2002 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005

Events

  • March 16 — Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrest and jail poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and dismiss a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem "The Corrupt on Earth" which criticizes the state's Islamic judiciary, accusing some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for their own personal benefit.
  • August 22 — Poet Ron Silliman starts his popular and controversial weblog 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.).[1]
  • September — Amiri Baraka (b. 1934), an African-American poet and political activist from Newark, New Jersey who was appointed the second Poet Laureate of New Jersey, ignites a controversy and accusations of anti-Semitism with a public reading of "Somebody Blew Up America" at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival near Stanhope, New Jersey.[2] Baraka's poem discusses the September 11 attacks in a way that is highly critical of racism in America, includes angry depictions of public figures such as Rudolph Giuliani, Trent Lott, Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Ward Connerly, accuses Israel of involvement in the World Trade Center attacks, and supports the theory that the United States government knew about the attacks in advance. Amid public outrage and pressure from state leaders, Baraka is asked to resign as the Poet Laureate by New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey who had appointed him to the post two months earlier. Baraka refuses[3] and, because there is no legal mechanism provided in the law to remove him as poet laureate, the state legislature and governor abolishes the position to remove him effective 2 July 2003.[4]
  • After Ghazi al-Gosaibi, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Britain, publishes a poem praising a suicide bomber who had killed himself and two Israelis after blowing himself up in a supermarket, the ambassador is recalled home.[5]
  • The office of Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate is instituted (see "Awards and honors" section below).
  • The office of Edinburgh Makar is instituted in Scotland, with Stewart Conn as first incumbent.[6]
  • Bowery Poetry Club, a New York City poetry performance space, is founded by Bob Holman.
  • Fulcrum, An annual of poetry and aesthetics is founded in the United States.
  • Influential Chinese literary magazine Tamen ("They/Them") is revived as a webzine at www.tamen.net.[7]

Works published in English

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Australia

  • Alison Croggon, Attempts at Being, Salt Publishing, ISBN 1-876857-42-0.
  • 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[8]
    • New Collected Poems, Duffy & Snellgrove; Carcanet, 2003[8]

Canada

  • Margaret Avison, Concrete and Wild Carrot
  • Christian Bök, ’Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science ISBN 978-0-8101-1877-5
  • Dionne Brand, thirsty
  • Michael Boughn, Dislocations in Crystal (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-111-3
  • Louis Cabri, The Mood Embosser (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-095-6
  • Margaret Christakos, Excessive Love Prostheses (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-102-1
  • Lise Downe, Disturbances of Progress (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-112-0
  • Rob Fitterman, Metropolis (Book 2) (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-104-5
  • Laura Lush:
    • The First Day of Winter: Poetry, Vancouver: Ronsdale Press
    • Going to the Zoo, Winnipeg: Turnstone Press
  • Don McKay, Vis à Vis: Field Notes on Poetry & Wilderness
  • George McWhirter, The Book of Contradictions
  • Jay Millar, Mycological Studies (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-103-8
  • P. K. Page, Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New, edited and with an introduction by Eric Ormsby, Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill[9]
  • Joe Rosenblatt, Parrot fever. collages by Michel Christensen. Toronto: Exile.[10]
  • Raymond Souster, Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Ottawa: Oberon Press.[11]

India, in English

  • Meena Alexander, Illiterate Heart ( Poetry in English ), Evanston, Illinois: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States[12]
  • Smita Agarwal, Wish-granting Words,(Poetry in English) New Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publisher, 2002. ISBN 81-7530-046-9
  • Sujata Bhatt, A Colour for Solitude ( Poetry in English ), Carcanet Press[13]
  • Keki Daruwalla, The Map-maker ( Poetry in English ), Ravi Dayal[14]
  • Ranjit Hoskote, editor, Reasons for Belonging, Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Viking/Penguin Books India; anthology including work from: Jerry Pinto, Vijay Nambisan, C. P. Surendran, Smita Agarwal, Arundhati Subramaniam, Jeet Thayil, Tabish Khair, Ranjit Hoskote and Rukhmini Bhaya Nair, Vivek Narayanan, Gavin Barrett, Anjum Hasan and H. Masud Taj[15]
  • Sudeep Sen, Monsoon, re-issued in 2005 as Rain ( Poetry in English ); London: Aark Arts, ISBN 1-899179-10-0[16]
  • C. P. Surendran, Canaries on the Moon ( Poetry in English ), Kozhikode: Yeti, Chennai.[17]
  • Mallika Sengupta, Carriers Of Fire, (translated from the original Bengali, Kolkata: Bhashanagar[18]

Ireland

  • Vona Groarke, Flight, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Ireland
  • Justin Quinn:
    • Fuselage Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,
    • Gathered Beneath the Storm: Wallace Stevens, Nature and Community, University College of Dublin Press, 2002 (criticism)

New Zealand

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:

United Kingdom

  • Neil Astley, editor, Staying Alive: real poems for unreal times (anthology)
  • Anthony Burgess, Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems, edited by Kevin Jackson
  • Ciarán Carson: The Inferno of Dante Alighieri (translator), Granta, awarded the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize
  • Carol Ann Duffy, Feminine Gospels Picador[22]
  • Elaine Feinstein, Collected Poems and Translations, Carcanet
  • James Fenton: An Introduction to English Poetry[23]
  • 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

  • Meena Alexander, Illiterate Heart, Evanston, Illinois: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States[12]
  • 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, guest editor, The Best American Poetry 2002
  • Jim Dodge – Rain on the River
  • 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[24]
  • Paul Hoover, Winter Mirror, (Flood Editions)
  • Kenneth Koch:
    • Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952–1954, New York: Knopf[25]
    • A Possible World, New York: Knopf[25]
  • 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"
  • Czesław Miłosz, 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[26]
  • Marie Ponsot, Springing: New and Selected Poems (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
  • Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr, editors, American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language, Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-8195-6546-4, anthology including work by Lucie Brock-Broido, Harryette Mullen, Ann Lauterbach, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Brenda Hillman and Jorie Graham
  • Margaret Reynolds, editor, The Sappho Companion (scholarship) Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-312-29510-3 ISBN 0-312-29510-3
  • 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:

Works published in other languages

China

  • Han Dong:
    • Baba zai tianshang kan wo ("Daddy's Watching Me in Heaven"), Hebei: jiaoyu chubanshe,[7]
    • Jiaocha paodong ("Running Criss-cross"), Dunhuang: wenyi chubanshe[7]
  • He Xiaozhu, 6 ge dongci, huo pingguo ("6 Verbs, or Apples"), Hebei: jiaoyu chubanshe[27]
  • Jimu Langge, Jingqiaoqiao de zuolun ("The silent revolver"), Hebei: jiaoyu chubanshe[28]

French language

Canada, in French

France

India

In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Hindi

  • Gulzar, Raat Pashmine Ki, New Delhi: Rupa& Co.; in both Urdu and Hindi[34]
  • Kunwar Narain, In Dino, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, ISBN 81-267-0594-9[35]
  • Rituraj, Leela Mukharvinda, New Delhi: Medha Books[36]
  • Vinod Kumar Shukla, Atrikt Nahin, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan[37]

Other in India

  • Bharat Majhi, Saralarekha, Bhubaneswar: Paschima; Oriya-language[38]
  • Chandrakanta Murasingh, Ruphaini Buduk Ani Nogo, Agartala: Tripura Publisher: Agartala; Kokborok-language[39]
  • Gulzar, Raat Pashmine Ki, New Delhi: Rupa& Co.; in both Urdu and Hindi[34]
  • Joy Goswami, Horiner Jonyo Ekok, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, ISBN 81-7756-240-1; Bengali-language[40]
  • K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam-language:
    • Bharateeya Kavitayile Pratirodha Paramparyam, ("The Tradition of Dissent of Indian Poetry"); scholarship[41]
    • Vikku, ("Stammer")[42]
  • K. Siva Reddy; Telugu-language:
    • Antarjanam, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle[43]
    • Vrittalekhini, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle[43]
  • Kutti Revathi, Mulaigal ("Breasts"). Chennai: Thamizhini; Tamil-language[44]
  • Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih; Kahsi-language:
    • Ka Samoi jong ka Lyer ("The Season of the Wind"), Shillong: Author[45]
    • Ki Mawsiang ka Sohra ("The Ancient Rocks of Cherra"), Shillong: Author[45]
    • Ki Jingkynmaw (Remembrances), Shillong: S. R. Lanong[45]
  • Nirendranath Chakravarti, Dekha Hobey, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language[46]
  • Yash Sharma, Bedi Pattan Sanjh Mallah, publisher: Vaasu Prakashan, Jammu; Dogri-language[47]

Poland

Other languages

Awards and honors

Australia

Canada

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

United States

Other

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ In his blog entry for Saturday, November 04, 2006 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)".
  2. ↑ Pearce, Jeremy (2003-02-09). "When poetry seems to matter". The New York Times.
  3. ↑ Purdy, Matthew (2002-09-28). "New Jersey Laureate Refuses to Resign Over Poem". The New York Times.
  4. ↑ New Jersey State Legislature. "An Act concerning the State poet laureate and repealing P.L.1999, c.228." from Laws of the State of New Jersey (P.L.2003, c.123). Approved 2 July 2003. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  5. ↑ "Ghazi al-Gosaibi, Saudi diplomat, poet, dead at 70", August 16, 2010, Agence France Press, retrieved August 20, 2010
  6. ↑ "Edinburgh's Makars". Edinburgh, UNESCO City of Literature. City of Literature Trust. 2006. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
  7. 1 2 3 Simon Patten, "Han Dong", article, Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2009
  8. 1 2 Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
  9. ↑ Web page titled "Canadian Poets / P.K. Page, Published Works", at the University of Toronto Library website, retrieved January 3, 2009
  10. ↑ "Joe Rosenblatt: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011.
  11. ↑ "Notes on Life and Works Archived August 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
  12. 1 2 Web page titled "Meena Alexander" Archived September 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine., Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
  13. ↑ Web page titled "Sujata Bhatt" Archived 2005-02-24 at the Wayback Machine., Sawnet website, retrieved July 27, 2010
  14. ↑ Web page titled "Keki Daruwalla" Archived January 31, 2010, at the Wayback Machine., Poetry International website, retrieved July 12, 2010
  15. ↑ Nayar, Rana, "Enigma of 'Elphinstonian' arrival!", book review, March 24, 2004, The Tribune of Chandigarh, India, retrieved July 11, 2010
  16. ↑ Web page titled "Sudeep Sen" Archived March 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine., Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010
  17. ↑ Web page titled "C. P. Surendran", Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
  18. ↑ Web page title "Mallika Sengupta", at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
  19. ↑ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article
  20. 1 2 Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75–76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
  21. ↑ Cilla McQueen – NZ Literature File – LEARN – The University Of Auckland Library Archived March 6, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
  22. ↑ O’Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page, titled "Carol Ann Duffy" at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. Archived 2009-05-08.
  23. ↑ Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
  24. ↑ Web page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008
  25. 1 2 Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925–2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008
  26. ↑ McClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003
  27. ↑ Daton, D., "He Xiaozhu", article at the Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
  28. ↑ Dayton, D., "Jimu Langge", article at the Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
  29. ↑ Web page titled "Denise Desautels" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine. at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
  30. ↑ Web page titled "Madeleine Gagnon" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine. at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
  31. ↑ Web page titled "Pierre Nepveu" Archived November 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
  32. ↑ Web page titled "Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine. at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
  33. ↑ Web page titled "Jean Royer" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine. at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
  34. 1 2 Web page titled "Gulzar" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 10, 2010
  35. ↑ Web page titled "Kunwar Narain" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
  36. ↑ Web page titled "Rituraj" Archived April 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
  37. ↑ Web page titled "Vinod Kumar Shukla" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved August 3, 2010
  38. ↑ Web page titled "Bharat Majhi" Archived September 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010
  39. ↑ Web page titled "Chandrakant Shah" at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010
  40. ↑ Web page title "Joy Goswami" Archived September 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine., at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010
  41. ↑ Resume for K. Satchidanandan titled "K. Satchidanandan/Bio data: Highlights" at the National Translation Mission website, retrieved July 11, 2010
  42. ↑ Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan" Archived July 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine., Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
  43. 1 2 Web page titled "K. Siva Reddy" Archived September 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010
  44. ↑ Web page titled "Kutti Revathi" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
  45. 1 2 3 Web page titled "Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
  46. ↑ Web page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti" Archived February 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine., at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
  47. ↑ Web page titled "Yash Sharma" at the Poetry International website, retrieved August 3, 2010
  48. ↑ Web pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (in English and Polish), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010
  49. ↑ Web pages titled "Miłosz Czesław" (both English version Archived 2011-09-16 at the Wayback Machine. [for translated titles] and Polish version Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine. [for diacritical marks]), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010
  50. ↑ Web pages titled "Tadeusz Rozewicz" (in English Archived 2012-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. and Polish Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine.), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved February 28, 2010
  51. ↑ Web page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek" Archived 2011-09-16 at the Wayback Machine., at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
  52. ↑ Web page titled "Übersicht erschienener Jahrbücher" at Fischerverlage website, retrieved February 21, 2010
  53. ↑ Web page titled "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
  54. ↑ Page titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon Archived January 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine., 2007
  55. ↑ https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/poets/virginia.html Virginia Law and Library of Congress List of Poets Laureate of Virginia
  • "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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