// John Betjeman becomes Poet Laureate A.R. Ammons: Briefings: Poems Small and Easy Collected Poems: 1951-1971, winner of the National Book Award in 1973 John Ashbery, Three Poems Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, and Tom Clark, Back In Boston Again John Berryman, (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Elizabeth Bishop and... // Adrienne Rich, Rape Derek Walcott, Another Life See 1973 Governor Generals Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. ... // The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. ... // Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution, including Two Birds: A Dialogue, are published on January 1[1] Elizabeth Bishop, One Act Marya Fiamengo, In Praise of Older Women Thom Gunn, Jack Straws Castle Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes James Merrill: Divine Comedies, including... // British publication Gay News successfully prosecuted in the United Kingdom for blasphemy and libel for publishing James Kirkups The Love that Dares to Speak its Name Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems in English and French Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III, which includes In the Waiting Room, The Moose, and the villanelle... // L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, first published Stevie, a film based on a play about the poet Stevie Smith is released Maya Angelou, And Still I Rise Paul Blackburn, translator (posthumous), Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry Odysseus Elytis... See also: 1971 in literature, other events of 1972, 1973 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1972 in literature, other events of 1973, 1974 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1973 in literature, other events of 1974, 1975 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1974 in literature, other events of 1975, 1976 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1975 in literature, other events of 1976, 1977 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1976 in literature, other events of 1977, 1978 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1977 in literature, other events of 1978, 1979 in literature, list of years in literature. ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries in poetry. ... Category: ... Category: ... Category: ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... The 21st century is the present century of the Anno Domini (common) era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949. ... // Recovering from World War II and its aftermath, the economic miracle emerged in West Germany and Italy. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... For the band, see 1990s (band). ... This article is becoming very long. ... This page indexes the individual years pages. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...

Events

• With the 1974, fall of the dictatorship in Greece, poets, authors and intellectuals who had fled after the coup of 1967 returned, and this year many began publishing in that country.

// The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. ... // Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK. Margaret Atwood, The Circle Game Ted Hughes, Wodwo Wole Soyinka, Idanre, and Other Poems See 1967 Governor Generals Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. ...

Works published

English language

• Wole Soyinka, editor, Poems of Black Africa (published in the United Kingdom)

Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole Wole Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. ...

United Kingdom

• Arthur J. Ball, Collected Poems
• Thomas Blackburn, Selected Poems
• Edwin Brock, a book of poetry^[1]
• Allen Brownjohn, A Song of Good Life
• Charles Causley, Collected Poems
• John Fuller, a book of poetry^[1]
• Roy Fuller, From the Joke Shop
• Roger Garfitt, West of Elm
• Robert Graves, a book of poetry^[1]
• Michael Ivens, Born Early
• Elizabeth Jennings, Growing-Points
• George MacBeth, In the Hours Waiting for the Blood to Come
• Christopher Middleton, a book of poetry^[1]
• Leslie Norris, Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies
• Ruth Pitter, End of Drought
• Peter Porter, a book of poetry^[1]
• James Reeves, Collected Poems
• Edgell Rickword, Collected Poems
• Alan Ross, a book of poetry^[1]
• Vernon Scannell, a book of poetry^[1]
• Henry Shore, Selected Poems
• Alan Sillitoe, a book of poetry^[1]
• Stevie Smith, Collected Poems
• R.S. Thomas, Laboratories of the Spirit
• John Wain, a book of poetry^[1]

Edwin Brock (born in 1927 in London, died in 1997) was a British poet. ... Charles Causley (August 24, 1917 – November 4, 2003) was a Cornish poet and writer. ... A fuller is someone who treats cloth: see Fuller (cloth-making). ... Roy Broadbent Fuller (11 February 1912 – 27 September 1991) was an English writer, known mostly as a poet. ... Portrait of Robert Graves (circa 1974) by Rab Shiell Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 5 November 1955) was an English poet, scholar, and novelist. ... This article is about the English poet. ... George Mann MacBeth (January 19, 1932-February 16, 1992) was a Scottish poet and novelist. ... Christopher Middleton (born June 10, 1926) is a British poet, translator (especially of German literature), and academic. ... George Leslie Norris (born May 1921, Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, died April 6, 2006 Provo, Utah, U.S.A.) was a prize-winning Welsh poet and short story writer. ... Ruth Pitter (1897 - February 29, 1992) was a British poet. ... Peter Buell Porter (August 14, 1773 - March 20, 1844) was a U.S. political figure and soldier. ... James Reeves was the pseudonym of John Morris (1909 - 1978), an English writer known for his poetry and contributions to childrens literature and the literature of collected traditional songs He was born in Middlesex, and educated at Stowe and Jesus College, Cambridge. ... John Edgell Rickword (October 22, 1898 - March 15, 1982) was an English poet and critic, and journalist and literary editor. ... Alan John Ross, (May 6, 1922 – February 14, 2001), was a British poet and editor. ... Vernon Scannell (born 1922) is a British poet and author. ... Alan Sillitoe (born March 4, 1928) is an English writer, one of the Angry Young Men of the 1950s. ... Stevie Smith was a British poet and radio personality (September 20, 1902 - March 7, 1971). ... Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000) (published as R. S. Thomas) was a Welsh poet and Anglican Clergyman, noted for his nationalism and spirituality. ... John Wain (born John Barrington Wain, March 14, 1925 - May 24, 1994) was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group The Movement. ...

Anthologies

• John Barrell and John Bull, editors, The Penguin Book of English Pastoral Verse
• J.M. Cohen, A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse
• Peter Redgrove, editor, Lamb and Thundercloud, from the Arvon Foundation creative writing courses at Totleigh Barton Manor in Devon
• Poetry Introduction (Faber & Faber) the third in the series
• Treble Poets (Chatto & Windus)

World War I recruiting poster John Bull is a national personification of the Kingdom of Great Britain created by Dr. John Arbuthnot in 1712, and popularized first by British print makers and then overseas by illustrators and writers such as American cartoonist Thomas Nast and Irish writer George Bernard Shaw... Peter William Redgrove (1932- 2003) was a prolific British poet, who also wrote works with his second wife Penelope Shuttle on menstruation and womens health, novels and plays. ...

Other

• Edward Lucie-Smith, The Burnt Child, autobiography
• Norman Nicholson, Wednesday Early Closing, autobiography
• Laurie Lee, I Can't Stay Long, mostly travel pieces by this poet
• Kathleen Raine, The Land Unknown, autobiography

Edward Lucie-Smith, 2006 John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith (born 27 February 1933) is a British writer, poet, art critic, curator and author of exhibition catalogues. ... Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson, (January 8, 1914 – May 30, 1987), was an English poet, known for his association with the Cumberland town of Millom. ... Laurie Lee, Laurence Edward Alan Lee (June 26, 1914 - May 13, 1997), was a poet and novelist from the village of Slad, near Stroud in Gloucestershire, England. ... Kathleen Jessie Raine (June 14, 1908 – July 6, 2003) was a British poet, critic and independent scholar writing in particular on William Blake and W. B. Yeats. ...

United States

• A.R. Ammons, Diversifications: Poems
• Maya Angelou, Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit Me Well
• John Ashbery:
  • Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror later awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
  • Vermont Notebook
• Ted Berrigan, A Feeling For Leaving
• Gwendolyn Brooks, Beckonings
• Lin Carter, Dreams from R'lyeh
• Robert Creeley, Backwards and The Door: Selected Poems
• Allen Ginsberg, "Hadda be Playin' on a Jukebox"
• Marilyn Hacker, Presentation Piece
• Erica Jong, Loveroot
• Kenneth Koch, The Art of Love
• Joyce Carol Oates, The Fabulous Beasts
• George Oppen, Collected Poems (New Directions)
• Charles Olson, The Maximus Poems, third volume (posthumous)
• Carl Rakosi, Ex Cranium, Night
• Charles Reznikoff, Holocaust
• Adrienne Rich, Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974
• Charles Wright, Bloodlines

A. R. Ammons, or Archie Randolph Ammons, (1926-2001) was an American author and poet. ... Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Johnson April 4, 1928) is an American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. ... John Ashbery John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet. ... The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... The National Book Award is one of the most important literary prizes in the United States, presented annually for the best books by living U.S. citizens published in the U.S. The awards have been presented since 1950 in at least one category, and are presently awarded in each... The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) is an American association of approximately seven hundred book reviewers. ... Ted Berrigan (15 November 1934 - 4 July 1983) was an American poet. ... Gwendolyn Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an award-winning African American woman poet. ... Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. ... Robert Creeley (May 21, 1926 - March 30, 2005) was an American poet, author of more than sixty books, and usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that schools. ... Irwin Allen Ginsberg (IPA: ) (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet. ... Hadda be Playin on a Jukebox is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1975. ... Marilyn Hacker (born 1942) is an American poet, critic, and reviewer. ... Erica (Mann) Jong (born March 26, 1942, in New York City, New York) is an American author and educator. ... Kenneth Koch (27 February 1925 - 6 July 2002) was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77. ... Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author and is the with the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1978 ([1]). She serves as associate editor for Ontario Review, a literary magazine, and the Ontario Review Press, a literary book publisher... George Oppen, a picture now used as the cover for the recently published Selected Poems George Oppen (April 24, 1908 - July 7, 1984) was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. ... Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was an important 2nd generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, a rubric which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat... Carl Rakosi (November 6, 1903 – June 24, 2004) was the last surviving member of the Objectivist poets. ... Charles Reznikoff (August 31, 1894 - January 22, 1976) was the poet for whom the term Objectivist was first coined. ... Image:AdrienneRich. ... Charles Wright may be: Charles Wright (cricketer) (1863-1936), Nottinghamshire and England cricketer Charles Wright (poet) (born 1935) Charles Wright (wrestler) (born 1961), professional wrestler See also: Charles Wright (born 1940), leader of Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles...

Arabian

• Adonis, Al-Aghani al-Thania Li Mehyar al-Dimashki ("The Second Songs of Mihyar al-Dimashki"), Syria
• Mahmood Darwish, a book of poems?^[1] (Palestine)
• Abdel Wahhab al-Bayyati, a book of poems?^[1] (Iraq)
• Amal Dankal, a book of poems?^[1] (Egypt)

Arabic literature is the writing produced, both prose and poetry, by speakers of the Arabic language. ... Ali Ahmad Said Asbar (alî ahmadi s-sacîdi l-asbar or Ali Ahmad Said) (born 1930), also known by the pseudonym Adonis or Adunis, is a Syrian-born poet and essayist who has made his career largely in Lebanon and France. ...

Denmark

• Thorkild Bjørnvig:
  • Delfinen
  • Stoffets krystalhav

French language

France

• Jean l'Anselme, La Foire à la ferraille
• Philippe Dumaine, Aux Passeurs de la nuit
• Pierre Loubière, Poèmes à la craie
• Charles Bory, L'Enfant-soliel et la croix
• Jean Pourtal de Ladevèze, De La Source azurine
• Jean-Louis Vallas, Resonances de Paris

Other

• Robert Sabatier, Histoire de la poésie française
  • volume on the Middle Ages to the sixteenth century
  • volume on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

German language

West Germany

• Frank Geerk, Notwehr
• Klaus Konjetsky, Poem vom Grünen Eck
• Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Westwärts 1 und 2 (posthumous)
• Herbert Asmodi, Jokers Gala

Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (1940, Vechta, Germany - 1975, London) is an important poet of German Pop-Literatur, inspired by the American Beat Generation (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg) and other American poets like William Carlos Williams and Frank OHara. ...

Greece

• Kostas Varnalis, Orgi laou
• Nikiforos Vrettakos, Diamartiria
• Kostas Stergiopoulos, Eklipsi
• Yiorgos Yeralis, Elliniki nikhta
• Yannis Ritsos:
  • Kodonostasio
  • O tikhos mesa ston kathrefti
  • Hartina
  • Petrinos khronos (written in the Makronisos concentration camp in 1949)
  • Imnos kai thrinos yia tin Kipro, about the Turkish invasion of Cyprus
  • Meletes, a book of essays

Kostas Varnalis Kostas Varnalis (Burgas 1884 - Athens 1974) was a Greek poet. ... Yannis Ritsos (May 1, 1909 - November 11, 1990) was a Greek poet. ... // Carlos de Oliveira - Descida aos Infernos Judith Wright, Woman to Man Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), By Avon River Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress): Elizabeth Bishop appointed this year. ...

Hebrew

• Y. Ratosh, three slim volumes which appeared simultaneously:
• Y. Tan-Pai, Olam Kazeh Olam Kaba
• I. Pinkas, Al Kav Hamashveh
• A. Trainin, Ha-Shaar Hasotum
• D. Rokeah, Ir Shezemana Kayitz
• M. Dor, Mappot Hazeman
• Nathan Yonathan, Shirim

Secular Jewish culture embraces several related phenomena; above all, it is the culture of secular communities of Jewish people, but it can also include the cultural contributions of individuals who identify as secular Jews, or even those of religious Jews working in cultural areas not generally considered to be connected...

Italy

• Pier Paolo Pasolini, La nuova gioventú
• Giovanni Raboni, Cadenza d'inganno

Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 - November 2, 1975) was an Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. ...

Anthology

• Marco Forti, editor, Almanacco dello Specchio for 1975, an anthology (from Arnoldo Mondadori's publishing house) which included poems by Eugenio Montale, Mario Luzi, Albino Pierro, Vasco Pratolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giovanni Testori, Giovanni Guiducci, Rossana Ombres

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Portuguese language

Portugal

• A. Ramos Rosa, Animal Olhar
• Fiama Brandão, Novas Visões do Passado
• A.-F. Alexandre, Sem Palavras nem Coisas

Russia

• N. Dorizo, The Sword of Victory. Verses, Poems and Songs
• Yu. Drunina, The Star of the Trenches. New Poems
• K. Vanshenkin, Campfire Reminiscences. Wartime Lyrics
• Ya. Smelyakov, Verses of Many Years
• B. Kunyayev, Devotion. Poems
• I. Molchanov, Half a Century. Verses
• G. Korshak, The Stellar Hour
• I. Ulyanova, Birch Tree Rain
• A. Roshka, Steel and Flint (translated into Russian from Moldavian)
• S. Eraliyev, Herald's Word (translated into Russian from Kirgiz)

Soviet anthology

• Winds of Different Colors

Spanish language

Spain

• Vicente Gaos, Diez siglos de poesía
• Luis Cernuda, Antología poetica, introduction and selection by Philip Silver

Luis Cernuda (1902 - 1963), is widely recognized as one of the great Spanish poets of the 20th century. ...

Latin America

• Juan Gonzalo Rose, Obra poética (Peru)
• Javier Sologuren, translator from Swiss, Italian and French, Las uvas del racimo (Peru)
• Raúl Gonzáles Tuñón, Antología poética (Argentina), posthumous
• Juan Gelman, Obra poética (Argentina)
• Pablo Antonio Cuadra, Tierra que habla (Nicaragua)
• Roberto Fernández Retamar, Cuaderno paralelo (Cuba)
• Jorge Enrique Adoum, Informe personal sobre la situación (Ecuador)
• Olga Orozco, Museo salvage (Argentina)
• Hernán Levín, El que a hierro mata (Chile)

Latin American literature refers to the literature of Latin America. ... Juan Gelman 1930- Argentine poet born in Buenos Aires. ... Roberto Fernández Retamar (born June 9, 1930) is a Cuban poet and essayist. ... Ecuadorian poet and personal secretary to Pablo Neruda Born in Ambato, Ecuador in 1926 Is now nominated to the Premio Cervantes, the noble price equivalent for hispano-american literature ... El poeta ve lo poético aun en las cosas más cotidianas The poet sees what it’s poetry even in the most mundane things Olga Orozco (1920-1999) (real name Olga Noemí Gugliotta) was an Argentine poet. ...

Other

• Octavio Paz, Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde, text of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard for 1971-1972
• José Coronel Urteche, Rápido tránsito, critical essays
• Margit Frenk, Cancionero folklórico, anthology of popular poetry

Octavio Paz, Mexican writer, poet, diplomat, and 1990 Nobel Prize winner for literature Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...

Sweden

• Kjell Espmark, Det obevekliga paradiset, the last volume of a trilogy
• Claes Andersson, Rums kamrater
• Ylva Eggehorn, Han Kommer

Professor Kjell Erik Espmark (born February 19, 1930 in Strömsund, Sweden), is a writer, literary historian, member of the Swedish Academy and Professor of the History of Literature at Stockholm University. ...

Yiddish

• Hirsh Osherovitch, The World of Sacrifices
• Arie Shamri, Rings in Stem
• Hillel Shargel, A Tree in the Window
• M. Shklar, In Imagination Sealed
• Moshe Nadir, A Day in a Garden
• Alef Katz, Morning Star
• Yakov Friedman, Poems and Songs, three volumes (posthumous)

Yiddish (ייִדיש, Jiddisch) is a Germanic language spoken by about four million Jews throughout the world. ...

Other

• Zbigniew Herbert, Mr. Cogito, which was translated into 15 languages and dramatized in 1975 (Poland)
• Julian Przybos, Poems and Notes (posthumous) (Poland)

• Miroslav Holub, a book of poetry?^[1] (Czecholslovakia: Czech)
• Jan Skacel, a book of poetry?^[1] (Czechoslovakia: Czech)

• Nichita Stanescu, selected poems^[1] (Romania)
• Ion Alexandru, selected poems^[1] (Romania)

Young Zbigniew Herbert Herberts family Zbigniew Herbert (29 October 1924 in Lwów - 28 July 1998 in Warsaw) was an influential Polish poet, essayist and moralist. ... Miroslav Holub (13 September 1923 Plzeň - 14 July 1998) was a Czech poet and immunologist. ... Jan Skácel (February 2, 1922 - November 11, 1989) was one of the best known Czech poets of the 20th century. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...

Awards and honors

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator

The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale (October 12, 1896, Genoa – September 12, 1981, Milan) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and traslator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. ...

English language

Canada

• See 1975 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards

Each winner of the 1975 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. ...

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Jenny Joseph, Norman Maccaig, John Ormond
• Eric Gregory Award: John Birtwhistle, Duncan Bush, Val Warner, Philip Holmes, Peter Cash, Alasdair Paterson

The Cholmondeley Award is given by the Society of Authors for poetry. ... Jenny Joseph (born 7 May 1932) is an English poet. ... John Ormond (1923 - 1990), was a Welsh poet and filmaker. ... The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submisson. ... Charles N. Mellowes Professor of Engineering and Professor of Mathematics. ... Peter Cash is a Canadian singer-songwriter. ...

United States

• Bollingen Prize: Archie Randolph Ammons
• National Book Award for Poetry: Marilyn Hacker, Presentation Piece
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gary Snyder, Turtle Island
• Walt Whitman Award: Reg Saner, Climbing into the Roots
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Robert Hayden
• Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Cid Corman, O/I (Judge: Hayden Carruth)

The Bollingen Prize, awarded every two years by the Bollingen Foundation, is a prestigious literary honor bestowed on a poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement. ... A. R. Ammons, or Archie Randolph Ammons, (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an American author and poet. ... The National Book Award for Poetry has been given since 1950 and is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens. ... Marilyn Hacker (born 1942) is an American poet, critic, and reviewer. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. ... Young Gary Snyder, on one of his early book covers Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (originally, often associated with the Beat Generation), essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. ... The Walt Whitman Award is given by the American Academy of Poets to an American poet who has never before published a book of poetry. ... The Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, or Academy Fellowship, was the first award of its kind in the United States. ... Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 - February 25, 1980), born as Asa Bundy Sheffey, was a United States African-American poet, essayist, and educator. ... Established in 1975, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize is (currently) a $25,000 award recognizing the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year. ... Cid Corman (1924 - March 12, 2004) was an American poet, translator and editor who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century. ... Hayden Carruth (born August 3, 1921 in Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.A) is an American poet and literary critic. ...

French language

France

• Prix Appolinaire: Charles Le Quintrec, jeunesse de Dieu
• Grand Prix de poésie of the French Academy: Gabriel Audisio, Racine de tout

The Académie française (French Academy) is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. ...

Spanish language

• Casa de las Américas prizes:
  • Omar Lara (Chile), ¡Oh buenas maneras!
  • Manuel Orestes Nieto (Panama), Dar la cara

Other

• A Soviet state prizes for poetry:
  • K. Kuliyev, The Book of the Earth
  • L. Martynov, Hyperboles

Births

• Tony Tost, American poet

Tony Tost (born 1975) is an American poet. ...

Deaths

Roque Dalton

• January 15 — Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, dramatist and novelist
• February 10 — Nikos Kavadias, Greek
• March 3 — Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams, 87, Welsh poet, translator and academic
• May 10 — Roque Dalton, 39, (born 1935), leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist who wrote on death, love, and politics; executed
• September 20 — Saint-John Perse, 88, French diplomat and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1960
• November 2 — Pier Paolo Pasolini, 53, Italian film director, author and poet
• November 23 — Francis Webb
• Dates not known:
  • Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (born 1940) German poet
  • Andreas Empeirikos, Greek (born 1901)
  • Janko Glazer, (born 1893)
  • Vojko Gorjan, (born 1949)

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Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p} This is as much information as was available in The Britannica Book of the Year 1976 (for events of 1975), published by The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1976

• Britannica Book of the Year 1976 ("for events of 1975"), published by Encyclopaedia Britannica 1976 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)

See also

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