamphlet format.Reference at Openlibrary.org 978-0-615-30926-2 Arda Collins, It Is Daylight, Louise Glück's sixth pick as judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition; Yale University Press, 978-0-300-14888-6 (April) Ben Doller, (né Doyle), FAQ, Ahsahta, 978-1-934103-05-0 Rita Dove, Sonata Mulattica, Norton, 978-0-393-07008-8 (April) Brett Evans, Slosh Models, Brooklyn: Factory School Sarah Gambito, Delivered (Persea), 978-0892553464 Peter Ganick, arranger, White Sky Books, Puhos, Finland Molly Gaudry, We Take Me Apart: A Novel(la) [in verse], Mud Luscious Press Jack Gilbert, The Dance Most of All, Knopf, 978-0-307-27076-4 (April) Jim Harrison, In Search of Small Gods, Copper Canyon Press (April) Michael Heller, Eschaton, Jersey City, New Jersey: Talisman House Leland Hickman, Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman, edited by Stephen Motika (Preface by Dennis Phillips and Afterwords by Bill Mohr), Nightboat Books Ernest Hilbert, Sixty Sonnets, Los Angeles: Red Hen. Geoffrey Hill, Selected Poems, Yale University Press, 978-0-300-12156-8; including "Mercian Hymns" Lucy Ives, My Thousand Novel, Iowa City, Iowa: Cosa Nostra Editions Stuart Taylor James, Heart Well Worn: The LWAs, 143 pages, PublishAmerica, Baltimore, MD, 978-1-4489-6438-3 Marilyn Kallet, Packing Light Erica Kaufman, Censory Impulse, Factory School, Brooklyn, New York Jesse Lee Kercheval, Cinema Muto Burt Kimmelman, As If Free, Talisman, Jersey City, New Jersey Natalie Knight, Archipelagos, Punch Press, Buffalo Jennifer Kronovet, Awayward, debut book of poetry, selected by Jean Valentine for BOA's A. Poulin Jr. prize; BOA, 978-1-934414-18-7 Matthew Landis, Like a Moth From His Death Mouth, privately printed, Philadelphia Timothy Liu, Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse, Talisman House, Jersey City, New Jersey Lewis MacAdams, Lyrics, Palo Alto, California: Blue Press Randall Mann, Breakfast with Thom Gunn, University of Chicago Press, 978-0-226-50344-8 Clay Matthews, Runoff, BlazeVOX, Buffalo, New York Campbell McGrath, Shannon, about the youngest member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Barry McKinnon, In the Millennium, New Star Books, Vancouver BC / Point Roberts, Washington Deborah Meadows, Goodbye Tissues, Shearsman Books, Exeter, UK Didi Menendez, For Love of an Armadillo, GOSS 183:: Casa Menendez, Bloomington, Illinois Sheila Murphy & mIEKAL aND, How to Spell the Sound of Everything, Xerox Sutra Editions, West Lima, Wisconsin Marilyn Nelson – Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story Of The Greatest All-Girl Swing Band In The World Mary Oliver, Evidence, 44 poems, Beacon Press (April) Simon Pettet, Hearth, Talisman House, Jersey City, New Jersey D. A. Powell, Chronic, Graywolf Press, winner of the 2010 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Hilda Raz, What Happens Kit Robinson, The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems, 1976–2003, Adventures in Poetry, Princeton, New Jersey Ce Rosenow, Pacific, Mountain Gate Press, Hillsboro, Oregon Frederick Seidel, Poems 1959–2009, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 978-0-374-12655-1 (April) Mohammad Shaheen, translation from the original Arabic of the late Mahmoud Darwish, Almond Blossoms and Beyond, Interlink (March) Frank Sherlock, Over Here, Factory School, Brooklyn, New York Louis Simpson, Struggling Times. Rochester, New York: BOA Editions. 978-1-934414-20-0. This is the Jamaica-born Simpson's 18th collection. Logan Ryan Smith, Tracks, Ypolita Press, San Francisco, California Elizabeth Swados, The One and Only Human Galaxy, Hanging Loose Press (April) Eleanor Ross Taylor, Captive Voices: New and Selected PoemsNews release, "Eleanor Ross Taylor Awarded 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize" https://web.archive.org/web/20100609012327/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/release_041310.html?id=186210 June 9, 2010 , April 13, 2010, The Poetry Foundation, retrieved June 9, 2010 Simon Thompson, Why Does It Feel So Late?, New Star Books, Vancouver BC / Point Roberts, Washington Sotère Torregian, Envoy, (preface by Andrew Joron), Punch Press, Buffalo, New York Pamela Ushuk, Crazy Love Fred Wah, The False Laws of Narrative: The Poetry of Fred Wah, selected with an introduction by Louis Cabri; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Anne Waldman, Manatee/ Humanity, Penguin, 978-0-14-311521-2 book-length poem taking its form and concerns from a Tibetan Buddhist ritual and from the poet's close encounter with a Manatee Keith Waldrop: Translator from the original French of Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen: Little Poems in Prose, Wesleyan University Press (May) Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy, University of California Press, 978-0-520-25878-5 Waldrop has long been a major force in American avant-garde poetics, and this substantial new volume is big news indeed. Comprising three sequences—each almost a book in itself—plus an epilogue, and received the National Book Award (see below) Peter Waterhouse, Language Death Night Outside: Poem / Novel, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop; Burning Deck, Providence, Rhode Island Emily Wilson, Micrographia, title from Robert Hooke's 1665 scientific study of the natural world through a microscope; University of Iowa Press, 978-1-58729-801-1 Anthologies in the United States David Lehman, general editor, David Wagoner, editor, The Best American Poetry 2009 978-0-7432-9976-3 (September 2009) David Yezzi, editor, Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, (University of Ohio Press, 2009), 0-8040-1121-4 Honor Moore, Poems from the Women's Movement (April), work from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Library of America Miekal And, editor, "Anthology Spidertangle", representative work of more than 50 visual poets, 978-1-4382-5818-8, Xexoxial Editions Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States International Who's Who in Poetry 2009, Routledge, 978-1-85743-483-5 Pierre Joris, Justifying the Margins, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, UK; essays, criticism via poetics At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn Joshua Weiner University of Chicago Press 2009 978-0-226-89043-2 Poets in The Best American Poetry 2009 These poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2009, with David Lehman, general editor, and David Wagoner, guest editor (who selected the poetry):https://www.bestamericanpoetry.com The Best American Poetry Series | Home Page Bestamericanpoetry.com 2011-06-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20110623053216/http://bestamericanpoetry.com/ 23 June 2011 dead John Ashbery Caleb Barber Mark Bibbins Bruce Bond Marianne Boruch Fleda Brown Catherine Carter Suzanne Cleary Billy Collins Rob Cook James Cummins Mark Doty Denise Duhamel Alice Friman Margaret Gibson Douglas Goetsch Albert Goldbarth Barbara Goldberg Michael J. Grabell Debora Greger Jennifer Grotz Barbara Hamby Sarah Hannah Jerry Harp Jim Harrison Dolores Hayden Terrance Hayes K. A. Hay Bob Hicok Daniel Hoffman Richard Howard P. Hurshell Michael Johnson Tina Kelley Maud Kelly Lance Larsen Phillis Levin Philip Levine Sarah Lindsay Thomas Lux Joanie Mackowski Christine Marshall Cleopatra Mathis J.D. McClatchy W. S. Merwin Jude Nutter Sharon Olds Mary Oliver Linda Pastan Kevin Prufer Susan Blackwell Ramsey Keith Ratzlaff Adrienne Rich James Richardson Pattiann Rogers Gibbons Ruark John Rybicki Betsy Sholl Martha Silano Mitch Sisskind Tom Sleigh Vincent Stanley Pamela Sutton Alexandra Teague Craig Morgan Teicher Natasha Trethewey Derek Walcott Jeanne Murray Walker Ronald Wallace Charles Harper Webb Lisa Williams Carolyne Wright Debbie Yee Kevin Young Matthew Zapruder Works published in other languages French language France Emily Dickinson, Poésies complètes, translated from the original English by Françoise Delphy; Flammarion Patrice Delbourg, editor, L'année poétique 2009 ("Poetry Year 2000"), French-language poetry published in the past 12 months, Publisher: Seghers; 978-2-232-12308-5. an anthology Dominique Sorrente, Pays sous les continents, un itinéraire poétique 1978–2008, MLDWeb page titled "Poètes Internationaux"May 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes at the Festival Internationale de la Poésie website, retrieved August 12, 2010 Jean Max Tixier, Chants de l'évidence, publisher: Autres Temps, 978-2-84521-338-8 French poetry in Canada Normand de Bellefeuille, Mon nom, Publisher: Éditions du Noroît; 978-2-89018-655-2; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetryWeb page titled "Canada Council for the Arts announces the finalists for the 2009 Governor General's Literary Awards" https://web.archive.org/web/20100619004736/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/news/releases/2009/wi128999467161854957 2010-06-19 , a news release dated October 14, 2009, retrieved January 29, 2010 René Lapierre, Traité de physique, Publisher: Les Herbes rouges; 978-2-89419-280-1; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetry Hélène Monette, Thérèse pour joie et orchestre, Publisher: Les Éditions du Boréal; 978-2-7646-0625-4; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetry Philippe More, Brouillons pour un siècle abstrait, Publisher: Poètes de brousse; 978-2-923338-20-0; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetry André Roy, Montreal, Les espions de Dieu, Publisher: Les Herbes rouges; 978-2-89419-282-5; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetry French poetry in Switzerland Markus Hediger, En deçà de la lumière, Publisher: Éditions de l'Aire; 2-88108-886-4 German Christoph Buchwald, series editor, and Uljana Wolf, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2009 ("Yearbook of Poetry 2009"), including poems by Christian Ide Hintze, Herta Müller, Harald Hartung, Marcel Beyer; Frankfurt: Fischer (S.), 254 pages, 978-3-10-009655-5, an anthology Christoph Janacs, Die Zärtlichkeit von Stacheln; Salzburg: Tandem Edition Daniel Falb, Bancor, Kookbooks, 64 pages, 978-3-937445-39-7 Monika Rinck (author, illustrator) and Andreas Töpfer (illustrator), Helle Verwirrung/Rincks Ding- und Tierleben: Gedichte & Zeichnungen ("Bright confusion/Rinck thing and animal life: Poems & Drawings"), Kookbooks, 200 pages, 978-3-937445-37-3 Andre Rudolph (author) and Annette Kühn (illustrator), Fluglärm über den Palästen unsrer Restinnerlichkeit, Luxbooks, 130 pages, 978-3-939557-90-6 Uljana Wolf, falsche freunde: Prosa-Gedichte ("false friends: Prose Poems"), Kookbooks, 85 pages, 978-3-937445-38-0 Greece Phoebe Giannisi, Homerika, publisher: Kedros Editions"News" Web page at the Greek Poetry Now website, retrieved January 29, 2010 Christoph Janacs, Zärtlichkeit mit Stacheln. Gedichte zu Adalbert Stifter ("The Tenderness of Quills: Poems by Adalbert Stifter"), Salzburg: Edition Tandem, 88 pages, 978-3-902606-17-4Web page titled "Neue Sirene/Publishing Successes of New Authors of Neue Sirene", at the Neue Sirene magazine website, retrieved January 30, 2010 Giorgos Lillis, Bounds of the Labyrinth, publisher: Kedros Editions Yiannis Stigas, Isopalo Travma ("An Even Wound"), publisher: Kedros EditionsWeb page titled "Yannis Stigas" at the "Greek Poetry Now" website, retrieved January 29, 2010 Noveltly Within or Beyond Language, an anthology of young Greek poets, Athens: Gavriilidis EditionsWeb page titled "Giorgos Hantzis" https://web.archive.org/web/20091016085319/http://www.greekpoetrynow.com/poet_poems_eng/chantzis_cv.html October 16, 2009 at the "Greek Poetry Now" website, retrieved January 29, 2010 Christos Chrysoopoulos (Χρήστος Χρυσόοπουλος), Η άλλη Λώρα ("Another Laura"), criticism; Athens: Kastaniotis India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Bharat Majhi, Dho, Bhubaneswar: Timepass, India, Oriya-languageWeb page titled "Bharat Majhi" https://web.archive.org/web/20110929184154/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14793 September 29, 2011 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010 K. Siva Reddy, Aame Evaraite Matram, Hyderabad: Palapitta Prachuranalu, Telugu-languageWeb page titled "K. Siva Reddy" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919122233/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=16074 September 19, 2011 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010 Pratyush Guleri, editor and translator, Urvar Pradesh, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 978-81-267-1812-2, anthology of poems translated from the original Himachali into HindiHarbans Singh, "Tales of two cities and more", December 27, 2009, The Tribune, retrieved July 19, 2010 S. Joseph, Uppante Kooval Varakkunnu, winner of a Thiruvananthapuram Book Fair award for one of the ten best books of this year; Kottayam: DC Books, 978-81-264-2447-4; Malayalam-languageWeb page titled "S. Joseph" https://web.archive.org/web/20120406234647/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=17767 April 6, 2012 , Poetry International website, retrieved August 3, 2010 Teji Grover and Rustam Singh, Teji aur Rustam Ki Kavitaen, selected poems of both poets, New Delhi: Harper Collins, 81-7223-879-7, Hindi-languageWeb page titled "Teji Grover" https://web.archive.org/web/20120420011224/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=17742 April 20, 2012 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved August 3, 2010 Venkatapu Satyam, translator, Antarjanam, translated into Kannada from the original Telugu of K. Siva Reddy; Bangalore: Kannada Prakashana thumb|150px|Wisława Szymborska on October 23 Nepal Poland Juliusz Erazm Bolek, Sens-orWeb page titled "Juliusz Erazm Bolek był gościem wczorajszego Wieczoru w "Arce" (zdjęcia)" (in Polish; Google translation: "Julius Erasmus Bolek was a guest last night in the "Ark" (photos)") at the "moja-ostroleka" website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Tadeusz Dąbrowski, Czarny kwadrat, winner of the 2009 Koscielski Foundation Prize (popularly known in Poland as the nagrodą Kościelskich, or "Koscielski award") for works by Polish writers under 40 years old Jerzy Jarniewicz, Makijaż (Make-up) Wrocław: Biuro Literackie Ryszard Krynicki, Wiersze wybrane; Kraków: Wydawnictwo a5Web pages titled "Krynicki Ryszard" (both English version https://web.archive.org/web/20090425224424/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,172.php 2009-04-25 and Polish version https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062736/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,74.php 2011-07-18 ), at the Institute Książki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010 Piotr Sommer, Rano na ziemiWeb page titled "Piotr Sommer" https://web.archive.org/web/20101011221045/http://poland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14531&x=1 October 11, 2010 , "Poetry International" website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Wisława Szymborska, Tutaj ("Here") Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Rzeczywiste i nierzeczywiste staje się jednym ciałem.111 wierszyWeb page titled "Eugene Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (1962)" https://web.archive.org/web/20091008102449/http://www.biuroliterackie.pl/autorzy/autorzy.php?site=700&kto=tkaczyszyn-dycki 2009-10-08 , at the Biuro Literackie literary agency website, retrieved February 25, 2010 Adam Zagajewski, Unseen Hand (Niewidzialna ręka), Kraków: ZnakWeb page titled Zagajewski Adam" https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062356/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,2.php 2011-07-18 , at the Instytut Książki website pl, "Bibliografia: Poezja:" section, retrieved February 19, 2010 Portuguese language Rosa Lia Dinelle, Enquanto os sinos plangem, poems in many different styles; BrazilBritannica (2010), "Portuguese: Brazil" Carlos Newton Júnior, editor, O cangaço na poesia brasileira, anthology; Brazil Arménio Vieira, O poema, a viagem, o sonho, PortugalBritannica (2010), "Portuguese: Portugal" Russia Books of poetry were published this year by Igor Bulatovsky, Ilya Kucherov, Dmitry Grigoryev, Natalya Chernykh, Aleksey Porvin, Boris Khersonsky, Aleksandr Mironov, Gali-Dana Singer and Vadim MesyatsBritannica (2010), "Russian" Other languages Antonio Gamoneda, Extravío en la luz ("Lost in the light"), Madrid: Casariego, six previously unpublished poems, 978-84-86760-84-7, Spain Jorge Volpi, Oscuro bosque oscuro, novel in free verse, Spanish poetry-language, MexicoBritannica (2010), "Spanish: Latin America" Rahman Henry, Traansundoree ( A Book of Poems), Bhashachitra, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Toyo Shibata – Kujikenaide (″Don't lose heart″), Japan Awards and honors Awards announced this year: International Golden Wreath of Poetry: Tomaž Šalamun (Slovenia)http://www.svp.org.mk/en/awards.html Recipients of the Golden wreath Award Struga Poetry Evenings 17 November 2010 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120818162500/http://www.svp.org.mk/en/awards.html 18 August 2012 Australia awards and honors C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Canada awards and honors Lampman-Scott Award: David O'Meara, Noble Gas, Penny Black Gerald Lampert Award: Katia Grubisic, what if red ran out Griffin Poetry Prize: Canadian: A. F. Moritz, for The Sentinel Others on the shortlist: Kevin Connolly, Revolver; Jeramy Dodds, Crabwise to the Hounds Griffin Poetry Prize: International, in the English Language: C.D. Wright, Rising, Falling, Hovering Others on the shortlist: Mick Imlah, The Lost Leader; Derek Mahon, Life on Earth; Dean Young, Primitive Mentor Governor General's Award for English language poetry: David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn Others on the shortlist: David McFadden, Be Calm, Honey, Philip Kevin Paul, Little Hunger; Sina Queyras, Expressway; Carmine Starnino, This Way Out Governor General's Award for French language poetry: Hélène Monette, Thérèse pour joie et orchestre Others on the shortlist: Normand de Bellefeuille, Mon nom; René Lapierre, Traité de physique; Philippe More, Brouillons pour un siècle abstrait; André Roy, Les espions de Dieu Pat Lowther Award: Alice Major, The Office Tower Tales Prix Alain-Grandbois: Monique Deland, Miniatures, balles perdues et autres désordres Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Daphne Marlatt, The Given Prix Émile-Nelligan: François Turcot, Cette maison n'est pas la mienne India awards and honors Sahitya Akademi Award : Kailash Vajpayee for Hawa Mein Hastakshar (Hindi) New Zealand awards and honors Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement (poetry): Brian Turner Montana New Zealand Book Awards: Poetry category winner: Jenny Bornholdt, The Rocky Shore NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry: Everything Talks by Sam Sampson (Auckland University Press) United Kingdom awards and honors Cholmondeley Award: Bernard O'Donoghue, Alice Oswald, Fiona Sampson, Pauline Stainer Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry: Shortlist: David Cohen Prize: Seamus Heaney English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes: Eric Gregory Award (for a collection of poems by a poet under the age of 30): Liz Berry, James Brookes, Swithun Cooper, Alex McRae, Sam Riviere Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection: Don Paterson, Rain Shortlist: Peter Porter; Christopher Reid, A Scattering Best First Collection: Shortlist: Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry: Shortlist: Manchester Poetry Prize: Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets (first award): Elizabeth Burns, The Shortest Days National Poet of Wales: National Poetry Competition 2008: T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Jen Hadfield, Nigh-No-Place Shortlist (announced in November 2008): The Times/Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation: United States awards and honors Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Bobby C. Rogers for Paper Anniversary AML Award for poetry to Lance Larsen for Backyard Alchemy O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize: Juliana SpahrO.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize: Juliana Spahr https://web.archive.org/web/20100527124037/http://www.folger.edu/wosummary.cfm?woid=556 2010-05-27 Judges: Claudia Rankine and Joshua Weiner Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Linda Gregg http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/108 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize- Poets.org – Poetry, Poems, Bios & More Poets.org 2011-05-15 2011-06-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20110622032133/http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/108 2011-06-22 dead Los Angeles Times Book Prize: Brenda Hillman, Practical Water (Wesleyan University Press) National Book Award for Poetry: Keith Waldrop for Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: Rae Armantrout for VersedNational Book Critics Circle: Homepage http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/national-book-critics-circle-award-winners-announced/ March 12, 2010 The New York Times Motoko Rich National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced March 11, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100314081553/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/national-book-critics-circle-award-winners-announced/ 14 March 2010 livehttp://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/30_books_in_30_days_versed_by_rae_armantrout/ 30 Books in 30 Days: Versed, by Rae Armantrout 2010-03-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20100812022327/http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/30_books_in_30_days_versed_by_rae_armantrout/ 2010-08-12 dead Finalists: Louise Glück, A Village Life, D.A. Powell, Chronic, Eleanor Ross Taylor Captive Voices, Rachel Zucker, Museum of Accidents The New Criterion Poetry Prize: William Virgil Davis for Landscape and JourneyNew Criterion Poetry Prize PEN Award for Poetry in Translation: Marilyn Hacker for her translation from the French of King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie ÉtienneMarilyn Hacker: King of a Hundred Horsemen https://web.archive.org/web/20090629212740/http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/3536/prmID/1865 2009-06-29 Hacker also won the first Robert Fagles Translation Prize from the National Poetry Series for her work as translator Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): W.S. Merwin for The Shadow of SiriusWeb page titled "The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners/Poetry"August 2026 InternetArchiveBot , Pulitzer Prixe website, retrieved June 8, 2010 Finalists: Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival, and Ruth Stone, What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism: Ange Mlinko Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Fanny HoweFanny Howe and Ange Mlinko Receive Major Literary Awards from Poetry Foundation https://web.archive.org/web/20090421023041/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/release_041409.html April 21, 2009 Howe received $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award: Louise Glückhttp://www.pw.org/content/louise_gl%C3%BCck_wins_100000_wallace_stevens_award Louise Glück Wins $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award | Daily News | Poets & Writers Pw.org 2011-06-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20110526113817/http://www.pw.org/content/louise_gl%C3%BCck_wins_100000_wallace_stevens_award 26 May 2011 live Whiting Awards: Jericho Brown, Jay Hopler, Joan Kane From the Poetry Society of America Frost Medal: X.J. Kennedy Shelley Memorial Award: Ron Padgett and Gary Young; Judges: John Koethe and Christopher Buckley Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award: Richard Robbins; Judge: Graham Foust thumb|150px|Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, accepting the Gdynia Literary Prize, for poetry; he also won the Nike Award for best literary work in Poland Lyric Poetry Award: Susan Kinsolving; Judge: Lucie Brock-Broido Lucille Medwick Memorial Award: Wayne Miller; Judge: Elizabeth Alexander; finalist: Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award: Melissa Kwasny; Judge: Ed Roberson; finalists: Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: Grace Dunhame; Judge: Matthew Rohrer; finalists: George Bogin Memorial Award: Rusty Morrison; Judge: John Yau Robert H. Winner Memorial Award: Eliot Khalil Wilson; Judge: Henri Cole; finalists: Cecil Hemley Memorial Award: Melissa Kwasny; Judge: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Norma Farber First Book Award: Richard Deming for Let's Not Call It Consequence; Judge: Martha Ronk William Carlos Williams Award: Linda Gregg for All of It Singing; Judge: James Longenbach; finalists: From the Poetry Society of Virginia Student Poetry Contest The Poetry Society of Virginia website https://web.archive.org/web/20110726101415/http://www.poetrysocietyofvirginia.org/contests.htm July 26, 2011 2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-3 Category – Grades 5 & 6 1st place Eloise H. Kelley, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "One Unique World" 2nd place Eliza D’Anieri, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Piano Images" 3rd place Cullan Kerner, Winchester, Virginia for the poem "Benched" 1st Honorable Mention Graydon Nuk, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "The Bike" 2nd Honorable Mention Josephine Norris Cotton, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "A Cat's Personality" 3rd Honorable Mention Sophia Rose Carbonneau, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Florida's Smiles" 2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-4 Category – Grades 7 & 8 1st place Nate Friant, Harbor, Maine for the poem "November Jay" 2nd place Ashley Harris, Mt. Kisco, NY for the poem "Lines" 3rd place Emma Moorhead, Bath, Maine for the poem "My Crayola" 1st Honorable Mention Lia Russell, Richmond, Virginia for the poem "Dogwood" 2nd Honorable Mention Amelia Neilson, Arrowsic, Maine for the poem "Harvested" 2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-5 Category – Grades 9 & 10 1st place Cassandra Gergely, Owings, Maryland for the poem "Sun Dreams" 2nd place Kelsey Tripp, Roanoke, Virginia for the poem "Clarity" 3rd place Aleck Berry, Williamsburg, Virginia for the poem "Golden Fried Love" 2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-6 Category – Grades 11 & 12 1st place Duncan Lyle, Manakin Sabot, Virginia for the poem "Smoking is not allowed in School" 2nd place Bianca LaBarbena, Edison, New Jersey for the poem "Haven" 3rd place Keenan Nathaniel Thompson, Richmond, Virginia for the poem "Sunflower Angel" 1st Honorable Mention Brown Farinholt, Richmond, Virginia for the poem "Your Temple" 2nd Honorable Mention Kara Wang, Saratoga, California for the poem "Longing" 2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-7 Category – Community College 1st place Tyler Iseley, Newport News, Virginia for the poem "Warrior" 2nd place Linda Arnott, Tucson, Arizona for the poem "The Corpse" 2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-8 Category – Undergraduate College 1st place Nathan W. Friedman, Roanoke, Virginia for the poem "Like Clara Bow" 2nd place Nicole Fegeas, Warrenton, Virginia for the poem "Semantics" 3rd place Audrey Walls, Richmond, Virginia for the poem "Piedmont Station" 2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Poetry Society Prize 1st place Abbie Hinchman, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Where My Poems Hide" 2nd place Sophia Rose Carbonneau, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "How to be in a Play" 3rd place Maura Eileen Anderson, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Late Night Wing: An Alphabet Poem" 1st Honorable Mention Daniel Mayer, Walpole, Maine for the poem "My Ascent and Descent" 2nd Honorable Mention Jacob Maxmin, Nobleboro, Maine for the poem "Holiday Helpers" 3rd Honorable Mention Virginia Hindman, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Ignorance" 2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Jenkins Prize 1st place Kelsey Tripp, Roanoke, Virginia for the poem "Suppressed Voice" 2nd place Mikal Cardine, Warrington, Virginia for the poem "Lost" 3rd place Robyn Walters, Yorktown, Virginia for the poem "For the Love of Book" 2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Virginia Student Prize 1st place Brown Farinholt, Richmond, Virginia for the poem "Henrietta's" 2nd place Mikal Cardine, Warrington, Virginia for the poem "Lonely" 3rd place Michelle Moses, Virginia Beach, Virginia for the poem "Novelty Love" 1st Honorable Mention Sam Perry, Dillwyn, Virginia for the poem "The Musician" 2nd Honorable Mention Philip Halsey, Richmond, Virginia for the poem "Spoiled" 3rd Honorable Mention Peter Chiappa, Yorktown, Virginia for the poem "Sonnet 31" Awards and honors elsewhere Poland: Gdynia Literary Prize, for poetry: Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Piosenka o zależnościach i uzależnieniach (2008) Nike Award for literature: Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Piosenka o zależnościach i uzależnieniach Portuguese: Camões Prize: Arménio Vieira Spain: Cervantes Prize: José Emilio Pacheco, Mexico Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 2 – Inger Christensen, 73 (born 1935), Danish poet, writer, novelist, essayist and children's book author"Poet Inger Christensen dies: Danish poet Inger Christensen dies at 73", Agence France Presse, as published on the Singapore Straits Times website, retrieved January 7, 2008 January 4 – Gert Jonke, 62, (born 1946), Austrian poet, novelist playwright and screenwriter, of cancer"Poet Gert Jonke dies of cancer" https://web.archive.org/web/20110531200810/http://austriantimes.at/index.php?id=10408 2011-05-31 , Austrian Times, January 7, 2009; also, "Schriftsteller Gert Jonke gestorben", article, Die Presse, January 4, 2009 (in German); both retrieved January 9, 2009 January 10 – Mario Augusto Rodriguez Velez, 92 (born 1917), Panamanian journalist, essayist, dramatist, poet and storyteller, of a heart ailment (surname: Rodriguez Velez)"Panamanian writer Rodriguez Velez dies", article, January 11, 2009, United Press International website; also "Panama Writer Mario Augusto Rodriguez Dies" https://web.archive.org/web/20110719152124/http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=325228&CategoryId=14088 2011-07-19 , January 11, Latin American Herald Tribune, both retrieved same day January 11 – Milan Rufus, 80 (born 1928), Slovak poet and academic"Poet Milan Rufus Dies in Bratislava" https://web.archive.org/web/20120217143034/http://www.tasr.sk/30.axd?k=20090111TBB00403 2012-02-17 , article, January 11, 2009, website of TASR (News Agency of the Slovak Republic), retrieved same day January 12 – Mick Imlah, 52 (born 1956), British poethttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5503818.ece London The Times Mick Imlah poet critic and founding editor of Oxford Poetry January 13, 2009 Anushka Asthana Jill Sherman 1 August 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090721222338/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5503818.ece 21 July 2009 dead January 13 – W. D. Snodgrass, 83 (born 1926), American poet and academic"Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass dies", Associated Press, January 14, 2009, retrieved same day January 15 – Maurice Chappaz, 92 (born 1916), Swiss, French-language poet, writer and translatorhttps://archive.today/20120910200625/http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news_digest/Leading_writer_dies.html?siteSect=104&sid=10203263&cKey=1232047502000&ty=nd "Leading writer dies: One of French-speaking Switzerland's best known authors, Maurice Chappaz, has died at the age of 92.", January 15, 2009, article at the SwissInfo.ch website, retrieved same day January 18 – Grigore Vieru, 73 (born 1935), a Moldovan poet writing in Romanian, strong promoter of the Romanian language in Moldova; died from a car accidentRusnac, Corneliu, "Moldovan poet Grigore Vieru dies in car crash", news report, Associated Press, retrieved January 19, 2009 January 27 – John Updike, 76 (born 1932), American novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet and writer https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/books/28updike.html?_r=1&ref=books&pagewanted=print The New York Times Christopher Lehmann-Haupt John Updike, Tireless Chronicler of Small-Town America, Dies at 76 January 27, 2009 1 August 2009 January 30 – James Schevill, 88 (born 1920), American poet, critic, playwright and professor at San Francisco State and Brown UniversityJames Schevill 1920 — 2009 This "cyber-tombeau" at Silliman's Blog by poet Ron Silliman includes comments, tributes, and links February 4 – Arnljot Eggen, (born 1923), Norwegian poet, playwright and author of children's books February 5 – Subedar Mahmoodmiya Mohammad Imam, popularly known as "Asim Randeri", 104 (born 1904), Indian, Gujarati-language ghazal poetGujarati ghazal poet Asim Randeri dies "", article, February 6, 2009, The Times of India, retrieved February 13, 2009 February 9: Kazys Bradūnas, 91, Lithuanian poet and editorhttp://vz.lt/Default2.aspx?ArticleID=9a4bf8d0-33be-41b9-846e-0f1f3439a83b&ref=rss Mirė poetas Kazys Bradūnas – Verslas – Verslo naujienos – Verslo žinios Vz.lt 2011-06-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20110722153456/http://vz.lt/Default2.aspx?ArticleID=9a4bf8d0-33be-41b9-846e-0f1f3439a83b&ref=rss 2011-07-22 dead Don Maclennan, 80 (born 1929), English-born South African poet, critic and academicLoewe, Mike, "Poet and playwright Maclennan dies at 79", article, February 12, 2009, Independent Online website of the Independent newspaper, article "was originally published on page 9 of Cape Argus on February 12, 2009", according to the Web page, retrieved February 13, 2009 February 13 – Bahtiyar Vahabzade (born 1925), Azerbaijani poet, philologist"Famous Azerbaijani poet Bahtiyar Vahabzade died" https://web.archive.org/web/20090215202122/http://news-en.trend.az/culture/1424433.html February 15, 2009 , article, February 13, 2009, Trend News Agency website, retrieved same day February 20 – Christopher Nolan, 43 (born 1965), Irish poet and authorhttps://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-christopher-nolan25-2009feb25,0,6227089.story February 27, 2009 Los Angeles Times Christopher Nolan dies at 43; Irish poet and novelist February 25, 2009 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090301151058/http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-christopher-nolan25-2009feb25%2C0%2C6227089.story March 1, 2009 February 23 – Peter Wild, 68, (born 1940), American poet and historian, professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson February 25 – Bill Holm, 65 (born 1943), American poet, writer and academic, from complications of pneumoniaDevine, Mary, "Writer Bill Holm, 65: The quintessential Minnesotan, 'bigger than life'", St. Paul Pioneer Press, February 26, 2009, retrieved February 27, 2009 March 4 – Triztán Vindtorn (born 1942), Norwegian poet and performance artist March 12 – Blanca Varela, 82 (born 1926), Peruvian poetPeruvian Poet Blanca Varela Dies https://web.archive.org/web/20110719152545/http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=329532&CategoryId=13003 2011-07-19 , Latin American Herald Tribune, March 14, 2009, retrieved March 14, 2009 March 13 – James Purdy, 94, (born 1914), American novelist, poet and playwrightJames Purdy, author of underground classics, dies, The Associated Press, March 14, 2009, retrieved March 16, 2009 March 14 – Gwendoline Konie, 70 (born 1938), Zambian poet and politician March 17 – Jane Mayhall, 90, (born 1918), American poet and novelist https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/books/20mayhall.html March 22, 2009 The New York Times Margalit Fox Jane Mayhall, Poet Who Gained Prominence Late in Life, Is Dead at 90 March 20, 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090417085640/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/books/20mayhall.html April 17, 2009 live April 3 – Alexei Parshchikov, 54,(born 1954), Russian poet, critic and translatorAlexei Parschikov 1954–2009 This "cyber-tombeau" at Silliman's Blog by poet Ron Silliman includes comments, tributes, and linksObituary from Svoboda News note: this article is in Russian April 8 – Henri Meschonnic, 77, (born 1932), French poet, linguist, translator and theoreticianHenri Meschonnic (1932–2009) tribute by poet and translator Pierre Joris April 10 – Deborah Digges (born 1950), American poet and academic https://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/04/tufts_mourns_ac.html April 16, 2009 The Boston Globe Tufts mourns acclaimed poet, professor April 14, 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090418152459/http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/04/tufts_mourns_ac.html 18 April 2009 dead April 12 – Franklin Rosemont (born 1943), American Surrealist poet, labor historian and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist GroupDecember 2021 April 13 – Stefan Brecht (born 1924), 84, German-born American poet, critic and scholar of theater; son of Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/theater/22brecht.html?_r=1 April 30, 2009 The New York Times Bruce Weber Stefan Brecht, Theater Historian, Is Dead at 84 April 22, 2009 April 28 – U. A. Fanthorpe (born 1929), 79, English poet https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8027526.stm April 30, 2009 BBC News British poet UA Fanthorpe dies April 30, 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090504061308/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8027526.stm 4 May 2009 live April 29, but date uncertain – Craig Arnold (born 1967), 41, American poet, fell climbing a volcano in Japan while collecting material for his next book. May 1 –3 – Bantu Mwaura, 40, Kenyan human-rights activist, actor, director, poet and storyteller who wrote poetry in English, Swahili and GikuyuArticle, "Human rights activist Bantu Mwaura found dead" May 4, 2009, The Standard of Nairobi, Kenya; also Kimani, Peter, "Brave struggle that gave way to bleak end", May 5, 2009, The Standard of Nairobi, Kenya retrieved May 4 (different time zone) May 7 – Robin Blaser, (born 1925), 83, American-born Canadian poet, Griffin Poetry Prize winnerRobin Blaser May 18, 1925 – May 7, 2009 obituary notice from poet Charles Bernstein includes Bernstein's "Afterword" to The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser (2006) May 10 – James Kirkup, 91, English poet, translator and travel writer, from a stroke May 11, 2009 http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/Internationally-acclaimed-poet-dies.5253830.jp Internationally acclaimed poet dies – Local News Shields Gazette 2011-06-18 May 2020 InternetArchiveBot yes May 17 – Mario Benedetti, 88 (born 1920), Uruguayan, poet, author and journalist https://web.archive.org/web/20090523022037/https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iYLcyDmJgavs3fehMUYSco_Td7BgD9888O000 May 23, 2009 May 22 – Alexander Mezhirov, 86 (born 1923), Russian poet, translator and criticУмер поэт-фронтовик Александр Межиров (Google translation: "He died the poet-veteran Alexander Mezhirov"), May 22, 2009, ITAR/TASS news report, retrieved May 27, 2009 May 26 – Doris Mühringer, 88 (born 1920), Austrian poet, short story writer and children's writer May 31 – Kamala Das, 75 (born 1934), Indian short-story writer and poet who wrote in English and Malayalam June 3 – David Bromige, 75 (born 1933), English-born Canadian poet who resided in California, winner of the Pushcart Prize.David Bromige 1933 – 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20210426151132/https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/david-bromige-1933-2009.html 2021-04-26 This "cyber-tombeau" at Silliman's Blog by poet Ron Silliman includes comments, tributes, and links June 8: Harold Norse, 92 (born 1916), American poet and memoirist. Considered among Beat poets. Habib Tanvir, 85 (born 1923), popular Hindi playwright, theatre director, poet and actor"Noted playwright Habib Tanvir dead", IANS, June 8, 2009, Economic Times, retrieved same day June 24 – Steven Wells, 49 (born 1960), English music critic, journalist, screenwriter, poet, novelist, film producer and publisher June 25 – Michael Jackson, 50 (born 1958), American pop singer, songwriter, poet and author July 3 – Alauddin Al-Azad, 77 (born 1932), Bengali novelist, writer, poet, literary critic and academichttp://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=17882 Poet Alauddin Al Azad passes away The Daily Star July 4, 2009 July 4, 2009 August 6 – Wahyu Sulaiman Rendra, born Willibrordus Surendra Broto Rendra, popularly known as W. S. Rendra and also known as "Si Burung Merak" and "The Peacock", 74 (born 1935No byline http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/08/07/the-peacock039-dies-74.html 'The Peacock' dies at 74 Jakarta Post August 7, 2009 August 12, 2009), Indonesian poethttp://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/articles/20090807105229/Article/index_html Renowned poet W.S. Rendra dies New Straits Times August 7, 2009 August 12, 2009 August 8 – Alfonso Calderón, 78 (born 1930), Chilean poet, writer, memoirist and poetry anthologist"Chile National Literature Prize Winner Alfonso Calderon Dies" https://web.archive.org/web/20111228235620/http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=341019&CategoryId=13003 2011-12-28 , obituary, August 8, 2009, Latin American Herald Tribune, retrieved September 4, 2009 August 16 – Alistair Campbell, 84 (born 1925), New Zealand poet, writer and editor, and once the husband of fellow poet Fleur Adcock https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/aug/24/alistair-te-ariki-campbell-obituary September 4, 2009 London The Guardian Paul Millar Alistair Te Ariki Campbell August 24, 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090825225936/http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/aug/24/alistair-te-ariki-campbell-obituary 25 August 2009 live August 19: Dic Jones, 75, Welsh poet https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8215377.stm September 4, 2009 BBC News Private funeral for Archdruid, 75 August 22, 2009 Lina Kasdagli (also spelled "Lina Kasdaglē"),"Lina Kasdaglē", article, An Encyclopedia of continental women writers, Volume 2, p 621, retrieved via Google Books on September 4, 2009 88 (born 1912), Greek poet and translator"Athens News Agency: Daily News Bulletin in English, 09-08-20", from Athens News Agency website, retrieved September 4, 2009 August 27 – Sergey Mikhalkov, 96 (born 1913), Russian writer and poet, co-author of the lyrics of the National Anthem of the Soviet Union and National Anthem of Russia https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/6106472/Sergei-Mikhalkov.html September 4, 2009 London The Daily Telegraph Sergei Mikhalkov August 28, 2009 September 3 – Christine D'Haen, 85, Belgian poet (in Dutch) September 11: Sarane Alexandrian, 82, French art historian, philosopher and poet https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sarane-alexandrian-french-art-historian-poet-and-righthand-man-to-andr-breton-1810460.html London The Independent Sarane Alexandrian: French art historian, poet and right-hand man to André Breton October 28, 2009 23 January 2010 Jim Carroll, 59 (born 1949), American poet, author and musician.Grimes William Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker, Is Dead at 60 New York Times 13 September 2009 https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/books/14carroll.html 15 June 2014 September 15 – Wayne Brown, 65 (born 1944), Trinidadian writer and poethttp://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090917/news/news3.html Wayne Brown, Trinidadian poet, succumbs to illness September 17, 2009 The Gleaner January 23, 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090923091314/http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090917/news/news3.html 2009-09-23 dead September 27 – Gaya Prasad Tiwari, 89, Hindi poet in India and twice winner of the Hindi Sahitya Akademi Award, died after being hit by a train as he was crossing the tracks (hard of hearing, he apparently did not hear the train coming)"Hindi Poet Run Over by Train", September 28, 2009, The Times of India, retrieved January 24, 2010 September 30 – Rafael Arozarena, 86, Spanish writer and poet. https://elpais.com/diario/2009/10/01/necrologicas/1254348001_850215.html Rafael Arozarena, poeta y novelista, autor de 'Mararía' Juan Cruz EL PAÍS 1 October 2009 15 June 2014 es October 1 – Cintio Vitier, 88, Cubanhttp://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=344912&CategoryId=13003 Latin American Herald Tribune – Cuban Intellectual Cintio Vitier Passes Away at 88 Laht.com 1921-09-25 2011-06-18 2011-12-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20111228214149/http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=344912&CategoryId=13003 dead October 18 – Lenore Kandel, 77, American, died of lung cancer http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/21/BAN61A8O9A.DTL https://web.archive.org/web/20110623042153/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/21/BAN61A8O9A.DTL dead June 23, 2011 The San Francisco Chronicle Julian Guthrie Lenore Kandel – 'The Love Book' author – dies August 14, 2010 29 January 2010 November 1 – Alda Merini, 78, Italian. http://www.repubblica.it/2009/11/sezioni/spettacoli_e_cultura/alda-merini/alda-merini/alda-merini.html E' morta la poetessa Alda Merini cantò il dolore degli esclusi la Repubblica 1 November 2009 15 June 2014 it November 15 – Anna Mendelssohn, 61, British poet and political activist, brain tumour https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/dec/15/anna-mendelssohn-obituary London The Guardian Peter Riley Anna Mendelssohn obituary December 15, 2009 29 January 2010 December 10 – Dilip Chitre, 71 (born 1938), Indian writer who wrote in Marathi and English. He was also a painter and filmmaker. His Ekun Kavita or Collected Poems were published in the 1990s. His most famous translation is of the celebrated 17th century Marathi bhakti poet Tukaram.Dilip Chitre 1938 – 2009 This "cyber-tombeau" at Silliman's Blog by poet Ron Silliman includes comments, tributes, and links December 20 – Vera Rich, 73 (born 1936), British poet, journalist, historian, and translator http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7000659.ece https://archive.today/20100523032639/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7000659.ece dead May 23, 2010 London The Times Vera Rich translator journalist poet and human rights activist January 25, 2010 Anushka Asthana Jill Sherman 29 January 2010 December 24 – Jim Chastain, 46 (born 1963), American poet,Jim Chastain 1963 – 2009 This "cyber-tombeau" at Silliman's Blog by poet Ron Silliman includes comments, tributes, and links December 24/25? – Rachel Wetzsteon, 42 (born 1967), American poet, poetry editor of The New Republic at the time of her death, from suicidehttps://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/books/01wetzsteon.html The New York Times Margalit Fox Rachel Wetzsteon, Poet of Keen Insights and Wit, Dies at 42 January 1, 2010 2 January 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100104230425/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/books/01wetzsteon.html 4 January 2010 live December 26 – Dennis Brutus, 85 (born 1924), South African poet and anti-Apartheid activist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/06/AR2010010604933.html Obituaries The Washington Post 6 January 2010 Washington DC 0190-8286 15 June 2014 He was imprisoned and incarcerated in the cell next to Nelson Mandela's on Robben Island from 1963 to 1965.http://www.ru.ac.za/alumni/news/deceasedarchives/dennisbrutus/ Dennis Brutus - Rhodes University ru.ac.za 2013 15 June 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140803024703/http://www.ru.ac.za/alumni/news/deceasedarchives/dennisbrutus/ 2014-08-03 dead December 30 –Ruth Lilly, 94, American philanthropist (Eli Lilly and Company), established $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and donated $200 million to Poetry magazine http://www.indystar.com/article/20091231/NEWS/90917059/Philanthropist-Ruth-Lilly-dies-at-age-94 Indianapolis philanthropist Ruth Lilly dies at age 94 Indianapolis Star December 31, 2009 15 June 2014Ruth Lilly 1915 – 2009 This "cyber-tombeau" at Silliman's Blog by poet Ron Silliman includes comments, tributes, and links See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards Notes 30em Britannica Book of the Year 2010 (events of 2009), published by the Encyclopædia Britannica, online edition (subscription required), "Literature/Year in Review 2009" section Category:2000s in poetry *