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Events

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John Ashbery at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival
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Günter Grass in 2010

Works published in English

Australia

Canada

India, in English

Ireland

New Zealand

Poets in Best New Zealand Poems

Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Bernadette Hall for Best New Zealand Poems 2011 , published online this year:

United Kingdom

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

United States

  • Paige Ackerson-KielyMy Love is a Dead Arctic Explorer, 128 pages, Ahsahta Press, ISBN   9781934103272
  • John Allman, Algorithms, Clear Sound / Quale Press, Niantic, CT
  • Kris Bigalk – Repeat the Flesh in Numbers, NYQ Books,
  • Richard Blanco, Looking for the Gulf Motel, University of Pittsburgh Press,
  • Marilyn BuckInside/Out: Selected Poems, foreword by David Meltzer, City Lights Books
  • Joseph Campana – Natural Selections, Iowa
  • Jared CarterA Dance in the Street, 112 pages, Wind Publications, ISBN   9781936138272.
  • Heather Christle – What Is Amazing, Wesleyan,
  • Laura Cronk – Having Been an Accomplice: Poems, Persea Books
  • Michael CollierAn Individual History: Poems, W. W. Norton,
  • Martha Collins – White Papers, University of Pittsburgh Press,
  • CA Conrad – A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics, 240 pages, Wave Press, ISBN   9781933517599
  • Eduardo C. CorralSlow Lightning, Yale University Press,
  • Brent Cunningham – Journey to the Sun, 120 pages, Atelos, ISBN   9781891190353
  • Jazzy DanzigerDarkroom, University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN   9780299286842
  • Natalie DiazWhen My Brother Was an Aztec, Copper Canyon Press, ISBN   9781556593833
  • Matthew and Michael Dickman50 American plays: poems, Copper Canyon Press
  • Joseph Donahue – Dissolves (Terra Lucida IV-VIII), 160 pages, Talisman House Publishers, ISBN   9781584980780
  • Thom DonovanThe Hole, 163 pages, Displaced Press, ISBN   9780982212073
  • Norman FischerConflict, 84 pages, Chax Press, ISBN   9780925904720
  • Jack GilbertCollected Poems, Knopf,
  • Nathalie Handal – Poet in Andalucía, University of Pittsburgh Press,
  • Lyn HejinianThe Book of a Thousand Eyes, 350 pages, Omnidawn Publishing, ISBN   9781890650575
  • Sørina Higgins – Caduceus, 100 pages, Word Tech Communications / David Robert Books, ISBN   9781936370610
  • Cathy Park HongEngine Empire, Norton
  • Paul HooverDesolation: Souvenir, 96 pages, Omnidawn Publishing, ISBN   9781890650582
  • Mitch CullinThe House of Special Purpose, illustrated by Peter I. Chang
  • Alice Jones – Plunge, Apogee Press
  • Lenore KandelCollected Poems of Lenore Kandel, North Atlantic Books
  • James Browning Kepple Thus Virginia Passes Pretend Genius Press ISBN   9780985213329
  • Rebecca Lindenberg – Love, An Index, McSweeney's
  • Liu XiaoboJune Fourth Elegies; trans. from the Chinese by Jeffrey Yang, Graywolf Press,
  • Magus Magnus - The Re-echoes, 99 pages, Furniture Press Books ISBN   9780982629970
  • Sean Labrador Y Manzano, The Gulag Arkipelago, Tinfish Press
  • Filip Marinovich, And if You Don’t Go Crazy, I’ll Meet You Here Tomorrow, Ugly Duckling Press,
  • Campbell McGrathIn the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys: Poems, Ecco
  • Joyelle McSweeneyPercussion Grenade: Poems & Plays, 96 pages, Fence Books, ISBN   9781934200520
  • Rusty MorrisonAfter Urgency, 88 pages, Tupelo Press, ISBN   9781932195415
  • David Mutschlecner – Enigma and Light, Ahsahta Press,
  • Eileen MylesSnowflake; Different Streets, Wave Press
Eileen Myles reading in NYC, September 2006 Eileen Myles by David Shankbone.jpg
Eileen Myles reading in NYC, September 2006

Anthologies in the United States

  • Peter Cole and Aminadav Dykman, editors. Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition, Yale University Press,
  • Ryan G. Van Cleave, editor. City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry, Iowa, . Includes: Rane Arroyo, Marvin Bell, Allen Braden, John Bradley, Curtis L. Crisler, Mary Cross, James D’Agostino, Stuart Dybek, Susan Elbe, Dina Elenbogen, Martín Espada, Beth Ann Fennelly, Bob Hicok, Edward Hirsch, Philip Jenks & Simone Muench, Thomas L. Johnson, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Viola Lee, Francesco Levato, Campbell McGrath, Paul Martínez Pompa, Adrian Matejka, Erika Mikkalo, Julie Parson Nesbitt, Johanny Vázquez Paz, James Plath, Christina Pugh, Maya Quintero, Robyn Schiff, Patricia Smith, Tony Trigilio, Alpay Ulku, Judith Valente, Nicole Walker, Ellen Wehle, Brenda Yates
  • Cary Nelson, editor. The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, Oxford University Press, . Includes essays by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Robert Dale Parker, Melissa Girard, John Marsh, Linda A. Kinnahan, Peter Nicholls, Charles Altieri, Edward Brunner, Tim Newcomb, Susan Rosenbaum, Mike Chasar, Philip Metres, Karen Jackson Ford, Josephine Park, Walter Kalaidjian, Jahan Ramazani, Michael Thurston, Al Filreis, Lytle Shaw, Mark W. Van Wienen, Michael Davidson, Lynn Keller, Timothy Yu, James Smethurst, Adalaide Morris
  • Charles Henry Rowell, editor. Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, W.W. Norton, .More than 70 poets are represented in this anthology of African-American poetry since the 1960s
  • Joshua Corey and G.C. Waldrep, editors – The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, Ahsahta Press. – Contributors: Emily Abendroth, Will Alexander, Rae Armantrout, Eric Baus, Dan Beachy-Quick, John Beer, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Sherwin Bitsui, Kamau Brathwaite, Susan Briante, Oni Buchanan, Heather Christle, Stephen Collis, Jack Collom, Phil Cordelli, T. Zachary Cotler, Brent Cunningham, Christopher Dewdney, Timothy Donnelly, Michael Dumanis, Camille Dungy, Marcella Durand, Lisa Fishman, Rob Fitterman, Forrest Gander, Merrill Gilfillan, C. S. Giscombe, Peter Gizzi, Jody Gladding, Johannes Göransson, Chris Green, Arielle Greenberg, Richard Greenfield, Sarah Gridley, e. tracy grinnell, Gabriel Gudding, Joshua Harmon, Nathan Hauke, Lyn Hejinian, Mary Hickman, Brenda Hillman, Kevin Holden, Paul Hoover, Erika Howsare & Kate Schapira, Brenda Iijima, Sally Keith, Karla Kelsey, Amy King, Melissa Kwasny, Brian Laidlaw, Maryrose Larkin, Ann Lauterbach, Karen An-hwei Lee, Paul Legault, Sylvia Legris, Dana Levin, Eric Linsker, Alessandra Lynch, J. Michael Martinez, Nicole Mauro, Aaron McCollough, Joyelle McSweeney, K. Silem Mohammad, Laura Moriarty, Rusty Morrison, Erin Mouré, Jennifer Moxley, Laura Mullen, Melanie Noel, Kathryn Nuernberger, Peter O'Leary, Patrick Pritchett, Bin Ramke, Stephen Ratcliffe, Matt Reeck, Marthe Reed, Evelyn Reilly, Karen Rigby, Ed Roberson, Lisa Robertson, Elizabeth Robinson, Craig Santos Perez, Leslie Scalapino, Standard Schaefer, Brandon Shimoda, Eleni Sikelianos, Jonathan Skinner, Gustaf Sobin, Juliana Spahr, Jane Sprague, Fenn Stewart, Adam Strauss, Mathias Svalina, Arthur Sze, John Taggart, Michelle Taransky, Brian Teare, Tony Tost, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Cathy Wagner, Elizabeth Willis, Jane Wong, and C. D. Wright

Nonfiction, criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Poets in The Best American Poetry 2012

The following poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2012. David Lehman, general editor, and Mark Doty, guest editor (who selected the poetry): [9]

Works published in other languages

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French language

France

Anthologies in France

Germany

Poland

Other languages

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Urdu

Awards and honors by country

Awards announced this year:

International

Australia awards and honors

Canada awards and honors

France awards and honors

New Zealand awards and honors

United Kingdom awards and honors

United States awards and honors

From the Poetry Society of America

Deaths

Adrienne Rich, one of the 20th-century's most celebrated poets, died in 2012. Here she is in 1980. Adrienne Rich 1980.jpg
Adrienne Rich, one of the 20th-century's most celebrated poets, died in 2012. Here she is in 1980.

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See also

Notes

  1. "China jails dissident Zhu Yufu over poem sent on Skype | World news". The Guardian. London. Reuters in Beijing. 2012-02-10. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  2. "Coldfront » Obama honors Ashbery and Dove, quotes Dickinson and Whitman". Coldfrontmag.com. 2012-02-13. Archived from the original on 2012-06-01. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  3. Bar-Zohar, Ophir; Ravid, Barak (8 April 2012). "Interior Minister declares Gunter Grass persona non grata in Israel". Haaretz . Retrieved 8 April 2012.
  4. Sherwood, Harriet (8 April 2012). "Günter Grass barred from Israel over poem: Nobel laureate, who says he had not meant to criticise Israel but Netanyahu government, declared persona non grata". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
  5. McGrath, Charles (2012-06-06). "Natasha Trethewey Is Named Poet Laureate". The New York Times.
  6. Little, Lyneka (June 7, 2012). "Natasha Trethewey Named New U.S. Poet Laureate". The Wall Street Journal .
  7. Qatari poet jailed for life to appeal – Middle East – Al Jazeera English
  8. Qatar sentences poet to 15 years in jail for verse about freedom | Twitchy
  9. The Best American Poetry 2012, Guest Edited by Mark Doty
  10. 1 2 Clark, Nick (2013-01-14). "Poet Sharon Olds scoops TS Eliot Prize for 'confessional' work about her husband's affair" . The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01.
  11. D.A. Powell, Ben Fountain Win National Book Critics Circle Awards | Poets and Writers
  12. CM Payne (2012-02-05). "Basil Payne obituary | Books". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  13. Tremblay, Robin (2004-02-26). "X Poetics: In Memory of Stacy Doris". Xpoetics.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  14. "PennSound: Stacy Doris". Writing.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  15. "Stacy Doris- Poets.org – Poetry, Poems, Bios & More". Poets.org. 2012-01-31. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  16. "Polish Nobel winning poet Szymborska dies at 88". Reuters. 2012-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  17. "W.Va. poet laureate Irene McKinney dies at 72". Charleston, West Virginia: Charleston Gazette-Mail. February 4, 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-12-17. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
  18. sandra martin. "Poet found magic and mystery in the everyday". Toronto: The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  19. Colleen Thibaudeau – The Canadian Encyclopedia
  20. "Noted poet Shahryar passes away – Times Of India". Timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  21. "Dr. Fred Moramarco, Professor Emeritus". Rohan.sdsu.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
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  23. Woo, Elaine (2012-02-23). "Barney Rosset obituary: Publisher who challenged censorship while championing writers was 89". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  24. "Joydeb Basu passes away". The Times of India . 2012-02-24. Archived from the original on 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
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  32. "(おくやみ)杉山平一氏が死去 詩人、映画評論なども". Nihon Keizai Shinbun (in Japanese). 19 May 2012. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  33. Haglund, David (13 November 2012). "Jack Gilbert, American Poet, Dies at 87". Slate. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  34. "Jack Gilbert- Poets.org – Poetry, Poems, Bios & More". Poets.org. 2012-11-11. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
  35. Hozhabr Kalali, Pourandokht (2013). Yadegarnameh Seyyed Amir Mahmoud Anwarیادگارنامه دکتر سید امیر محمود انوار (in Persian) (first ed.). Tehran: Baz. p. 13-30. Archived from the original on 2022-08-30. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
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