2016 in poetry
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Contents
Events
- January 14 – Egyptian poet Omar Hazek, who was released from prison in September 2015, is prevented from leaving Egypt to receive the 2016 Oxfam Novib/PEN Award for Freedom of Expression.[1][2]
- January 26 – Egyptian poet Fatima Naoot is sentenced to three years in prison, found guilty of “contempt of religion." Naoot goes to prison immediately and must appeal from there.[3][4]
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”.
- May 21 – 90th birthday of Robert Creeley (d. 2005).
- 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
Australia
Canada
Anthologies in Canada
United Kingdom
England
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Anthologies in the United Kingdom
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
United States
Alphabetical listing by author name
- C. D. Wright. ShallCross (Copper Canyon Press).
Anthologies in the United States
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)
Poets in The Best American Poetry 2016
Awards and honors by Country
- See also: List of poetry awards
Awards announced this year:
International
Australia awards and honors
Canada awards and honors
- Archibald Lampman Award:
- Atlantic Poetry Prize:
- 2014 Governor General's Awards:
- Griffin Poetry Prize:
- Canada:
- International:
- Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees):
- Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize:
- Gerald Lampert Award:
- Pat Lowther Award:
- Prix Alain-Grandbois:
France awards and honors
New Zealand awards and honors
- Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
- Montana New Zealand Book Awards (poetry category):
United Kingdom awards and honors
- Cholmondeley Award:
- 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:
- Best Collection:
- Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
- Shortlist:
- Manchester Poetry Prize:
- National Poet of Wales:
- National Poetry Competition 2016:
- T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland):
- Shortlist (announced in November 2016): 2016 Short List
- The Times / Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation:
United States awards and honors
- Arab American Book Award (The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award):
- Honorable Mentions:
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize:
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award:
- Best Translated Book Award (BTBA):
- Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books:
- Bollingen Prize:
- Jackson Poetry Prize:
- Judges:
- Lambda Literary Award:
- Gay Poetry:
- Lesbian Poetry:
- Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize:
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize:
- Finalists:
- National Book Award for Poetry (NBA):
- NBA Finalists:
- NBA Longlist:
- NBA Judges:
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry:
- The New Criterion Poetry Prize:
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): to Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian
- Finalists: to Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss ; and to Alive: New and Selected Poems by Elizabeth Willis
- Wallace Stevens Award:
- Whiting Awards:
- PEN Award for Poetry in Translation:
- PEN Center USA 2016 Poetry Award:
- PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry: (Judges: )
- Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award:
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize:
- Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award:
- Walt Whitman Prize – - Judge:
- Yale Younger Series:
From the Poetry Society of America
- Frost Medal:
- Shelley Memorial Award:
- Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award:
- Lyric Poetry Award:
- Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award:
- Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award:
- George Bogin Memorial Award:
- Robert H. Winner Memorial Award:
- Cecil Hemley Memorial Award:
- Norma Farber First Book Award:
- Lucille Medwick Memorial Award:
- William Carlos Williams Award: (Judge: )
- Finalists for WCW Award:
Conferences and workshops by country
Australia
Canada
Mexico
New Zealand
United Kingdom
United States
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 appointed 11th Poet Laureate of Alabama 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]
- Miroslav Nemirov, 54 (born 1961), Russian poet
- March 5 – Rafael Squirru, 90 (born 1925), Argentine author, art critic and poet
- April 13 – Jock Scot, 63 (born 1952), Scottish performance poet
- April 30 – Daniel Berrigan, 94 (born 1921), American Jesuit priest, poet, peace activist and recidivist (one of Catonsville Nine)); winner of Lamont Prize for his book of poems Time Without Number
July – December
See also
References
- ↑ Egyptian Writer Omar Hazek Prevented from Traveling to Receive Freedom of Expression Award - see also 2014 in poetry article Events section for information on Hazek's time in an Egyptian prison.
- ↑ http://www.pen-international.org/01/2016/speech-by-omar-hazek-recipient-of-2016-oxfam-novibpen-award/ Speech by Omar Hazek, recipient of 2016 Oxfam Novib/PEN Award PEN International
- ↑ http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/185963/Egypt/Politics-/Egyptian-writer-Fatima-Naoot-sentenced-to--years-i.aspx
- ↑ http://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-courts-poet-idUSKBN0L121M20150128
- ↑ Thoughts on Osip Mandelstam's Birthday
- ↑ http://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Frank_O'Hara
- ↑ C.D. Wright, ex-R.I. state poet and MacArthur 'genius grant' winner, dies at 67
- ↑ Francisco X. Alarcón : The Poetry Foundation
- ↑ Adiós, Francisco X. Alarcón 1954-2016
- ↑ Acclaimed Poet-Lyricist Nida Fazli Dies In Mumbai
- ↑ Poet Akbar Ali, Known for Limericks, Dies at 91
