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Events

• Dead Poets Society, a film with excerpts from many traditional poets, ending with the title and opening line of Walt Whitman's lament on the death of Abraham Lincoln, "O Captain! My Captain!"
• My Left Foot, a film about Christy Brown, the Irish poet, and based on his autobiography

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Works published

• Edward Dorn, The Gunslinger
• Rita Dove, Grace Notes
• Frederick Feirstein's Expansive Poetry gathered various essays on the New Formalism and the related movement New Narrative, under the umbrella term 'Expansive Poetry'

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Awards

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Gwen Harwood, Bone Scan
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: John Tranter, Under Berlin
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Alex Skovron, The Re-arrangement

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Canada

• See 1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

Each winner of the 1989 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit received $5000 dollars and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. ...

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Peter Didsbury, Douglas Dunn, E.J. Scovell
• Eric Gregory Award: Gerard Woodward, David Morley, Katrina Porteous, Paul Henry
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Allen Curnow

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United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Nancy Vieira Couto, The Face in the Water
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Anthony Hecht
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Jorie Graham, "Spring"
• Frost Medal: Gwendolyn Brooks
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Wilbur: New and Collected Poems
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Mona Van Duyn
• William Carlos Williams Award: Diane Wakoski, Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987

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Deaths

• September 15: Robert Penn Warren, poet and writer, former U.S. Poet Laureate, of cancer
• February 28: Richard Willard Armour, 82, of Parkinson's disease;
• January 13: Sterling Allen Brown, 87, poet, teacher and writer on folklore and of literary criticism
• December 4: May Swenson, American poet and playwright

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See also

Poetry Portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards