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2006 in poetry
Events
French public notary Patrick Huet unveils Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World Lyon . It is reportedly the longest modern hand-written poem in the world.
March 29 — Grolier Poetry Bookstore is sold.BLATT Prague, Czech Republic .May — The Poetry Out Loud recitation contest is created this year by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation to increase awareness in the art of performing poetry, with a top prize a $20,000 scholarship. State finalists performed in Washington D.C. during the second week of May.
November 1 — A Sylvia Plath sonnet from her college years was discovered and first published by Blackbird , an online literary journal run by the English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia .November — The most influential American poets of all time are Walt Whitman , T. S. Eliot , William Carlos Williams , Wallace Stevens , and Sylvia Plath , according to Christian Wiman , editor of Poetry Magazine The Atlantic Monthly [1]
November 10 — A new series, "The Best of Irish Poetry" was launched by Southword Editions in Ireland with the 80-page The Best of Irish Poetry 2007 The project is under the direction of Patrick Cotter , with Colm Breathnach as Irish-language editor and Maurice Riordan as English-language (or Hiberno-English) editor. "Quite often readers abroad are presented with a selection of Irish poets restricted to those who are first published in the USA or the UK," Cotter wrote. "This annual series will present a more general selection generated by more informed pundits."[2]
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:
Poets in Best New Zealand Poems Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Andrew Johnston for Best New Zealand Poems 2005
Carol Ann Duffy and Jane Ray , The Lost Happy Endings , PenguinJames Fenton :
Selected Poems (2006) Penguin[6] Editor, The New Faber Book of Love Poems (anthology)[6]
John Haynes , Letter to Patience , a book-length poem in iambic pentameter, winner of the Costa Book Award Seamus Heaney , District and Circle Allison Hedge Coke - Blood Run Salt Publications Geoffrey Hill : Without Title Derek Mahon , Adaptations (A collection of versions, rather than translations proper, from poets such as Pasolini , Juvenal , Bertolt Brecht , Valery , Baudelaire , Rilke , and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill .) Gallery PressSean O'Brien , Inferno: a verse version of Dante 's Inferno (Picador)Robin Robertson , Swithering , winner of the 2006 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize Claire Tomalin , Thomas Hardy New York Times Hugo Williams , Dear Room , (Faber and Faber)
Poets included in New Writing 14 This book of British writing (Granta, ISBN 1-86207-850-5 ), edited by Lavinia Greenlaw and Helon Habila , contains short stories, essays and excerpts of novels in addition to poems by these poets:
A. R. Ammons , Selected Poems , American Poets Project of the Library of America; distributed by Penguin Putnam, posthumousRobin Becker , Domain of Perfect Affection , Pittsburgh University PressElizabeth Bishop , Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments , Alice Quinn , editor (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) posthumousCharles Bukowski , Come On In!: New Poems (Ecco)Hayden Carruth , Toward the Distant Islands: New and Selected Poems , Copper Canyon Press, edited by Sam Hamill Hart Crane , Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters , edited by Langdon Hammer , Library of America (posthumous)Robert Creeley , On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay (University of California Press)Dick Davis , Trick of Sunlight , Swallow PressMichael Dumanis and Cate Marvin , Editors, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books)Daisy Fried , My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again (University of Pittsburgh Press), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetryJack Gilbert :
Tough Heaven: Poems of Pittsburgh Transgressions: Selected Poems
Allen Ginsberg , Collected Poems, 1947-1997 (posthumous), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year", an expanded edition of the 1984 Collected Poems, 1947-1980 Jesse Glass , The Passion of Phineas Gage and Selected Poems (West House/Ahadada)Eugene Gloria , Hoodlum Birds , PenguinLouise Glück , Averno (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"Linda Gregg , In the Middle Distance , GraywolfDonald Hall , White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 (Houghton Mifflin)Suheir Hammad , ZataarDiva , book and CD (Cypher/Rattapallax)Jim Harrison , Saving Daylight (Copper Canyon Press ) ISBN 1-55659-235-3 Seamus Heaney , District and Circle , Farrar Straus & GirouxAllison Hedge Coke - Blood Run George Heym , Poems (Northwestern University Press, translated from German by Antony Hasler Jeffrey Harrison , Incomplete Knowledge , Four Way BooksJane Hirshfield , After: Poems , (HarperCollins), named as one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post Paul Hoover , Edge and Fold (Apogee Press)Frieda Hughes , Forty-Five (HarperCollins) Troy Jollimore , Tom Thomson in Purgatory (MARGIE/Intuit House), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
Patricia Spears Jones , Femme du Monde: Poems , (Tia Chucha Press)Mary Karr , Sinners Welcome: Poems (HarperCollins)Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis , Intaglio , Kent StateGalway Kinnell , Strong Is Your Hold (Houghton Mifflin Books), the poet's first collection of new poems in more than a decade, one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"Thomas Kinsella , Collected Poems: 1956–2001 , Wake ForestKei Miller , Kingdom of Empty Bellies , Jamaican poet published in the United States:Hannah Nijinsky and John Most , Persephone (AQP Collective)Alice Notley , Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005 (Wesleyan University Press)Mary Oliver , Thirst (Beacon Press)Carl Phillips , Riding Westward , New York: Farrar, Straus and GirouxIshmael Reed , New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006 , one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"Lisa Robertson , The Men: A Lyric Book (BookThug) ISBN 0973974257 Theodore Roethke , Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke , compiled by David Wagoner from "277 spiral notebooks of poetry fragments, aphorisms, jokes, memos, journal entries, random phrases, bits of dialog, commentary, and fugitive miscellany", Copper Canyon Press , ISBN 1556592485 (posthumous)[7] Miltos Sachtouris , Poems (1945 - 1971) , bilingual edition, Greek with English translation by Karen Emmerich (Archipelago Books), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetryFrederick Seidel , Ooga-Booga , (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetryJulie Sheehan , Orient Point: Poems , (W.W. Norton & Co.)Patricia Smith , Teahouse of the Almighty: Poems , selected by Ed Sanders (Coffee House Press, 2006)W.D. Snodgrass , Not For Specialists, New and Selected Poems , (BOA Editions, Ltd.), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for PoetryMark Strand , Man and Camel (Alfred A. Knopf)Rosmarie Waldrop :
Alicia E. Vasquez , 1719 Union St. (Wasteland Press)Eliot Weinberger , Muhammed , (Verso, W.W. Norton & Co.)Dara Wier , Remnants of Hannah , Wave BooksJack Wiler , Fun Being Me: Poems (CavanKerry Press, Ltd.)George Witte , The Apparitioners , Three Rail PressCharles Wright , Scar Tissue , (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Franz Wright , God's Silence (Alfred A. Knopf)Robert Wrigley , Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems , PenguinLouis Zukofsky , Selected Poems , American Poets Project of the Library of America, distributed by Penguin Putnam; posthumous
Anthologies in the United States
Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba , editors, American Religious Poems: An Anthology , Library of AmericaMichael Hofmann , editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer , editors, Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems , 76 poems, each selected by a poet who was asked to provide an "unknown or underappreciated poem written by anyone, in any language, from any era", along with a brief essay by the selecting poet about the poem each chose; Illinois University PressJeb Livingood , series editor; Eric Pankey , editor, Best New Poets 2006: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers , Samovar
Poets included in The Best American Poetry 2006 Poets included in The Best American Poetry 2006 David Lehman , co-edited this year by Billy Collins :
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
Jason Shinder , editor, “The Poem That Changed America: 'Howl' Fifty Years Later , essays on Allen Ginsberg 's poem, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Other
Awards and honors
American Academy of Arts and Letters : poets Paul Auster and Frank Bidart elected to the Literature Department Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress : Donald Hall appointedCrab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards : Moira Linehan , If No Moon James Laughlin Award for poetry: Tracy K. Smith National Book Award for poetry: Nathaniel Mackey , Splay Anthem , New Directions
Finalists: Louise Glück , Averno , Farrar, Straus & Giroux ; H.L. Hix , Chromatic , Etruscan Press ; Ben Lerner , Angle of Yaw , Copper Canyon Press ; James McMichael , Capacity , Farrar, Straus & Giroux
National Poetry Review Book Prize : Bryan Penberthy , Lucktown .Poets' Prize : Catherine Tufariello , Keeping My Name Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): Claudia Emerson , Late Wife Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award : John Hollander Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize : Richard Wilbur Whiting Writers' Award (poetry winners): Sherwin Bitsui , Tyehimba Jess , Suji Kwock Kim Wallace Stevens Award : Michael Palmer Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition : Jessica Fisher , Frail-Craft ; Judge: Louise Glück Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets : Carl Phillips
Frost Medal : Maxine Kumin Shelley Memorial Award : George Stanley (poet) , Judges: Sonia Sanchez , Joshua Clover Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award : Nicole Cooley , "The Anatomical Museum", Judge: Gerald Stern Cecil Hemley Memorial Award : Rusty Morrison , "Sky Clutches Any Strong Beat", Judge: Cal Bedient Lanan Literary Award for Poetry : Bruce Weigl Lyric Poetry Award : Alice Jones , "Valle D'Aosta", Judge: Toi Derricotte Lucille Medwick Memorial Award : Lynne Knight , "Recovery", Judge: Grace Schulman
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award (for a manuscript in progress): G.C. Waldrep , Archicembalo ,
Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award : Katherine Browning , "to discover the cartography of blankness", Judge: Prageeta Sharma George Bogin Memorial Award : Kevin Prufer
Robert H. Winner Memorial Award : Daneen Wardrop , Archicembalo , Judge: Jean Valentine Norma Farber First Book Award : Cammy Thomas , Cathedral of Wish , Judge: Medbh McGuckian William Carlos Williams Award : Brenda Hillman , Pieces of Air in the Epic , Judge: Marjorie Welish
Deaths
January 4 Irving Layton , 93Canadian poet
February 21 Gennadiy Aygi , 71Chuvash /Russian poet
February 25 Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin , 69Ethiopian poet laureate, in New York
March 3 Ivor Cutler Scots poet
March 15 Ken Brewer , 64American poet
March 27 Ian Hamilton Finlay , 80Scots poet, writer, artist, gardener
May 9 Jerzy Ficowski , 81Polish poet, writer and translator
May 14 Stanley Kunitz former U.S. Poet Laureate
May 18 Gilbert Sorrentino , 77American novelist and poet
June 26 Jim Simmerman , 54American poet
July 6 Lisa Bellear , 45Australian poet
July 14 Patricia Goedicke American poet, of pneumonia
July 26 Louise Bennett-Coverley Jamaican folk poet known as "Miss Lou"
July 30 Trinidad Sánchez Jr. , 63American Chicano performer/poet (stroke complications)
November 27 Győző Határ , 92Hungarian poet and writer
November 29 Mario Cesariny , 83Portuguese painter and surrealist poet
December 2 kari edwards , 52poet , artist and gender activist
Notes and references
^ The Atlantic Monthly ^ [1] "New Irish Anthology Series Launched", post dated December 1 , 2006 at the Poetry International Web site, accessed December 18 , 2006 ^ [2] "Celebrated Canadian poet Don McKay wins $50,000 Griffin Prize" Canadian Press article, at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Web site, June 7 , 2007 accessed October 8 , 2007 ^ "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7 , 2008 ^ Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library ^ a b [3] Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11 , 2007
^ "Theodore Roethke / Straf for the Fire" at Copper Canyon Press website, accessed April 20 , 2008
[4] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
See also
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