// 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... // Chuck Palahniuk reads his short story Guts to audiences while on tour to promote his novel Diary. ... 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. ... See also: 2002 in literature, other events of 2003, 2004 in literature, list of years in literature. ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries in poetry. ... Category: ... Category: ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... (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 Gregorian calendar. ... The 22nd century (Gregorian calendar) will comprise the years 2101-2200. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ... The 2010s decade comprises the years from 2010 to 2019, inclusive. ... This decade is expected to be called the twenty-twenties. The Roman decennia number is XX. Those people born in the 1970s and 1980s will most likely be in positions of power. ... Millennia: 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium - 4th millennium Centuries: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century Decades: 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s - 2030s - 2040s 2050s 2060s 2070s 2080s Years: 2030 2031 2032 2033 2034 2035 2036 2037 2038 2039 The decade as a whole This decade is expected to be called the... 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: A Space Odyssey. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Events

• 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.
• February — Janice Mirikitani succeeds Lawrence Ferlinghetti as San Francisco's Poet Laureate
• October 3 — Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" named Britain's favorite children's poem in a BBC poll
• October 3 — Justin Trudeau quotes from Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods" at the funeral of his father, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
• October 4 — National Poetry Day in Great Britain: 300 school children at the Royal Festival Hall along with 4,000 other people nationwide perfor Agbabi's "Word," setting a new Guinness World Record for simultaneous mass performance of a poem
• Spike Milligan made an honorary knight

The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canadas youngest and most lucrative poetry award. ... Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is a poet who is best known as the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house, which published early literary works of the Beat Generation, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. ... October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Edward Lear, 1812-1888 Eagle Owl, Edward Lear, 1837 Another Edward Lear owl, in his more familiar style Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an artist, illustrator and writer known for his nonsensical poetry and his limericks, a form which he popularised. ... Edward Lears illustration of the Owl and the Pussycat The Owl and the Pussycat is a famous nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1871. ... October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Robert Frost (1941) Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. ... Trudeau redirects here. ... October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Royal Festival Hall is a concert, dance and talks venue within the South Bank Centre in London. ... Patience Agbabi (born 1965) is a British poet and performer with a particular emphasis on the spoken word. ... Ben Bradshaw moments before breaking the worlds fastest Straitjacket escape title in 50. ... Terence Alan Milligan, KBE (16 April 1918–27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was a writer, artist, musician, humanitarian and comedian. ...

Works published

• Joseph Brodsky, Collected Poems in English, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours, Knopf (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Paul Celan - Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan (Translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov)
• Fanny Howe - Fanny Howe: Selected Poems
• Kenneth Koch, New Addresses: Poems, Knopf (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Stanley Kunitz, The Collected Poems, Norton (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Pierre Labrie - À tout hasard
• Stanley Lombardo (translator), Odyssey by Homer, Hackett (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Glyn Maxwell: The Boys at Twilight: Poems, 1990-1995, Houghton Mifflin (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• W. S. Merwin (translator). Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri, Knopf (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Grazyna Miller - Sull'onda del respiro (On the Wave of Breath)
• Robert Pinsky, Jersey Rain (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Michael Ryan, A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing (essays)
• Gjertrud Schnackenberg, The Throne of Labdacus, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Derek Walcott, The Prodigal

Joseph Brodsky Joseph Brodsky (May 24, 1940 – January 28, 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: ) was a poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States (1991-1992). ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Anne Carson (born Toronto, Ontario June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, and translator, as well as a professor of classics and comparative literature at McGill University and at the University of Michigan. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Paul Celan Paul Celan (November 23, 1920 – approximately April 20, 1970), was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel (Celan is an anagram of the Romanian spelling of his surname, Ancel), one of the major poets of the post-World War II era. ... Fanny Howe (born 1940) is an United States poet and writer of fiction. ... 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. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... 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. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Pierre Labrie (23 April 1972— ) is a Quebecois poet, born at Mont-Joli, Quebec. ... Stanley Lombardo is a professor of Classics at the University of Kansas. ... Odysseus and Nausicaä - by Charles Gleyre The Odyssey (Greek: , Odusseia) is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to the poet Homer. ... Homer (Greek Hómēros) was a legendary early Greek poet and aoidos (singer) traditionally credited with the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Glyn Maxwell (born 1962) is a British poet. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... William Stanley (W.S.) Merwin was born on September 30, 1927 in New York City and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and Scranton, Pennsylvania. ... ... Dante in a fresco series of famous men by Andrea del Castagno, ca. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Grazyna Miller (1957) is a poet born in Poland. ... Robert Pinsky 15 May 2005 Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States (1997-2000). ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Gjertrud Schnackenberg (1953 - ) is an American poet. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Derek Walcott, courtesy of the Nobel Foundation Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a West-Indian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes in English. ...

Awards and honors

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: John Millett, Iceman
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, Mines
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Lucy Dougan, Memory Shell

The C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the Victorian Premiers Literary Awards, for a significant selection of new work by a poet published in a book. ... The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the N. S. W. Premiers Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form. ... Jennifer Maiden (born 1949) is a contemporary Australian poet. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...

Canada

• See 2000 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

The 2000 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit were presented by Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, and Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, on November 14 at Rideau Hall. ...

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Alistair Elliot, Michael Hamburger, Adrian Henri, Carole Satyamurti
• Eric Gregory Award: Eleanor Margolies, Antony Rowland, Antony Dunn, Karen Goodwin, Clare Pollard
• Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Michael Donaghy, Conjure (Picador)
• Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Andrew Waterhouse, In (The Rialto)
• Samuel Johnson Prize: David Cairns, Berlioz: Volume 2
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Edwin Morgan
• T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Michael Longley, The Weather in Japan
• Whitbread Award for poetry: John Burnside, The Asylum Dance

The Cholmondeley Award is given by the Society of Authors for poetry. ... Michael Hamburger OBE (born 22 March 1924) is a noted British translator, poet, and academic, known in particular for his translations of Friedrich Hölderlin, Paul Celan, and W. G. Sebald from German, and his work as a literary critic. ... Adrian Henri (April 10, 1932 – December 21, 2000) was a British poet and painter. ... The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submisson. ... The Forward Poetry prizes were created in 1991. ... The Forward Poetry prizes were created in 1991. ... The Samuel Johnson Prize is one of the worlds most prestigious awards for non-fiction writing. ... David Cairns is a British journalist, non-fiction writer and musician. ... 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). ... Edwin Morgan (born April 27, 1920) is a Scottish poet and translator who is associated with the British Poetry Revival. ... The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a British literary award. ... Michael Longley (b. ... The Whitbread Book Awards are among the United Kingdoms most prestigious literary awards. ... John Burnside (19 March 1955 -) is a Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline. ...

United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Quan Barry for Asylum
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Eleanor Ross Taylor
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Corey Marks, "Renunciation", and (separately) Christopher Patton, "Broken Ground"
• Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, David Ferry for Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations
• Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Greg Rappleye, A Path Between Houses
• Frost Medal: Anthony Hecht
• National Book Award for poetry: Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
• Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Stanley Kunitz appointed
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: C.K. Williams, Repair
• Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: T. V. F. Brogan
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Carl Dennis
• Wallace Stevens Award: Frank Bidart
• William Carlos Williams Award: Kathleen Peirce, The Oval Hour (Iowa Poetry Prize), Judge: Jean Valentine

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Deaths

• January 2 - Roland Flint, American poet, at 66, of cancer
• April 21 - Al Purdy, Canadian poet, at 81, of lung cancer
• May 14 - Karl Shapiro, at 86
• September 25 - R.S. Thomas (born 1913), 87, Welsh poet
• June 26 - Judith Wright, American poet, 85, of a heart attack
• July 13 - Alex Derwent Hope
• November 29 - William Scammell
• December 3 - Gwendolyn Brooks, 83 (Dec. 3), of cancer
• December 20 - Adrian Henry
• date not known - Yehuda Amichai (born 1924), Israeli poet
• date not known - Edgar Bowers, at 75, of non-Hodgkins' lymphoma
• date not known - John Bruce (poet), Canadian poet
• date not known - Libby Scheier, Canadian poet

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See also

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