2011 in poetry

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Events thumb|Celebrated Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer (right) signs Vecka nr.II, a reflection of his poem "Galleriet," an artist book by multi-award Iraqi-Swedish Modhir Ahmed (left) January 19 – Liz Lochhead becomes the second Scots Makar, the official national poet laureate of Scotland.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-12227515 Liz Lochhead confirmed as new Scots Makar 2011-01-19 BBC News 2011-01-19 April 4 – Canadian poet Christian Bök announces a significant breakthrough in his 9-year project to engineer "a life-form so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem, but also an operant machine for writing a poem".http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/news/Bok_at_BBK Contemporary Poetics Research Centre: Christian Bök – The Xenotext: A Progress Report Bbk.ac.uk 2011-05-05 2012-01-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20120210033044/http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/news/Bok_at_BBK 2012-02-10 deadhttp://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/vol5-2/editorial.asp The Xenotext Experiment Law.ed.ac.uk 2012-01-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20120101053132/http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/vol5-2/editorial.asp 2012-01-01 dead On April 3, Bök said that he "received confirmation from the laboratory at the University of Calgary that my poetic cipher, gene X-P13, has in fact caused E. coli to fluoresce red in our test-runs—meaning that, when implanted in the genome of this bacterium, my poem (which begins “any style of life/ is prim...”) does in fact cause the bacterium to write, in response, its own poem (which begins “the faery is rosy/ of glow...”)."Christian Bök http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/04/the-xenotext-works/ The Xenotext Works: Harriet the Blog The Poetry Foundation 2011-04-03 2012-01-14 June 12 – A poet and student, Ayat al-Ghermezi of Bahrain, is sentenced to a year in prison as part of that kingdom's crackdown on Shiite protesters calling for greater rights.https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110612/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_bahrain Bahrain woman gets year in jail for critical poems Yahoo! News News.yahoo.com 2011-06-25 August 2013 Theo's Little Bot Ayat was arrested on March 30 for reciting a poem critical of the government and cursing the current prime minister, Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa, during the Bahraini uprising in Pearl Square, the main gathering place for demonstrators, in February 2011. August 9 – Announcement that Philip Levine has been named Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (United States Poet Laureate).McGrath Charles Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/books/philip-levine-is-to-be-us-poet-laureate.html?hp August 9, 2011 The New York Times August 9, 2011 October 6 – Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literaturehttps://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2011/announcement.html The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011 – Prize Announcement Nobelprize.org 2011-10-06 2012-01-14 November 9 – The former United States Poet Laureate, Robert Hass, was participating in an Occupy movement demonstration at UC Berkeley called Occupy Cal, when he was hit in the ribs by a police officer wielding a baton. The incident occurred after his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, was shoved to the ground by a police officer, and Hass had tried to help her.Hass Robert Poet-Bashing Police https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/opinion/sunday/at-occupy-berkeley-beat-poets-has-new-meaning.html November 27, 2011 The New York Times November 19, 2011 He wrote about their experience in a November 19, 2011, The New York Times opinion piece entitled "Poet-Bashing Police." Also, poet Geoffrey G. O'Brien suffered broken ribs at the same demonstration.Jesse Kornbluth: The Police Riot at Berkeley: If They'll Beat a Poet Laureate, Will They Kill a Student? November 11 – Politician, academic and poet Michael D. Higgins takes office as President of Ireland. November 11 – The End Poem by Julian Gough is released in the Beta 1.9 version of Minecraft.Limer Eric 2011-11-11 Minecraft Now Has an Ending Sequence and Credits https://www.themarysue.com/minecraft-ending-sequence/ 2023-05-10 The Mary Sue en December 6 – A memorial to Ted Hughes is unveiled in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey by Seamus Heaney.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15539247 Ted Hughes Poets' Corner memorial near TS Eliot BBC News 2011-11-02 2011-12-06 December 7 – Two British poets, Alice Oswald"Alice Oswald withdraws from TS Eliot prize in protest at sponsor Aurum", Alison Flood, The Guardian, 6 December 2011 and John Kinsella,"TS Eliot prize: Second poet withdraws in sponsor protest" 7 December 2011 The Guardian withdraw from the T. S. Eliot Prize in protest over the prize's sponsorship by an investment company called Arum who focus on hedge funds. Works published in English Australia Tranter, John (ed.), The Best Australian Poems 2011, Black Inc. 978-1-9218-7045-3 Canada Michael Boughn, Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic Kate Eichhorn, Fieldnotes, A Forensic Phil Hall, Killdeer Garry Thomas Morse, Discovery Passages Susan Musgrave, Origami Dove India, in English Vivek Narayanan, Universal Beach, 80 pages, ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni (SPD, dist.), 978-1-934639-10-8 Ireland New Zealand Airini Beautrais Western Line, Victoria University Press Poets in Best New Zealand Poems Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Chris Price for Best New Zealand Poems 2010, published online this year: Fleur Adcock Hinemoana Baker Emma Barnes Sarah Jane Barnett Miro Bilbrough Jenny Bornholdt James Brown Kate Camp Geoff Cochrane Jennifer Compton David Eggleton Cliff Fell John Gallas Anna Jackson Lynn Jenner Anne Kennedy Anna Livesey Cilla McQueen David Mitchell Bill Nelson John Newton Gregory O'Brien Kerrin P Sharpe Elizabeth Smither Ian Wedde South Africa Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You, 202 pages, Central Avenue Publishing, 978-1-92676-068-1 United Kingdom Hal Duncan, Songs for the Devil and Death, 172 pages, Papaverua Press, 978-1-907881-04-6 Salena Godden, Under The Pier, Nasty Little Press Ralph Pordzik, Pretending to See Elephants, 58 pages, Lulu Press, 978-1-4457-5568-7 William Walker (age 97), The Poetry of Flt Lt William Walker AE, The Battle of Britain Memorial TrustWilliam's words of wisdom http://www.battleofbritainmemorial.org/events/ The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust 2011 2011-07-18 Eoghan Walls, The Salt Harvest, 64 pages, Seren Books, 978-1-85411-549-2Ian Sansom David Park The Guardian Review London 21 April 2012 12–13 Carol Watts, Occasionals, Reality Street, 88 pp., 978-1-874400-52-3 Anthologies in the United Kingdom Being Human, edited by Neil Astley New Poetries V, edited by Michael Schmidt with Eleanor Crawforth, 264 pages, Carcanet Press, 978-1-84777-131-5 United States Seth Abramson, Northerners, 72 pages, New Issues Press, 978-1-930974-96-8 Ammiel Alcalay, “neither wit nor gold” (from them), 88 pp., Ugly Duckling Presse, 978-1-933254-84-5 Will Alexander, Compression & Purity, 100 pp., City Lights, 978-0-87286-541-9 Rae Armantrout, Money Shot, 80 pages, Wesleyan University Press, 978-0-8195-7130-4 Morris Berman, Counting Blessings, 44 pages, Cervena Barva Press, 978-0-5780-8091-8 Ernesto Cardenal, The Origin of the Species and Other Poems, translated & introduced by John Lyons, foreword by Anne Waldman, 168 pp., Texas Tech University Press, 978-0-89672-689-5 Billy Collins, Horoscopes for the Dead, 128 pages, Random House, 978-1-4000-6492-2 William Corbett, The Whalen Poem, 64 pages, Hanging Loose Press, 978-1-934909-13-3 Joshua Corey, Severance Songs, 84 pages, Tupelo Press, 978-1-932195-92-7 Forrest Gander, Core Samples from the World, 96 pages, New Directions, 978-0-8112-1887-0 Eloise Greenfield, The Great Migration: Journey to the North, 32 pages, Amistad, 978-0-06-125921-0 Jane Hirshfield, Come, Thief, 108 pages, Knopf, 978-0-307-59542-3 Harmony Holiday, Negro League Baseball, 104 pages, Fence Books, 978-1-934200-42-1 Susan Howe, That This, 112 pages, New Directions, 978-0-8112-1918-1 David Meltzer, When I Was A Poet, 150 pages, City Lights, 978-0-87286-516-7 Anna Moschovakis, You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, 132 pages, Coffee House Press, 978-1-56689-250-6 Alice Notley, Culture of One, 160 pages, Penguin, 978-0-14-311893-0 Edward Nudelman, What Looks Like an Elephant, 116 pp., Lummox Press, 978-1-929878-91-8 Ovid, Love Poems, Letters and Remedies of Ovid, transl. by David R. Slavitt; introd. by Michael Dirda, 384 pp., Harvard University Press, 978-0-674-05904-7 Michael Palmer, Thread, 112 pages, New Directions, 978-0-8112-1921-1 Ruben Quesada, Next Extinct Mammal, 62 pages, Greenhouse Review Press, 978-0-9655239-9-8 Matthew Rohrer, Destroyer and Preserver, 96 pages, Wave, 978-1-933517-50-6 Rabindranath Tagore, The Essential Tagore, ed. by Fakrul Alam & Radha Chakravarty, 864 pp., Belknap-Harvard, 978-0-674-05790-6 Tyrone Williams, Pink Tie, Hooke Press, Elizabeth Willis, Address, 80 pages, Wesleyan, 978-0-8195-7098-7 Dean Young, Fall Higher, Copper Canyon Press, 978-1-55659-311-6 Anthologies in the United States Tyler Chadwick (ed.); – Fire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets, 546 pages. Peculiar Pages, 978-0-9817696-6-0. Kenneth Goldsmith (ed.); Craig Dworkin (ed.) – Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, 656 pages. Northwestern University Press, 978-0-8101-2711-1 Sarah Palin; Michael Solomon (ed.) – I Hope Like Heck, 64 pages. Byliner, 978-1-61452-009-2 Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States Charles Bernstein, Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions, 296 pages, University of Chicago Press, 978-0-226-04477-4 Robert Duncan, The H.D. Book, 696 pages, University of California Press, 978-0-520-26075-7 Oren Izenberg, Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life, 272 pages, Princeton University Press, 978-0-691-14866-3 Christopher Nealon, The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century, 202 pages, Harvard University Press, 978-0-674-05872-9 Poets in The Best American Poetry 2011 These poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2011. David Lehman, general editor, and Kevin Young, guest editor (who selected the poetry):http://www.bestamericanpoetry.com The Best American Poetry Series | Home Page Bestamericanpoetry.com 2012-03-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20110623053216/http://bestamericanpoetry.com/ 2011-06-23 dead Elizabeth Alexander Sherman Alexie Rae Armantrout John Ashbery Julianna Baggot Erin Belieu Cara Benson Jaswinder Bolina Catherine Bowman Turner Cassidy Michael Cerelli Billy Collins Olena Kalytiak Davis Matthew Dickman Michael Dickman Denise Duhamel Cornelius Eady Jill Alexander Essbaum Alan Feldman Farrah Field Carolyn Forche Beckian Fritz Goldberg Benjamin S. Grossberg Jennifer Grotz Robert Hass Terrance Hayes K.A. Hays Bob Hicok Jane Hirshfield Paul Hoover Andrew Hudgins Major Jackson Allison Joseph L. S. Klatt Jennifer L. Knox Yusef Komunyakaa James Longenbach Bridget Lowe Maurice Manning Morton Marcus Jill McDonough Erika Meitner Paul Muldoon Jude Nutter Jeni Olin Eric Pankey Alan Michael Parker Catherine Pierce Robert Pinsky Katha Pollitt D. A. Powell Gretchen Steele Pratt James Richardson Anne Marie Rooney Mary Ruefle Mary Jo Salter James Schuyler Charles Simic Matthew Buckly Smith Patricia Smith David St. John Gerald Stern Bianca Stone Mark Strand Mary Jo Thompson Natasha Trethewey Lee Upton David Wagoner Rosanna Warren Rachel Wetzsteon Richard Wilbur C. K. Williams David Wojahn Charles Wright Stephen Yenser Works published in other languages Denmark France Germany Nora Bossong, Sommer vor den Mauern: Gedichte, 96 pages, Hanser, 978-3-446-23629-5 Tom Bresemann, Berliner Fenster: Gedichte, 96 pages, Bloomsbury, 978-3-8270-0973-9 Crauss., LAKRITZVERGIFTUNG. juicy transversions: Gedichte, 180 pages, Verlagshaus J. Frank, 978-3-940249-96-8 Dietmar Dath, Gott ruft zurück: Gedichte, 60 pages, Connewitzer Verlagsbuchhandlung, 978-3-937799-50-6 Synke Köhler, waldoffen: Gedichte, 76 pages, Lyrikedition 2000, 978-3-86906-180-1 Alexander Gumz, ausrücken mit modellen: Gedichte, 88 pages, kookbooks, 978-3-937445-44-1 Daniela Seel, ich kann diese stelle nicht wiederfinden: Gedichte, 64 pages, kookbooks, 978-3-937445-46-5 Lutz Steinbrück, Blickdicht: Gedichte, 76 pages, Verlagshaus J. Frank, 978-3-940249-38-8 Antony Theodore, Das Lieds meines Tanzes und der Tanz meiner Traume, 92 pages, Ventura Verlaghaus, 978-39-408531-0-3 Mathias Traxler, You’re welcome: Gedichte/ Aufzeichnungen, 127 pages, kookbooks, 978-3-937445-45-8 Mikael Vogel, Massenhaft Tiere: Gedichte, 100 pages, Verlagshaus J. Frank, 978-3-940249-40-1 Florian Voß, Datenschatten Datenströme Staub: Gedichte, 80 pages, Verlagshaus J. Frank, 978-3-940249-46-3 Matthew Zapruder, Glühend: Gedichte, a bilingual English/German edition; translated into German by Ron Winkler, 145 pages, Luxbooks, 978-3-939557-41-8 Judith Zander, oder tau: Gedichte, 100 pages, dtv, 978-3-423-24862-4 Ireland Seán Ó Ríordáin, Na Dánta (Poems) 9781905560738http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0114/1224310229812.html Art in the form of Artefact Pól Ó Muirí The Irish Times 2012-01-14 2012-10-11 Poland Leszek Engelking, Muzeum dzieciństwa (Museum of Childhood, WBPiCAK) 978-83-62717-13-2 Julia Hartwig, Gorzkie żale (Lenten Psalms, Wydawnictwo a5) 978-83-61298-30-4 Other languages Bengali Rahman Henry, Sorrow and some other happiness. (Dukkho O Aro Kichu Ananda); Bhashachitra, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 978-984-8471-02-9, Bengali poetry Chandan Chowdhury, Sculpture of Crow. (kaker vascorjo); Ittadi grantho prakash, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Bengali poetry Ukrainian Les Wicks, Shadows of the Read (Krok) "AU/UA: Contemporary Poetry of Ukraine and Australia" (Krok) Meuse Press Urdu Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, Meri Tasveer ("My Portrait") (GBD Books, New Delhi), Urdu poetry Awards and honors by country Australia awards and honors Canada awards and honors Archibald Lampman Award: Paul Tyler, A Short History of Forgetting Atlantic Poetry Prize: John Steffler, Lookout 2011 Governor General's Awards: Phil Hall, Killdeer (English); Louise Dupré, Plus haut que les flammes (French) Griffin Poetry Prize: Canadian: Dionne Brand, Ossuaries International, in the English Language: Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Heavenly Questions Lifetime Recognition Award: Yves Bonnefoy Gerald Lampert Award: Anna Swanson, The Nights Also Pat Lowther Award: Evelyn Lau, Living Under Plastic Prix Alain-Grandbois: Carole David, Manuel de poétique à l'intention des jeunes filles Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Stephen Collis, On the Material Prix Émile-Nelligan: Mahigan Lepage, Relief New Zealand awards and honors New Zealand Post Book Awards: Award for poetry: Kate Camp The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls, Victoria University Press NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry: Lynn Jenner Dear Sweet Harry, Auckland University Press United Kingdom awards and honors Cholmondeley Award: Imtiaz Dharker, Michael Haslam, Lachlan Mackinnon Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry: Shortlist: English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes: Eric Gregory Award (for a collection of poems by a poet under the age of 30): Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection: Shortlist: Best First Collection: Shortlist: Best Poem: Shortlist: Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry: Shortlist: Manchester Poetry Prize: National Poet of Wales: National Poetry Competition 2010: T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Shortlist (announced in November 201): 2011 Short List The Times/Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation: United States awards and honors Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: to Dore Kiesselbach for Salt Pierhttp://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=19339 Starrett poetry prize winner announced University Times University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA January 12, 2012 44 9 January 13, 2012 AML Award for Poetry awarded to Tyler Chadwick for editing Fire in the Pasture: Twenty-first Century Mormon Poets Bollingen Prize: Susan Howe – Judges: Peter Gizzi, Marjorie Perloff, Claudia Rankinehttp://beinecke.library.yale.edu/bollingen/winner.html The Bollingen Prize for Poetry 2011 Winner Beinecke.library.yale.edu 2011-06-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20100616200256/http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/bollingen/winner.html 2010-06-16 dead Kate Tufts Discovery Award: Atsuro Riley for Romey's Order Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award: Chase Twichell for Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: C.D. Wright for One With Others National Book Award for Poetry: Nikky Finney for Head Off & Split: Poems National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: awarded to Laura Kasischke for Space, In Chains.http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/03/laura-kasischke-wins-nbcc-award/ Laura Kasischke Wins NBCC Award : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog The Poetry Foundation August 18, 2012 The New Criterion Poetry Prize: D.H. Tracy for Janet's Cottage PEN Award for Poetry in Translation: Khaled Mattawa for Adonis: Selected Poems by Adonis Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): to Kay Ryan for The Best of It: New and Selected Poems Finalists: The Common Man by Maurice Manning and Break the Glass by Jean Valentine Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award: Dominic Siracusa Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize : David FerryPoetry Foundation David Ferry Awarded 2011 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize April 12, 2011 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/announcement/186278 2011-04-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20110505015107/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/announcement/186278 5 May 2011 live Wallace Stevens Award: Yusef Komunyakaa Whiting Awards: Don Mee Choi, Eduardo C. Corral, Shane McCrae, Kerri Webster Yale Younger Series: Eduardo C. Corral – Judge: Carl Phillips From the Poetry Society of America Frost Medal: Charles Simic Shelley Memorial Award: – Judges: Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award: – Judge: Lyric Poetry Award: – Judge: Lucille Medwick Memorial Award: – Judge: ; finalist: Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award: – Judge: ; finalists: Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: – Judge: ; finalists: George Bogin Memorial Award: – Judge: Robert H. Winner Memorial Award: – Judge: ; finalists: Cecil Hemley Memorial Award: – Judge: Norma Farber First Book Award: – Judge: William Carlos Williams Award: – Judge: ; finalists: From the Poetry Society of Virginia Student Poetry Contest http://www.poetrysocietyofvirginia.org/contests.htm The Poetry Society of Virginia website Poetrysocietyofvirginia.org 2011-06-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20110726101415/http://www.poetrysocietyofvirginia.org/contests.htm 26 July 2011 dead 2011 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Category 8: Virginia Student Prize :: Judge: Dr. Kate Simpson, Winchester, VA 1st Place – Jake Robinson of Virginia Beach, VA for the poem "Makings of Men" 2nd Place – Mikal Cardine of Midland, VA for the poem "Remember" 3rd Place – Kira Tomlin of Front Royal, VA for the poem "Caught In Silence" 1st Honorable Mention – Elliott Warren of Richmond, VA for the poem "Time Does Not Heal" 2nd Honorable Mention – Franklin Ewing of Richmond, VA for the poem "Against Kosovel" 3rd Honorable Mention – Andre Aganbi of Chester, VA for the poem "Classic Scene" 2011 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Category 7: College/University :: Judge: Bob Kelly, Newport News, VA 1st Place Ishaway Friestad of Norfolk, VA for the poem "Super Nova" 3rd Place Lauren "Wren" Brown of Springfield, VA for the poem "Spiral" 2011 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Category 6: Grades 11 & 12 :: Judge: Nancy Powell, Hampton, VA 1st Place Franklin Ewing of Richmond, VA for the poem "Think" 2nd Place Bridget Jamison of Vienna, VA for the poem "The Dance" 3rd Place Stephen Wood of Richmond, VA for the poem "On The Rechristening of High Fructose Corn Syrup" 2011 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Category 5: Grades 9 & 10:: Judge: Pete Freas, Chesapeake, VA 1st Place Hannah Wilson of Oak Park, IL for the poem “I came from a mother...” 2nd Place Hannah Srajer of Oak Park, IL for the poem "Crusade" 2nd Place Olivia O'Sullivan of Oak Park, IL for the poem “weekday drinking...” 3rd Place Natalie Richardson of Oak Park, IL for the poem “his curious fingers...” 3rd Place Yuliya Semibratova of Oak Park, IL for the poem “not red, nor white, nor blue...” 1st Honorable Mention Rory Dunn of Fredericksburg, VA for the poem "The Feeling" 2011 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Category 4: Grades 7 & 8 :: Judge: ijil Rainbow Hawk Giver, Norfolk, VA 1st Place Tess Hinchman of West Bath, ME for the poem "March 15" 2nd Place Sam Herter of Brunswick, ME for the poem “Fears: Age 7” 3rd Place Lilly Richardson of Whitefield, ME for the poem “Do You Remember?” 1st Honorable Mention Sophia Carbonneau of Alna, ME for the poem "This Is Just To Say" 1st Honorable Mention Sabrina Sammel of Stafford, VA for the poem "Silence" 2nd Honorable Mention Morganne Elkins of Edgecomb, ME for the poem "Don" 2nd Honorable Mention Caleb Rinderer of Newport News, VA for the poem "Country Daybreak" 3rd Honorable Mention Rex Reilly of Miami Beach, FL for the poem "Chocolate" Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 5 – Malangatana Ngwenya, age 74 (born 1936), Mozambican poet and painterhttp://www.monstersandcritics.com/arts/news/article_1609556.php/Mozambican-painter-Malangatana-dies-in-Portugal Mozambican painter Malangatana dies in Portugal Monsters and Critics 2011-01-05 2011-06-25 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110109010559/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/arts/news/article_1609556.php/Mozambican-painter-Malangatana-dies-in-Portugal 2011-01-09 January 10 – María Elena Walsh, age 80 (born 1930), Argentine musician, poet and writer ("Manuelita la tortuga")http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/55984/mar%C3%ADa-elena-walsh-dies-at-age-80 María Elena Walsh dies at age 80 BuenosAiresHerald.com 2011-06-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20110629101312/http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/55984/mar%C3%ADa-elena-walsh-dies-at-age-80 29 June 2011 live January 11 – Susana Chávez, age 36 (born 1974), Mexican poet and human rights activist, strangledhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12177543 BBC News Juarez killings activist Chavez murdered in Mexico January 12, 2011 January 20 F. A. Nettelbeck, age 60 (born 1950), American poethttp://lokidesign.net/2356/ Four Minutes to Midnight LOKi design 2011-06-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20110723190136/http://lokidesign.net/2356/ 2011-07-23 dead Stephen Kessler http://news.santacruz.com/2011/01/24/f._a._nettelbeck_outlaw_poet F. A. Nettelbeck, Outlaw Poet – Santa Cruz News News.santacruz.com 2011-01-24 2011-06-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20110716004511/http://news.santacruz.com/2011/01/24/f._a._nettelbeck_outlaw_poet 16 July 2011 dead Reynolds Price, age 77 (born 1933), American novelist, occasional poet, and scholar of the work of John Milton January 23 – Novica Tadić, age 62 (born 1949), Yugoslavian poethttp://www.glassrbije.org/info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27225:umro-pesnik-novica-tadi&catid=43:oko-nas&Itemid=58 Medjunarodni Radio Srbija – Magazin | Umro pesnik Novica Tadić – Umro pesnik Novica Tadić Oko nas nedelja, 23 januar 2011 Glassrbije.org 2011-06-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20110721094459/http://www.glassrbije.org/info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27225%3Aumro-pesnik-novica-tadi&catid=43%3Aoko-nas&Itemid=58 2011-07-21 dead January 25 – R. F. Langley, age 72 (born 1938), English poet and diarist, loosely affiliated with the Cambridge poetry scene https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jan/26/poet-diarist-r-f-langley-dies Poet and diarist RF Langley dies Page Benedicte January 26, 2011 guardian.co.uk Guardian News and Media Limited January 27, 2011 London February 3 – Édouard Glissant, age 82 (born 1928), French-Martiniquan poet and writer The Guardian February 13, 2011 Edouard Glissant Obituary https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/13/edouard-glissant-obituary February 6 – Andrée Chedid, 90, Egyptian-born French poet and novelisthttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12388674 BBC News Franco-Egyptian poet Andree Chedid dies at 90 February 8, 2011 February 11 – Bo Carpelan, 84, Finnish poet and authorhttp://www.hs.fi/english/article/Author+and+poet+Bo+Carpelan+dies+at+84/1135263737208 Helsingin Sanomat – International Edition – Culture Hs.fi 2011-06-25 thumb|right|150px|Ira Cohen reading at Rapture Cafe NYC on Feb 3, 2007, his 72nd birthday February 25 – Aminath Faiza, 82, Maldivian poet and authorhttp://www.haveeru.com.mv/english/details/35016 Haveeru Online – Famed Maldivian poet Faiza passes away Haveeru.com.mv 2011-02-25 2011-06-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20110722223032/http://www.haveeru.com.mv/english/details/35016 22 July 2011 dead February 25 – Justinas Marcinkevičius, 80, Lithuanian poet and playwrighthttp://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/mire-poetas-jmarcinkevicius.d?id=42063477 Mirė poetas J.Marcinkevičius – DELFI Žinios Delfi.lt 2011-06-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20110722150158/http://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/mire-poetas-jmarcinkevicius.d?id=42063477 22 July 2011 live March 2 – John Haines, 86, American poet and educator, former poet laureate of AlaskaJohn Haines, a Poet of the Wild, Dies at 86 Martin Douglas March 5, 2011 The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/arts/05haines.html 2011-03-05 April 2 – Paul Violi, 66, American poet April 25 – Ira Cohen, 76 (born 1935), American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker May 10 – Patrick Galvin, 83 (born 1927), Irish poet and dramatist May 19 – William Kloefkorn, 78 (born 1933), American poet and former "Nebraska State Poet"http://www.omaha.com/article/20110520/NEWS01/705209871/0 https://archive.today/20120905233734/http://www.omaha.com/article/20110520/NEWS01/705209871/0 dead 2012-09-05 State poet Kloefkorn dies at 78 Omaha.com 2011-05-20 2011-06-18 May 23 – Roberto Sosa, 81 (born 1930), Honduran poetNovember 2020 May 25: Edwin Honig, 91 (born 1919), American poet, critic and translator known for his English renditions of seminal works of Spanish and Portuguese literaturehttps://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/arts/edwin-honig-a-poet-and-translator-dies-at-91.html?ref=deathsobituaries Edwin Honig, a Poet, Professor and Translator, Dies at 91 The New York Times June 4, 2011 Margalit Fox 2011-06-11 Yannis Varveris (born 1955), Greek poet, critic and translator May 27 – Gil Scott-Heron, 62 (born 1949), American poet, spoken-word musician and author who helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression and spoken-word poetryGil Scott-Heron, Spoken-Word Musician, Dies at 62 https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/05/27/us/AP-US-Obit-Gil-Scott-Heron.html?hp May 28, 2011 The Associated Press May 28, 2011 thumb|150px|Gil Scott Heron on stage in front of a packed house at the Regency Ballroom, Friday, October 3, 2009, in San Francisco May 29 – Da Real One, 46, American poet (Def Poetry) gunned down in North Miamihttp://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/05/29/poet-gunned-down-in-north-miami/ Poet Gunned Down in North Miami cbs miami.com May 29, 2011 CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc 2011-06-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20110723143905/http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/05/29/poet-gunned-down-in-north-miami/ 23 July 2011 live June 2 – Josephine Hart, 69 (born 1942), Irish-born British novelist and poetry promoter. As director of Haymarket Publishing, a founder of Gallery Poets and West End Poetry Hourhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/8555567/Josephine-Hart.html Film obituaries: Josephine Hart 3 June 2011 telegraph.co.uk Telegraph Media Group Limited June 12, 2011 June 21 – Robert Kroetsch, OC, 83 (born 1927), Canadian novelist, poet and non-fiction writer"Robert Kroetsch, acclaimed Canadian author, dies in Alberta crash". The Globe and Mail, June 22, 2011. August 22 – Samuel Menashe, 85 (born 1925), American poet and the first poet to receive "The Neglected Masters Award", given by the Poetry Foundation of America, which he received in 2004August 23, 2011 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/08/samuel-menashe.html Poet Samuel Menashe has died The Los Angeles Times 2011-08-24 August 24 – Seyhan Erözçelik, 49 (born 1962), Turkish poetgreenintegerblog https://pippoetry.blogspot.com/2011/07/seyhan-erozcelik.html The PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) Blog: Seyhan Erözçelik Pippoetry.blogspot.com 2011-07-21 2011-08-26 2011-11-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20111119232941/http://pippoetry.blogspot.com/2011/07/seyhan-erozcelik.html dead http://www.montevidayo.com/?p=1820 The Death of Seyhan Erözçelik at Age 49 Montevidayo 2011-08-26 August 2026 InternetArchiveBot August 26 – Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, 71 (born 1940), American novelist and poet, finalist for 1975 National Book Award in poetry for Granite LadyAugust 29, 2011 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/08/writer-susan-fromberg-schaeffer-has-died.html Writer Susan Fromberg Schaeffer has died - latimes.com Latimesblogs.latimes.com 2012-01-14http://www.nationalbook.org/nba1975.html 1975 National Book Awards Winners and Finalists, The National Book Foundation Nationalbook.org 2012-01-14 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110909065656/http://www.nationalbook.org/nba1975.html 2011-09-09 September 4 – Hugh Fox, 79 (born 1932), prolific American novelist and poet, a founder of the Pushcart Prize October 18 – Andrea Zanzotto, 90 (born 1921), Italian poetCorriere del Veneto http://corrieredelveneto.corriere.it/treviso/notizie/cronaca/2011/18-ottobre-2011/morto-poeta-andrea-zanzotto-1901858307628.shtml E' morto il poeta Andrea Zanzotto Il Veneto piange il suo maestro – Corriere del Veneto Corrieredelveneto.corriere.it 2011-10-18 2012-01-08 October 27 – Allen Mandelbaum, 85 (born 1926), American poet and translator November 10 – Ivan Martin Jirous, 67 (born 1944), Czech poet November 19 - Ruth Stone, 96 (born 1915), American poet November 21 – Theodore Enslin, 86 (born 1925), American poet with close ties to Cid Corman, Charles Olson, and particularly the Objectivist tradition in the U.S.http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/11/with-great-respect-theodore-enslin-1925-2011/ With Great Respect: Theodore Enslin, 1925–2011 : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog The Poetry Foundation 2012-01-08 November 24 – Andrzej Mandalian, 85 (born 1926), Polish poet December 14 – George Whitman, 98 (born 1913), heir to Sylvia Beach as proprietor of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Parishttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/12/george-whitman-1913-2011/ George Whitman, 1913–2011 : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog The Poetry Foundation 2012-01-08 December 18 – Václav Havel, 75 (born 1936) was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician; best known to the public as the last president of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993–2003)http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/12/typograms-ptydepe-remembering-vaclav-havel/ Typograms & Ptydepe: Remembering Vaclav Havel : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog The Poetry Foundation 2012-01-08 December 30 – Eleanor Ross Taylor, 91, American poet who received the 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize of $100,000 which honors poets whose "lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition"http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/2012/jan/03/esteemed-poet-eleanor-taylor-dies-ar-1585126/ https://archive.today/20130102072716/http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/2012/jan/03/esteemed-poet-eleanor-taylor-dies-ar-1585126/ dead 2013-01-02 Esteemed poet Eleanor Taylor dies Daily Progress 2012-03-05 See also Poetry List of poetry awards Poetry Notes 2 * *