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Overview of the events of 2003 in poetry
Dana Gioia
January 29 – Poet Dana Gioia , who had retired early from his career as a corporate executive at General Foods to write full-time, becomes chair of the National Endowment for the Arts , the United States government's arts agency.
February 12 – After First Lady Laura Bush invites a number of poets to the White House for this date, one of them, Sam Hamill , starts organizing a protest in which poets would bring anti-war poems. The conference is postponed, but Hamill organizes a "Poets Against the War" Web site with contributions from others. More than 5,000 poems are contributed, including work by John Balaban , Gregory Orr , Rita Dove , Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Adrienne Rich , Stanley Kunitz , Marilyn Nelson , Jay Parini , Jamaica Kincaid , Grace Paley and U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins . Also on the Web site, W. S. Merwin contributes the statement: "To arrange a war in order to be re-elected outdoes even the means employed in the last presidential election. Mr. Bush and his plans are a greater danger to the United States than Saddam Hussein." The new group, "Poets Against the War", organizes poetry readings for February 12 across the country, demonstrating the strong links between many established poets and left-wing pacifism.[ 1]
July 2 – In the aftermath of public controversy ignited by state poet laureate Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) reading his incendiary and anti-Semitic poem "Somebody Blew Up America" about the September 11th Attacks, and Baraka's subsequent refusals to resign from the position, New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey signs legislation abolishing the post of Poet Laureate of New Jersey .[ 2] [ 3]
Early November – Carl Rakosi celebrates his 100th birthday with friends at the San Francisco Public Library.
The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry is opened at Queens University, Belfast , this year. It houses the Heaney Media Archive, a unique record of Heaney's entire oeuvre , as well as a full catalogue of his radio and television presentations.[ 4] This same year Heaney decides to lodge a substantial portion of his literary archive at Emory University .[ 5]
Call: Review , an American little magazine , is founded by poet John Most .
Works published in English [ edit ]
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Judith Beveridge , Wolf Notes , winner of the 2004 Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award
Pam Brown , Dear Deliria (New & Selected Poems), winner of the 2004 NSW Premier's Award for Poetry.[ 6]
Laurie Duggan , Mangroves
John Kinsella , Peripheral Light
Alison Croggon , The Common Flesh: Poems 1980–2002 , Arc, ISBN 1-900072-72-6
Geoff Page , editor The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets , Indigo (anthology)
Chris Wallace-Crabbe , A Representative Human , Brunswick: Gungurru Press
Derek Beaulieu , with wax (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-118-2
George Bowering , Baseball: A Poem in the Magic Number 9 (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-123-6
Di Brandt , Now You Care (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-127-4
Anne Compton , Opening the Island
Joe Denham , Flux
Jill Hartman , A Painted Elephant (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-117-5
Raymond Knister , After Exile . complete poems compiled by Gregory Betts (Exile, 2003)[ 7]
Dennis Lee , Un . Toronto: Anansi.[ 8]
Tim Lilburn , Kill-site , winner of the Governor General's Award
Don McKay , Varves , a chapbook
W.W.E. Ross , Irrealities, Sonnets & Laconics . (Exile Editions, 2003 )[ 9] ISBN 978-1-55096-561-2
Anne Simpson Loop , shortlisted for the 2003 Governor General's Award , winner of the 2004 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize , ISBN 0-7710-8075-1
Raymond Souster , Twenty-three New Poems . Ottawa: Oberon Press.[ 10]
Nathalie Stephens , Paper City (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-126-7
Suzanne Zelazo , Parlance (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-128-1
Hemant Divate , Virus Alert , translated from the original Marathi language poetry - by Dilip Chitre ; Mumbai : Poetrywala[ 11]
Jerry Pinto , Asylum and Other Poems (Poetry in English), Allied Publishers, ISBN 81-7764-527-7 [ 12]
Sudeep Sen :
Sachin Ketkar , A Dirge for the Dead Dog and other Incantations (Poetry in English), New Delhi : Sanbun Publishers[ 14]
Ajmer Rode , Selected Poems , by a Punjabi ; Third Eye Publications, ISBN 0-919581-76-5 [ 15]
Rosita Boland , Dissecting the Heart , Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-344-5
Ciaran Carson , Breaking News , Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-340-7
Michael Coady , One Another , (poems and prose), Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-357-5
Gerald Dawe , Lake Geneva , Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-342-1
Poets in Best New Zealand Poems [ edit ]
Poems from these 25 poet s were selected by Elizabeth Smither for Best New Zealand Poems 2002 , published online this year:
Gerry Cambridge , Madame Fi Fi's Farewell and other poems , Luath Press, ISBN 1-84282-005-2 [ 16]
Vahni Capildeo , No Traveller Returns , Caribbean poet
Ciarán Carson , Breaking News , Gallery Press, Wake Forest University Press, awarded the 2003 Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection
Carol Ann Duffy , The Good Child's Guide to Rock N Roll , Faber and Faber (children's poetry)[ 17]
James Fenton , The Love Bomb , verse written as a libretto for a composer who rejected it; Penguin / Faber and Faber[ 18]
Lavinia Greenlaw , Minsk , Faber and Faber
Peter Redgrove , Sheen
Simawe, Saadi , editor, Iraqi Poetry Today , London: King's College, ISBN 0-9533824-6-X
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom[ edit ]
Dick Allen , The Day Before: New Poems (Sarabande Books)
Mark Bibbins , Sky Lounge (Graywolf Press)
Charles Bukowski , sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way (Ecco)
Henri Cole , Middle Earth (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Cid Corman , Now/Now
Annie Finch , Calendars
Richard Greenfield , A Carnage in the Lovetress (University of California Press)
John Hollander , Picture Window
William Logan , Macbeth in Venice
Howard Nemerov , The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov , edited by Daniel Anderson (Swallow/Ohio University) published posthumously); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Mary Oliver , Owls and Other Fantasies: poems and essays
Willie Perdomo , Smoking Lovely
James Reiss , Riff on Six: New and Selected Poems
Kenneth Rexroth , Complete Poems (posthumous)
Margaret Reynolds , The Sappho History (scholarship), Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-333-97170-3 ISBN 0-333-97170-1
C. J. Sage , editor, And We The Creatures: Fifty-one Contemporary American Poets on Animal Rights and Appreciation (Dream Horse Press)
Charles Simic , The Voice at 3:00 a.m.: Selected Late & New Poems (Harvest Books)(Harcourt); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Tracy K. Smith , The Body's Question won the 2002 Cave Canem Prize for best first book by an African American poet (Graywolf Press )
Rosmarie Waldrop , Love, Like Pronouns (Omnidawn Publishing)
William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky , The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams & Louis Zukofsky , edited by Barry Ahearn (Wesleyan University Press)
Kirby Wright , Before the City (Lemon Shark Press); winner of the San Diego Book Award for Poetry
Poets included in The Best American Poetry 2003 [ edit ]
The 75 poets included in The Best American Poetry 2003 , edited by David Lehman , co-edited this year by Yusef Komunyakaa :
Works published in other languages [ edit ]
Seyhmus Dagtekin , Couleurs démêlées du ciel , publisher: L'Harmattan; Kurdish Turkish poet writing in French
Abdellatif Laabi , Moroccan author writing in French:
L'automne promet , La Différence, coll. Clepsydre, Paris
Les Fruits du corps , La Différence, coll. Clepsydre, Paris
Œuvre poétique , La Différence, coll. Œuvre complète, Paris
Denise Desautels , La marathonienne, avec estampes de Maria Cronopoulos , Montréal: Éditions de la courte échelle[ 19]
2003 * Jean Royer , Demeures du silence , Trois-Rivières: Écrits des Forges / Esch-sur-Alzette: Éditions Phi[ 20]
Christoph Buchwald , general editor, and Michael Krueger , guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2004 ("Poetry Yearbook 2004"), publisher: Beck; anthology[ 21]
Daniel Falb , Daniela Seel , and Andrew Potterof , die räumung dieser parks ("the clearance of these parks"), Kookbooks
Bjoern Kuligk and Jan Wagner , editors, Lyrik von Jetzt ("Poetry of Now"), publisher: Dumont Verlag, featuring poetry by 74 authors born since 1965 (Lyrik von Jetzt 2 ) followed in 2008
Chandan Chowdhury , Jabe he majhi, diksonnopur, Balaka prakash, Chittagong, Bangladesh
In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Debarati Mitra , Khonpa Bhare Achhe Tarar Dhuloy, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; India , Bengali-language[ 22]
Mallika Sengupta :
Purushke Lekha Chithi , Kolkata: Ananda Publishers[ 23]
Editor, Dui Banglar Meyeder Shreshtha kabita , Kolkata: Upasana[ 23]
Nirendranath Chakravarti , Bhalobasha Mondobasha , Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali -language[ 24]
Udaya Narayana Singh , Kham-kheyali , Kolkata: Ebang Mushayera[ 25]
Indian poet Keshav Malik , also a writer and arts curator, in a photograph taken this year
Gagan Gill , Thapak Thapak Dil Thapak Thapa, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan; Punjabi -language[ 26]
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih , editor, Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from the Northeast , North-Eastern Hill University; Kahsi -language[ 27]
Kanaka Ha Ma , translator, Battalike , a translation of Javed Akhtar 's Tarkash from the original Urdu into Kannada ; Puttur, Karnataka: Karnataka Sangha[ 28]
Kutti Revathi , Thanimaiyin Aayiram Irakkaigal ("One Thousand Wings of Solitude"), Chennai: Panikkudam Pathippagam; Tamil -language[ 29]
Malathi Maithri , Neerindri Amaiyaathu Ulagu , ("There Can Be No Earth Without Water"), Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathippagam; Tamil -language[ 30]
Nilmani Phookan , Alop Agota Ami Ki Kotha Pati Ashilo , Guwahati, Assam: Students’ Store, Assamese -language[ 31]
Rajendra Kishore Panda ; Oraya -language:
Collected Poems – Sada Prusthha , Bhubaneswar: Metanym, Oraya -language[ 32]
Drohavakya , Bhubaneswar: Metanym,[ 32]
Dujanari , Bhubaneswar: Metanym,[ 32]
Vairagi Bhramar , Bhubaneswar: Metanym,[ 32]
Satyottara , Bhubaneswar: Metanym,[ 32]
Bahwarambhe , Bhubaneswar: Metanym,[ 32]
S. Joseph , Meenkaran , Kottayam: DC Books, ISBN 81-264-0616-X ; Malayalam -language[ 33]
Salma , Pachchai Devathai , Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathippagam; Tamil -language[ 34]
Saroop Dhruv , Gujarati -language:
Hastkshep , Ahmedabad: Samvedan Sanskritic Manch, Ahmedabad[ 35]
Sahiyara Suraj Ni Khoj Ma , Ahmedabad: Samvedan Sanskritic Manch[ 35]
Thangjam Ibopishak Singh , Manam ("The Human Scent"), Imphal: Writer's Forum; Meitei language poet and academic[ 36]
Rustam (Rustam Singh ), Rustam ki Kavitaen , a collection of poetry in Hindi, (ISBN 81-8143-046-8 ), Vani Prakashan, New Delhi.
José Emilio Pacheco at the Octavio Paz award this year
Gerald Lampert Award : Kathy Mac , Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth
Archibald Lampman Award : Shane Rhodes , Holding Pattern
Atlantic Poetry Prize : Anne Compton , Opening the Island
Governor General's Award for English-language poetry : Tim Lilburn , Kill-site
Governor General's Award for French-language poetry : Pierre Nepveu , Lignes aériennes
Griffin Poetry Prize Canada: Margaret Avison , Concrete and Wild Carrot ; International, in the English Language: Paul Muldoon , Moy sand and gravel
Pat Lowther Award : Dionne Brand , thirsty
Prix Alain-Grandbois : Danielle Fournier , Poèmes perdus en Hongrie
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize : bill bissett , peter among th towring boxes / text bites
Prix Émile-Nelligan : Jean-Simon DesRochers , Parle seul
Cholmondeley Award : Ciaran Carson , Michael Donaghy , Lavinia Greenlaw , Jackie Kay
David Cohen Prize : Thom Gunn (joint winner with novelist Beryl Bainbridge ) (joint winners)
Eric Gregory Award : Jen Hadfield , Zoë Brigley , Paul Batchelor , Olivia Cole , Sasha Dugdale , Anna Woodford
Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Ciaran Carson , Breaking News (The Gallery Press); Best First Collection: A. B. Jackson , Fire Stations (Anvil Press)
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry : U. A. Fanthorpe
T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Don Paterson , Landing Light
Whitbread Award for poetry: Mark Haddon , The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
English poet Kathleen Jessie Raine
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 16 – Susan McGowan (born 1907 ), Australian poet
June 28 – Clem Christesen (born 1911 ), Australian poet, founding editor of Meanjin
July 6 – Kathleen Raine (born 1908 ), English poet and literary scholar
July 8 – Subhash Mukhopadhyay (born 1919 ), Bengali poet
July 9 – Josephine Jacobsen (born 1908 ), American poet, short story writer and critic
July 15 – Roberto Bolaño , 50 (born 1953 ), Chilean fiction writer, poet and essayist, liver disease
August 7 – F. T. Prince (born 1912 ), South African-English poet and academic
September 3 – Alan Dugan (born 1923 ), American poet
October 26 – Heinz Piontek (born 1925 ), German writer[ 47]
November 3 – Rasul Gamzatov , 80 (born 1923 ), Avarian/Soviet/Russian poet, "People's poet of Dagestan"
November 27 – Talal al-Rasheed , 41?, Saudi poet
December 12 – Fadwa Tuqan , 86 (born 1917 ), Palestinian poet
December 23 – John Newlove (born 1923 ), Canadian poet
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