2002 in poetry

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Events

* March 16: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem "The Corrupt on Earth" that criticized the state's Islamic judiciary. In it, the poet accused some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for their own personal benefit.
* The office of Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate is instituted (see "Awards and honors" section below)
* August 22 — Poet Ron Silliman starts his popular and controversial weblog, " [http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ Silliman's Blog] ", which will become one of the most popular blogs devoted largely to contemporary poetry and poetics. (By August 2006, the blog will reach a total of 800,000 hits and get its next 100,000 by early November.) [ In his blog entry for Saturday, November 04, 2006 [http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/to-watch-bruce-andrews-spar-with-bill.html link here] Silliman takes note of the following statistics: "In 2002-03, it took 50 weeks to get the first 50,000 visits. The last 100,000 came in just 14 (weeks)".] .
* "Fulcrum, An annual of poetry and aesthetics" is founded in the United States.

Works published

=Australia=

* Alison Croggon, "Attempts at Being", Salt Publishing, ISBN 1876857420.
* Robert Gray, "Afterimages"
* Emma Lew, "Anything the Landlord Touches", won the 2003 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and was short-listed for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry that same year
* Chris Mansell:
** "Stalking the Rainbow" (PressPress, 2002)
** "Fickle Brat" (IP Digital, Brisbane, 2002)
* Les Murray:
** "Poems the Size of Photographs", Duffy & Snellgrove and Carcanet [http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216] Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007]
** "New Collected Poems", Duffy & Snellgrove; Carcanet, 2003

=Canada=

* Margaret Avison, "Concrete and Wild Carrot"
* Christian Bök, "’Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science" ISBN 978-0-8101-1877-5
* Don McKay, "Vis à Vis: Field Notes on Poetry & Wilderness"

New Zealand

* James K. Baxter, "The Tree House: James K. Baxter's Poems for Children" (posthumous), the first illustrated edition of his work for children
* Janet Charman, "Snowing Down South", Auckland: Auckland University Press [Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, "Janet Charman" article]
* Alan Brunton, "Fq", a sequence of 144 poems (posthumous) [Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson]
* Cilla McQueen, "Soundings", Otago University Press [ [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/mcqueen.htm Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library ] ]
* Mike Minehan, "O Jerusalem: James K. Baxter an Intimate Memoir"
* Kendrick Smithyman, posthumous:
** "Last Poems", Auckland: Holloway Press, designed by Tara hir poi a pek fhj nbb a: Auckland University Press

Poets in "Best New Zealand Poems"

Best New Zealand Poems series, an annual online anthology, is started this year with Iain Sharp as the first annual editor. Twenty-five poems by 25 New Zealand poets are selected from the previous year. The first selection is called "Best New Zealand Poetry 2001". Unlike "The Best American Poetry" series, the year named in each edition refers to the year the poems were originally published, not the following year, when the collection is put together and made public. Sharp chose poems published in 2001 from these poets:
*James K. Baxter
*Jenny Bornholdt
*Bernard Brown
*James Brown
*Alan Brunton
*Kate Camp
*Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
*Allen Curnow
*Leigh Davis
*Chloe Gordon
*Bernadette Hall
*Dinah Hawken
*Anna Jackson
*Jan Kemp
*James Naughton
*Gregory O'Brien
*Peter Olds
*Bob Orr
*Vincent O'Sullivan
*Chris Price
*Richard Reeve
*Elizabeth Smither
*Brian Turner
*Ian Wedde
*Nick Williamson

=United Kingdom=

* Ciarán Carson: "The Inferno of Dante Alighieri" (translator), Granta, awarded the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize
* Elaine Feinstein, "Collected Poems and Translations", Carcanet
* James Fenton: "An Introduction to English Poetry" [http://www.jamesfenton.com/books/] Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007]
* Paul Henry, "The Slipped Leash", Seren
* Ted Hughes, "Selected Poems, 1957-1994" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
* Glyn Maxwell, "The Nerve" (Houghton Mifflin); a "New York Times" "notable book of the year" (British poet living in America, poetry editor of "The New Republic" magazine)
* Sean O'Brien:
**"Cousin Coat: Selected Poems 1976-2001" (Picador)
**With John Kinsella and Peter Porter, "Rivers" (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Australia)
* Alice Oswald:
** "Dart", Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-21410-X
** Co-editor, with Peter Oswald and Robert Woof), "Earth Has Not Any Thing to Shew More Fair: A Bicentennial Celebration of Wordsworth's "Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge" Shakespeare's Globe & The Wordsworth Trust, ISBN 1-870787-84-6
* John Heath-Stubbs, "The Return of the Cranes"
* Peter Redgrove, "From the Virgil Caverns"
* R.S. Thomas, "Residues" (posthumous)
* Hugo Williams, "Collected Poems," Faber and Faber

United States

* John Ashbery, "Chinese Whispers"
* Frank Bidart, "Music Like Dirt" (Sarabande Books), the only poetry chapbook ever nominated for a Pulitzer Prize
* Billy Collins, "Nine Horses: Poems" (Random House); a "New York Times" "notable book of the year" (ISBN 0-375-50381-1)
* Robert Creeley edits "The Best American Poetry 2002"
* Alan Dugan, "Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry" (Seven Stories); a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
* Michael S. Harper, "Selected Poems", ARC Publications [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/277 Web page titled "Michael S. Harper"] at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008]
* Paul Hoover, "Winter Mirror", (Flood Editions)
* Kenneth Koch:
**"Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952-1954", New York: KnopfWeb page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3809 "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)"] at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008]
**"A Possible World", New York: Knopf
* Abba Kovner, "Sloan-Kettering: Poems" (Schocken); a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
* Brad Leithauser, "Darlington's Fall: A Novel in Verse" (Knopf); a 5,700-line verse novel in 10-line stanzas, irregularly rhymed; a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
* Glyn Maxwell, "The Nerve" (Houghton Mifflin); a "New York Times" "notable book of the year" ( [British poet living in America, poetry editor of "The New Republic" magazine)
* J.D. McClatchy, "Hazmat: Poems" (Knopf); a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
* Czeslaw Milosz, "New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001" (Ecco/HarperCollins); a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
* Paul Muldoon, "Moy Sand and Gravel", winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Griffin Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the 2002 T. S. Eliot Prize
* Lorine Niedecker, "Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works", edited by Jenny Penberthy (University of California Press), posthumous
* Mary Oliver, "What Do We Know"
* Molly Peacock, "Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems"
* Carl Phillips, "Rock Harbor" [McClatchy, J. D., editor, "The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry", second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003]
* Marie Ponsot, "Springing: New and Selected Poems" (Knopf); a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
* Margaret Reynolds, editor, "The Sappho Companion" (scholarship) Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9780312295103 ISBN-10: 0312295103
* W. G. Sebald, "After Nature" (Random House); a book-length poem; a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
* Aharon Shabtai, "Artzenu" (Hebrew: "Our Land")
* Adam Zagajewski, "Without End: New and Selected Poems" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"

Poets in "The Best American Poetry 2002

Poems from these 75 poets were in "The Best American Poetry 2002", David Lehman, editor; Robert Creeley, guest editor:

*Rae Armantrout
*John Ashbery
*Amiri Baraka
*Charles Bernstein
*Anselm Berrigan
*Frank Bidart
*Jenny Boully
*T. Alan Broughton
*Michael Burkard
*Anne Carson
*Elizabeth Biller Chapman
*Tom Clark
*Peter Cooley
*Clark Coolidge
*Ruth Danon
*Diane di Prima
*Theodore Enslin
*Elaine Equi
*Clayton Eshleman
*Norman Finkelstein
*Jeffrey Franklin
*Benjamin Friedlander
*Gene Frumkin
*Forrest Gander
*Peter Gizzi
*Louise Glück
*Albert Goldbarth
*Donald Hall
*Michael S. Harper
*Everett Hoagland
*Fanny Howe
*Ronald Johnson
*Maxine Kumin
*Bill Kushner
*Joseph Lease
*Timothy Liu
*Mộng-Lan
*Jackson Mac Low
*Nathaniel Mackey
*Steve Malmude
*Sarah Manguso
*Harry Mathews
*Duncan McNaughton
*W. S. Merwin
*Philip Metres
*Jennifer Moxley
*Eileen Myles
*Maggie Nelson
*Charles North
*Alice Notley
*D. Nurkse
*Sharon Olds
*George Oppen
*Jena Osman
*Carl Phillips
*Pam Rehm
*Adrienne Rich
*Corinne Robins
*Elizabeth Robinson
*Ira Sadoff
*Hugh Seidman
*Reginald Shepherd
*Ron Silliman
*Dale Smith
*Gustaf Sobin
*Juliana Spahr
*John Taggart
*Sam Truitt
*Jean Valentine
*Lewis Warsh
*Claire Nicolas White
*Nathan Whiting
*Dara Wier
*Charles Wright
*John Yau

Other

* Chris Wallace-Crabbe, "La Poésie Australienne", Valenciennes: Presses Universitaires, (with Simone Kadi), French translation of the work of this Australian poet
* Wisława Szymborska: "Chwila" ("Moment"), Poland
* Rami Saari, "Kamma, Kamma milxama" ("So Much, So Much War"), Israel [ [http://www.library.osu.edu/sites/users/galron.1/00198.php Page titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon] , 2007]

Awards and honors

Australia

* C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Robert Gray, "Afterimages"
* Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: "After Images" by Robert Gray
* Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Alan Wearne, "The Lovemakers"
* Mary Gilmore Prize: Geraldine McKenzie, "Duty"

=Canada=

* Gerald Lampert Award
* Archibald Lampman Award
* Atlantic Poetry Prize
* The office of Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate is instituted, George Bowering is the first appointee and will serve until 2004
* See 2002 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
* Griffin Poetry Prize: Canada: Christian Bök, "Eunoia"; International, in the English Language: Alice Notley, "Disobedience"
* Pat Lowther Award
* Prix Alain-Grandbois
* Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award

New Zealand

* Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
* Montana New Zealand Book Awards (no poetry category winner this year) First-book award for poetry: Chris Price, "Husk", Auckland University Press

=United Kingdom=

* Cholmondeley Award: Moniza Alvi, David Constantine, Liz Lochhead, Brian Patten
* Eric Gregory Award: Caroline Bird, Christopher James, Jacob Polley, Luke Heeley, Judith Lal, David Leonard Briggs, Eleanor Rees, Kathryn Simmonds
* Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection): Peter Porter, "Max is Missing" (Picador); Best First Collection: Tom French, "Touching the Bones" (The Gallery Press)
* Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Peter Porter
* T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Alice Oswald, "Dart"
* Whitbread Award for poetry (United Kingdom):

United States

* Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Shao Wei for "Pulling a Dragon's Teeth"
* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Grace Schulman
* Arthur Rense Prize for poetry awarded to B.H. Fairchild by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
* Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Timothy Donnelly, “His Long Imprison'd Thought”
* Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, Alice Fulton for "Felt"
* Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Anna George Meek, "Acts of Contortion"
* Frost Medal: Galway Kinnell
* National Book Award for poetry (United States): Ruth Stone, "In the Next Galaxy"
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carl Dennis, "Practical Gods"
* Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: Paul Fussell
* Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Lisel Mueller
* Wallace Stevens Award: Ruth Stone
* William Carlos Williams Award: Li-Young Lee, "Book of My Nights" (American Poets Continuum), Judge: Carolyn Kizer
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Sharon Olds

=Deaths=

*June 14 – June Jordan, American poet, of breast cancer
*June 27 – Alan Brunton (born 1946), New Zealand poet and scriptwriter [Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson]

*July 6 – Kenneth Koch, American poet, of leukemia
*August 25 – Dorothy Hewett (born 1923), Australian poet and playwright
*September 27 – Charles Henri Ford, 89, American novelist, poet, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist
*October 21 – Harbhajan Singh (born 1920), Punjabi poet, critic, cultural commentator, and translator
*December 9 – Stan Rice, American painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice

Notes

* [http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto

ee also

*Poetry
*List of years in poetry
*List of poetry awards