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2011 in poetry

Index 2011 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [1]

306 relations: Academy of American Poets, Adunis, Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, Airini Beautrais, Alfred A. Knopf, Alice Notley, Alice Oswald, Allison Joseph, Aminath Faiza, AML Awards, Ammiel Alcalay, Andrée Chedid, Andrea Zanzotto, Andrew Hudgins, Anna Swanson, Anne Kennedy, Anne Waldman, April 4, Archibald Lampman Award, Atsuro Riley, Auckland University Press, August 9, Ayat Al-Qurmezi, Édouard Glissant, Bahraini uprising of 2011, BBC News, Bengali language, Bengali poetry, Best New Zealand Poems series, Bianca Stone, Billy Collins, Bo Carpelan, Bob Hicok, Bollingen Prize, Brenda Hillman, C. K. Williams, Carl Phillips, Carole David, Carolyn D. Wright, Carolyn Forché, Catherine Bowman, Charles Bernstein, Charles Olson, Charles Simic, Charles Wright (poet), Chase Twichell, Cholmondeley Award, Christian Bök, Cid Corman, Cilla McQueen, ..., City Lights Bookstore, Claudia Rankine, Cornelius Eady, Costa Book Awards, Craig Dworkin, Czechoslovakia, Czechs, D. A. Powell, David Eggleton, David Ferry (poet), David Lehman, David Meltzer, David R. Slavitt, David St. John, David Wagoner, David Wojahn, Dean Young (poet), December 6, December 7, Def Poetry Jam, Denise Duhamel, Dionne Brand, Dissident, Don Mee Choi, Dore Kiesselbach, Eduardo C. Corral, Edwin Honig, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Elizabeth Alexander (poet), Elizabeth Smither, Elizabeth Willis, English poetry, Eric Gregory Award, Eric Pankey, Erika Meitner, Erin Belieu, Ernesto Cardenal, Evelyn Lau, F. A. Nettelbeck, Fence (magazine), Fire in the Pasture, Fleur Adcock, Forrest Gander, Forward Prizes for Poetry, French poetry, Garry Thomas Morse, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, George Whitman, Gerald Lampert Award, Gerald Stern, Gil Scott-Heron, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Gregory O'Brien, Griffin Poetry Prize, Hal Duncan, Haymarket Media Group, Hedge fund, Hinemoana Baker, Hugh Fox, I Hope Like Heck, Ian Wedde, Ira Cohen, Irish poetry, Ivan Martin Jirous, J. M. Abraham Poetry Award, James Longenbach, James Richardson (poet), James Schuyler, Jane Hirshfield, January 19, Jean Valentine, Jennifer Compton, Jennifer Grotz, Jennifer L. Knox, Jenny Bornholdt, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Jill McDonough, John Ashbery, John Gallas, John Haines, John Kinsella (poet), John Milton, John Steffler, Josephine Hart, Julia Hartwig, June 12, Justinas Marcinkevičius, Kate Camp, Katha Pollitt, Kay Ryan, Kenneth Goldsmith, Kerri Webster, Kevin Young (poet), Khaled Mattawa, Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Laura Kasischke, Lee Upton, Les Wicks, Leszek Engelking, List of poetry awards, List of Presidents of Czechoslovakia, List of Presidents of the Czech Republic, List of winners of the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards, Liz Lochhead, Louise Dupré, Lynn Jenner, Major Jackson, Makar, Malangatana Ngwenya, Manuelita la tortuga, María Elena Walsh, Marjorie Perloff, Mark Strand, Mary Jo Salter, Mary Ruefle, Matthew Dickman, Matthew Rohrer, Maurice Manning, Maurice Manning (poet), Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, Meuse Press, Michael D. Higgins, Michael Dickman, Michael Dirda, Michael Palmer (poet), Michael Schmidt (poet), Morris Berman, Morton Marcus, Natasha Trethewey, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Neil Astley, New Issues Poetry & Prose, Nikky Finney, Nobel Prize in Literature, Norma Farber First Book Award, Novelist, November 11, November 9, Novica Tadić, Objectivism (poetry), Occupy Cal, Occupy movement, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, October 6, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Order of Canada, Ovid, Pat Lowther Award, Patricia Smith (poet), Patrick Galvin, Paul Hoover, Paul Muldoon, Paul Violi, Pearl Roundabout, PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, Peter Gizzi, Phil Hall (poet), Philip Levine (poet), Poet, Poetry, Poetry Foundation, Poetry of Scotland, Poets' Corner, President of Ireland, President of the Czech Republic, Prix Alain-Grandbois, Pronoun (publishing platform), Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Pushcart Prize, R. F. Langley, Rabindranath Tagore, Rachel Wetzsteon, Rae Armantrout, Reynolds Price, Richard Wilbur, Robert Duncan (poet), Robert Frost Medal, Robert Hass, Robert Kroetsch, Robert Pinsky, Roberto Sosa (poet), Rosanna Warren, Ruben Quesada, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Ruth Stone, Samuel Menashe, Sarah Palin, Seamus Heaney, Seán Ó Ríordáin, Seth Abramson, Seyhan Erözçelik, Shakespeare and Company (bookstore), Shane McCrae, Shelley Memorial Award, Sherman Alexie, Shia Islam, Stephen Yenser, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Susan Howe, Susan Musgrave, Susana Chávez, Sylvia Beach, T. S. Eliot Prize, Ted Hughes, Terrance Hayes, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards, The New Criterion, The New York Times, The Pierces, Theodore Enslin, Tomas Tranströmer, Turkish people, Ukrainian language, United States Poet Laureate, University of California, Berkeley, Urdu, Urdu poetry, Václav Havel, Westminster Abbey, Whiting Awards, Will Alexander (poet), William Carlos Williams Award, William Corbett (poet), William Kloefkorn, William Walker (RAF officer), Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award, Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, Yannis Varveris, Yusef Komunyakaa, Yves Bonnefoy, 1913 in poetry, 1915 in poetry, 1919 in poetry, 1921 in poetry, 1925 in poetry, 1926 in poetry, 1927 in poetry, 1928 in poetry, 1930 in poetry, 1932 in poetry, 1933 in poetry, 1935 in poetry, 1936 in poetry, 1938 in poetry, 1940 in poetry, 1942 in poetry, 1944 in poetry, 1949 in poetry, 1950 in poetry, 1955 in poetry, 1962 in poetry, 1974 in poetry, 2011 Governor General's Awards. 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Academy of American Poets

The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry.

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Adunis

Ali Ahmad Said Esber, romanised: ʿAlī Aḥmad Saʿīd 'Isbar (born 1 January 1930), also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis (أدونيس, Adūnīs), is a Syrian poet, essayist and translator who is considered one of the most influential and dominant Arab poets of the modern era.

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Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language.

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Airini Beautrais

Airini Beautrais (born 1982) is a poet from New Zealand.

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Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915.

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Alice Notley

Alice Notley (born November 8, 1945) is an American poet.

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Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald (born 1966) is a British poet from Reading, Berkshire.

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Allison Joseph

Allison Joseph (born 1967) is an American poet, editor and professor.

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Aminath Faiza

Aminath Faiza (ca. 29 September 1924 – 25 February 2011) was a Maldivian Dhivehi language poet and author.

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AML Awards

The AML Awards are given annually by the Association for Mormon Letters (AML) to the best work "by, for, and about Mormons." They are juried awards, chosen by a panel of judges.

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Ammiel Alcalay

Ammiel Alcalay (born 1956) is an American poet, scholar, critic, translator, and prose stylist.

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Andrée Chedid

Andrée Chedid (أندريه شديد) (20 March 1920 – 6 February 2011) was an Egyptian-French poet and novelist.

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Andrea Zanzotto

Andrea Zanzotto (10 October 1921 – 18 October 2011) was an Italian poet.

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Andrew Hudgins

Andrew Hudgins (born 22 April 1951 Killeen, Texas) is an American poet.

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Anna Swanson

Anna Swanson is a Canadian poet.

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Anne Kennedy

Anne Kennedy (born 1959 Wellington, New Zealand) is an award-winning New Zealand novelist, poet, and filmwriter.

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Anne Waldman

Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet.

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April 4

On the Roman calendar, this was known as the day before the nones of April (Pridie).

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Archibald Lampman Award

The Archibald Lampman Award is an annual Canadian literary award, created by Blaine Marchand, and presented by the literary magazine Arc, for the year's best work of poetry by a writer living in the National Capital Region.

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Atsuro Riley

Atsuro Riley is an American writer.

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Auckland University Press

Auckland University Press is a leading New Zealand publisher that produces creative and scholarly work for a general audience.

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August 9

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Ayat Al-Qurmezi

Ayat Hassan Mohammed Al-Qurmezi (آيات حسن محمد القرمزي; the surname is also transcribed Al-Qormezi, al-Ghermezi) (born January 1, 1991, Sanad, Bahrain) is a poet and student at the University of Bahrain Teaching Institute in Bahrain.

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Édouard Glissant

Édouard Glissant (21 September 1928 – 3 February 2011) was a French writer, poet, philosopher, and literary critic from Martinique.

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Bahraini uprising of 2011

The Bahraini uprising of 2011 was a series of anti-government protests in Bahrain led by the Shia-dominant Bahraini Opposition from 2011 until 2014.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia.

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Bengali poetry

Bengali poetry is a form that originated in Pāli and other Prakrit socio-cultural traditions.

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Best New Zealand Poems series

The Best New Zealand Poems series, begun in 2001 is an annual online selection of poems chosen by guest editors.

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Bianca Stone

Bianca Stone is a Brooklyn based poet and visual artist.

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Billy Collins

William James Collins, known as Billy Collins, (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003.

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Bo Carpelan

Baron Bo Gustaf Bertelsson Carpelan (25 October 1926 – 11 February 2011) was a Finnish poet and author.

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Bob Hicok

Bob Hicok (born 1960 Grand Ledge, Michigan) is an American poet.

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Bollingen Prize

The Bollingen Prize for Poetry is a literary honor bestowed on an American poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement.

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Brenda Hillman

Brenda Hillman (born March 27, 1951 in Tucson, Arizona), is an American poet and translator.

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C. K. Williams

Charles Kenneth "C.

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Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips (born 1959) is an American writer and poet.

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Carole David

Carole David (born July 25, 1954) is a Quebec poet and novelist.

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Carolyn D. Wright

Carolyn D. "C.

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Carolyn Forché

Carolyn Forché (born April 28, 1950) is an American poet, editor, translator, and human rights advocate.

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Catherine Bowman

Catherine Bowman (born in El Paso, Texas) is an American poet.

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Charles Bernstein

Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar.

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Charles Olson

Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation American poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance.

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Charles Simic

Charles Simic (Душан "Чарлс" Симић; born Dušan Simić; May 9, 1938) is a Serbian-American poet and was co-poetry editor of the Paris Review.

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Charles Wright (poet)

Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet.

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Chase Twichell

Chase Twichell (born August 20, 1950) is an American poet, professor, and publisher, the founder in 1999, of Ausable Press.

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Cholmondeley Award

The Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom.

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Christian Bök

Christian Bök (born August 10, 1966 in Toronto, Canada) is an experimental Canadian poet.

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Cid Corman

Cid (Sidney) Corman (June 29, 1924 – March 12, 2004) was an American poet, translator and editor, most notably of Origin, who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century.

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Cilla McQueen

Priscilla Muriel "Cilla" McQueen (born 22 January 1949 in Birmingham, England) is a poet and three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.

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City Lights Bookstore

City Lights is an independent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.

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Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine (born 1963) is a poet, essayist, playwright, and the editor of several anthologies.

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Cornelius Eady

Cornelius Eady (born 1954) is an American writer focusing largely on matters of race and society, His poetry often centers on jazz and blues, family life, violence, and societal problems stemming from questions of race and class.

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Costa Book Awards

The Costa Book Awards are a set of annual literary awards recognizing English-language books by writers based in Britain and Ireland.

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Craig Dworkin

Craig Dworkin is an American poet and Professor of English at the University of Utah.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko), was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the:Czech Republic and:Slovakia on 1 January 1993.

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Czechs

The Czechs (Češi,; singular masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka) or the Czech people (Český národ), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history and Czech language.

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D. A. Powell

Douglas A. Powell (born May 16, 1963 Albany, Georgia) is an American poet.

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David Eggleton

David Eggleton (born 1952) is a New Zealand poet and writer.

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David Ferry (poet)

David Ferry is an American poet, translator, and educator.

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David Lehman

David Lehman (born June 11, 1948 at poets.org) is a poet and the series editor for The Best American Poetry.

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David Meltzer

David Meltzer (February 17, 1937 – December 31, 2016) was an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance.

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David R. Slavitt

David Rytman Slavitt (born 1935) is an American writer, poet, and translator, the author of more than 100 books.

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David St. John

David St.

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David Wagoner

David Russell Wagoner (born June 5, 1926) is an American poet who has written many poetry collections and ten novels.

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David Wojahn

David Wojahn (born 1953, St. Paul, Minnesota) is a contemporary American poet who teaches poetry in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, and in the low residency MFA in Writing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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Dean Young (poet)

Dean Young (born 1955) is a contemporary American poet in the poetic lineage of John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch.

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December 6

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December 7

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Def Poetry Jam

Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry, better known as simply Def Poetry Jam or Def Poetry, was a spoken word poetry television series hosted by Mos Def and airing on HBO between 2002 and 2007.

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Denise Duhamel

Denise Duhamel (born 1961 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island) is an American poet.

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Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand (born January 7, 1953) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian.

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Dissident

A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively challenges an established doctrine, policy, or institution.

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Don Mee Choi

Don Mee Choi is a Korean-American poet and translator.

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Dore Kiesselbach

Dore Kiesselbach is an American poet.

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Eduardo C. Corral

Eduardo C. Corral is an American poet and teacher.

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Edwin Honig

Edwin Honig (September 3, 1919 – May 25, 2011) was an American poet, playwright, and translator.

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Eleanor Ross Taylor

Eleanor Ross Taylor (June 30, 1920 – December 30, 2011) was an American poet who published six collections of verse from 1960 to 2009.

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Elizabeth Alexander (poet)

Elizabeth Alexander (born May 30, 1962) is an American poet, essayist, playwright, and the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2018.

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Elizabeth Smither

Elizabeth Edwina Smither MNZM (born 15 September 1941 in New Plymouth) is a New Zealand poet and writer.

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Elizabeth Willis

Elizabeth Willis (born April 28, 1961, Bahrain) is an American poet and literary critic.

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English poetry

This article focuses on poetry written in English from the United Kingdom: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland (and Ireland before 1922).

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Eric Gregory Award

The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission.

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Eric Pankey

Eric Pankey (born 1959 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American poet and artist.

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Erika Meitner

Erika Meitner (born 1975 in New York) is an American poet.

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Erin Belieu

Erin Belieu (born 1965 Omaha, Nebraska) is an American poet.

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Ernesto Cardenal

Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (born 20 January 1925) is a Nicaraguan former Catholic priest, poet, and politician.

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Evelyn Lau

Evelyn Lau; (born July 2, 1971) is a Canadian poet and novelist.

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F. A. Nettelbeck

Frederick Arthur Nettelbeck (November 9, 1950 – January 20, 2011) was an American poet.

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Fence (magazine)

Fence is a print and online literary publication containing both original work and critical and journalistic coverage of what may be largely termed "experimental" or "avant garde" material.

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Fire in the Pasture

Fire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets (Peculiar Pages, 2011), edited by Tyler Chadwick, is "a treasure-house of riches" covering Mormon poets and poetry.

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Fleur Adcock

Fleur Adcock (born 10 February 1934) is a New Zealand poet and editor, of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England.

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Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander (born 1956) is an American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and translator.

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Forward Prizes for Poetry

The Forward Prizes for Poetry are awards for poetry, presented annually at a ceremony in London.

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French poetry

French poetry is a category of French literature.

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Garry Thomas Morse

Garry Thomas Morse is a Canadian poet and novelist.

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Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Geoffrey G. O'Brien (May 10, 1969) is an American poet.

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George Whitman

George Whitman (December 12, 1913 – December 14, 2011) was the proprietor of Shakespeare and Company, the celebrated English-language bookstore on Paris's Left Bank.

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Gerald Lampert Award

The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet.

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Gerald Stern

Gerald Stern (born February 22, 1925) is an American poet, essayist and educator.

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Gil Scott-Heron

Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) was an American soul and jazz poet,Kot, Greg (May 26, 2011).

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Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Gjertrud Schnackenberg (born August 27, 1953 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American poet.

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Gregory O'Brien

Gregory Leo O’Brien (born 1961) is a New Zealand poet, painter and editor.

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Griffin Poetry Prize

The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award.

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Hal Duncan

Hal Duncan (born 21 October 1971, real name Alasdair) is a Scottish science fiction and fantasy writer.

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Haymarket Media Group

Haymarket Media Group is a privately held media company headquartered in London.

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Hedge fund

A hedge fund is an investment fund that pools capital from accredited individuals or institutional investors and invests in a variety of assets, often with complex portfolio-construction and risk-management techniques.

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Hinemoana Baker

Hinemoana Baker (born 1968) is a writer, musician, producer, editor, and teacher of creative writing.

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Hugh Fox

Hugh Bernard Fox Jr. (February 12, 1932 – September 4, 2011) was a writer, novelist, poet and anthropologist and one of the founders (with Ralph Ellison, Anaïs Nin, Paul Bowles, Joyce Carol Oates, Buckminster Fuller and others) of the Pushcart Prize for literature.

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I Hope Like Heck

I Hope Like Heck: The Selected Poems of Sarah Palin is a 2011 anthology of 50 found poems in emails by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, edited by Michael Solomon.

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Ian Wedde

Ian Curtis Wedde (born 17 October 1946) is a New Zealand poet, fiction writer, critic, and art curator.

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Ira Cohen

Ira Cohen (February 3, 1935 – April 25, 2011) was an American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker.

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Irish poetry

Irish poetry includes poetry in two languages, Irish and English.

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Ivan Martin Jirous

Ivan Martin Jirous (23 September 1944 – 9 November 2011) was a Czech poet and dissident, best known as the artistic director of the Czech psychedelic rock group The Plastic People of the Universe, and later one of the key figures of the Czech underground during the communist regime.

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J. M. Abraham Poetry Award

The J.M. Abraham Poetry Award, formerly known as the Atlantic Poetry Prize, is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, to the best work of poetry published by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.

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James Longenbach

James Longenbach is an American critic and poet.

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James Richardson (poet)

James Richardson (born January 1, 1950) is an American poet.

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James Schuyler

James Marcus Schuyler (November 9, 1923 – April 12, 1991) was an American poet.

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Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield (born 24 February 1953) is an American poet, essayist, and translator.

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January 19

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Jean Valentine

Jean Valentine (born April 27, 1934) is an American poet and was the New York State Poet Laureate from 2008–2010.

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Jennifer Compton

Jennifer Compton was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1949.

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Jennifer Grotz

Jennifer Grotz (born 1971) is an American poet and translator who teaches English and creative writing at the University of Rochester, where she is Professor of English.

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Jennifer L. Knox

Jennifer L. Knox (born 1968) is an American poet.

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Jenny Bornholdt

Jennifer Mary Bornholdt (born 1 November 1960) is a New Zealand poet and anthologist.

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Jill Alexander Essbaum

Jill Alexander Essbaum (born 1971 in Bay City, Texas, United States) is an American poet, writer, and professor.

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Jill McDonough

Jill Susann McDonough is an American poet.

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John Ashbery

John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet.

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John Gallas

John Robert Gallas FEA (born 11 January 1950) is a New Zealand born poet who in 2016 was the Joint Winner of the Indigo Dreams Pamphlet Prize and the St Magnus International Festival poet.

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John Haines

John Meade Haines (June 29, 1924 – March 2, 2011) was an American poet and educator who had served as the poet laureate of Alaska.

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John Kinsella (poet)

John Kinsella (born 1963) is an Australian poet, novelist, critic, essayist and editor.

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John Milton

John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

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John Steffler

John Steffler (born 13 November 1947) is a Canadian poet and novelist.

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Josephine Hart

Josephine Hart, Lady Saatchi (1 March 1942 – 2 June 2011, Daily Telegraph, 3 June 2011), was an Irish writer, theatrical producer and television presenter who lived in London.

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Julia Hartwig

Julia Hartwig (14 August 1921 – 14 July 2017) was a Polish writer, poet and translator, considered to be one of Poland's most important female poets.

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June 12

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Justinas Marcinkevičius

Justinas Marcinkevičius (10 March 1930 – 16 February 2011) was a prominent Lithuanian poet and playwright.

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Kate Camp

Kate Camp (born 1972) is a poet and author from New Zealand.

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Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt (born October 14, 1949) is an American poet, essayist and critic.

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Kay Ryan

Kay Ryan (born September 21, 1945) is an American poet and educator.

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Kenneth Goldsmith

Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961) is an American poet and critic.

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Kerri Webster

Kerri Webster (born 1971) is an American poet.

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Kevin Young (poet)

Kevin Lowell Young is an American poet and teacher of poetry.

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Khaled Mattawa

Khaled Mattawa (born 1964) is a Libyan poet, and a renowned Arab-American writer, he is also a leading literary translator, focusing on translating Arabic poetry into English.

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Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa

Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa (خليفة بن سلمان آل خليفة.) (born 24 November 1935) has been the Prime Minister of Bahrain from 1970, taking office nearly two years before Bahrain's independence on 15 August 1971.

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Laura Kasischke

Laura Kasischke (born 1961) is an American fiction writer and poet.

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Lee Upton

Lee Upton (born June 2, 1953 St. Johns, Michigan) is an American poet, fiction writer, literary critic, and a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Les Wicks

Les Wicks (born 15 June 1955) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor.

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Leszek Engelking

Leszek Engelking (born 2 February 1955, Bytom, Upper Silesia) is a Polish poet, short-story writer, critic, essayist, scholar, and translator.

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List of poetry awards

This is a list of awards that are, or have been, given out to writers of poetry, either for a specific poem, collection of poems, or body of work.

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List of Presidents of Czechoslovakia

The President of Czechoslovakia was the head of state of Czechoslovakia, from the creation of the First Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 until the dissolution of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic in 1992.

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List of Presidents of the Czech Republic

This is a list of Presidents of the Czech Republic, a political office that was created in 1993 following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.

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List of winners of the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards

The Raiziss and de Palchi Translation Awards was established in 1995 through a bequest to the New York Community Trust by Sonia Raiziss Giop, a poet, translator, and editor of Chelsea.

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Liz Lochhead

Liz Lochhead (born 26 December 1947) is a Scottish poet, playwright, translator and broadcaster.

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Louise Dupré

Louise Dupré (born July 9, 1949) is a Quebec journalist, educator and writer.

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Lynn Jenner

Lynn Jenner is a poet and essayist from New Zealand.

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Major Jackson

Major Jackson (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and professor.

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Makar

A makar is a term from Scottish literature for a poet or bard, often thought of as a royal court poet.

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Malangatana Ngwenya

Malangatana Valente Ngwenya (6 June 1936 – 5 January 2011) was a Mozambican painter and poet.

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Manuelita la tortuga

"Manuelita la tortuga" is an Argentine song by María Elena Walsh about a female tortoise.

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María Elena Walsh

María Elena Walsh (1 February 1930 – 10 January 2011) was an Argentine poet, novelist, musician, playwright, writer and composer, mainly known for her songs and books for children, who has been considered a "living legend, cultural hero (and) crest of nearly every childhood".

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Marjorie Perloff

Marjorie Perloff (born September 28, 1931) is a poetry scholar and critic in the United States.

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Mark Strand

Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014) was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator.

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Mary Jo Salter

Mary Jo Salter (born August 15, 1954) is an American poet, a co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.

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Mary Ruefle

Mary Ruefle (born 1952) is an American poet, essayist, and professor.

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Matthew Dickman

Matthew Dickman (born August 20, 1975, Portland, Oregon) is an American poet.

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Matthew Rohrer

Matthew Rohrer (born 1970) is an American poet.

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Maurice Manning

Maurice Manning (born 14 June 1943) is an Irish academic and former Fine Gael politician.

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Maurice Manning (poet)

Maurice Manning (born 1966 in Danville, Kentucky) is an American poet.

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Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi

Zia Fatehabadi, (ضِیا فتح آبادی), born Mehr Lal Soni (1913–1986), was an Urdu ghazal and nazm writer.

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Meuse Press

Meuse Press is an Australian Press, publishing a range of "poetry outreach" projects in a number of media ranging from a literary magazine to poetry published on the surface of a river.

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Michael D. Higgins

Michael Daniel Higgins (Mícheál Dónal Ó hUiginn; born 18 April 1941) is an Irish politician who has served as the 9th President of Ireland since November 2011.

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Michael Dickman

Michael Dickman is an American poet born August 20, 1975 in Portland, Oregon.

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Michael Dirda

Michael Dirda (born 1948) is a book critic for the Washington Post.

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Michael Palmer (poet)

Michael Palmer (born May 11, 1943) is an American poet and translator.

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Michael Schmidt (poet)

Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL (born 2 March 1947) is a Mexican-British poet, author, scholar and publisher.

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Morris Berman

Morris Berman (born 1944 in Rochester, New York) is an American historian and social critic.

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Morton Marcus

Morton Marcus (1936–2009) was a poet and author having published more than 500 poems in literary journals across the country, including Poetry (Chicago), TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Chelsea, The Chicago Review, The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Poetry Northwest, and The Denver Quarterly.

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Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2014.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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National Book Critics Circle Award

The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".

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Neil Astley

Neil Astley, Hon.

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New Issues Poetry & Prose

New Issues Poetry & Prose is a literary press associated with Western Michigan University.

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Nikky Finney

Nikky Finney (born Lynn Carol Finney on August 26, 1957, in Conway, South Carolina) is an American poet.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that has been awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").

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Norma Farber First Book Award

The Norma Farber First Book Award is given by the Poetry Society of America "for a first book of original poetry written by an American and published in either a hard or soft cover in a standard edition during the calendar year".

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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November 11

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November 9

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Novica Tadić

Novica Tadić (Smriječno, Plužine, 17 July 1949 – Belgrade, 23 January 2011) was a Serbian poet.

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Objectivism (poetry)

The objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernists who emerged in the 1930s.

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Occupy Cal

Occupy Cal included a series of demonstrations that began on November 9, 2011, on the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California.

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Occupy movement

The Occupy movement is an international socio-political movement against social and economic inequality and the lack of "real democracy" around the world.

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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are a series of literary awards to works of New Zealand citizens.

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October 6

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Olena Kalytiak Davis

Olena Kalytiak Davis (born September 16, 1963) is an American poet.

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Order of Canada

The Order of Canada (Ordre du Canada) is a Canadian national order and the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.

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Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.

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Pat Lowther Award

The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.

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Patricia Smith (poet)

Patricia Smith (born 1955) is an American poet, spoken-word performer, playwright, author, writing teacher, and former journalist.

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Patrick Galvin

Patrick Galvin (15 August 1927 – 10 May 2011) was an Irish poet, singer, playwright, and prose and screen writer born in Cork's inner city.

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Paul Hoover

Paul Hoover (born 1946) is an American poet and editor born in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

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Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951) is an Irish poet.

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Paul Violi

Paul Randolph Violi (July 20, 1944 – April 2, 2011) was an American poet born in Brooklyn, New York.

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Pearl Roundabout

Pearl Roundabout or Lulu Roundabout (Arabic:, "Roundabout of the pearl(s)") was a roundabout located near the financial district of Manama, Bahrain.

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PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is given by the PEN American Center to honor a poetry translation published in the preceding year.

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Peter Gizzi

Peter Gizzi (born 1959 in Alma, Michigan) is an American poet, essayist, editor and teacher.

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Phil Hall (poet)

Phil Hall (born 1953) is a Canadian poet.

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Philip Levine (poet)

Philip Levine (January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015) was an American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit.

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Poet

A poet is a person who creates poetry.

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Poetry

Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

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Poetry Foundation

The Poetry Foundation is a Chicago-based American foundation created to promote poetry in the wider culture.

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Poetry of Scotland

Poetry of Scotland includes all forms of verse written in Brythonic, Latin, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, French, English and Esperanto and any language in which poetry has been written within the boundaries of modern Scotland, or by Scottish people.

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Poets' Corner

Poets' Corner is the name traditionally given to a section of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey because of the high number of poets, playwrights, and writers buried and commemorated there.

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President of Ireland

The President of Ireland (Uachtarán na hÉireann) is the head of state of the Republic of Ireland and the Supreme Commander of the Irish Defence Forces.

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President of the Czech Republic

The President of the Czech Republic is the elected formal head of state of the Czech Republic and the commander-in-chief of the Military of the Czech Republic.

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Prix Alain-Grandbois

The Prix Alain-Grandbois or Alain Grandbois Prize is awarded each year to an author for a book of poetry.

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Pronoun (publishing platform)

Pronoun was a New York-based company that provides free book publishing, marketing, and analytics services to authors.

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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Pushcart Prize

The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year.

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R. F. Langley

Roger Francis Langley (commonly known as R. F. Langley, 23 October 1938 – 25 January 2011) was an English poet and diarist.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS, also written Ravīndranātha Ṭhākura (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Rachel Wetzsteon

Rachel Todd Wetzsteon (November 25, 1967 – December 24/25?, 2009) was an American poet.

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Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout (born April 13, 1947) is an American poet generally associated with the Language poets.

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Reynolds Price

Edward Reynolds Price (February 1, 1933 – January 20, 2011) was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University.

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Richard Wilbur

Richard Purdy Wilbur (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator.

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Robert Duncan (poet)

Robert Edward Duncan (January 7, 1919 in Oakland, California – February 3, 1988) was an American poet and a devotee of Hilda "H.D." Doolittle and the Western esoteric tradition who spent most of his career in and around San Francisco.

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Robert Frost Medal

The Robert Frost Medal is an award of the Poetry Society of America for "distinguished lifetime service to American poetry." Medalists receive a prize purse of $5,000.

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Robert Hass

Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet.

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Robert Kroetsch

Robert Paul Kroetsch, OC (June 26, 1927 – June 21, 2011) was a Canadian novelist, poet and non-fiction writer.

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Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator.

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Roberto Sosa (poet)

Roberto Sosa (18 April 1930 – 23 May 2011) was an author and poet born in Yoro, Honduras.

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Rosanna Warren

Rosanna Phelps Warren (born July 1953 in Fairfield, Connecticut) is an American poet and scholar.

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Ruben Quesada

Ruben Quesada is a Latino-American poet.

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Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize is awarded annually by The Poetry Foundation; the foundation also publishes ''Poetry''.

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Ruth Stone

Ruth Stone (June 8, 1915 – November 19, 2011) was an American poet, author, and teacher.

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Samuel Menashe

Samuel Menashe (September 16, 1925 – August 22, 2011) was an American poet.

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Sarah Palin

Sarah Louise Palin (née Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician, commentator, author, and reality television personality, who served as the ninth Governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009.

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator.

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Seán Ó Ríordáin

Seán Pádraig Ó Ríordáin (3 December 1916 – 21 February 1977) was one of the most important Irish language poets of the twentieth century and arguably the most significant figure in introducing European themes into traditional Irish poetry.

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Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson (born October 31, 1976) is an American professor, freelance investigative journalist, editor, attorney, and poet.

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Seyhan Erözçelik

Seyhan Erözçelik (13 March 1962 – 24 August 2011) was a Turkish poet.

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Shakespeare and Company (bookstore)

Shakespeare and Company is the name of two independent English-language bookstores that have existed on Paris's Left Bank.

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Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae (born September 22, 1975, Portland, Oregon) is an American poet.

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Shelley Memorial Award

The Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, was established by the will of Mary P. Sears, and named after the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Sherman Alexie

Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker.

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Shia Islam

Shia (شيعة Shīʿah, from Shīʻatu ʻAlī, "followers of Ali") is a branch of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor (Imam), most notably at the event of Ghadir Khumm.

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Stephen Yenser

Stephen Yenser (born 1941, Wichita, Kansas, United States) is an American poet and literary critic who has published three acclaimed volumes of verse, as well as books on James Merrill, Robert Lowell, and an assortment of contemporary poets.

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Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (March 25, 1940 – August 26, 2011) was a noted novelist and poet who was a Professor of English at Brooklyn College for over thirty years.

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Susan Howe

Susan Howe (born June 10, 1937) is an American poet, scholar, essayist and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among others poetry movements.

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Susan Musgrave

Susan Musgrave (born March 12, 1951) is a Canadian poet and children's writer.

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Susana Chávez

Susana Chávez Castillo (November 5, 1974 – c. January 6, 2011) was a Mexican poet and human rights activist who was born and lived most of her life in her hometown of Ciudad Juárez.

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Sylvia Beach

Sylvia Beach (March 14, 1887 – October 5, 1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II.

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T. S. Eliot Prize

The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prestigious prize that was, for many years, awarded by the Poetry Book Society (UK) to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" in any particular year.

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Ted Hughes

Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer.

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Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes (born November 18, 1971) is an American poet and educator who has published seven poetry collections.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards

The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards are a pair of American prizes based at Claremont Graduate University.

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The New Criterion

The New Criterion is a New York-based monthly literary magazine and journal of artistic and cultural criticism, edited by Roger Kimball (editor and publisher) and James Panero (executive editor).

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Pierces

The Pierces are a Los Angeles-based band consisting of sisters Allison and Catherine Pierce.

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Theodore Enslin

Theodore Vernon Enslin (March 25, 1925 – November 21, 2011) was an American poet associated with Cid Corman's Origin and press.

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Tomas Tranströmer

Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator.

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Turkish people

Turkish people or the Turks (Türkler), also known as Anatolian Turks (Anadolu Türkleri), are a Turkic ethnic group and nation living mainly in Turkey and speaking Turkish, the most widely spoken Turkic language.

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Ukrainian language

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United States Poet Laureate

The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate—serves as the official poet of the United States.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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Urdu

Urdu (اُردُو ALA-LC:, or Modern Standard Urdu) is a Persianised standard register of the Hindustani language.

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Urdu poetry

Urdu poetry (اُردُو شاعرى) is a rich tradition of poetry and has many different forms.

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Václav Havel

Václav Havel (5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, writer and former dissident, who served as the last President of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first President of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003.

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.

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Whiting Awards

The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays.

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Will Alexander (poet)

Will Alexander (born 1948) is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and visual artist.

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William Carlos Williams Award

The William Carlos Williams Award is given out by the Poetry Society of America for a poetry book published by a small press, non-profit, or university press.

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William Corbett (poet)

William Corbett (born October 11, 1942) is an American poet, essayist, editor, educator, and publisher.

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William Kloefkorn

William Charles "Bill" Kloefkorn (August 12, 1932 – May 19, 2011), was a Nebraska poet and educator based in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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William Walker (RAF officer)

Flight Lieutenant William Louis Buchanan Walker, AE (24 August 1913 – 21 October 2012) was, at the time of his death, the oldest surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain.

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Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award

The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America "to honor the memory and poetry of Emily Dickinson, for a poem inspired by Dickinson though not necessarily in her style." The winner receives a $250 prize.

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Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition

The Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the first collection of a promising American poet.

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Yannis Varveris

Yannis Varveris (Γιάννης Βαρβέρης; 1955 – 25 May 2011) was a Greek poet, critic and translator.

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Yusef Komunyakaa

Yusef Komunyakaa (born April 29, 1941) is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

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Yves Bonnefoy

Yves Jean Bonnefoy (24 June 1923, Tours – 1 July 2016 Paris) was a French poet and art historian.

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1913 in poetry

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1915 in poetry

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1919 in poetry

—From A Prayer for My Daughter by W. B. Yeats, first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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1921 in poetry

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1925 in poetry

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1926 in poetry

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1927 in poetry

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1928 in poetry

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1930 in poetry

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1932 in poetry

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1933 in poetry

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1935 in poetry

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1936 in poetry

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1938 in poetry

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1940 in poetry

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1942 in poetry

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1944 in poetry

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1949 in poetry

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1950 in poetry

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1955 in poetry

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1962 in poetry

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1974 in poetry

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2011 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2011 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 11, and the winners were announced on November 15.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_in_poetry

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