2002 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 2002 poetry literature Events March 16 — Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrest and jail poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and dismiss a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem "The Corrupt on Earth" which criticizes the state's Islamic judiciary, accusing some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for their own personal benefit. August 22 — Poet Ron Silliman starts his popular and controversial weblog Silliman's Blog which will become one of the most popular blogs devoted largely to contemporary poetry and poetics. (By August 2006, the blog will reach a total of 800,000 hits and get its next 100,000 by early November.).In his blog entry for Saturday, November 04, 2006 link here Silliman takes note of the following statistics: "In 2002–03, it took 50 weeks to get the first 50,000 visits. The last 100,000 came in just 14 (weeks)". September — Amiri Baraka (b. 1934), an African-American poet and political activist from Newark, New Jersey who was appointed the second Poet Laureate of New Jersey, ignites a controversy and accusations of anti-Semitism with a public reading of "Somebody Blew Up America" at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival near Stanhope, New Jersey.Pearce Jeremy When poetry seems to matter The New York Times 2003-02-09 Baraka's poem discusses the September 11 attacks in a way that is highly critical of racism in America, includes angry depictions of public figures such as Rudolph Giuliani, Trent Lott, Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Ward Connerly, accuses Israel of involvement in the World Trade Center attacks, and supports the theory that the United States government knew about the attacks in advance. Amid public outrage and pressure from state leaders, Baraka is asked to resign as the Poet Laureate by New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey who had appointed him to the post two months earlier. Baraka refusesPurdy Matthew New Jersey Laureate Refuses to Resign Over Poem The New York Times 2002-09-28 and, because there is no legal mechanism provided in the law to remove him as poet laureate, the state legislature and governor abolishes the position to remove him effective 2 July 2003.New Jersey State Legislature. "An Act concerning the State poet laureate and repealing P.L.1999, c.228." from Laws of the State of New Jersey (P.L.2003, c.123). Approved 2 July 2003. Retrieved 26 June 2013. After Ghazi al-Gosaibi, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Britain, publishes a poem praising a suicide bomber who had killed himself and two Israelis after blowing himself up in a supermarket, the ambassador is recalled home.https://archive.today/20130103004431/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gV6lhLRItRVXk4wSgLqwi3oA_O4A "Ghazi al-Gosaibi, Saudi diplomat, poet, dead at 70", August 16, 2010, Agence France Press, retrieved August 20, 2010 The office of Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate is instituted (see "Awards and honors" section below). The office of Edinburgh Makar is instituted in Scotland, with Stewart Conn as first incumbent.Edinburgh's Makars http://www.cityofliterature.com/ecol.aspx?sec=3&pid=11 Edinburgh, UNESCO City of Literature City of Literature Trust 2006 2013-02-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20081228030939/http://www.cityofliterature.com/ecol.aspx?sec=3&pid=11 2008-12-28 dead Bowery Poetry Club, a New York City poetry performance space, is founded by Bob Holman. Fulcrum, An annual of poetry and aesthetics is founded in the United States. Influential Chinese literary magazine Tamen ("They/Them") is revived as a webzine at www.tamen.net. 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 Alison Croggon, Attempts at Being, Salt Publishing, 1-876857-42-0. Robert Gray, Afterimages Emma Lew, Anything the Landlord Touches, won the 2003 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and was short-listed for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry that same year Chris Mansell: Stalking the Rainbow (PressPress, 2002) Fickle Brat (IP Digital, Brisbane, 2002) Les Murray: Poems the Size of Photographs, Duffy & Snellgrove and Carcanet https://web.archive.org/web/20071013031215/http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216 2007-10-13 Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007 New Collected Poems, Duffy & Snellgrove; Carcanet, 2003 Canada Margaret Avison, Concrete and Wild Carrot Christian Bök, ’Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science 978-0-8101-1877-5 Dionne Brand, thirsty Michael Boughn, Dislocations in Crystal (Coach House Books) 978-1-55245-111-3 Louis Cabri, The Mood Embosser (Coach House Books) 978-1-55245-095-6 Margaret Christakos, Excessive Love Prostheses (Coach House Books) 978-1-55245-102-1 Lise Downe, Disturbances of Progress (Coach House Books) 978-1-55245-112-0 Rob Fitterman, Metropolis (Book 2) (Coach House Books) 978-1-55245-104-5 Laura Lush: The First Day of Winter: Poetry, Vancouver: Ronsdale Press Going to the Zoo, Winnipeg: Turnstone Press Don McKay, Vis à Vis: Field Notes on Poetry & Wilderness George McWhirter, The Book of Contradictions Jay Millar, Mycological Studies (Coach House Books) 978-1-55245-103-8 P. K. Page, Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New, edited and with an introduction by Eric Ormsby, Erin, ON: Porcupine's QuillWeb page titled "Canadian Poets / P.K. Page, Published Works" https://web.archive.org/web/20090418072137/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/page/pub.htm 2009-04-18 , at the University of Toronto Library website, retrieved January 3, 2009 Joe Rosenblatt, Parrot fever. collages by Michel Christensen. Toronto: Exile."Joe Rosenblatt: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110814050155/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/rosenblatt/pub.htm 2011-08-14 ," Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011. Raymond Souster, Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Ottawa: Oberon Press."Notes on Life and Works https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195614/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html August 17, 2011 ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. India, in English Meena Alexander, Illiterate Heart ( Poetry in English ), Evanston, Illinois: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, by an Indian writing, living, and publishing in the United StatesWeb page titled "Meena Alexander" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919141926/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=10598 September 19, 2011 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Smita Agarwal, Wish-granting Words,(Poetry in English) New Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publisher, 2002. 81-7530-046-9 Sujata Bhatt, A Colour for Solitude ( Poetry in English ), Carcanet PressWeb page titled "Sujata Bhatt" https://web.archive.org/web/20050224034500/http://sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Bhatt+Sujata 2005-02-24 , Sawnet website, retrieved July 27, 2010 Keki Daruwalla, The Map-maker ( Poetry in English ), Ravi DayalWeb page titled "Keki Daruwalla" https://web.archive.org/web/20100131210510/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2725 January 31, 2010 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Ranjit Hoskote, editor, Reasons for Belonging, Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Viking/Penguin Books India; anthology including work from: Jerry Pinto, Vijay Nambisan, C. P. Surendran, Smita Agarwal, Arundhati Subramaniam, Jeet Thayil, Tabish Khair, Ranjit Hoskote and Rukhmini Bhaya Nair, Vivek Narayanan, Gavin Barrett, Anjum Hasan and H. Masud TajNayar, Rana, "Enigma of 'Elphinstonian' arrival!", book review, March 24, 2004, The Tribune of Chandigarh, India, retrieved July 11, 2010 Sudeep Sen, Monsoon, re-issued in 2005 as Rain ( Poetry in English ); London: Aark Arts, 1-899179-10-0Web page titled "Sudeep Sen" https://web.archive.org/web/20120325040921/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14009 March 25, 2012 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 C. P. Surendran, Canaries on the Moon ( Poetry in English ), Kozhikode: Yeti, Chennai.Web page titled "C. P. Surendran" https://web.archive.org/web/20120406234610/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11040 2012-04-06 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Mallika Sengupta, Carriers Of Fire, (translated from the original Bengali, Kolkata: BhashanagarWeb page title "Mallika Sengupta" https://web.archive.org/web/20120225092657/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2728&x=1 2012-02-25 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Ireland Vona Groarke, Flight, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Ireland Justin Quinn: Fuselage Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Gathered Beneath the Storm: Wallace Stevens, Nature and Community, University College of Dublin Press, 2002 (criticism) New Zealand James K. Baxter, The Tree House: James K. Baxter's Poems for Children (posthumous), the first illustrated edition of his work for children Janet Charman, Snowing Down South, Auckland: Auckland University PressRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article Alan Brunton, Fq, a sequence of 144 poems (posthumous)Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75–76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson Cilla McQueen, Soundings, Otago University PressCilla McQueen – NZ Literature File – LEARN – The University Of Auckland Library https://web.archive.org/web/20060306024955/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/mcqueen.htm March 6, 2006 Mike Minehan, O Jerusalem: James K. Baxter an Intimate Memoir Kendrick Smithyman, posthumous: Last Poems, Auckland: Holloway Press, designed by Tara hir poi a pek fhj nbb a: Auckland University Press Stephanie de Montalk, The Scientific Evidence of Dr Wang, Victoria University Press Kay McKenzie Cooke, Feeding the Dogs, Otago University Press) Poets in Best New Zealand Poems Best New Zealand Poems series, an annual online anthology, is started this year with Iain Sharp as the first annual editor. Twenty-five poems by 25 New Zealand poets are selected from the previous year. The first selection is called Best New Zealand Poetry 2001. Unlike The Best American Poetry series, the year named in each edition refers to the year the poems were originally published, not the following year, when the collection is put together and made public. Sharp chose poems published in 2001 from these poets: James K. Baxter Jenny Bornholdt Bernard Brown James Brown Alan Brunton Kate Camp Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Allen Curnow Leigh Davis Chloe Gordon Bernadette Hall Dinah Hawken Anna Jackson Jan Kemp (writer) James Naughton Gregory O'Brien Peter Olds Bob Orr Vincent O'Sullivan Chris Price Richard Reeve Elizabeth Smither Brian Turner Ian Wedde Nick Williamson United Kingdom Neil Astley, editor, Staying Alive: real poems for unreal times (anthology) Anthony Burgess, Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems, edited by Kevin Jackson Ciarán Carson: The Inferno of Dante Alighieri (translator), Granta, awarded the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Carol Ann Duffy, Feminine Gospels PicadorO’Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page, titled "Carol Ann Duffy" at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. 2009-05-08. Elaine Feinstein, Collected Poems and Translations, Carcanet James Fenton: An Introduction to English Poetry Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 Paul Henry, The Slipped Leash, Seren Ted Hughes, Selected Poems, 1957–1994 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Glyn Maxwell, The Nerve (Houghton Mifflin); a New York Times "notable book of the year" (British poet living in America, poetry editor of The New Republic magazine) Sean O'Brien: Cousin Coat: Selected Poems 1976–2001 (Picador) With John Kinsella and Peter Porter, Rivers (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Australia) Alice Oswald: Dart, Faber and Faber, 0-571-21410-X Co-editor, with Peter Oswald and Robert Woof), Earth Has Not Any Thing to Shew More Fair: A Bicentennial Celebration of Wordsworth's "Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge" Shakespeare's Globe & The Wordsworth Trust, 1-870787-84-6 John Heath-Stubbs, The Return of the Cranes Peter Redgrove, From the Virgil Caverns R.S. Thomas, Residues (posthumous) Hugo Williams, Collected Poems, Faber and Faber United States Meena Alexander, Illiterate Heart, Evanston, Illinois: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States John Ashbery, Chinese Whispers Frank Bidart, Music Like Dirt (Sarabande Books), the only poetry chapbook ever nominated for a Pulitzer Prize Billy Collins, Nine Horses: Poems (Random House); a New York Times "notable book of the year" (0-375-50381-1) Robert Creeley, guest editor, The Best American Poetry 2002 Jim Dodge – Rain on the River Alan Dugan, Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry (Seven Stories); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Michael S. Harper, Selected Poems, ARC PublicationsWeb page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008 Paul Hoover, Winter Mirror, (Flood Editions) Kenneth Koch: Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952–1954, New York: KnopfWeb page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925–2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008 A Possible World, New York: Knopf Abba Kovner, Sloan-Kettering: Poems (Schocken); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Brad Leithauser, Darlington's Fall: A Novel in Verse (Knopf); a 5,700-line verse novel in 10-line stanzas, irregularly rhymed; a New York Times "notable book of the year" Glyn Maxwell, The Nerve (Houghton Mifflin); a New York Times "notable book of the year" (British poet living in America, poetry editor of The New Republic magazine) J.D. McClatchy, Hazmat: Poems (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Czesław Miłosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931–2001 (Ecco/HarperCollins); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel, winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Griffin Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the 2002 T. S. Eliot Prize Lorine Niedecker, Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works, edited by Jenny Penberthy (University of California Press), posthumous Mary Oliver, What Do We Know Molly Peacock, Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems Carl Phillips, Rock HarborMcClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003 Marie Ponsot, Springing: New and Selected Poems (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr, editors, American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language, Wesleyan University Press, 978-0-8195-6546-4, anthology including work by Lucie Brock-Broido, Harryette Mullen, Ann Lauterbach, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Brenda Hillman and Jorie Graham Margaret Reynolds, editor, The Sappho Companion (scholarship) Palgrave Macmillan, 978-0-312-29510-3 0-312-29510-3 W. G. Sebald, After Nature (Random House); a book-length poem; a New York Times "notable book of the year" Aharon Shabtai, Artzenu (Hebrew: "Our Land") Adam Zagajewski, Without End: New and Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Poets in The Best American Poetry 2002 Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 2002, David Lehman, editor; Robert Creeley, guest editor: Rae Armantrout John Ashbery Amiri Baraka Charles Bernstein Anselm Berrigan Frank Bidart Jenny Boully T. Alan Broughton Michael Burkard Anne Carson Elizabeth Biller Chapman Tom Clark Peter Cooley Clark Coolidge Ruth Danon Diane di Prima Theodore Enslin Elaine Equi Clayton Eshleman Norman Finkelstein Jeffrey Franklin Benjamin Friedlander Gene Frumkin Forrest Gander Peter Gizzi Louise Glück Albert Goldbarth Donald Hall Michael S. Harper Everett Hoagland Fanny Howe Ronald Johnson Maxine Kumin Bill Kushner Joseph Lease Timothy Liu Mộng-Lan Jackson Mac Low Nathaniel Mackey Steve Malmude Sarah Manguso Harry Mathews Duncan McNaughton W. S. Merwin Philip Metres Jennifer Moxley Eileen Myles Maggie Nelson Charles North Alice Notley D. Nurkse Sharon Olds George Oppen Jena Osman Carl Phillips Pam Rehm Adrienne Rich Corinne Robins Elizabeth Robinson Ira Sadoff Hugh Seidman Reginald Shepherd Ron Silliman Dale Smith Gustaf Sobin Juliana Spahr John Taggart Sam Truitt Jean Valentine Lewis Warsh Claire Nicolas White Nathan Whiting Dara Wier Charles Wright John Yau Works published in other languages China Han Dong: Baba zai tianshang kan wo ("Daddy's Watching Me in Heaven"), Hebei: jiaoyu chubanshe,Simon Patten, "Han Dong" https://web.archive.org/web/20110725131810/http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=8357 2011-07-25 , article, Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2009 zh Jiaocha paodong ("Running Criss-cross"), Dunhuang: wenyi chubanshe He Xiaozhu, zh 6 ge dongci, huo pingguo ("6 Verbs, or Apples"), Hebei: jiaoyu chubansheDaton, D., "He Xiaozhu", article at the Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008 Jimu Langge, zh Jingqiaoqiao de zuolun ("The silent revolver"), Hebei: jiaoyu chubansheDayton, D., "Jimu Langge", article at the Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008 French language Canada, in French Denise Desautels, Pendant la mort, Montréal: Québec AmériqueWeb page titled "Denise Desautels" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164219/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/denise_desautels.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Madeleine Gagnon, Le chant de la terre : Poèmes choisis 1978–2002, anthologie préparée par Paul Chanel Malenfant, Montréal, TypoWeb page titled "Madeleine Gagnon" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164243/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/madeleine_gagnon.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Pierre Nepveu, Lignes aériennes, Montréal: Éditions du NoroîtWeb page titled "Pierre Nepveu" https://web.archive.org/web/20091125133033/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/pierre_nepveu.html November 25, 2009 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, Le cycle des migrations, Montréal: Le NoroîtWeb page titled "Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164300/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/madeleine_ouelettemichalska.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Jean Royer, Poèmes de veille, Montréal: Le NoroîtWeb page titled "Jean Royer" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164236/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/jean_royer.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 France Chris Wallace-Crabbe, La Poésie Australienne, Valenciennes: Presses Universitaires, (with Simone Kadi), French translation of the work of this Australian poet India In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name: Hindi Gulzar, Raat Pashmine Ki, New Delhi: Rupa& Co.; in both Urdu and HindiWeb page titled "Gulzar" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 10, 2010 Kunwar Narain, In Dino, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 81-267-0594-9Web page titled "Kunwar Narain" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Rituraj, Leela Mukharvinda, New Delhi: Medha BooksWeb page titled "Rituraj" https://web.archive.org/web/20120406234851/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=12940 April 6, 2012 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Vinod Kumar Shukla, Atrikt Nahin, New Delhi: Vani PrakashanWeb page titled "Vinod Kumar Shukla" https://web.archive.org/web/20120406234836/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=12941 2012-04-06 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved August 3, 2010 Other in India Bharat Majhi, Saralarekha, Bhubaneswar: Paschima; 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 Chandrakanta Murasingh, Ruphaini Buduk Ani Nogo, Agartala: Tripura Publisher: Agartala; Kokborok-languageWeb page titled "Chandrakant Shah" https://web.archive.org/web/20120325040435/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2716 2012-03-25 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010 Gulzar, Raat Pashmine Ki, New Delhi: Rupa& Co.; in both Urdu and Hindi Joy Goswami, Horiner Jonyo Ekok, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, 81-7756-240-1; Bengali-languageWeb page title "Joy Goswami" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919090841/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2722 September 19, 2011 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010 K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam-language: Bharateeya Kavitayile Pratirodha Paramparyam, ("The Tradition of Dissent of Indian Poetry"); scholarshipResume for K. Satchidanandan titled "K. Satchidanandan/Bio data: Highlights" at the National Translation Mission website, retrieved July 11, 2010 Vikku, ("Stammer")Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721051722/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2723 July 21, 2011 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010 K. Siva Reddy; Telugu-language: Antarjanam, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry CircleWeb 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 Vrittalekhini, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle Kutti Revathi, Mulaigal ("Breasts"). Chennai: Thamizhini; Tamil-languageWeb page titled "Kutti Revathi" https://web.archive.org/web/20120119095033/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=6288 2012-01-19 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih; Kahsi-language: Ka Samoi jong ka Lyer ("The Season of the Wind"), Shillong: AuthorWeb page titled "Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih" https://web.archive.org/web/20090625050942/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=6289 2009-06-25 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Ki Mawsiang ka Sohra ("The Ancient Rocks of Cherra"), Shillong: Author Ki Jingkynmaw (Remembrances), Shillong: S. R. Lanong Nirendranath Chakravarti, Dekha Hobey, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-languageWeb page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214214239/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11144 February 14, 2012 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Yash Sharma, Bedi Pattan Sanjh Mallah, publisher: Vaasu Prakashan, Jammu; Dogri-languageWeb page titled "Yash Sharma" at the Poetry International website, retrieved August 3, 2010 Poland Ewa Lipska, Uwaga: stopień, Krakow: Wydawnictwo literackieWeb pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (in English https://web.archive.org/web/20110916151616/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,121.php 2011-09-16 and Polish https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062801/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,21.php 2011-07-18 ), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website, "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010 Czesław Miłosz, Druga przestrzen ("The Second Space"); Cracow: ZnakWeb pages titled "Miłosz Czesław" (both English version https://web.archive.org/web/20110916020740/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,115.php 2011-09-16 [for translated titles] and Polish version https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062428/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl%2Cik%2Csite%2C8%2C5%2C15.php 2011-07-18 [for diacritical marks]), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010 Tadeusz Różewicz, Szara strefa ("Gray Zone"), Wrocław: Wydawnictwo DolnośląskieWeb pages titled "Tadeusz Rozewicz" (in English https://web.archive.org/web/20120303165053/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,182.php 2012-03-03 and Polish https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062455/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,84.php 2011-07-18 ), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website, "Bibliography" sections, retrieved February 28, 2010 Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, Zachód słońca w Milanówku ("Sunset in Milanówek"), Warsaw: Sic!Web page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek" https://web.archive.org/web/20110916194011/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,139.php 2011-09-16 , at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010 Other languages Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Lutz Seiler, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2003 ("Poetry Yearbook 2003"), publisher: Beck; anthologyWeb page titled "Übersicht erschienener Jahrbücher" https://web.archive.org/web/20110717152959/http://www.fischerverlage.de/sixcms/media.php/690/Lyrik_2008%20mit%20Uebersicht.pdf 2011-07-17 at Fischerverlage website, retrieved February 21, 2010 Klaus Høeck, Projekt Perseus, publisher: Arena; DenmarkWeb page titled "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck" https://web.archive.org/web/20250826151839/http://www.danishliterature.info/index.php?tx_lfforfatter_pi2%5Bstage%5D=5&tx_lfforfatter_pi2%5Buid%5D=115&tx_lfforfatter_pi2%5Blang%5D=_eng&id=2092&no_cache=1 2025-08-26 , website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010 Rami Saari, he Kamma, Kamma milxama ("So Much, So Much War"), IsraelPage titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon https://web.archive.org/web/20080107213001/http://www.library.osu.edu/sites/users/galron.1/00198.php January 7, 2008 , 2007 Maria Luisa Spaziani, Poesie dalla mano sinistra, Italy Wisława Szymborska: Chwila ("Moment"), Poland Søren Ulrik Thomsen, Det værste og det bedste, illustrated by Ib Spang Olsen; Denmark Awards and honors Australia C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Robert Gray, Afterimages Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: After Images by Robert Gray Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Alan Wearne, The Lovemakers Mary Gilmore Prize: Geraldine McKenzie, Duty Canada Gerald Lampert Award: Aislinn Hunter, Into the Early Hours Archibald Lampman Award: Armand Garnet Ruffo, At Geronimo's Grave Atlantic Poetry Prize: M. Travis Lane, Keeping Afloat The office of Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate is instituted, George Bowering is the first appointee and will serve until 2004 2002 Governor General's Awards: Roy Miki, Surrender (English); Robert Dickson, Humains paysages en temps de paix relative (French) Griffin Poetry Prize: Canada: Christian Bök, Eunoia; International, in the English Language: Alice Notley, Disobedience Pat Lowther Award: Heather Spears, Required Reading: A Witness in Words and Drawings to the Reena Virk Trials 1998-2000 Prix Alain-Grandbois: Michel Beaulieu, Trivialités Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Karen Solie, Short Haul Engine Prix Émile-Nelligan: Benoît Jutras, Nous serons sans voix New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: Montana New Zealand Book Awards (no poetry category winner this year) First-book award for poetry: Chris Price, Husk, Auckland University Press United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Moniza Alvi, David Constantine, Liz Lochhead, Brian Patten Eric Gregory Award: Caroline Bird, Christopher James, Jacob Polley, Luke Heeley, Judith Lal, David Leonard Briggs, Eleanor Rees, Kathryn Simmonds Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection): Peter Porter, Max is Missing (Picador); Best First Collection: Tom French, Touching the Bones (The Gallery Press) Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Peter Porter T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Alice Oswald, Dart Whitbread Award for poetry (United Kingdom): United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Shao Wei for Pulling a Dragon's Teeth Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Grace Schulman AML Awards for poetry to Kimberly Johnson for Leviathan with a Hook Arthur Rense Prize for poetry awarded to B.H. Fairchild by the American Academy of Arts and Letters Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Timothy Donnelly, "His Long Imprison'd Thought" Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, Alice Fulton for Felt Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Anna George Meek, Acts of Contortion Frost Medal: Galway Kinnell National Book Award for poetry (United States): Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy Poet Laureate of Virginia: George Garrett, two year appointment 2002 to 2004https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/poets/virginia.html Virginia Law and Library of Congress List of Poets Laureate of Virginia Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carl Dennis, Practical Gods Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: Paul Fussell Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Lisel Mueller Wallace Stevens Award: Ruth Stone Whiting Awards: Elizabeth Arnold, David Gewanter, Joshua Weiner William Carlos Williams Award: Li-Young Lee, Book of My Nights (American Poets Continuum), Judge: Carolyn Kizer Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Sharon Olds Other Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature (2001 prize given this year): Gert Jonke Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 9 – Ale Ahmad Suroor, 90 (born 1911), Indian Urdu-language poet March 9 – Hamish Henderson, 81 (born 1919), Scottish poet, folk song collector and soldier May 1 – Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh (إبراهيم العريّض) (born 1908), Bahraini poet June 14 – June Jordan, 65 (born 1936), Jamaican American poet, of breast cancer June 27 – Alan Brunton, 55 (born 1946), New Zealand poet and scriptwriter, died on visit to Amsterdam July 6 – Kenneth Koch, 77 (born 1925), American poet, of leukemia July 14 – Nabakanta Barua, also known as Ekhud Kokaideu, 75 (born 1926), Indian Assamese-language novelist and poet August 25 – Dorothy Hewett 79 (born 1923), Australian feminist writer September 27 – Charles Henri Ford, 89 (born 1908), American novelist, poet, filmmaker, photographer and collage artist October 21 – Harbhajan Singh, 82 (born 1920), Punjabi poet, critic, cultural commentator and translator October 28 – Annada Shankar Ray, 98 (born 1905), Bengali poet December 9 – Stan Rice, 60 (born 1942), American painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice, of brain cancer See also Poetry Poetry List of years in poetry List of poetry awards Notes "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto Category:2000s in poetry *