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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Anniversaries
- January 25 – the 125th birthday of Osip Mandelstam.[5]
- March 5 – semicentenary of the death of Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (Requiem)
- March 27 – 90th birthday of Frank O'Hara.[6] (See July 25)
- April 24 – centenary of the start of the Easter Rising in Dublin, which inspired W. B. Yeats’s poem “Easter, 1916”.
- June 7 – semicentenary of the death of Jean Arp, French sculptor, painter and poet, leader in Dadaism
- July 11 – semicentenary of the death of Delmore Schwartz, American poet, Bollingen Prize winner and short story writer ("In Dreams Begin Responsibilities")
- July 25 – semicentenary of the death of Frank O'Hara, American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry. (See March 27)
- August 29 – semicentenary of the death of Melvin Tolson, American poet Modernist poet, educator, columnist, and politician
- September 25 – semicentenary of the death of Mina Loy, British-born American artist, poet, Futurist and actor
- September 28 – semicentenary of the death of André Breton, French poet, essayist and theorist; the leading exponent of Surrealism in literature
Selection of works published in English
United States
Alphabetical listing by author name
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- J.D. McClatchy. Sweet Theft: A Poet's Commonplace Book
- C. D. Wright. The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, The Big Box Store, The Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All (Copper Canyon Press)
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
- Cholmondeley Award:
- Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry:
- 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:
- Best First Collection:
- Best Poem:
- Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
- Manchester Poetry Prize:
- National Poet of Wales:
- National Poetry Competition 2016:
- T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland):
- The Times / Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation:
United States awards and honors
From the Poetry Society of America
Deaths
January – June
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Fazu Aliyeva, 83 (born 1932), Russian Avar poet and journalist.
- January 6 – Nivaria Tejera, 86 (born 1929), Cuban poet and novelist
- January 9 – Zelimkhan Yaqub, 66 (born 1950), Azerbaijani poet
- January 12 – C. D. Wright, 67 (born 1949), American poet who was the former poet laureate of Rhode Island and the winner of the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize.[7]
- January 15 – Francisco X. Alarcón, 61 (born 1954), Chicano-American poet who was born in California and grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico.[8][9]
- February 7 – Andrew Glaze, 90 (born 1920), American poet who was recently appointed the 11th Poet Laureate of Alabama, beginning in 2013.
- February 8 – Nida Fazli, 77 (born 1938), Indian poet and lyricist.[10]
- February 21 – Akbar Ali, 90 (born 1925), Indian Kannada poet.[11]
- March 5 – Rafael Squirru, 90 (born 1925), Argentine author, art critic, and poet.
- April 30 – Daniel Berrigan, 94 (born 1921), American Jesuit priest, poet, peace activist and recidivist (ie., Catonsville Nine). He won the Lamont Prize for his book of poems, Time Without Number
See also
References
External links
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