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Events

• January 20 — Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton
• T. S. Eliot Prize created.
• March 31–April 3 — Writing from the New Coast: First Festival of Poetry held at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Many influential younger poets attend the conference. The final, two-volume issue of o•blék magazine this year will contain writing presented at the conference.
• Bound by Honor, a film directed by Taylor Hackford, based on the life of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, who co-wrote the screenplay, is released.
• Poetic Justice, a film directed by John Singleton, features Maya Angelou's poetry, and she appears as Aunt June.
• Poesia sempre, is created by the National Library of Brazil to promote poetry both from that nation and from beyond its borders and provide a forum for debate on poetry
• A new Yiddish monthly journal, Di yidishe gas ("The Jewish Street"), edited by Aron Vergelis, appears in Moscow. It is the first since the Sovetish heymland ("Soviet Homeland") became defunct.

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Works published

English language

Canada

• Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, selected from works written between 1956 and 1992
• Irving Layton, Fornalutx
• Marilyn Bowering, Love as It Is
• Raymond Souster, in Old Bank Notes
• Dennis Lee, Riffs
• Sheree Fitch, In This House Are Many Women
• George Bowering:
  • The Moustache: Remembering Greg Curnoe
  • George Bowering Selected: Poems 1961-1992
• Judith Fitzgerald:
  • Walkin' Wounded, including a cycle of baseball poems
  • "Habit of Blues," a prose poem meditating on the fate of the late novelist Juan Butler.
• bp Nichol:
  • Truth: A Book of Fictions
  • First Screening

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United Kingdom

• Blaga Dimitrova, Bulgaria's popular vice president, The Last Rock Eagle, a translation of several of her poems

Blaga Dimitrova (Bulgarian: ) (2 January 1922 - 2 May 2003) was a Bulgarian poetess and Vice President of Bulgaria from 1992 until 1993. ...

United States

• Ai, Greed
• A.R. Ammons, Garbage, a book-length poem about American trash and its implications, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry this year and the 1994 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
• Geoffrey Dearmer, A Pilgrim's Song: Selected Poems
• Mark Doty, My Alexandria
• Petya Dubarova, Here I Am, in Perfect Leaf Today (posthumous), translated from Bulgarian to English by Don D. Wilson
• Margaret Gibson, The Vigil
• Donald Hall, Life Work, memoir
• Daniel Halpern, editor, The Inferno by Dante, 21 living American poets wrote their versions of the cantos
• John Hollander, editor American Poetry, the Nineteenth Century, two volumes (Library of America)
• Meto Jovanovski, Faceless Men and Other Macedonian Stories, translated from Macedonian to English by Charles Simic in collaboration with Milne Holton and Jeffrey Folks.
• Susan Ludvigson, Everything Winged Must Be Dreaming
• Jack Marshall, Sesame
• Lorine Niedecker and Louis Zukofsky, Niedecker and the Correspondence with Zukofsky 1931-1970, edited by Jenny Penberthy (Cambridge University Press)
• Jim Powell, translator, Sappho: A Garland, new translations of the poems and fragments of the 6th-century BC poet
• Lawrence Raab, What We Don't Know About Each Other
• Adrienne Rich, Collected Early Poems, 1950-1970
• Sherod Santos, The City of Women, a sequence of poems and prose
• James Schuyler, Collected Poems
• Frederick Seidel, My Tokyo
• Charles Simic, translator, The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry, from Serbian into English, including Serbian poets Ivan V. Lalic, Vasko Popa, Momcilo Nastasijevic, and Nina Zivancevic.
• Sande Stojcevski, A Gate in the Cloud, translated by David Bowen and others from Macedonian to English, with more than 50 of the poet's lyrics.
• Mark Strand, Dark Harbor
• Rosmarie Waldrop, Lawn of the Excluded Middle (Tender Buttons)
• Rosanna Warren, Stained Glass
• Eliot Weinberger, editor, American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders (Marsilio Publishers)

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Poets included in The Best American Poetry 1993

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Denmark

• Pia Tafdrup, Krystalskoven
• Henrik Nordbrandt, Støvets tyngde
• Thorkild Bjørnvig, Siv vand og måne
• Kirsten Hammann, Vera Vinkelvir, a cross between a prose poem and a novel

French language

Canada

• Louise Dupré, Noir déjà
• Madeleine Gagnon, La Terre est remplie de langage
• Serge-Patrice Thibodeau, Le Cycle de Prague

France

• Yves Leclair, L'or du commun
• Yves Bonnefoy, La vie errante

Yves Bonnefoy (born Tours, June 1923) is a French poet and essayist. ...

Germany

• Heinz Czechowski, Nachtspur
• Wulf Kirsten, Stimmenschotter
• Richard Wagner, Heisse Maroni

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Hebrew

• Mordechai Geldman, A'vin ("Eye")
• Israel Eliraz, Pe Karu'a ("A Torn Mouth")
• Tamir Greenberg, Dyokan Atzmi Im Qvant veHatul Met ("Self Portrait with Quantum and Dead Cat")
• Zvika Shternfeld, Hamarkiza miGovari ("The Marquise of Govari")
• Shimon Shloush, Tola Havui shel Asham ("A Hidden Worm of Guilt")

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Portuguese language

Brazil

• Waly Salamão, Armarinho da miudezas, which reflects native Bahian traditions
• Sebastião Uchoa Leite, published a poetry book
• Felipe Fortuna published a poetry book
• Adão Ventura, Texturaafro,

Spain

• Matilde Camus, Amor dorado ("Golden Love")

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Sweden

• Jesper Svenbro, Samisk Apollon och andra dikter
• Henrik Nilsson, Utan skor

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Yiddish

• Yisroel Khaym Biletski, Uri Tsvi Grinberg der yidish-dikhter ("Uri Tsvi Grinberg: The Yiddish Poet") biography on the poet

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Other

• Novica Tadic, Night Mail: Selected Poems (Macedonia)
• Blaga Dimitrova, Bulgaria's popular vice president, Noshten dnevnik (“Night Diary”), 70 poems written from 1989-1992

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Awards and honors

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, Translations from the Natural World
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, Translations from the Natural World
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Jill Jones - The Mask and Jagged Star

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Canada

• See 1993 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

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United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Patricia Beer, George Mackay Brown, P. J. Kavanagh, Michael Longley
• Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Carol Ann Duffy, Mean Time (Anvil Press)
• Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Don Paterson, Nil Nil (Faber and Faber)
• T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Ciaran Carson, First Language: Poems
• Whitbread Award for poetry: Carol Ann Duffy, Mean Time

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United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Natasha Saj, Red Under the Skin
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: George Starbuck
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Stephen Yenser, "Blue Guide"
• Bollingen Prize (United States): Mark Strand
• Frost Medal: William Stafford
• National Book Award for poetry (United States): A.R. Ammons, Garbage (will also win 1994 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry)
• Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Rita Dove appointed
• Pulitzer Prize for poetry (United States): Louise Gluck, The Wild Iris
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Louise Gluck, The Wild Iris
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Charles Wright
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Gerald Stern

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Deaths

• April 23 — Bertus Aafjes, 89, Dutch poet
• June 19 — William Golding, 82, English novelist, poet, and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature
• August 28 — William Stafford, 79, American poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford
• September 16 — Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 71, Australian poet, actress, writer, teacher, artist and campaigner for Aboriginal causes
• October 31 — Kashif Latif, 17, poet
• October (exact date not known) — Gu Cheng, Chinese poet, by suicide

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See also

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• List of poetry awards