1991 in poetry Totally Explained

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Events

Forward Poetry Prize created
Dana Gioia, writing in The Atlantic Monthly suggests (in an article titled "Can Poetry Matter?") that poets recite the works of other poets at public readings.
Joseph Brodsky, the United States poet laureate, suggests in The New Republic that an anthology of American poetry be put beside the Bible and telephone directory in every hotel room in the country.
Roy Miki, In Saving Face: Poems Selected, 1976-1988, Canada
John Pass, The Hour's Acropolis, shortlisted for the 1993 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, ISBN 1-55017-043-0 (Canada)
George Woodcock, Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana & other Poems, Kingston: Quarry Press, Canada

New Zealand

Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):

Time-zones, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
Selected Poems, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
Lauris Edmond, New and Selected Poems, Auckland: Oxford University Press
Michele Leggott, Swimmers, Dancers, Auckland : Auckland University Press
Bill Manhire, Milky Way Bar, New Zealand
Bob Orr, Breeze

United Kingdom

Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):

Time-zones, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
Selected Poems, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
Derek Mahon, Selected Poems. Viking
Sean O'Brien, HMS Glasshouse (Oxford University Press)

United States

John Ashbery, Flow Chart

Gwendolyn Brooks, Children Coming Home

Robert Creeley, Selected Poems 1945-90

Billy Collins, Questions About Angels (ISBN 0-8229-4211-9), the winner of the National Poetry Series competition in 1993

Paul Hoover, The Novel: A Poem (New Directions)

Howard Nemerov, Trying Conclusions: New and Selected Poems, 1961-1991 (University of Chicago Press)

Grace Paley, Long Walks and Intimate Talks (stories and poems)

Kenneth Rexroth, Flower Wreath Hill: Later Poems

Poets represented in The Best American Poetry 1991 anthology

These 75 poets were represented in The Best American Poetry 1991 edited by David Lehman, with guest editor Mark Strand:

Dick Allen

John Ash

Joseph Brodsky

Marc Cohen

Alfred Corn

Stephen Dobyns

Carolyn Forche

Melissa Green

Thom Gunn

John Hollander

Paul Hoover

Ron Horning

Jane Kenyon

Carolyn Kizer

John Koethe

Mark Levine

James Merrill

Gary Mitchner

Lloyd Schwartz

Laurie Sheck

Charlie Smith

Ruth Stone

James Tate

Chase Twichell

Derek Walcott

Rosanna Warren

Susan Wheeler

Charles Wright

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

William Meredith, Poems Are Hard to Read, criticism

Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, Part of the Climate: American Cubist Poetry, University of California Press, scholarship

Works published in other languages

Spain

Matilde Camus, Tierra de mi Cantabria ("Cantabria, my land")

Other languages

Odysseus Elytis, The Elegies of Oxopetras (Τα Ελεγεία της Οξώπετρας)

Rami Saari, Gvarim Ba-tzomet ("Men at the Crossroad"), Israeli writing in Hebrew

Awards and honors

Australia

C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, The Winter Baby

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, The Winter Baby

Mary Gilmore Prize: Jean Kent - Verandahs

Canada

Gerald Lampert Award

Archibald Lampman Award

See 1991 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

Pat Lowther Award

Prix Alain-Grandbois

United Kingdom

Cholmondeley Award: James Berry, Sujata Bhatt, Michael Hulse, Derek Mahon

Eric Gregory Award: Roddy Lumsden, Glyn Maxwell, Stephen Smith, Wayne Burrows, Jackie Kay

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Judith Wright

Whitbread Award for poetry (United Kingdom): Michael Longley, Gorse Fires

United States

Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Julia Kasdorf, Sleeping Preacher

Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: John Frederick Nims

American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, Richard Wilbur

Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Donald Hall, "Museum of Clear Ideas"

Bollingen Prize: Laura Riding Jackson and Donald Justice

Frost Medal: Donald Hall

National Book Award for poetry: Philip Levine, What Work Is

Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Joseph Brodsky

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mona Van Duyn: Near Changes

Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: David Wagoner

Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: J. D. McClatchy

Deaths

January 22 - Robert Choquette, Canadian novelist and poet

March 10 - Etheridge Knight, American poet

April 12 - James Schuyler, at 67, American poet and a central figure in the New York School, of a stroke

July 5 - Howard Nemerov, 71, former U.S. Poet Laureate, of cancer

September 2 - Laura Riding Jackson, at 90, of a heart attack

September 24 - Dr. Seuss, 87, American author of children's verse

September 27 - Roy Fuller, English poet and writer

October 11 - Steven Jesse Bernstein, performance poet

October 27 - George Barker, poet

date not known:

George Thaniel, Canadian poet
R. F. Brissenden
Paul Engle, American poet, writer, editor, and novelist

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