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2003 in poetry

2003 in poetry

Overview of the events of 2003 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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Events

Dana Gioia
  • January 29 – Poet Dana Gioia, who had retired early from his career as a corporate executive at General Foods to write full-time, becomes chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States government's arts agency.
  • February 12 – After First Lady Laura Bush invites a number of poets to the White House for this date, one of them, Sam Hamill, starts organizing a protest in which poets would bring anti-war poems. The conference is postponed, but Hamill organizes a "Poets Against the War" Web site with contributions from others. More than 5,000 poems are contributed, including work by John Balaban, Gregory Orr, Rita Dove, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Marilyn Nelson, Jay Parini, Jamaica Kincaid, Grace Paley and U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Also on the Web site, W. S. Merwin contributes the statement: "To arrange a war in order to be re-elected outdoes even the means employed in the last presidential election. Mr. Bush and his plans are a greater danger to the United States than Saddam Hussein." The new group, "Poets Against the War", organizes poetry readings for February 12 across the country, demonstrating the strong links between many established poets and left-wing pacifism.[1]
  • July 2 – In the aftermath of public controversy ignited by state poet laureate Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) reading his incendiary and anti-Semitic poem "Somebody Blew Up America" about the September 11th Attacks, and Baraka's subsequent refusals to resign from the position, New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey signs legislation abolishing the post of Poet Laureate of New Jersey.[2][3]
  • Early November – Carl Rakosi celebrates his 100th birthday with friends at the San Francisco Public Library.
  • The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry is opened at Queens University, Belfast, this year. It houses the Heaney Media Archive, a unique record of Heaney's entire oeuvre, as well as a full catalogue of his radio and television presentations.[4] This same year Heaney decides to lodge a substantial portion of his literary archive at Emory University.[5]
  • Call: Review, an American little magazine, is founded by poet John Most.

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

See also: 2003 in Australian literature
  • Judith Beveridge, Wolf Notes, winner of the 2004 Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award
  • Pam Brown, Dear Deliria (New & Selected Poems), winner of the 2004 NSW Premier's Award for Poetry.[6]
  • Laurie Duggan, Mangroves
  • John Kinsella, Peripheral Light
  • Alison Croggon, The Common Flesh: Poems 1980–2002, Arc, ISBN 1-900072-72-6
  • Geoff Page, editor The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets, Indigo (anthology)
  • Chris Wallace-Crabbe, A Representative Human, Brunswick: Gungurru Press

Canada

India, in English

Ireland

New Zealand

Poets in Best New Zealand Poems

Poems from these 25 poet s were selected by Elizabeth Smither for Best New Zealand Poems 2002, published online this year:

United Kingdom

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

United States

  • Dick Allen, The Day Before: New Poems (Sarabande Books)
  • Mark Bibbins, Sky Lounge (Graywolf Press)
  • Charles Bukowski, sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way (Ecco)
  • Henri Cole, Middle Earth (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
  • Cid Corman, Now/Now
  • Annie Finch, Calendars
  • Richard Greenfield, A Carnage in the Lovetress (University of California Press)
  • John Hollander, Picture Window
  • William Logan, Macbeth in Venice
  • Howard Nemerov, The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov, edited by Daniel Anderson (Swallow/Ohio University) published posthumously); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
  • Mary Oliver, Owls and Other Fantasies: poems and essays
  • Willie Perdomo, Smoking Lovely
  • James Reiss, Riff on Six: New and Selected Poems
  • Kenneth Rexroth, Complete Poems (posthumous)
  • Margaret Reynolds, The Sappho History (scholarship), Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-333-97170-3 ISBN 0-333-97170-1
  • C. J. Sage, editor, And We The Creatures: Fifty-one Contemporary American Poets on Animal Rights and Appreciation (Dream Horse Press)
  • Charles Simic, The Voice at 3:00 a.m.: Selected Late & New Poems (Harvest Books)(Harcourt); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
  • Tracy K. Smith, The Body's Question won the 2002 Cave Canem Prize for best first book by an African American poet (Graywolf Press)
  • Rosmarie Waldrop, Love, Like Pronouns (Omnidawn Publishing)
  • William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky, The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams & Louis Zukofsky, edited by Barry Ahearn (Wesleyan University Press)
  • Kirby Wright, Before the City (Lemon Shark Press); winner of the San Diego Book Award for Poetry

Poets included in The Best American Poetry 2003

The 75 poets included in The Best American Poetry 2003, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by Yusef Komunyakaa:

Works published in other languages

French language

France

  • Seyhmus Dagtekin, Couleurs démêlées du ciel, publisher: L'Harmattan; Kurdish Turkish poet writing in French
  • Abdellatif Laabi, Moroccan author writing in French:
    • L'automne promet, La Différence, coll. Clepsydre, Paris
    • Les Fruits du corps, La Différence, coll. Clepsydre, Paris
    • Œuvre poétique, La Différence, coll. Œuvre complète, Paris

Canada, in French

  • Denise Desautels, La marathonienne, avec estampes de Maria Cronopoulos, Montréal: Éditions de la courte échelle[19]
  • 2003 * Jean Royer, Demeures du silence, Trois-Rivières: Écrits des Forges / Esch-sur-Alzette: Éditions Phi[20]

Germany

  • Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Michael Krueger, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2004 ("Poetry Yearbook 2004"), publisher: Beck; anthology[21]
  • Daniel Falb, Daniela Seel, and Andrew Potterof, die räumung dieser parks ("the clearance of these parks"), Kookbooks
  • Bjoern Kuligk and Jan Wagner, editors, Lyrik von Jetzt ("Poetry of Now"), publisher: Dumont Verlag, featuring poetry by 74 authors born since 1965 (Lyrik von Jetzt 2) followed in 2008

Nepal

Bengali language

Bangladesh

  • Chandan Chowdhury, Jabe he majhi, diksonnopur, Balaka prakash, Chittagong, Bangladesh

India

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

Bengali

  • Debarati Mitra, Khonpa Bhare Achhe Tarar Dhuloy, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; India, Bengali-language[22]
  • Mallika Sengupta:
    • Purushke Lekha Chithi, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers[23]
    • Editor, Dui Banglar Meyeder Shreshtha kabita, Kolkata: Upasana[23]
  • Nirendranath Chakravarti, Bhalobasha Mondobasha, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language[24]
  • Udaya Narayana Singh, Kham-kheyali, Kolkata: Ebang Mushayera[25]

Other in India

Indian poet Keshav Malik, also a writer and arts curator, in a photograph taken this year
  • Gagan Gill, Thapak Thapak Dil Thapak Thapa, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan; Punjabi-language[26]
  • Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from the Northeast, North-Eastern Hill University; Kahsi-language[27]
  • Kanaka Ha Ma, translator, Battalike, a translation of Javed Akhtar's Tarkash from the original Urdu into Kannada; Puttur, Karnataka: Karnataka Sangha[28]
  • Kutti Revathi, Thanimaiyin Aayiram Irakkaigal ("One Thousand Wings of Solitude"), Chennai: Panikkudam Pathippagam; Tamil-language[29]
  • Malathi Maithri, Neerindri Amaiyaathu Ulagu, ("There Can Be No Earth Without Water"), Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathippagam; Tamil-language[30]
  • Nilmani Phookan, Alop Agota Ami Ki Kotha Pati Ashilo, Guwahati, Assam: Students’ Store, Assamese-language[31]
  • Rajendra Kishore Panda; Oraya-language:
    • Collected Poems – Sada Prusthha, Bhubaneswar: Metanym, Oraya-language[32]
    • Drohavakya, Bhubaneswar: Metanym,[32]
    • Dujanari, Bhubaneswar: Metanym,[32]
    • Vairagi Bhramar, Bhubaneswar: Metanym,[32]
    • Satyottara, Bhubaneswar: Metanym,[32]
    • Bahwarambhe, Bhubaneswar: Metanym,[32]
  • S. Joseph, Meenkaran, Kottayam: DC Books, ISBN 81-264-0616-X; Malayalam-language[33]
  • Salma, Pachchai Devathai, Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathippagam; Tamil-language[34]
  • Saroop Dhruv, Gujarati-language:
    • Hastkshep, Ahmedabad: Samvedan Sanskritic Manch, Ahmedabad[35]
    • Sahiyara Suraj Ni Khoj Ma, Ahmedabad: Samvedan Sanskritic Manch[35]
  • Thangjam Ibopishak Singh, Manam ("The Human Scent"), Imphal: Writer's Forum; Meitei language poet and academic[36]
  • Rustam (Rustam Singh), Rustam ki Kavitaen, a collection of poetry in Hindi, (ISBN 81-8143-046-8), Vani Prakashan, New Delhi.

Poland

Other languages

Awards and honors

José Emilio Pacheco at the Octavio Paz award this year

Australia

Canada

New Zealand

United Kingdom

United States

Deaths

English poet Kathleen Jessie Raine

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

See also

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