2014 in poetry

none December 2020 2014 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events January – Five fragments of nine poems, some previously unknown, by Greek poet Sappho are discovered on ancient papyrus, including the Brothers Poem.January 28, 2014 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/28/scholars-discover-new-poems-from-ancient-greek-poetess-sappho.html Scholars Discover New Poems from Ancient Greek Poetess Sappho The Daily Beast April 4, 2014 Romm James This news is being reported by multiple news sources by the end of the month.Quinn Annalisa https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/30/268732774/book-news-two-poems-by-greek-poet-sappho-discovered Book News: Two Poems By Greek Poet Sappho Discovered : The Two-Way NPR January 30, 2014 April 4, 2014http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1371516.ece New poems by Sappho TLS April 4, 2014http://newsappho.wordpress.com new sappho | A discussion on the new Sappho papyrus Newsappho.wordpress.com January 29, 2014 April 4, 2014 January 7 – Michel Pleau is named Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate (or Canada's new poet laureate), beginning a two-year mandate to "draw Canadians’ attention to the reading and writing of poetry."Ingrid Peritz https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/canadas-new-poet-laureate-poetry-belongs-to-everyone/article16293874/ Canada's new poet laureate: 'Poetry belongs to everyone' The Globe and Mail January 12, 2014 April 4, 2014Ingrid Peritz https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-names-new-parliamentary-poet-laureate/article16234278/ Canada names Michel Pleau as new parliamentary poet laureate The Globe and Mail April 4, 2014 January 29 – Hashem Shabani, an Arab–Iranian poet,http://www.freedomhouse.org/article/iranian-execution-poet-further-darkens-iran-s-human-rights-record#.UvbziYWgTuw Iranian Execution of Poet Further Darkens Iran's Human Rights Record February 5, 2014 Freedom House was executed by hanging in an unidentified Iranian prisonTaheri Amir http://www.aawsat.net/2014/02/article55328417 Rouhani approves execution of Arab–Iranian poet « ASHARQ AL-AWSAT Aawsat.net February 2, 2014 March 1, 2014 after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani approved the sentences.http://www.iranhrdc.org/english/news/press-statements/1000000428-iri-executes-two-ahwazi-arab-men.html#.UxITW5K9KSP Iran Human Rights Documentation Center – IRI Executes Two Ahwazi Arab Men Iranhrdc.org March 1, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140326224616/http://www.iranhrdc.org/english/news/press-statements/1000000428-iri-executes-two-ahwazi-arab-men.html#.UxITW5K9KSP March 26, 2014 dead Saeed Kamali Dehghan https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/13/iran-middleeast Execution of Arab Iranian poet Hashem Shaabani condemned by rights groups | World news February 13, 2014 theguardian.com March 1, 2014 March 7 – For the first time ever, all five poets laureate of the British Isles are women and for the first time all five perform together at the Women of the World festival in London on the eve of International Women's Day.https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/mar/03/female-poets-have-earned-laurels?CMP=twt_gu The female poets who have earned their laurels | Life and style The Guardian March 3, 2014 April 4, 2014https://www.theguardian.com/world/international-womens-day International Women's Day | World news The Guardian April 4, 2014 The poets are: Carol Ann Duffy (England), Liz Lochhead (Scotland), Gillian Clarke (Wales), Paula Meehan (Ireland), and Sinéad Morrissey (Northern Ireland).Start time http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/wow-laureates-night-80279 WOW Laureates Night Southbank Centre March 7, 2014 April 4, 2014 March 19 – PEN International comes out with an action appeal protesting the two-year prison sentence handed down to Egyptian poet Omar Hazek. PEN states that this poet has been "imprisoned for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression and assembly." Hazek, who has won several poetry awards and is a former employee of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, has been held in custody since early December 2013.http://www.pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=11790 In Support of Omar Hazek Pierrejoris.com April 4, 2014http://www.pen-international.org/newsitems/egypt-poet-omar-hazek-imprisoned/ Egypt: Poet Omar Hazek imprisoned PEN International Pen-international.org March 21, 2014 April 4, 2014 April 22 – The Writers' Trust of Canada announces the new Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize, a new Canadian literary award to honour the body of work of a Canadian poet who has published at least three volumes of poetry."New prize to award $25,000 annually to Canadian poets" . National Post, April 22, 2014. The award is slated to be presented for the first time in November. May 22 – The translation of Beowulf by J. R. R. Tolkien, which he had first completed in 1926, is published in England (after nearly 90 years) as Beowulf: A Translation and CommentaryJohn Garth https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/22/jrr-tolkien-translation-beowulf-monsters JRR Tolkien's translation of Beowulf: bring on the monsters | Books The Guardian London March 22, 2014 April 4, 2014 (his essay "On Translating Beowulf had been published in 1940). June 12 – The Library of Congress selects Charles Wright as the new United States Poet Laureate, succeeding Natasha Trethewey.https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/books/charles-wright-named-americas-poet-laureate.html?_r=0 Charles Wright Named America's Poet Laureate The New York Times June 12, 2014 Schuessler Jennifer August 22 – New Zealand celebrates its own National Poetry Day, now in its 17th year, with more than 60 events held around the country. Included among the various readings and contests are events sponsoring the current New Zealand Poet Laureate, Vincent O’Sullivan, who reads poetry in Dunedin, and 2007–2009 Poet Laureate, Michele Leggott, who MCs the annual Auckland Library event.http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1408/S00143/nz-celebrates-poetry-with-national-poetry-day-on-22-august.htm NZ celebrates poetry with National Poetry Day on 22 August | Scoop News Anniversaries January 28 – On this day 75 years ago, W. B. Yeats died in Menton, France.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/01/2014-books-year-ahead 2014 in books: turn over a new leaf | Books The Guardian January 2014 February 27, 2014 February 21 – Christopher Marlowe's 450th birthday celebrated (may or may not be his birthday). March 9 – On this day 20 years ago, Charles Bukowski died (1994).http://www.pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=11718 Charles Bukowski Called it Splitsville 20 Years ago Pierrejoris.com April 4, 2014 March 31 – On this day 100 years ago, Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet Octavio Paz was born (1914).http://www.pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=11827 Octavio Paz, b. 100 Years ago today… Pierrejoris.com April 4, 2014Joel Whitney http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/poetry-and-action-octavio-paz-at-100 Poetry and Action: Octavio Paz at 100 Dissent Magazine April 4, 2014 April 23 – It is assumed that William Shakespeare was born on this day 450 years ago (because records show that he was baptised on April 26). May – The 100th anniversary of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons. http://www.bartleby.com/br/140.html Gertrude Stein. 1914. Tender Buttons: Bibliographic Recordhttps://jacket2.org/reviews/twenty-two-tender-buttons Twenty-two on 'Tender Buttons' | Jacket2 September 4 – On this day 100 years ago, French poet and essayist Charles Péguy, 41 (born 1873) was killed in action near Villeroy, Seine-et-Marne, in the early months of World War I October 10 – On this day 100 years ago, German poet Ernst Stadler, 31 (born 1883) was killed in battle at Zandvoorde near Ypres. October 15 1814 October 3 – On this day 200 years ago Mikhail Lermontov was born; he is sometimes referred to as "Russia's second-greatest poet."https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-29463902 Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov celebrated in Scotland BBC News October 3, 2014 October 25 – On this day 100 years ago, American poet John Berryman (given name:John Allyn Smith) was born. October 27 – On this day 100 years ago, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea. October 30 – On this day 100 years ago, American poet and publisher James Laughlin, founder of New Directions Publishers, was born. November 3 – On this day 100 years ago, Austrian poet Georg Trakl, 27, committed suicide. Works published in English Australia 36em Benedict Andrews. Lens Flare. Sydney: Pitt Street Poetry Louis Armand. Indirect Objects. Sydney: Vagabond Press Judith Beveridge. Devadatta's Poems. Artarmon: Giramondo Publishing Company a.j. carruthers. AXIS Book 1: Areal. Tokyo: Vagabond Press Paul Carter. Ecstacies and Elegies. Perth: UWAP Melinda Bufton. Girlery. Hobart: Inken Publisch Nandi Chinna. Swamp. Fremantle: Fremantle Press Eileen Chong. Peony. Sydney: Pitt Street Poetry Dan Disney. Mannequin’s Guide to Utopias. Macau: ASM, Benjamin Dodds. Regulator. Glebe: Puncher and Wattmann Laurie Duggan. Allotments. Bristol: Shearsman Books Anne Elvey. Kin. Parkville: Five Islands Press Geoff Goodfellow. Opening the Windows to Catch the Sea Breeze. Kent Town: Wakefield Press Libby Hart. Wild. Sydney: Pitt Street Poetry Vrasidas Karalis and Helen Nickas, editors. Antigone Kefala: a writer’s journey. Brighton: Owl Publishing Jacinta Le Plastrier. The Book of Skins. St Kilda: John Leonard Press Alan Loney. eMailing flowers to Mondrian. Malvern East: Hawk Press Kent MacCarter. Sputnik’s Cousin. Yarraville: Transit Lounge Publishing John Mateer. Emptiness: Asian Poems, 1998 – 2012. Fremantle: Fremantle Press Page, Geoff (ed.), The Best Australian Poems 2014, Black Inc. 978-1-8639-5697-0 Paul Scully. An Existential Grammar. North Hobart: Walleah Press Marie Slaight & Terrence Tasker. The Antigone Poems. Potts Point: Altaire Publications Maria Takolander. The End of the World. Artarmon: Giramondo Publishing Company Tim Thorne. The Unspeak Poems and Other Verses. North Hobart: Walleah Press Ann Vickery & John Hawke, editors. Poetry and The Trace. Glebe: Puncher and Wattmann Chris Wallace-Crabbe. My Feet Are Hungry. Sydney: Pitt Street Poetry Lucy Williams. Internal Weather. North Hobart: Walleah Press Canada Joanne Arnott – Halfling Spring John Barton – Polari Shane Book – Congotronic Christopher Levenson – Night Vision Garth Martens – Prologue for the Age of Consequence Arleen Paré – Lake of Two Mountains Anthologies in Canada Why Poetry Sucks: Humorous Avant-Garde and Post-Avant English Canadian Poetry, Jonathan Ball & Ryan Fitzpatrick, editors. (Insomniac Press) 9781554831227 Under the Mulberry Tree: poems for & about Raymond Souster, James Deahl, editor. (Quattro Books) 9781927443637Kerry Clare http://49thshelf.com/Blog/2014/01/30/Most-Anticipated-Spring-2014-Poetry-Preview Most Anticipated: Spring 2014 Poetry Preview 49thshelf.com January 30, 2014 April 4, 2014 India Ranjit Hoskote, Central Time, Penguin India, 978-06-700868-1-8 New Zealand Airini Beautrais, Dear Neil Roberts, Victoria University Press Kay McKenzie Cooke, Born to a Red-Headed Woman, Otago University Press Chris Tse, How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes, Auckland University Press Poets in Best New Zealand Poems Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Mark Williams and Jane Stafford for Best New Zealand Poems 2013, published online this year: 18em Fleur Adcock Hinemoana Baker Sarah Broom Amy Brown Kate Camp Mary-Jane Duffy Murray Edmond Johanna Emeney Cliff Fell Bernadette Hall Dinah Hawken Caoilinn Hughes Anna Jackson Anne Kennedy Michele Leggott Therese Lloyd Selina Tusitala Marsh John Newton Gregory O'Brien Rachel O'Neill (poet) Vincent O'Sullivan Elizabeth Smither Chris Tse Ian Wedde Ashleigh Young United Kingdom England Liz Berry, Black Country (Chatto) Colette Bryce, The Whole & Rain-domed Universe (Picador; Northern Ireland poet in England) John Burnside, All One Breath (Cape) Yrsa Daley-Ward, Bone Lavinia Greenlaw, A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde (Faber) Selima Hill, The Sparkling Jewel of Naturism (Bloodaxe Books)Hill Selima http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=1780371039 Title Page > Selima Hill: The Sparkling Jewel of Naturism Bloodaxe Books April 4, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140326091628/http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=1780371039 March 26, 2014 dead Kei Miller, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet; Jamaican poet in England) Joss Sheldon, Involution & Evolution: A rhyming anti-war novel Rosemary Tonks (died April 15), Bedouin of the London Evening: Collected Poems (Bloodaxe Books) Hugo Williams, I Knew the Bride (Faber) Ireland Harry Clifton, The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974–2004 (BloodAxe Books) Scotland Stewart Conn, The Touch of Time: New & Selected Poems (BloodAxe Books) Wales Jonathan Edwards, My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren) Anthologies in the United Kingdom Ten: the new wave, edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf (BloodAxe) 1 78037 110 1 – new poetry voices in Britain including Mona Arshi, Jay Bernard, Kayo Chingonyi, Rishi Dastidar, Edward Doegar, Inua Ellams, Sarah Howe, Adam Lowe, Eileen Pun and Warsan Shire Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom Laura Jansen – The Roman Paratext: Frame, Texts, Readers. (Cambridge University Press) 978-1107024366 United States 36em James Baldwin, Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems (Beacon Press) Jared Carter, Darkened Rooms of Summer, (University of Nebraska Press) Kendra DeColo, Thieves in the Afterlife (Saturnalia Books) Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Endarkment: Selected Poems, edited by Eugene Ostashevsky, translated by Lyn Hejinian, Genya Turovskaya, Eugene Ostashevsky, Bela Shayevich, Jacob Edmund & Elena Balashova (Wesleyan University) Tarfia Faizullah, Seam (So. Illinois Univ. Press) Lizzie Harris, STOP WANTING (Cleveland State University Poetry Center) Matthea Harvey, If The Tabloids Are True, What Are You? (Graywolf Press) Chloe Honum, The Tulip-Flame (Cleveland State University Poetry Center) Fanny Howe, Second Childhood (Graywolf Press) Saeed Jones, Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press) Keetje Kuipers, The Keys to the Jail (BOA Editions) Cathy Linh Che, Split (Alice james Books) Sally Wen Mao, Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books) Michael Mlekoday, The Dead Eat Everything (Kent State University Press) Eugenia Leigh, Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books) D. A. Powell, Repast (Graywolf Press) George Quasha, Speaking Animate (preverbs) (Between Editions) Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press) Spencer Reece, The Road to Emmaus (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Nicholas Samaras, "American Psalm, World Psalm" (Ashland Poetry Press) Danez Smith, [insert] Boy (YesYes Books) Ron Silliman – Northern Soul, (Shearsman) R. A. Villanueva, Reliquaria (University of Nebraska Press) Caki Wilkinson, The Wynona Stone Poems (Persea Press) Jake Adam York, Abide (So. Illinois Univ. Press) Kevin Young – Book of Hours, (Knopf) Anthologies in the United States David Biespiel, editor. Poems of the American South (Random House) Carolyn Forché & Duncan Wu, editors. Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500–2001 (W. W. Norton) Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States John Drury – Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert. (University of Chicago Press) Tom Hawkins – Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press) Ron Silliman – Against Conceptual Poetry (Counterpath Press) Poets in The Best American Poetry 2014 http://www.bestamericanpoetry.com/archive/?id=26 The Best American Poetry 2012, Guest Edited by Mark Doty Bestamericanpoetry.com March 1, 2014 Works published in other languages French German Antony Theodore, Gottliche Augenblicke : Eine Reise durch das Jahr, 978-39-408532-5-7 Awards and honors by country List of poetry awards Awards announced this year: International Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Laureate: to Ko Un (South Korea)http://www.strugapoetryevenings.com/ko-un-is-the-winner-of-the-golden-wreath-2014/?lang=en https://web.archive.org/web/20140225174412/http://www.strugapoetryevenings.com/ko-un-is-the-winner-of-the-golden-wreath-2014/?lang=en dead February 25, 2014 Ko Un is the winner of the "Golden Wreath" 2014 February 21, 2014 Struga Poetry Evenings February 21, 2014 Australia awards and honors C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, Liquid Nitrogen Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Fiona Hile, Novelties Prime Minister's Literary Awards: Melinda Smith, Drag Down to Unlock or Place an Emergency Call Canada awards and honors Archibald Lampman Award: David O'Meara, A Pretty Sight Atlantic Poetry Prize: Don Domanski, Bite Down Little Whisper 2014 Governor General's Awards: Arleen Paré, Lake of Two Mountains (English); José Acquelin, Anarchie de la lumière (French)"Thomas King wins Governor General’s award for fiction". The Globe and Mail, November 18, 2014. Griffin Poetry Prize: Canada: Anne Carson, Red Doc>Griffin Poetry Prize | Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire Brenda Hillman and Red Doc> Anne Carson Win the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize International: Brenda Hillman, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Adelia Prado Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize: Ken Babstock"Miriam Toews wins $25,000 Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize". Toronto Star, November 4, 2014. Gerald Lampert Award: Murray Reiss, The Survival Rate of Butterflies in the Wild Pat Lowther Award: Alexandra Oliver, Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway Prix Alain-Grandbois: Michaël Trahan, Nœud coulant Raymond Souster Award: Anne Compton, Alongside Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Jordan Abel, The Place of Scraps Prix Émile-Nelligan: Roxanne Desjardins, Ciseaux France awards and honors Prix Goncourt de la Poésie: William Cliff New Zealand awards and honors Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: New Zealand Post Book Awards: Poetry Award winner: Vincent O'Sullivan, Us, then. Victoria University Press NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry: Marty Smith, Horse with Hat. Victoria University Press India awards and honors Sahitya Akademi Award : Adil Jussawalla for Trying to Say Goodbye (English) United Kingdom awards and honors Cholmondeley Award: W. N. Herbert, Jeremy Hooker, John James, Glyn Maxwell, Denise Riley Costa Book Awards poetry award: Jonathan Edwards, My Family and Other Superheroes Shortlist: Colette Bryce, The Whole & Rain-domed Universe; Lavinia Greenlaw, A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde; Kei Miller, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes: Eric Gregory Award (for a collection of poems by a poet under the age of 30): Forward Prizes for Poetry: Best Collection: Kei Miller, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion Shortlist: Colette Bryce, The Whole & Rain-domed Universe; John Burnside, All One Breath; Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night; Hugo Williams, I Knew the Bride Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection: Liz Berry, Black Country Shortlist: Best Poem: Stephen Santus, "In a Restaurant" Shortlist: Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry: Shortlist: Manchester Poetry Prize: National Poet of Wales: Gillian Clarke (since 2008) National Poetry Competition : Roger Philip Dennis for Corkscrew Hill Photo T. 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Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): David Harsent, Fire Songs Shortlist (announced in November 2014): 2014 Short List The Times/Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation: United States awards and honors Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Nate Marshall for Wild Hundredshttp://www.upress.pitt.edu/renderHtmlPage.aspx?srcHtml=htmlSourceFiles%2Fstarrett.htm browse May 25, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20170925192309/http://www.upress.pitt.edu/renderHtmlPage.aspx?srcHtml=htmlSourceFiles%2Fstarrett.htm September 25, 2017 dead AML Award for Poetry awarded to Kristen Eliason for Picture Dictionary Finalists: Kimberly Johnson, Uncommon Prayer and Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England; Laura Stott, In the Museum of Coming and Going Arab American Book Award (The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award): Philip Metres, A Concordance of Leaveshttp://www.arabamericanmuseum.org/2014.book.award.winners 2014 Arab American Book Award Winners August 14, 2014 August 3, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160803193944/http://arabamericanmuseum.org/2014.book.award.winners dead Honorable mentions: Farid Matuk, My Daughter La Chola; Fady Joudah, Alight Best Translated Book Award (BTBA): Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books: Richie Hofmann, Second Empirehttp://www.pw.org/content/recent_winners Recent Winners of Writing Contests and Creative Writing Awards Poets & Writers September 27, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140924185311/http://www.pw.org/content/recent_winners September 24, 2014 dead Bollingen Prize: Jackson Poetry Prize: Claudia Rankine.http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/21/claudia-rankine-wins-50000-poetry-prize/ Claudia Rankine Wins $50,000 Poetry Prize April 21, 2014 Judges: Tracy K. Smith, David St. John, and Mark Strand Lambda Literary Award: Gay Poetry: Rigoberto González, Unpeopled Eden Lesbian Poetry: Ana Božičević, Rise in the Fall Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Los Angeles Times Book Prize: Finalists: Joshua Beckman, The Inside of an Apple (Wave Books); Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Hello, the Roses (New Directions); Ron Padgett, Collected Poems (Coffee House Press); Elizabeth Robinson On Ghosts (Solid Objects); Lynn Xu, Debts & Lessons (Omnidawn)http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/bookprizes/#sthash.3BNTTtZ0.dpuf Los Angeles Times Festival of Books» bookprizes Events.latimes.com April 30, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140505050748/http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/bookprizes/#sthash.3BNTTtZ0.dpuf May 5, 2014 dead National Book Award for Poetry (NBA): https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2014#poetry National Book Awards 2014 - National Book Foundation NBA Finalists: Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night Fanny Howe, Second Childhood Maureen N. McLane, This Blue Fred Moten, The Feel Trio Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric NBA Longlist: Linda Bierds, Roget's Illusion Brian Blanchfield, A Several World Edward Hirsch, Gabriel: A Poem Spencer Reece, The Road to Emmaus Mark Strand, Collected Poems National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: The New Criterion Poetry Prize: Fix Quiet by John Poch Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): Vijay Seshadri, 3 SectionsCitation reads: "for a compelling collection of poems that examine human consciousness, from birth to dementia, in a voice that is by turns witty and grave, compassionate and remorseless."http://www.pulitzer.org/jurors/2014-Poetry The Pulitzer Prizes | Jurors Pulitzer.org April 30, 2014 Finalists: Morri Creech, The Sleep of ReasonCitation reads: "for a book of masterly poems that capture the inner experience of a man in mid-life who is troubled by mortality and the passage of time, traditional themes that are made to feel new." and Adrian Matejka, The Big Smoke (Penguin)Citation reads: "foran imaginative work by a commanding poet who engages the history and mythology of larger-than-life boxer Jack Johnson" Wallace Stevens Award: Whiting Writers' Award (in Poetry): PEN Award for Poetry in Translation: – Judge: PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry: Frank Bidart (Judges: Peg Boyers, Toi Derricotte, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips)https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/07/30/winners-of-the-2014-pen-literary-awards/ Winners of the 2014 PEN Literary Awards The Washington Post Ron Charles July 30, 2014 August 1, 2014 Ron Charles (critic) http://www.pen.org/literature/2014-penvoelcker-award 2014 PEN/Voelcker Award pen.org April 16, 2014 August 1, 2014http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/james-wolcott-and-frank-bidart-among-2014-pen-award-winners James Wolcott and Frank Bidart Among 2014 PEN American Winners The New York Times John Williams July 30, 2014 August 1, 2014 Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award: Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Nathaniel Mackey http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/247676 Epic World by Joseph Donahue Poetry Foundation January 26, 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award: Walt Whitman Prize – Hannah Sanghee Park for The Same-Different.http://news.usc.edu/61528/poet-receives-high-praise-from-pulitzer-winner/ Poet receives high praise from Pulitzer winner | USC News News.usc.edu April 16, 2014 April 30, 2014 – Judge: Rae Armantrout Yale Younger Series: From the Poetry Society of America Frost Medal: Gerald Stern Shelley Memorial Award: Bernadette Mayerhttp://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/frost_and_shelley/shelley_winners/2014/ Bernadette Mayer - Poetry Society of America August 3, 2014 August 8, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140808034803/http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/frost_and_shelley/shelley_winners/2014/ dead Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award: Tom Thompson Lyric Poetry Award: Meghan Kemp-Gee Alice Fay di Castagnola Award: Timothy Donnelly Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: Helen Ross George Bogin Memorial Award: Gary Young Robert H. Winner Memorial Award: Dore Kiesselbach – Judge: Alberto Rios Cecil Hemley Memorial Award: Ari Banias – Judge: Norma Farber First Book Award: r. erica doyle Lucille Medwick Memorial Award: David Welch William Carlos Williams Award: Ron Padgett, Collected Poems (Judge: Thomas Lux)http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2014/award_10/ Ron Padgett - Poetry Society of America August 3, 2014 August 8, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140808034858/http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2014/award_10/ dead Finalists for WCW Award: Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 7 – Alvin Aubert (born 1930), African-American poet and scholar January 8 – Madeline Gins, 72 (born 1941), American poet, architect and long-time collaborator with artist ArakawaCharles Bernstein Charles Bernstein (poet) Madeline Gins (1941–2014) http://jacket2.org/commentary/madeline-gins-1941-2014 Jacket 2 January 8, 2014 January 15, 2014 January 9 – Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), 79 (born 1934), controversial African-American poet and writer of drama, fiction, essays and music criticism, and former Poet Laureate of New JerseyChawkins Steve https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-amiri-baraka-20140110,0,4037892.story Amiri Baraka dies at 79; provocative poet lauded, chided for social passion Los Angeles Times January 9, 2014 January 12, 2014 January 14 – Juan Gelman, 83 (born 1930), exiled Argentine poet and recipient of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 2007Weber Bruce Juan Gelman, Argentine Poet Who Challenged Junta, Dies at 83 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/20/arts/international/juan-gelman-leftist-argentine-poet-dies-at-83.html 8 January 2022 The New York Times 20 January 2014 February 1 – René Ricard, 67(?) (born 1946), American poet, art critic, painter, and actor in Andy Warhol's filmsGrow Kory 2 February 2014 Rene Ricard, Poet, Painter, Art Critic and Warhol Superstar, Dead https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rene-ricard-poet-painter-art-critic-and-warhol-superstar-dead-121460/ Rolling Stone Penske Media Corporation 8 January 2022 February 6 – Maxine Kumin, 88 (born 1925), U. S. American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress (today known as the United States Poet Laureate), and wrote some seventeen books of poetry, novels, story collections, and memoirsSchultz Philip https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/02/postscript-maxine-kumin-1925-2014.html Postscript: Maxine Kumin (1925–2014) The New Yorker March 1, 2014 March 12 – Bill Knott, 74, (born 1940), U. S. American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry between his first book in 1968 and his deathhttp://www.poeryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/03/rip-bill-knott/ RIP Bill Knott : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog The Poetry Foundation May 12, 2014 September 2018 InternetArchiveBot yes March 30 – Colleen Lookingbill, 63 (born 1950), U. S. American who edited, with Elizabeth Robinson, the EtherDome Chapbook series for 12 years, which published emerging women poets. She also co-edited Instance Presshttp://www.legacy.com/obituaries/SFGate/obituary.aspx?n=Colleen-Lookingbill&pid=170589579 Colleen Lookingbill Obituary: View Colleen Lookingbill's Obituary by San Francisco Chronicle Legacy.com May 12, 2014Killian Kevin http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/04/colleen-lookingbill/ Colleen Lookingbill : Kevin Killian : Harriet the Blog The Poetry Foundation May 12, 2014Morrison Rusty http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/04/a-closed-parenthesis-and-what-it-opens-in-us/ a closed parenthesis, and what it opens in us : Rusty Morrison : Harriet the Blog The Poetry Foundation May 12, 2014 April 2 – Vern Rutsala, 80 (born 1934), U.S. author and poetVern Rutsala, award-winning poet and longtime teacher at Lewis & Clark College, died April 2http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2014/04/vern_rutsala_marvin_bells_ruts.html Vern Rutsala: Marvin Bell's 'Rutsala at the Microphone' honors the late poet OregonLive.com April 4, 2014 April 30, 2014 April 14 – Nina Cassian, 89 (born 1924), Romanian poet, journalist, film critic, and translator. She translated works of William Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Christian Morgenstern, Yiannis Ritsos, and Paul Celan into Romanian. She published more than fifty books of her own poetryhttp://www.pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=11916 Nina Cassian (1924–2014) Pierrejoris.com April 30, 2014https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/arts/nina-cassian-exiled-romanian-poet-dies-at-89.html?emc=edit_tnt_20140418&nlid=244230&tntemail0=y&_r=0 Nina Cassian, Romanian Poet Exiled for Skewering Regime, Dies at 89 The New York Times April 18, 2014 Fox Margalit April 15 – Rosemary Tonks, 85 (born 1928), English poet and novelistThe Guardian London https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/02/rosemary-tonks 2014-05-02 Neil Astley Neil Astley Rosemary Tonks obituary: Poet and novelist who turned her back on the literary world for four decades April 24 – Tadeusz Różewicz, 92 (born 1921), Polish poet and playwright, recipient of the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1982)http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/169109,Poet-Tadeusz-Rozewicz-dies-aged-92 Poet Tadeusz Rozewicz dies, aged 92 April 30, 2014 October 24, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181024231610/http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/169109,Poet-Tadeusz-Rozewicz-dies-aged-92 dead April 28 – Gerard Benson, 83 (born 1931), English poet. April 29 – Russell Edson, 76-86 (born 1935), American poet, novelist, writer and illustratorRussell Edson https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/russell-edson/ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation 8 January 2022 May 10 – Hillary Gravendyk, 35 (born 1979), American poet and twice winner of the Eisner Prize in Poetry and author of Harm (Omnidawn, 2012)The Hillary Gravendyk Prize – Inlandia Institute https://inlandiainstitute.org/books/the-hillary-gravendyk-prize/ inlandiainstitute.org 8 January 2022In Memoriam: Assistant Professor of English Hillary Gravendyk - Pomona College http://www.pomona.edu/news/2014/05/12-memoriam-hillary-gravendyk.aspx Pomona College 8 January 2022 17 May 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140517162409/http://www.pomona.edu/news/2014/05/12-memoriam-hillary-gravendyk.aspx 17 May 2014 dead She lived with Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and had a double lung transplant five years before her death.http://ucberkeleyenglish.com/2014/06/06/remembering-hillary-gravendyk/ Remembering Hillary Gravendyk (1979–2014) UC Berkeley English Blog June 9, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140714193650/http://ucberkeleyenglish.com/2014/06/06/remembering-hillary-gravendyk/ July 14, 2014 dead May 21 – Ruth Guimarães, 93 (born 1920), Afro-Brazilian classicist, fiction writer and poet May 28 – Maya Angelou, 86 (born 1928), American author (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings), poet ("On the Pulse of Morning") and civil rights activistKarimi Faith Basu Moni Leopold Todd Legendary author Maya Angelou dies at age 86 https://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/us/maya-angelou-obit/index.html 8 January 2022 CNN WarnerMedia 28 May 2014 enMaya Angelou dead at 86 https://myfox8.com/news/maya-angelou-dead-at-86/ 8 January 2022 WGHP FOX8 Fox News Channel 28 May 2014*June 22 – Felix Dennis, 67 (born 1947), English publisher and poetFelix Dennis https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/felix-dennis-publisher-who-started-out-working-on-oz-and-went-on-to-found-a-lucrative-magazine-publishing-empire-9557862.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/felix-dennis-publisher-who-started-out-working-on-oz-and-went-on-to-found-a-lucrative-magazine-publishing-empire-9557862.html May 1, 2022 subscription The Independent London June 24, 2014 June 24, 2014 June 27 – Allen Grossman, 82 (born 1932), American poet, critic and professor, winner of the Bollingen Prize in 2009Weber Bruce Allen Grossman, a Poet's Poet and Scholar, Dies at 82 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/arts/allen-grossman-a-poets-poet-and-scholar-dies-at-82.html?_r=0 8 January 2022 The New York Times 30 June 2014 June 29 – Dermot Healy, 66 (born 1947), Irish poet, playwright, short story writer, memoirist and novelistDeath of writer Dermot Healy http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0630/627411-death-of-writer-dermot-healy/ RTÉ News June 30, 2014 June 30, 2014 August 5 – Diann Blakely, 57 (born 1957), American poet, who won the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award among many other honorsHarriet Diann Blakely Obituary by The Tennesseanhttp://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2014/08/blog-post_11.html?m=0 Silliman's Blog August 19 – Samih al-Qasim, 75 (born 1939), Palestinian Druze poet and journalisthttps://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/13598-palestinian-poet-samih-al-qasim-dies-at-75 Palestinian poet Samih al-Qasim dies at 75 August 21, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140821073824/https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/13598-palestinian-poet-samih-al-qasim-dies-at-75 August 21, 2014 dead http://www.pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=12231 Palestinian Poet Samih al-Qasim Dies at 75 Simin Behbahani, 87, Iranian writer and poetسیمین بهبهانی درگذشت fa Richard Dauenhauer, 72, American poet and translatorRichard Dauenhauer dies at 72 August 27 – Zaccheus Jackson, 36, Vancouver based Canadian Spoken word and Slam poet who was the 2013 Vancouver Grand Slam Champ https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/08/29/vancouver_poet_zaccheus_jacksons_death_by_train_in_toronto_an_absolute_tragedy.html Vancouver poet Zaccheus Jackson's death by train in Toronto 'an absolute tragedy' The Star Toronto Star August 29, 2014 Ballingall Alex https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/Renowned+spoken+word+poet+dead/10161592/story.html?__federated=1 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20140914195424/http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Renowned+spoken+word+poet+dead/10161592/story.html?__federated=1 2014-09-14 Renowned Vancouver slam poet dead at 36 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/zaccheus-jackson-firecracker-east-van-poet-dead-at-36-1.2752118 Zaccheus Jackson, 'firecracker' East Van poet, dead at 36 CBC Newshttp://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2014/09/14_2.html?m=0 Silliman's Blog September 21 – Alastair Reid, 88 (born 1926), Scottish poet, essayist, and scholarAlastair Reid in The New Yorker September 22, 2014 The New Yorker https://web.archive.org/web/20230609080537/https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/alastair-reid-new-yorker June 9, 2023 live https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/alastair-reid-new-yorkerhttp://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2014/10/14.html Silliman's Blog September 28 – Dannie Abse, 91 (born 1923), Welsh poet and doctorDannie Abse – obituary October 9 – Carolyn Kizer, 89 (born 1925), American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner in 1985Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer-Winning Poet, Dies at 89 October 14 – Ron Loewinsohn, 76, American poet and university professorRonald Loewinsohn Obituary Since his inclusion in Donald Allen's 1960 poetry anthology, The New American Poetry 1945–1960,http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/allentribute.html In the Moment of Passing:Donald Merriam Allen, 1912 – 2004 September 21, 2014 Empty Mirror Books numerous volumes of his poetry (along with two novels) were published October 28 – Galway Kinnell, 87 (born 1927), American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, a MacArthur Fellow and a former State Poet of Vermont; also served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American PoetsGalway Kinnell, Poet Who Went His Own Way, Dies at 87 November 5 – Abdelwahab Meddeb, 68 (born 1946), Tunisian-born poet, Islamic scholar, essayist, novelist; lung cancerMort de l’essayiste et romancier Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946–2014) frhttp://www.pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=12492 Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946-2014) November 13 – Manoel de Barros, 97 (born 1916), Brazilian poet who, before his death, considered by many authors, critics and readers to be Brazil's greatest living poetMorre o poeta mato-grossense Manoel de Barros, aos 97 anos pt November 19 – Jon Stallworthy, 79 (born 1935), English academic, poet and literary critic. Biographer of Wilfred Owen and Louis MacNeicehttps://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-jon-stallworthy Wolfson College, Oxford: Professor Jon Stallworthy November 27, 2014 December 18, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141218084630/https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-jon-stallworthy dead November 29 – Mark Strand, 80 (born 1934), Canadian-born American poet and writer, United States Poet Laureate (1990–1991)Pulitzer-winning poet laureate Mark Strand dies at 80 years old December 4 – Claudia Emerson, 57 (born 1957), American poet December 27 – Tomaž Šalamun, 73 (born 1941), Slovenian poethttp://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2014/12/blog-post_28.html?m=0 Silliman's Blog See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards References 30em Category:2014 poems