// The movie Dead Man, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, about a man named William Blake on a trek through the American West who is taken as the resurrected Romantic poet by a character named Nobody. ... // January 20 — Miller Williams of Arkansas reads his poem, Of History and Hope, at President Clintons inauguration. ... // Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, (Knopf) ; named a notable book of the year by The New York Times Book Review Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); named a notable book of the year by The New York Times Book Review Mark Strand, Blizzard of One... // Griffin Poetry Prize is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English language internationally. ... // December 9–10 — Professor John Basinger, 67, performed, from memory, John Miltons Paradise Lost at Three Rivers Community-Technical College in Norwich, Connecticut, a feat that took 18 hours. ... // March 16: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalams poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticized the states Islamic judiciary. ... See also: 1995 in literature, other events of 1996, 1997 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1996 in literature, other events of 1997, 1998 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1997 in literature, other events of 1998, 1999 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1998 in literature, other events of 1999, 2000 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1999 in literature, other events of 2000, 2001 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 2000 in literature, other events of 2001, 2002 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 2001 in literature, other events of 2002, 2003 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. ... Dr. Seuss Jean Shepherd Ringo Starr John Steinbeck Gloria Steinem Tom Stoppard Hunter S. Thompson Gore Vidal Peter Vincent Kurt Vonnegut Andy Warhol Alan Watts Bob Weir Brian Wilson Tom Wolfe There were six Olympics held during the decade. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ... This article is becoming very long. ... The 2010s decade comprises the years from 2010 to 2019, inclusive. ... The 2020s is the 3rd decade of the 21st century of the Anno Domini (common) era. ... This page indexes the individual years pages. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

Events

• July 1 — Scotland's Parliament opened with the singing of Robert Burns' "A Man's a Man For A'That," instead of "God Save The Queen"
• The Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award is established at the Fifth Annual West Chester University Poetry Conference. The award is given to scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification. Derek Attridge was the first winner.
• Andrew Motion becomes Poet Laureate of England
• Carl Rakosi's 99th birthday celebrated at the Kelly Writers House with a live audiocast
• A new grave slab is installed at the Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh over the final resting place of William Topaz McGonagall (1825–1904), comically reknowned as the worst poet in the English language; the slab is inscribed:

William McGonagall

Poet and Tragedian

"I am your gracious Majesty

ever faithful to Thee,

William McGonagall, the Poor Poet,

That lives in Dundee."

July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... Robert Burns, foremost Scottish poet Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796) was a poet and a lyricist. ... The Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award is awarded to scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification. ... Founded by West Chester professor Michael Peich and poet Dana Gioia, the West Chester University Poetry Conference is a poetry conference that has been held annually since 1995 at West Chester University. ... Professor Andrew Motion (born October 26, 1952) is an English poet, novelist and biographer who is the current Poet Laureate. ... A Poet Laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events. ... Carl Rakosi (November 6, 1903 – June 24, 2004) was the last surviving member of the Objectivist poets. ... Greyfriars Kirk, today Greyfriars Tolbooth & Highland Kirk, is a parish kirk (church) of the Church of Scotland in central Edinburgh, Scotland. ... Edinburgh (pronounced ; Scottish Gaelic: ) is the capital of Scotland and its second-largest city. ... William Topaz McGonagall (1825 – 29 September 1902) was a Scottish weaver, actor, and poet. ... // Nobel Prize in Literature is shared by French poet Frédéric Mistral and Spanish dramatist José Echegaray y Eizaguirre. ...

Works published

• Robert Dassanowsky, Telegrams from the Metropole. Selected Poems 1980-1998 (106 pages) ISBN 13 978-3-901993-02-2; ISBN 103-901993-02-9
• Rita Dove, On the Bus with Rosa Parks (Norton); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Geoffrey Hill, The Triumph of Love (Houghton Mifflin); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• William Logan, Night Battle
• Glyn Maxwell, The Breakage, (Houghton Mifflin); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• W.S. Merwin, The River Sound: Poems (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Eugenio Montale, Collected Poems: 1920-1954 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Mary Oliver, Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
• Carl Rakosi, The Old Poet's Tale
• Kenneth Rexroth, Swords That Shall Not Strike: Poems of Protest and Rebellion (Glad Day; posthumous}
• Aharon Shabtai, Politiqa (Hebrew: "Politics")
• Charles Simic, Jackstraws: Poems (Harcourt Brace); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Melvin B. Tolson, Harlem Gallery: And Other Poems (University Press of Virginia, cloth, $60; paper); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Rosmarie Waldrop, Reluctant Gravities (New Directions)
• Hugo Williams, Billy's Rain, Faber and Faber

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Anthologies

• Richard Caddel and Peter Quartermain, editors, Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970, an anthology of poetry outside The Movement (essentially the mainstream) of English and Irish poetry (Wesleyan University Press)
• Michael Schmidt, The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English

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Poets in The Best American Poetry 1999

Poems from these 75 poets are in The Best American Poetry 1999, edited by David Lehman, guest editor, Robert Bly: David Lehman (born 1948) is the series editor for The Best American Poetry book series and a poet. ... Robert Bly (born December 23, 1926 in Madison, Minnesota) is a poet, author, and leader of the Mythopoetic Mens Movement in the United States. ...

Dick Allen Richard Anthony Dick Allen (also sometimes known, especially in his earlier years, as Richie Allen, a nickname that he came to despise and attempt to disassociate himself from) (born March 8, 1942 in Wampum, Pennsylvania) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman/third baseman right-handed batter... John Balaban is a professor at North Carolina State University. ... Coleman Barks is an American poet and renowned translator of Rumi poetry and other mystic poets of Persia. ... Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979), was an American poet and writer. ... Philip Booth, born in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1925, currently lives in the Maine house at which he spent much of his childhood. ... Hayden Carruth (born August 3, 1921 in Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.A) is an American poet and literary critic. ... Image:PoetLucilleClifton. ... Image:Billycollins. ... 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. ... Lydia Davis is a contemporary American author and translator of French. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling[1] on March 24, 1919) is an American poet who is known as the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house, which published early literary works of the Beats, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. ... Louise Elisabeth Glück (born April 22, 1943) is an American poet. ... Ramon Gonzalez is a professional wrestler. ... Donald Hall (born September 20, 1928) is an American poet and the U.S. Poet Laureate. ... Jennifer Michael Hecht (b. ... Jane Hirshfield (born 1953) is an award-winning American poet. ... John Hollander (born October 29, 1929) is an American poet and literary critic. ... David Ignatow was born in Brooklyn on February 7, 1914, and spent most of his life in the New York City area. ... The poet Mary Karr has received acclaim for her literary work from The New Yorker, Time, People, Entertainment Weekly, Us, and reader/reviewers at Amazon. ... X.J. Kennedy (born 21 August 1929) is a prominent formalist poet, translator, anthologist and writer of childrens literature. ... Galway Kinnell (born February 1, 1927) is an American poet. ... Carolyn Ashley Kizer (born December 10, 1925) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism. ... Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- ) is an eminent American poet who currently teaches at Princeton University. ... James Laughlin (October 30, 1914 - November 12, 1997) was an American poet, publisher, and man of letters. ... Dorianne Laux, a poet, was born in Augusta, Maine, in 1952. ... 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New Zealand

• Michele Leggott, As Far As I Can See

Michele Leggott, poet and literary scholar, was born in Stratford, New Zealand, in 1956. ...

Spain

• Matilde Camus:
  • Clamor del pensamiento ("Clamour of thought")
  • Cancionero multicolor ("Multicolour collection of verses")
  • La estrellita Giroldina ("Giroldina the star")

Matilde Camus (born 26 September 1922, Santander) is a Spanish poet who has additionnally done a number or research works. ...

Essays

• Charles Bernstein, A Poetics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press)

Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, critic, editor and teacher. ...

Awards and honors

• Nobel prize: Günter Grass

Winners of the Nobel Prize are scientists, writers and peacemakers who have been awarded in their field of endeavour, and who are known collectively as either Nobel laureates or Nobel Prize winners. ... Günter Grass - German author, and Nobel prize laureate for literature. ...

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Gig Ryan, Pure and Applied
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Lee Cataldi, Race Against Time
• Miles Franklin Award: Murray Bail, Eucalyptus

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Canada

• See 1999 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

The winners of the 1999 Canadian Governor Generals Literary Awards were announced by Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman, and Shirley L. Thomson, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts, at a press conference held on November 16th at the National Library of Canada. ...

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Vicki Feaver, Geoffrey Hill, Elma Mitchell, Sheenagh Pugh
• Eric Gregory Award: Ross Cogan, Matthew Hollis, Helen Ivory, Andrew Pidoux, Owen Sheers, Dan Wyke
• Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Jo Shapcott, My Life Asleep (Oxford University Press)
• Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Nick Drake, The Man in the White Suit (Bloodaxe)
• Poet Laureate of Great Britain: Andrew Motion appointed
• Samuel Johnson Prize: Antony Beevor, Stalingrad
• T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Hugo Williams, Billy's Rain
• Whitbread Best Book Award: Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

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United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Daisy Fried, She Didn't Mean To Do It
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: George Garrett
• Arthur Rense Prize awarded to James McMichael by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: J.D. McClatchy, "Tattoos"
• Bollingen Prize: Robert Creeley
• Frost Medal: Barbara Guest
• National Book Award for poetry: Ai, Vice: New & Selected Poems
• Special Bicentential Consultants in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Rita Dove, Louise Glück, and W.S. Merwin appointed
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mark Strand, Blizzard of One
• Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: Derek Attridge
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Maxine Kumin
• Wallace Stevens Award: Jackson Mac Low
• William Carlos Williams Award: B.H. Fairchild, The Art of the Lathe (Working Classics), Judge: Garrett Hongo
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Gwendolyn Brooks

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Deaths

• January 13 — John Frederick Nims, American poet
• February 22 - William Bronk, 81, American poet
• May 10 - Shel Silverstein, 68, children's poet
• August 15 — Patricia Beer, 79, British poet and critic
• September 8 — Moondog, 83, street poet (aka Louis T. Hardin)
• October 9 — João Cabral de Melo Neto, 79, Brazilian poet and diplomat
• December 10 — Edward Dorn, 70, American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets
• date not known:
  • December — Ida Affleck Graves, 97
  • Felipe Alfau (born 1902), Spanish-American poet, translator and author

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See also

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• List of poetry awards