1988 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1988 poetry literature Events The first annual The Best American Poetry volume is published this year. During a poetry reading in which popular Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky takes written questions from the audience, he reads out two responses: "All of you are Jews or sold out to Jews", one reads. Another only says, "We will kill you". In The Ditch: A Spiritual Trial, published in 1986, Voznesensky had written poetry and prose about a 1941 German massacre of 12,000 Russians in the Crimea, and the looting of their mass graves in the 1980s by Soviet citizens that was tolerated, he said, by officials because the victims were primarily Jews. Voznesensky reads the notes out loud and challenges the writers to identify themselves. None does.Anderson, Raymond H., "Andrei Voznesensky, Poet, Dies at 77", obituary, June 2, 2010, The New York Times, retrieved June 7, 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 Gray, Piano Jennifer Maiden, The Trust, Black Lightning, Australia Chris Mansell, Redshift/Blueshift, Five Islands Press Chris Wallace-Crabbe, I'm Deadly Serious, Oxford: Oxford University Press Canada Louis Dudek, Infinite Worlds: The Poetry of Louis Dudek. Robin Blaser ed. Montreal: Véhicule Press."Louis Dudek: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110523063957/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/dudek/pub.htm 2011-05-23 ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011. Elisabeth Harvor, If Only We Could Drive Like This Forever Dorothy Livesay, Beginnings. Winnipeg: Peguis."Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works", Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011. Roy Miki, Tracing the Paths, about bp nichol, critical study; Raymond Souster, Asking for More. Ottawa: Oberon Press."Notes on Life and Works https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195614/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html 2011-08-17 ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. India, in English Jayanta Mahapatra, Burden and Fruit ( Poetry in English ), Washington, D.C.: Three Continents PressPurnima Mehta, "16. Jayanta Mahapatra: A Silence-bound Pilgrim", pp 184-185, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, 81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010 Eunice de Souza, Women in Dutch Painting, Bombay: XAL-PRAXISWeb 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 Meena Alexander, House of a Thousand Doors ( Poetry and prose in English ), Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, by an Indian writing living in and published 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 2011-09-19 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Sujata Bhatt, Brunizem (Poetry in English), Carcanet Press and New Delhi: Penguin; won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and the Alice Hunt Bartlett AwardWeb 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 Robin Ngangom, Words and the Silence ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers WorkshopWeb page titled "Robin Ngangom" https://web.archive.org/web/20100131205434/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11771 2010-01-31 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010 Ireland Ciaran Carson, The New Estate and Other Poems, Oldcastle: New Gallery Press, 978-1-85235-032-1 Harry Clifton, The Liberal Cage, Oldcastle: New Gallery Press, 978-1-85235-026-0 Paul Durcan, Jesus and Angela, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Irish poet at this time living in the United States Valentin Iremonger, Sandymount, Dublin, including "This Houre Her Vigill", "Clear View in Summer" and "Icarus"Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, 0-85640-561-2 Thomas Kinsella: Blood and Family, including "The Messenger" and "Out of Ireland" One Fond Embrace: Peppercanister 13 Philippe Jaccottet, The Selected Poems of Philippe Jaccottet, Viking, translated from French by Derek Mahon, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Medbh McGuckian, On Ballycastle Beach Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom New Zealand Fleur Adcock, Meeting the Comet, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" https://web.archive.org/web/20061221161150/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm 2006-12-21 at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Jenny Bornholdt, This Big Face Allen Curnow, Continuum: New and Later Poems 1972–1988Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008 Lauris Edmond, Summer Near the Arctic CircleRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article Michele Leggott, Like This?: Poems, Christchurch: Caxton Press, New Zealand Cilla McQueen, BenzinaCilla 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 winner of the 1989 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry Ian Wedde, Tendering Lydia Wevers, editor, Yellow Pencils: Contemporary Poetry by New Zealand Women, anthologyRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article United Kingdom Fleur Adcock, Meeting the Comet, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) Patricia Beer, Collected PoemsCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm Alison Brackenbury, Christmas Roses Ciarán Carson: The New Estate and Other Poems, Gallery Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Charles Causley, A Field of Vision Jack Clemo, Selected Poems Wendy Cope: Does She Like Word-Games? Men and their Boring Arguments Helen Dunmore, The Raw Garden Douglas Dunn, Northlight Paul Durcan, Jesus and Angela, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Elaine Feinstein, Mother's Girl: Hutchinson David Gascoyne, Collected Poems Lee Harwood, Crossing the frozen river: selected poems Ian Hamilton, Fifty Poems Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States John Heath-Stubbs: Collected Poems 1942-1987, Carcanet Press A Partridge in a Pear Tree: Poems for the Twelve Days of Christmas Time Pieces, Hearing Eye. 1-870841-02-6 Selima Hill, My Darling Camel Libby Houston, Necessity Ted Hughes, Moon-Whales, first British edition; published originally in the United States, 1976 Mick Imlah, Birthmarks (Chatto & Windus, 978-0-7011-3358-0) Philippe Jaccottet, The Selected Poems of Philippe Jaccottet, translated from French by Derek Mahon, Viking Philip Larkin, Collected Poems Alan Jenkins, In the Hot-House Philip Larkin (died 1985), Collected Poems, edited by Anthony Thwaite Tim Liardet, Clay Hill (Seren, 0907476880) George MacBeth, Anatomy of a Divorce Norman MacCaig, Voice-Over Medbh McGuckian, On Ballycastle Beach Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Edwin Morgan, Themes on a Variation Grace Nichols, editor, Black Poetry, illustrated by Michael Lewis, Blackie (London, England), published as Poetry Jump-Up, Penguin (Harmondsworth, England), in 1989 Brian Patten, Storm Damage Kathleen Raine, To the Sun Peter Reading, Final Demands Jeremy Reed, Engaging Form Carol Rumens, The Greening of the Snow Beach E. J. Scovell, Collected Poems Peter Scupham, The Air Show Jo Shapcott, Electroplating the Baby Lemn Sissay, Tender Fingers in a Clenched Fist R.S. Thomas, The Echoes Return Slow Nika Turbina, First Draft: Poems by Nika Turbina, translated by Elaine Feinstein and Antonina W. Bouis, Marion Boyars Heathcote Williams, Whale Nation Anthologies The New British Poetry, a poetry anthology, jointly edited by Gillian Allnutt, Fred D'Aguiar, Ken Edwards and Eric Mottram, respectively concerned with feminist, Afro-Caribbean, younger and British poetry revival poets, all writing from 1968 to 1988 Elaine Feinstein, editor, PEN New Poetry II, Quartet United States Meena Alexander, House of a Thousand Doors, poetry and prose, Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States Ted Berrigan, A Certain Slant of Sunlight Joseph Brodsky: To Urania : Selected Poems, 1965-1985, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007 Russian-American Gwendolyn Brooks, Winnie Raymond Carver, In a Marine Light: Selected Poems Maxine Chernoff, Japan (Avenue B Press) Billy Collins, The Apple That Astonished Paris Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States Jane Hirshfield, Of Gravity & Angels John Hollander: Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language Harp Lake Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (posthumous), translated by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York first translation into English as "Poet in New York" this year (written in 1930, first published posthumously in 1940) William Logan, Sullen Weedy Lakes James Merrill, The Inner Room W. S. Merwin: The Rain in the Trees, New York: KnopfWeb page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Selected Poems, New York: Atheneum Michael Palmer, Sun Marie Ponsot, The Green Dark Rosmarie Waldrop, Shorter American Memory (Paradigm Press) Poets appearing in The Best American Poetry 1988 The 75 poets included in The Best American Poetry 1988, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by John Ashbery: A. R. Ammons Ralph Angel Rae Armantrout John Ash John Ashbery Ted Berrigan Mei-mei Berssenbrugge George Bradley Stefan Brecht Joseph Brodsky Nicholas Christopher Marc Cohen Wanda Coleman Clark Coolidge Alfred Corn Douglas Crase Robert Creeley Thomas M. Disch Kenward Elmslie Alice Fulton Amy Gerstler Jorie Graham Debora Greger Allen Grossman Barbara Guest Rachel Hadas Donald Hall Robert Hass Seamus Heaney Anthony Hecht Gerrit Henry John Hollander Richard Howard Donald Justice Robert Kelly Kevin Killiam August Kleinzahler Carolina Knox Kenneth Koch John Koethe Philip Lamantia Ann Lauterbach David Lehman Philip Levine Nathaniel Mackey Michael Malinowitz Tom Mandel Harry Mathews Bernadette Mayer James Merrill Eileen Myles A. L. Nielson Ron Padgett Michael Palmer Bob Perelman Robert Pinsky Donald Revell Joe Ross Leslie Scalapino James Schuyler David Shapiro Charles Simic Gary Snyder Ruth Stone May Swenson James Tate Lydia Tomkiw Derek Walcott Rosanne Wasserman Majorie Welish Susan Wheeler Richard Wilbur Alan Williamson John Yau Geoffrey Young Other works published in English Frank Birbalsingh, Jahaji Bhai: An Anthology of Indo–Caribbean Literature"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 Breyten Breytenbach, Judas Eye: 63 prison poems of an indefinite colour, South African Jayanta Mahapatra, Burden of Waves & Fruit, India https://web.archive.org/web/20070520014453/http://www.orissagateway.com/features/Arts_and_Architecture/Art/Literature/Poets/Jayanta_Mohapatra/ 2007-05-20 Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007 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: Arabic language Nizar Qabbani, Syrian: Three Stone-throwing Children Secret Papers of a Karmathian Lover Biography of an Arab Executioner French language Michel Deguy, Comité ("Committee"), a book attacking French publishers for using poets they rarely publish themselves to help determine which books of poetry to accept; FranceDenis Hollier, editor, A New History of French Literature, p 1023, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989 0-674-61565-4 Abdellatif Laabi, translator, Je t'aime au gré de la mort, translated from the original Arabic of Samih al-Qâsim into French; Paris: Unesco/Éditions de Minuit Jean Royer, Poèmes d'amour, 1966-1986, Montréal: l'Hexagone; CanadaWeb 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 India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Debarati Mitra, Bhutera O Khuki, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-languageWeb page title "Debarati Mitra" https://web.archive.org/web/20120325040406/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2717 2012-03-25 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010 K. Satchidanandan, Veedumattam, ("Changing House"); Malayalam-languageWeb page titled "K. Satchidanandan" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721051722/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2723 2011-07-21 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010 K. Siva Reddy, Mohana! Oh Mohana!, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle, 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 Kedarnath Singh, Akal Mein Saras, Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan; HindiWeb page titled "Kedarnath Singh" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010 Mallika Sengupta, Ami Sindhur Meye, Kolkata: Prativas Publication; Bengali-languageWeb 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 Nitin Mehta, Nirvan, Ahmedabad: Chandramauli Prakashan; Gujarati-languageWeb page titled "Nitin Mehta" https://web.archive.org/web/20120310083151/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2733 2012-03-10 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 16, 2010 Panna Nayak, ' 'Nisbat' '; Gujarati-languageMohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008 Rajendra Kishore Panda, Anya, Cuttack: Friends Publishers, Oraya-languageWeb page titled "Rajendra Kishore Panda" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919085035/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9302 2011-09-19 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 26, 2010 Prathibha Nandakumar, Itanaka ("Until Now"), Bangalore: Kannada Sangha, Christ College; Kannada-languageWeb page titled "Prathibha Nandakumar" https://web.archive.org/web/20120310083134/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2734 2012-03-10 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010 Tulasibahadur Chetri, nicknamed "Apatan", Karna-Kunti; Nepali-languageDas, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, 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 Poland Stanisław Barańczak, Widokowka z tego swiata ("A Postcard from the Other World"), Paris: Zeszyty LiterackieWeb 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 Ryszard Krynicki, pl Niepodlegli nicości (wybrane i poprawione wiersze i przekłady) ("Independent Nothingness (Selected and Revised Poems and Translations)"); Warsaw: NOWAWeb 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 Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010 Piotr Sommer, Czynnik liryczny i inne wierszeWeb 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 Spanish Language Poetry Mario Benedetti, Yesterday y mañana ("Yesterday and Tomorrow"), UruguayBarnstone, Willis Literatures of Latin America Prentice Hall 1994 Giannina Braschi, El imperio de los sueños ("Empire of Dreams"), Puerto Rican writer published in Spain (Barcelona) Justo Jorge Padrón Antología poética, 1971-1988 Los dones de la tierra Isabel Sabogal, „Requiebros vanos”, Lima Other languages Gösta Ågren, Jär ("Here"), Swedish-language, Finland "Biblioteca de autores contemporaneos / Mario Benedetti - El autor" (in Spanish), retrieved May 27, 2009. Archived 2009-05-30. Dieter Breuer, editor, Deutsche Lyrik nach 1945, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp (scholarship) West GermanyPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474 Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Friederike Roth, guest editor, Luchterhand Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1988/89 ("Luchterhand Poetry Yearbook 1988/89"), publisher: Luchterhand; anthology; West GermanyWeb 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 Niels Frank, Genfortryllelsen, DenmarkAndersen, Jørn Erslev, translated by: David McDuff, [uid]=111&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng "Author Profile: Niels Frank", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010 Haim Gouri, Heshbon Over ("Current Account, Selected Poems"), Israeli writing in Hebrewhttp://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=101 Archived copy 2007-10-06 dead 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 Klaus Høeck, Lukas O'Kech, publisher: Brøndum; DenmarkWeb page titled [stage]=5&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[uid]=115&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng "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 Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Selected Poems: Rogha Danta, Gaelic-language, Ireland Rami Saari, Hinne, Matzati Et Beyti ("Behold, I Found My Home"), Israeli writing in HebrewPage titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon https://web.archive.org/web/20080107213001/http://library.osu.edu/sites/users/galron.1/00198.php 2008-01-07 , 2007 Awards and honors Australia C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes Mary Gilmore Prize: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes Canada Gerald Lampert Award: Di Brandt, Questions I Asked My Mother Archibald Lampman Award: John Barton, West of Darkness 1988 Governor General's Awards: Erín Moure, Furious (English); Marcel Labine, Papiers d'épidémie (French) Pat Lowther Award: Gwendolyn MacEwan, Afterworlds Prix Alain-Grandbois: Pierre Morency, Effets personnels Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Patricia Young, All I Ever Needed Was a Beautiful Room Prix Émile-Nelligan: Renaud Longchamps, Légendes suivi de Sommation sur l’histoire India Sahitya Akademi Award : Vikram Seth for The Golden Gate, a book of sonnets Poetry Society India National Poetry Competition : Vijay Nambisan for Madras Central United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award : John Heath-Stubbs, Sean O'Brien, John Whitworth Eric Gregory Award : Michael Symmons Roberts, Gwyneth Lewis, Adrian Blackledge, Simon Armitage, Robert Crawford Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry : Derek Walcott National Poetry Competition : Martin Reed for The Widow's Dream United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Maxine Scates, Toluca Street Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Richard Wilbur AML Award for poetry to Dennis Marden Clark for Tinder: answer might be. With an almost Augustinian Dry Poems Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: David Lehman, "Mythologies" Frost Medal: Carolyn Kizer Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress appointed: Howard Nemerov (also served 1963-64 in the same position, then named "Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress") Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Meredith: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Anthony Hecht Whiting Awards: Michael Burkard, Li-Young Lee, Sylvia Moss Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Donald Justice Births 19 June – Sarah Kay, American poet 1 August – Warsan Shire, African-born British poet 1 October – Michaela Coel, English poet, singer-songwriter, screenwriter, actress and playwright 14 October – Ocean Vuong, Vietnamese-born American poet Jay Bernard, English writer and artist Andrew McMillan, English poet and lecturer Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 3 – Rose Ausländer, 86 (born 1901), Jewish poet writing in German February 3 – Robert Duncan, 69 (born 1919), American poet, heart attack March 19 – Máirtín Ó Direáin, 77 (born 1910), Irish poet writing in the Irish language March 26 – Henri Coulette, 60 (born 1927), American poet March 30 – John Clellon Holmes, 62 (born 1926), American poet and beat novelist, cancer May 3 – Premendra Mitra (born 1904) Bengali poet, novelist, short-story writer, including thrillers and science fiction June 16 – Miguel Piñero, 41 (born 1946), Puerto Rican-born American playwright, actor and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café, cirrhosis of the liver June 27 – Léonie Adams, 88 (born 1899), American poet July 24 – Mira Schendel, 69 (born 1919), Swiss-born Brazilian modernist artist and poet September 18 – Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, 81 (born 1906), Iranian Azari poet October 1 – Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 90 (born 1897), English writer and arts critic October 11 – Joel Oppenheimer, 58 (born 1930), American poet and columnist Joel Oppenheimer, 58, A Columnist and Poet https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/13/obituaries/joel-oppenheimer-58-a-columnist-and-poet.html subscription 1 April 2024 The New York Times 13 October 1988 B 20 October 16 – Christian Matras, 87 (born 1900), Faroese poet and linguist November 2 – Stewart Parker, 47 (born 1941), Northern Irish poet and playwright November 8 – Hamad al-Hajji, 49 (born 1939), Saudi Arabian poet See also Poetry Poetry List of years in poetry List of poetry awards References Category:20th-century poetry *