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Events

Works published

Awards

United Kingdom

• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Francis Cornford

The Gold Medal for Poetry, originally instituted by King George V, is awarded in some years on 23 April, for a book of verse written by a United Kingdom or British Commonwealth citizen; before 1985 it was awarded only to British writers (this rule clearly not having hardened by 1940). ... Francis Macdonald Cornford (1874-1943) was an English classical scholar and poet. ...

United States

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry: Conrad Aiken
• National Book Award for Poetry: Robert Penn Warren, Promises: Poems, 1954-1956
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stanley Kunitz, Selected Poems 1928-1958

Two American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals are awarded each year by the academy for distinguished achievement. ... Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, born in Savannah, Georgia, whose work includes poetry, short stories and novels. ... Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 - September 15, 1989) was an American poet and novelist. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. ... Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (born July 29, 1905) is a noted American poet who served two years (1974–1976) as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a precursor to the modern Poet Laureate program), and served another year as United States Poet Laureate in 2000. ...

Births

• April 15 - Benjamin Zephaniah, British dub poet

April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah is a British Rastafarian writer and dub poet, and is well known in contemporary English literature. ...

Deaths

• March 24 - Seamus O'Sullivan, Irish poet
• June 28 - Alfred Noyes, English poet
• September 11 - Robert W. Service, Scots-Canadian poet who wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee

March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in leap years). ... Seamus OSullivan (real name James Sullivan Starkey) (17 July 1879 - 24 March 1958) was an Irish poet and editor of The Dublin Magazine. ... June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 186 days remaining. ... Alfred Noyes (September 16, 1880 – June 28, 1958) was an English poet, best known for his ballads The Highwayman (1906) and The Barrel Organ. ... September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... Robert W. Service Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958) was a poet born into a Scottish family while they were living in Preston, England. ... The Cremation of Sam McGee is the most famous of Robert W. Services poems. ...

See also

Poetry Portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards