1950 in poetry

none 1950 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Charles Olson publishes his seminal essay, "Projective Verse". In this, he calls for a poetry of "open field" composition to replace traditional closed poetic forms with an improvised form that should reflect exactly the content of the poem. This form is to be based on the line, and each line is to be a unit of breath and of utterance. The content is to consist of "one perception immediately and directly (leading) to a further perception". This essay becomes a kind of de facto manifesto for the Black Mountain poets. George Oppen and his wife, Mary, move from the United States to Mexico, where their links to Communism are less problematic. The Beloit Poetry Journal is founded by Robert Glauber and Chad Walsh. It is intended to be a publication of Beloit College since Walsh is an English teacher there.Parmenter Jim The BPJ Then and Now http://www.bpj.org/bpj_about.html Beloit Poetry Journal May 6, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130313183909/http://www.bpj.org/bpj_about.html March 13, 2013 dead Pioneer Press founded in Jamaica.https://books.google.com/books?id=-jzJb96uTdQC&dq=Timeline+poetry&pg=PR17 Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry Williams Emily Allen Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography xvii ff Westport, Connecticut Greenwood Publishing Group 2002 978-0-313-31747-7 2009-02-07 Saint Lucia Arts Guild founded by Derek and Roderick Walcott. 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: Canada Dorothy Livesay, Call My People Home, CanadaRoberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 978-1-4051-1361-8, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009 James Wreford Watson, Of Time and the Lover (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart)."Of Time and the Lover https://web.archive.org/web/20120318021752/http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/media/time-and-lover-james-wreford-watson-1950 2012-03-18 / James Wreford [Watson], 1950," Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing, McMaster.ca, Web, Apr. 21, 2011. India, in English Sri Aurobindo, Savitri ( Poetry in English ), Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo AshramVinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 313, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010 R. Bhagavan, Poems ( Poetry in English ), the author's first book of poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop; India .Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 182 Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972") Doreen W. Wickremasinghe, editor, Poems of East & West, Colombo: Colombo Apothecaries Co., 170 pages; anthology; Ceylon (now Sri Lanka),Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies" https://web.archive.org/web/20090830022509/http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/SouthAsia/guides/pre1947.html#PoetryAnth 2009-08-30 , "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19. New Zealand Ursula Bethell, Collected Poems, Christchurch: Caxton Press (posthumous)Web page titled "Ursula Bethell / New Zealand Literature File" https://web.archive.org/web/20060306024521/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/bethell.htm 2006-03-06 at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008 Alistair Campbell, Mine Eyes Dazzle, Christchurch: Pegasus Press, including "The Return" and "Elegy" M. K. Joseph, Imaginary IslandsWeb page titled "The Contemporary Scene" in An Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed April 21, 2008 Kendrick Smithyman, The Blind Mountain, Caxton Hubert Witheford, The Shadow of the Flame United Kingdom W. H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems 1930-1944, published March 9; English poet living in the United States at this timeCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 George Barker, The True Confession of George BarkerM. L. Rosenthal, The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, "Selected Bibliography: Individual Volumes by Poets Discussed", pp 334-340 Basil Bunting, Poems: 1950 Norman Cameron, Forgive Me, Sire, and Other Poems Walter de la Mare, Inward Companion, published in October Robert Duncan, The Mongrel, and Other Poems David Gascoyne, A Vagrant, and Other Poems Robert Gittings, Wentworth Place.Gittings, Robert William Victor (1911–1992), poet and writer in ODNB online (subscription required) John Heath-Stubbs and David Wright, editors, The Forsaken Garden: An Anthology of Poetry 1824-1909 John Heath-Stubbs, The Swarming of the Bees Margery Lawrence, Fourteen to Forty-Eight: a diary in verse Ewart Milne, Diamond Cut Diamond, Irish poet published in the UK Mervyn Peake, The Glassblowers James Reeves, The Wandering Moon Jon Silkin, The Portrait, and Other Poems Stevie Smith, Harold's Leap United States W. H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems 1930-1944Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi) (English poet living at this time in the United States) E. E. Cummings, XAIPE: 71 Poems Leah Bodine Drake, A Hornbook for Witches Robert Duncan, Medieval Scenes Richard Eberhart, An Herb Basket Robert Lowell, Poems 1938–1949Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, 0-393-09357-3 Mid-Century American Poets, an anthology including poets who came to prominence in the 1940s, including Robert Lowell, Muriel Rukeyser, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore Roethke, Randall Jarrell, and John Ciardi Theodore Morrison, The Dream of Alcestis Howard Nemerov, Guide to the Ruins John Frederick Nims, A Fountain in Kentucky Ezra Pound, Seventy Cantos Carl Sandburg, Complete Poems Delmore Schwartz, Vaudeville for a Princess William Jay Smith, Celebration at Dark Wallace Stevens, The Auroras of Autumn, includes "The Auroras of Autumn," "Large Red Man Reading," "In a Bad Time," "The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract," "Bouquet of Roses in Sunlight," "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven," and "A Primitive Like an Orb"), KnopfWeb page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04. Peter Viereck, Strike Through the Mask! New Lyrical Poems Richard Wilbur, Ceremony and Other Poems, New York: Reynal and Hitchcock William Carlos Williams, The Collected Later Poems Other in English Nancy Cato, The Darkened Window, Australia Works published in other languages Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: France Aimé Césaire, Corps perdu, Martinique author published in France; Paris: Fragrance René Char, Les MatinauxAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 0-394-52197-8 Jean Follain, Chef-LieuBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Jean Grosjean, Hypotases Henri Michaux, Passages Raymond Queneau, Petite cosmogonie portative Roger-Arnould Rivière, Nuit et Jour Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Parler seul Germany Berthold Brecht writes the Children's Hymn, a poem protesting what he felt was Nazi corruption of the Deutschlandlied. Hebrew Haim Gouri, Ad A lot Ha-Shahar ("Till Dawn"), poetry and war diary, Israeli writing in HebrewITHL.org.il https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024232/http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=101 2007-09-30 , Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007 Hillel Omer (who wrote under the name "Ayin Hillel"), Eretz Ha-Tzohorayim ("The Noon Country"), Publisher: Sifriat Poalim; Israel India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Bhagvati Charan Varma, Tara, Hindi verse playDas, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008 Bhatt Damodar Kesavaji, pen name Sudhansu Ramasagar, Indian, Gujarati G. Sankara Kurup, Odakkuzhal (The Bamboo Flute), Malayalam Buddhidhari Singha, Aves, Maithili Khalilur Rahman, A'inah Khane men, Urdu Madhunapantula Satyanarayanashastri, Andhra Racayitalu, Telugu-language poet (surname: Satyanarayanashastri) Rentala Gopalakrishna, Sangharsana Telugu Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Cirkut, Bengali Sreedhara Menon, Srirekha, Malayalam Other languages Nezihe Araz, Benim Dünyam ("My World"), Turkey García Baena, Antiguo Muchacho ("Boy of Yore"); SpainDebicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009 Dulce María Loynaz, Versos, Cuban poet published in Spain Alexander Mezhirov, Коммунисты, вперёд! ("Communists, Ahead!"), includes the title poem, which was first published in 1948; reprinted 1952Shrayer, Maxim, "Aleksandr Mezhirov", p 879, An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry, publisher: M.E. Sharpe, 2007, 0-7656-0521-X, 978-0-7656-0521-4, retrieved via Google Books on May 27, 2009 Pablo Neruda, Canto General, Chilean poet Nizar Qabbani, You Are Mine, Syrian poet writing in Arabic Awards and honors Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Conrad Aiken appointed this year. Harriet Monroe Prize from Poetry magazine: E.E. Cummings National Book Award for Poetry: William Carlos Williams, Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen (first African American winner) Bollingen Prize: Wallace Stevens Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: E. E. Cummings Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: Of Time and the Lover, Charles Wreford Watson "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards https://web.archive.org/web/20110514183017/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf 2011-05-14 ", Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011. http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20110514183017/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf 2011-05-14 Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 1 – James Richardson, American poet and academic January 20 – Edward Hirsch, American poet and academic February 6 – Deborah Digges (died 2009), American poet and academicSchworm, Peter, "Tufts mourns acclaimed poet, professor", Boston Globe, April 14, 2009, retrieved April 16, 2009. Archived 2009-05-04. March 5 – Jack Bedson, Australian writer, poet, children's picture book author and university librarian April 4 – Charles Bernstein, American poet, critic, editor and teacher April 28: Carolyn Forché, American poet, editor and human rights advocate Brian Brett, Canadian poet and novelist May 9: Christopher Dewdney, avant-garde Canadian poet Jorie Graham American poet and the editor of numerous volumes of poetry Tato Laviera, Puerto Rician-American poet and author (died 2013) May 22 – Bernie Taupin, English lyricist June 5 – John Yau, American poet and critic June 21 – Anne Carson, Canadian poet, essayist, translator and academic July 1 – Ekram Ali, Indian Bengali poet and critic August 7 – T. R. Hummer, American August 8 – Philip Salom, Australian poet and novelist August 12 – Medbh McGuckian, Northern Ireland poet August 20 – Chase Twichell, American poet and owner of her own publishing company, Ausable Press September 1 – John Forbes (died 1998), Australian September 17 – Narendra Modi, Indian politician and poet September 30 – Shaunt Basmajian (died 1990), Canadian October 8 – Blake Morrison, English poet, critic and writer October 24 – Syed Kawsar Jamal Indian Bengali poet and essayist November 20 – E. Ethelbert Miller, African American December 20 – Sheenagh Pugh, British December 24 – Dana Gioia, American poet who retires early from his career as a corporate executive at General Foods to write full-time and later chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts Also: Anthony J. Bennett, AustralianAnthony J. Bennett Kardoorair Press http://www.kardoorair.com.au/authors/tonybennett.html 2007-05-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20070829020155/http://www.kardoorair.com.au/authors/tonybennett.html 2007-08-29 dead Charles Buckmaster (died 1972), Australian Frances Chung (died 1990), American Rodney Jones, American poet and academic William Logan, American poet, critic and academic Muntazir Baba (died 2018), Indian-born Pakistani Pashto poet Sandy Shreve, Canadian Nicolette Stasko, American-born Australian poet, teacher and editor; has a daughter with David Brooks Arthur Sze, American Grace Nichols, Guyanese in England Komninos Zervos (also known as "kominos"), Australian performance poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: March 5 – Edgar Lee Masters (born 1868), American poet, biographer and dramatist May 4 – William Rose Benét (born 1886), American poet, writer, editor, and the older brother of Stephen Vincent Benét May 20 – John Gould Fletcher (born 1886), Pulitzer Prize-winning American, Imagist poet and author August 27 – Cesare Pavese (born 1908) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator October 19 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, 58 (born 1892), of a heart attack; September 17 – Hoshino Tenchi 星野天知 (born 1862), Meiji period poet and martial arts master; a co-founder of Bungakukai literary magazine; 8th Grand Master and a teacher of the Yagyu Shinkage-ryu martial-arts school (surname: Hoshino) November 14 – Orhan Veli Kanik (born 1914), Turkish poet. December 5 – Sri Aurobindo (Bengali: শ্রী অরবিন্দ Sri Ôrobindo) (born 1872), Indian nationalist, poet, Yogi and spiritual Guru writing mostly in English December 25 Ridgely Torrence (born 1874), American Xavier Villaurrutia (born 1903), Mexican poet and dramatist December 26 – James Stephens (born 1880), Irish poet and novelist Also: Khavirakpan (born 1895), Indian, Meitei language poet See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry Notes Category:20th-century poetry *