Events
- March 5: a car bomb was exploded on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. This locale is the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, a winding street filled with bookstores and outdoor book stalls. Named after the famed 10th century classical Arab poet, Al-Mutanabbi, it was an established street for bookselling for hundreds of years and the heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community. On March 8, to remember the tragic event, Baghdad poets presented readings on the remains of the street. [1] This was followed by various poetry readings around the United States commemorating the bombing of the historic center of the literary and intellectual community of Baghdad, many of the readings took place in the final weeks of August 2007. [2]
- April 17: Nikki Giovanni, a professor of English at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the U.S. state of Virginia, both spoke and recited poetry at the campus convocation commemorating the Virginia Tech massacre of the day before. Giovanni taught the Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho in a poetry class. She had previously approached the department chair to have Cho taken out of her class.[3] "We are the Hokies! We will prevail! We will prevail! We are Virginia Tech!" Giovanni said, bringing the audience to its feet and into a spontaneous cheer. Giovanni closed the ceremony with a chant poem, intoning, "We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on. We are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech... We do not understand this tragedy... No one deserves a tragedy."[3]
- August 9: Bangladeshi poet Taslima Nasreen was attacked at a book signing in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh by a crowd of protesters who shouted for her death.[4] The attackers consisted of lawmakers and members of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party who objected to her writings on religion and oppression of women. After the attack, India criminally charged Nasreen with "hurting Muslim feelings", punishable by up to three years in jail.[5]
- The New Yorker magazine announced that longtime poetry editor Alice Quinn was leaving and, as of November, Paul Muldoon, an Irish native and U.S. citizen, would be taking over what The Chronicle of Higher Education called "one of the most powerful positions in American poetry".[6]
- The Eagles set "An Old-Fashioned Song", a poem by John Hollander, to music (four-part harmony with guitar chords, but mostly singing it a cappella), named it "No More Walks in the Wood" after its first line. They released it on the album, "Long Road Out of Eden". The band added no words to the 21-line poem, and there are no choruses.[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:
Australian anthologies
- Peter Rose, editor, Best of Australian Poetry (Black Inc) ISBN-13 9781863954174
Poets in Best Australian Poetry 2007
The Best Australian Poetry 2007 (ISBN 9780702236075), by series editors Bronwyn Lea and Martin Duwell; with 2007 guest editor John Tranter (University of Queensland Press), published work by these 40 poets:
Poets in Best New Zealand Poems
These poets wrote the 25 poems selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2006, published this year:
- Simon Armitage, translator, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation, Faber and Faber
- W. H. Auden, Collected Poems, edited by Edward Mendelson (Modern Library) (Anglo-American poet), posthumous
- Dale Craske Remedy The Remedy With New Improved Remedy, Faber
- Ian Duhig, The Speed of Dark (Picador), on the short list for the T.S. Eliot Prize
- Alan Gillis, Hawks and Doves (Gallery), on the short list for the T.S. Eliot Prize
- Sophie Hannah, Pessimism for Beginners (Carcanet), on the short list for the T.S. Eliot Prize
- Seamus Heaney: Something to Write Home About, Nicholson and Bass
- Paul Henry, Ingrid’s Husband, Seren
- Mimi Khalvati, The Meanest Flower (Carcanet), on the short list for the T.S. Eliot Prize
- Nick Laird, On Purpose (Faber & Faber)
- Frances Leviston, Public Dream (Picador), on the short list for the T.S. Eliot Prize
- Sarah Maguire, The Pomegranates of Kandahar (Chatto), on the short list for the T.S. Eliot Prize
- Edwin Morgan, A Book of Lives (Carcanet), on the short list for the T.S. Eliot Prize
- Daljit Nagra, Look We Have Coming to Dover!, Faber and Faber
- Sean O'Brien, The Drowned Book, Picador, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize
- Fiona Sampson, Common Prayer (Carcanet), on the short list for the T.S. Eliot Prize
- Matthew Sweeney, Black Moon (Jonathan Cape), on the short list for the T.S. Eliot Prize
- Rae Armantrout, Next Life (Wesleyan University Press), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year", 92 pages, ISBN 0-8195-6820-1
- John Ash, The Parthian Stations (Carcanet), ISBN 1857548728
- John Ashbery:
- A Worldly Country: New Poems Ecco/HarperCollins, ISBN 100061173835 ISBN 139780061173837
- Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems, Ecco/HarperCollins, ISBN 100061367176 ISBN 139780061367175
- W. H. Auden, Collected Poems, edited by Edward Mendelson (Modern Library) (Anglo-American poet), posthumous
- Mary Jo Bang, Elegy, Graywolf, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
- Roger Bonair-Agard, Tarnish and Masquerade (Cypher Books, Rattapallax Press)
- Laynie Browne, Daily Sonnets, Counterpath Press
- Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned, edited by John Martin, Ecco/HarperCollins
- Kelly Cherry, Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press), ISBN 978-0807132630
- Henri Cole, Blackbird and Wolf (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Jim Daniels, Now Showing (Ahadada Books)
- Edward Dorn:
- Mark Doty, Dog Years (HarperCollins)
- Michael Dumanis, My Soviet Union, (University of Massachusetts Press, Juniper Prize for Poetry)
- Amy England, Victory and Her Opposites, Tupelo Press
- Aaron Fagan, Garage (Salt Publishing)
- Jessica Fisher, Frail-Craft, foreword by Louise Glück (Yale UP)
- Graham Foust, Necessary Stranger, Flood Editions
- Nikki Giovanni, Acolytes: Poems, William Morrow
- Albert Goldbarth, The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems 1972–2007, Graywolf
- Noah Eli Gordon, Novel Pictorial Noise, HarperCollins
- Mildred White Greear, Moving Gone Dancing (Fall Line Arts Press), ISBN 978-0-9799379-0-3
- Linda Gregerson, Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin)
- Paul Guest, Notes For My Body Double, University of Nebraska
- Forrest Hamer, Rift (Four Way Books)
- Matthea Harvey, Modern Life, Graywolf, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
- Robert Hass, Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005 (Ecco/Harper-Collins), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
- Christian Hawkey, Citizen Of, Wave Books
- Brian Henry, The Stripping Point, Counterpath Press
- Zbigniew Herbert, The Collected Poems: 1956-1998 (Ecco), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
- Bob Hicok, This Clumsy Living, Pittsburgh University Press
- Anselm Hollo, Guests of Space, Coffee House
- Fanny Howe, The Lyrics, Graywolf Press
- Susan Howe, Souls of the Labadie Tract (New Directions)
- Eugen Jebeleanu, Secret Weapon: The Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu, translated from Romanian by Matthew Zapruder, (Coffee House)
- James Browning Kepple, Kim Göransson, Couplet (pretend genius [press])
- Henia Karmel and Ilona Karmel, A Wall of Two: Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Kraków to Buchenwald and Beyond, adapted by Fanny Howe, University of California Press
- Yusef Komunyakaa and Chad Gracia, Gilgamesh: A Verse Play, Wesleyan University Press
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- James Longenbach, Draft of a Letter (Spring)
- Martial, Martial: The World of the Epigram, translated by William Fitzgerald, University of Chicago Press
- Michael Meyerhofer Leaving Iowa (Briery Creek Press)
- William Michaelian:
- Jennifer Moxley The Line (The Post-Apollo Press)
- Ann E. Mullaney, translator, Teofilo Folengo (1491-1544), Baldo, Volume 1, Books I-XII, translated from a blend of Latin and various Italian dialects (Harvard University Press), posthumous
- Laura Mullen, Murmur, Futurepoem Books
- Kate Northrup, Things Are Disappearing Here: Poems Braziller/Persea
- Alice Notley In the Pines (Penguin Books)
- Michael O'Brien, Sleeping and Waking, Flood, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
- George Oppen, Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers (edited by Stephen Cope), University of California Press, 2007 (publication was 2007, but not available until 2008)
- Terry Philips, Oulipoems (Ahadada Books)
- Carl Phillips, Quiver of Arrows: Selected poems (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
- Tom Pickard, The Ballad of Jamie Allan, Flood, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
- Robert Pinsky, Gulf Music (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), ISBN-10: 0374167494 ISBN-13: 978-0374167493
- J. E. Pitts The Weather of Dreams (David Robert Books)
- Meghan O'Rourke, Halflife (Norton)
- Bin Ramke, Tendril, Omnidawn
- Donald Revell, A Thief of Strings, Alice James Books
- Adrienne Rich, Poetry and Commitment (Norton)
- Martha Ronk, Vertigo, Coffee House Press
- J. Allyn Rosser, Foiled Again, (Fall) Ivan R. Dee
- Jerome Rothenberg, China Notes & The Treasures of DunHuang (Ahadada Books)
- Tadeusz Rozewicz, New Poems, Archipelago, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
- Leslie Scalapino, Day Ocean State of Stars' Night: Poems & Writings 1989 & 1999-2006 (Green Integer)
- W. G. Sebald, Unrecounted, New Directions
- David Shapiro, New and Selected Poems, 1965-2006 (Overlook Press)
- Ron Silliman, The Age of Huts (complete) (UC Press)
- Cathy Song, Cloud Moving Hands, University of Pittsburgh Press
- Rod Smith, Deed (Iowa UP)
- Cole Swensen, The Glass Age, Alice James Books
- Tony Tost, Complex Sleep (Iowa UP)
- David Trinidad, The Late Show: Poems Turtle Point
- Derek Walcott, Selected Poems, edited by Edward Baugh (Faber), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
- G. C. Waldrep, Disclamor, BOA Editions
- Philip Whalen, The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen, Wesleyan University Press
- John Wieners, A Book of Prophecies (Bootstrap Press
- C. D. Wright, One Big Self: An Investigation, a book-length poem, Copper Canyon
- C. Dale Young, The Second Person (Four Way Books)
- Kevin Young, For the Confederate Dead, (Knopf)
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Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- Edward Dorn, Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes (University of Michigan Press)
- Robert Faggen, editor, The Notebooks of Robert Frost, Harvard University Press
- Sam Hamill, Avocations: On Poets and Poetry, Red Hen
- James Longenbach, The Art of the Poetic Line, Graywolf Press, ISBN-10: 1555974953 ISBN-13: 978-1555974954
- Janet Malcolm, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, about Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas (Yale University Press), biography
- Karen Marguerite Moloney, Seamus Heaney and the Emblems of Hope, ISBN 978-0-8262-1744-8
- A. David Moody, Ezra Pound: Poet I: The Young Genius 1885-1920
- Mark Scroggins, The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky
Anthologies in the United States
- Allison Hedge Coke, editor - To Topos/Oregon State University Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry
- Julia Kasdorf and Michael Tyrell, editors, Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn, anthology (New York University)
- David Lehman, general editor, Heather McHugh, 2007 editor, The Best American Poetry 2007 Scribner ISBN 0743299736
- Kei Miller, New Caribbean Poetry, including poems by Christian Campbell, Loretta Collins, Delores Gauntlett, Shara McCallum, Marilene Phipps, Jennifer Rahim, Tanya Shirley, and Ian Strachan; Carcanet
- Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell, editors, American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics, featuring the work of 13 poets: Joshua Clover, Stacy Doris, Peter Gizzi, Kenneth Goldsmith, Myung Mi Kim, Mark Levine, Tracie Morris, Mark Nowak, D.A. Powell, Juliana Spahr, Karen Volkman, Susan Wheeler, and Kevin Young; accompanied by an audio CD of readings from each poet; Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 9780819567284
- Daniel Tobin, editor, The Book of Irish American Poetry: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present, University of Notre Dame Press
- Natasha Trethewey, editor, Jeb Livingood, series editor, Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers (Samovar Press)
These poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2007, with David Lehman, general editor, and Heather McHugh, guest editor (who selected the poetry) (Scribner ISBN 0743299736):
Other in English
Works published in other languages
Awards and honors
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Deaths
- February 14 – Emmett Williams, 81, American poet, known for among other reasons, his collaborations with Daniel Spoerri and Claus Bremer in the Darmstadt circle of concrete poetry, dynamic theater, etc., from 1957 to 1959. [11]
- March 19:
- March 20 – Rita Joe, 75, Canadian Mi'kmaq poet, of Parkinson's disease.[14]
- May 25 – Len Roberts, 60, American poet, professor [15]
- May 30 – William M. Meredith, 88, American, poet, professor [16]
- May 31 – Sarah Hannah, 40, American poet, professor [17]
- June 7:; Michael Hamburger, 83, German poet, translator [18]
- June 20 – Nazik al-Malaika, 85, Iraqi poet [19]
- June 21 – Mary Ellen Solt, 86, American poet, critic [20]
- June 25 – Rahim al-Maliki, 39, Iraqi poet [21]
- June 27 – Dragutin Tadijanovic, 102, Croatian poet [22]
- July 1 – Mong Tuyet, 93, Vietnamese poet [23]
- July 2:
- July 7 – Dmitri Prigov, 66, Russian poet, artist, [26]
- July 18 – Sekou Sundiata, 58, American poet, performance artist, [27]
- July 31 – Margaret Avison, 89, Canadian poet [28]
- August 15:
- August 22 – Grace Paley, 84, American poet, short story writer, activist [31]
- September 12 – Bill Griffiths, 59, British poet, widely published in the United States
- October 21 – R. B. Kitaj, 74, American-born artist, a friend of poets, via his portraits of poets Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson & others [32]
- November 17? – Landis Everson, 81, American poet, had a loose affiliation with the Berkeley Renaissance via his association with Jack Spicer's circle of poets. Everson's work was "rediscovered" only a few years before his death.
- November 17:
- December 30 – Rosemary C. Wilkinson, American poet, Honorary President of the World Academy of Arts and Culture (WAAC).
Notes
- ^ Iraq's Cultural Curators Defy Sectarian Unrest
- ^ ::Arc Poetry::Portage link::Mutanabbi Street Memorial Reading::
- ^ a b Police: Cho taken to mental health center in 2005
- ^ Taslima Nasreen, Poet, Attacked in India: Men Attack Her; Other Men Try to Sheild (sic) Her
- ^ CBC.ca Arts - India to charge writer Nasreen with 'hurting Muslim feelings'
- ^ [1]Howard, Jennifer, "New Gatekeeper of Poetry at 'The New Yorker' Will Be Princeton Professor" item on the "News blog" of The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 21, 2007, accessed October 6, 2007
- ^ Boynton, Cynthia Wolfe, "Venerable Poet's Words To a Pop Music Beat", article, The New York Times, Connecticut and the Region section, February 10, 2008, p 6
- ^ "Publications" Web page at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article
- ^ CHARLES SIMIC RECEIVES THE WALLACE STEVENS AWARD Press release from Academy of American Poets (August 2, 2007)
- ^ UBUWEB Historical: Emmett Williams, USA | 1925-2007
- ^ Shimon Tzabar, 81, dies in London - Haaretz - Israel News
- ^ Robert Dickson n'est plus
- ^ globeandmail.com: Arts
- ^ [2]
- ^ Pulitzer Prize-winning Connecticut poet dies - Boston.com
- ^ Sarah Hannah, 40; teacher, poet known for incisiveness, fervence - The Boston Globe
- ^ "Remembering Poet and Translator Michael Hamburger - Forward.com"
- ^ [3]
- ^ San Jose Mercury News - Mary Ellen Solt, 86, poet
- ^ Blast Kills Iraqi Peace Poet
- ^ Javno - Croatia
- ^ VietNamNet - Talented female poet dies
- ^ Poet Philip Booth dies at 81
- ^ [4]
- ^ [5]
- ^ [6]
- ^ CBC.ca Arts - Canadian poet Margaret Avison dies at 89
- ^ Top N.Y. Poet Kills Self
- ^ Veteran poet Khalid Alig passes away -DAWN - Top Stories; August 16, 2007
- ^ Acclaimed Writer Grace Paley Dies at 84 - washingtonpost.com
- ^ "He was a friend of poets..." from poet Pierre Joris's weblog
See also
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