January 19 – For the first time since 1949, an anonymous black-clad man, known as the Poe Toaster, failed to show up at the tomb of Edgar Allan Poe at the Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, early on the morning of Poe's birthday. The absence of the man, who would toast Poe with Cognac and leave three red roses at the grave (along with the rest of the Cognac), disappointed more than 30 people who stayed up all night to be present at the appearance.March 27 – The Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline Project, designed to become the largest database of women poets in the world, was launched in Washington, D.C. at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The database will feature biographical information about female poets, as well as photos of them and, when possible, reprints of their work.April 12 – Rae Armantrout wins the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection Versed. "Having also won the National Book Critics Circle Award, after being named a finalist for the National Book Award, Armantrout is only the third poet to win two out of the three awards in one year."May 1 – David Biespiel, writing in Poetry, suggests (in an essay titled "This Land Is Our Land") that the insularity of America's poets has left them with a minimal presence in American civic discourse and a minuscule public role in the life of American democracy.November 26 – Japanese government honors Canadian poet Joy Kogawa with the Order of the Rising Sun "for her contribution to the understanding and preservation of Japanese Canadian history."Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Adam Robertson, editor, Best Australian Poems 2010, Black Inc., anthology with works byGrant Caldwell, glass clouds, Five Islands PressLes Murray, Taller When Prone, Black Inc., ISBN 978-1-86395-470-9Dorothy Porter, Love Poems, Black Inc., ISBN 978-1-86395-492-1Ron Pretty, Postcards From the CentreThomas Shapcott, Parts of Us, University of Queensland PressJohn Tranter, Starlight: 150 Poems, University of Queensland PressShane Book, Ceiling of SticksAnne Carson, Nox, New Directions, described by one reviewer as "not really a 'book' at all, but rather a box of material connected accordion-style (in one folded, ribbon-like page many yards long) about the death of her deeply troubled older brother Michael" and including a translation of Catullus 101; Canadian published in the United StatesJen Currin, The Inquisition Yours, Toronto: Coach House Press, ISBN 978-1-55245-230-1Joe Denham, WindstormKevin McPherson Eckhoff, Rhapsodomancy, Toronto: Coach House Press, ISBN 978-1-55245-231-8Kenneth Leslie, The Essential Kenneth Leslie. [Ed. Zachariah Wells] Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2010. ISBN 0-88984-328-7, ISBN 978-0-88984-328-8A. F. Moritz, editor, The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2010, work by the winners of the Griffin Poetry Prize, House of Anansi Press, 112 pages, ISBN 978-0-88784-955-8Garry Thomas Morse, After JackJames Reaney, A Suit of Nettles. Porcupine's Quill.Lisa Robertson, R's Boat, 96 pages, "New California Poetry" series of the University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-26240-9, written by a Canadian poet living in and published in the United StatesPriscila Uppal, Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998–2010, Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 192 pages, ISBN 978-1-85224-860-4, Canadian author published in the United KingdomArun Kamal, Naye Ilake Mein, translated from the original Hindi into English by Giriraj Kiradoo, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, India 2010.J. T. Jayasingh, editor, New Voices, anthology; Thiruvananthapuram: Roots and WingsTabish Khair, Man of Glass ( Poetry in English )., New Delhi: Harper Collins, India 2010. ISBN 81-7223-979-3Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih and Robin Ngangom, editors, Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East IndiaSrinivas Sistla, Amuktamalyada, translated from the original Telugu of Krishna Deva Raya's classic epic; Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh: Drusya Kala DeepikaSharanya Haridas, "The Tramp Speaks" ( Poetry in English )., Cochin: DC Books, India 2010.Meena Kandasamy, "Ms. Militancy", Chennai: Navayana, India 2010Anindita Sengupta, "City of Water" ( Poetry in English )., Bangalore: Sahitya Akademi, India 2010.Ireland
Anthony Cronin, The Fall, 120 pages, New Island Press, ISBN 978-1-84840-068-9Theo Dorgan, Greek, Dedalus Press, ISBN 978-1-906614-17-1Seamus Heaney, Human Chain, 85 pages, Faber & FaberThomas Kilroy, Christ, Deliver Us, Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery PressAlan Moore How Now! Anvil Press Poetry, ISBN 978-0-85646-432-4Paul Muldoon, MaggotMicheal O'Siadhail, Tongue, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, Bloodaxe BooksFleur Adcock, Dragon Talk, Bloodaxe BooksJill Bialosky, The Skiers: Selected Poems, 144 pages, ISBN 978-1-904614-93-7Matthew Caley, Apparently, Bloodaxe BooksStewart Conn, The Breakfast Room, Bloodaxe BooksRazmik Davoyan, Whispers and Breath of the Meadows, translated from the original Armenian by Armine Tamrazian, introduction by W. N. Herbert, 172 pages, ISBN 9781904614470Katie Donovan, Rootling, Bloodaxe BooksCarol Ann Duffy, Love Poems, a selection, 84 pages, Picador, ISBN 978-0-330-51271-8Bernardine Evaristo & Daljit Nagra. editors, Ten: New poets from Spread the Word, an anthology, with work by Mir Mahfuz Ali, Rowyda Amin, Malika Booker, Roger Robinson, Karen McCarthy, Nick Makoha, Denise Saul, Seni Seniviratne, Shazea Quraishi and Janet Kofi Tsekpo; Bloodaxe BooksRuth Fainlight, New & Collected Poems, Bloodaxe BooksSylva Fischerová, The Swing in the Middle of Chaos, translated by Stuart Friebert and Sylva Fischerova from the original Czech; Bloodaxe BooksRoy Fisher, Standard Midland, Bloodaxe BooksCheryl Follon, Dirty Looks, Bloodaxe BooksMiriam Gamble, The Squirrels Are Dead, Bloodaxe BooksBill Griffiths, Collected Earlier Poems (1966–80), Reality Street, SussexSeamus Heaney, Human Chain, Faber and FaberTony Hoagland, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, Bloodaxe BooksHelen Ivory, The Breakfast Machine, Bloodaxe BooksArun Kolatkar, Collected Poems in English, edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Marathi- and English-language poet of India, published in the United Kingdom, Bloodaxe Books; posthumous (died 2004)Gwyneth Lewis, A Hospital Odyssey, Bloodaxe BooksKona Macphee, Perfect Blue, Bloodaxe BooksHarry Martinson, Chickweed Wintergreen,translated from the original Swedish by Robin Fulton, Bloodaxe BooksGrace Nichols, I Have Crossed an Ocean, Bloodaxe BooksMicheal O'Siadhail, Tongue, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, Bloodaxe BooksDon Paterson, Rain, Faber & FaberMario Petrucci, i tulips, Enitharmon Press, 112, pages, ISBN 978-1-904634-93-5Ralph Pordzik, Hotel Salvador Dali and Other Poems, Lulu Press, 49 pages, ISBN 978-1-4457-2224-5Peter Reading, Vendage Tardive, Bloodaxe BooksRobin Robertson, The Wrecking Light, 112 pages, Picador, ISBN 978-0-330-51548-1Anna Robinson, The Finders of London, Enitharmon Press, 64, pages, ISBN 978-1-904634-94-2Lawrence Sail, Waking Dreams, Bloodaxe BooksPenelope Shuttle, Sandgrain and Hourglass, Bloodaxe BooksLouis Simpson, Voices in the Distance, Bloodaxe BooksJohn Stammers, Interior Night, 64 pages, Picador, ISBN 978-0-330-51338-8Pia Tafdrup, Tarkovsky's Horses and other poems, translated by David McDuff from the original Danish; Bloodaxe BooksMarina Tsvetaeva, Art in the Light of Conscience, translated by Angela Livingstone from the original Russian; Bloodaxe BooksBrian Turner, Phantom Noise, Bloodaxe BooksChase Twichell, Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been, Bloodaxe BooksPriscila Uppal, Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998–2010, Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 192 pages, ISBN 978-1-85224-860-4, Canadian author published in the United KingdomAnthony Astbury, editor, A Field of Large Desires: A Greville Press Anthology 1975–2010, Carcanet Press, ISBN 978-1-84777-050-9Roddy Lumsden, editor, Identity Parade: New British & Irish Poets, anthology; Bloodaxe BooksGeorge Szirtes, New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation, 300 pages, ISBN 978-1-906570-50-7Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
Ruth Padel, Silent Letters of the Alphabet, series of public lectures at Newcastle University, Bloodaxe BooksGeorge Szirtes, Fortinbras at the Fishhouses, series of public lectures at Newcastle University, Bloodaxe BooksRenée Ashley, The Verbs of DesiringNicky Beer, The Diminishing House, 77 pages, Carnegie Mellon University Press, ISBN 978-0-88748-516-9Millicent Borges Accardi, Injuring Eternity, 108 pages, World Nouveau Press, ISBN 978-0-9828865-4-0Elizabeth Bradfield, Approaching Ice: Poems, 112 pages, Persea, ISBN 978-0-89255-355-6Charles Bernstein, All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems of Charles Bernstein, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ISBN 978-0-374-10344-6Nicole Brossard, Selections, introduction by Jennifer Moxley, translations by many hands, University of California Press, BerkeleyJulie Carr, 100 Notes on Violence, Ahsahta Press, Boise, IDAnne Carson, Nox, New Directions, described by one reviewer as "not really a 'book' at all, but rather a box of material connected accordion-style (in one folded, ribbon-like page many yards long) about the death of her deeply troubled older brother Michael" and including a translation of Catullus 101; Canadian published in the United StatesBilly Collins, Ballistics: Poems, 128 pages, Random House, ISBN 978-0-8129-7561-1Bei Dao, author, and Eliot Weinberger, translator and editor, The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems, a bilingual English/Chinese edition of poems written in Chinese by Bei Dao; preface by Bei Dao, afterward by Eliot Weinberger; 304 pages; New Directions, ISBN 978-0-8112-1848-1Todd F. Davis, The Least of These: Poems, 140 pages, Michigan State University Press, ISBN 978-0-87013-875-1Camille Dungy, Suck on the Marrow, 88 pages, Red Hen Press, ISBN 978-1-59709-468-9Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Pitch: Drafts 77 – 95, Salt Publishing, LondonLarry Eigner, The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner, edited by Curtis Faville and Robert Grenier, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 2010, (Vol. I: 1937–1958; Vol. II: 1958–1966; Vol. III: 1966–1978; Vol. IV: 1978–1995); ISBN 978-0-8047-5090-5Aaron Fagan, Echo Train, Salt Publishing, London, ISBN 978-1-84471-749-1Elyse Fenton, Clamor, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, Cleveland, OHMusharraf Ali Farooqi, translator, Rococo and Other Worlds: Selected Poems, translation from the original Urdu of Afzal Ahmed Syed, 120 pages, Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-8195-6933-2Nada Gordon, Scented Rushes, Roof Books,Nathalie Handal, Love and Strange Horses, 91 pages; University of Pittsburgh PressMegan Harlan, Mapmaking, BkMk Press, ISBN 978-1-886157-77-4Robert Hass, The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems, Ecco Press, ISBN 0-06-192382-6Terrance Hayes, Lighthead, Penguin, New York / LondonTony Hoagland, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems, the author's first collection in seven years, 100 pages, Graywolf Press, ISBN 978-1-55597-549-4Brenda Iijima, If Not Metaphoric, Ahsahta Press, Boise, IDCarrie Jerrell, After the Revival, 80 pages, Waywiser Press, ISBN 978-1-904130-38-3Andrew Joron, Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems, City Lights, San FranciscoReb Livingston, God Damsel, No Tell Books, Reston VABen Lerner, Mean Free Path, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA ISBN 978-1-55659-314-7Shane McCrae, Mule, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, Cleveland, OHMark McMorris, Entrepôt, 90 pages, Coffee House Press, ISBN 978-1-56689-236-0John McNeeley, 39, 260 pages, CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1-4499-9779-3Deborah Meadows, Depleted Burden Down, Factory School, Queens, NYErika Meitner, Ideal Cities, 86 pages; Harper PerennialSimone Muench, Orange Crush: Poems, 88 pages, Sarabande Books, ISBN 978-1-932511-79-6Sawako Nakayasu, Texture Notes, Letter Machine Editions, Chicago / DenverTravis Nichols, Iowa, Letter Machine Editions, Chicago / DenverTamae K. Prindle, translator, On Knowing Oneself Too Well: Selected Poems of Ishikawa Takuboku, translated from the original Japanese of the tanka poems written until the author's death in 1912 at age 26, 146 pages, Syllabic Press, ISBN 978-0-615-34562-8Barbara Ras, The Last Skin, Penguin, New York / LondonAdrienne Rich, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007–2010, ISBN 0-393-07967-8.Atsuro Riley, Romey's Order, 54 pages; University of Chicago PressLisa Robertson, R's Boat, 96 pages, "New California Poetry" series of the University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-26240-9, written by a Canadian poet living in and published in the United StatesMarc Rosen, James P. Wagner, coeditors and compilers, Perspectives: Poetry Concerning Autism and Other Disabilities, 178 pages, Local Gems Poetry Press, ISBN 978-0-557-57112-3R. M. Ryan, Vaudeville in the Dark, 68 pages; Louisiana State University PressBenjamin Alire Sáenz, The Book of What Remains, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend, WASonia Sanchez, Morning Haiku, 144 pages, Beacon Press, ISBN 978-0-8070-6910-3Sherod Santos, The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems, 164 pages, W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 978-0-393-07216-7Leslie Scalapino, Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows, Starcherone Books, ISBN 978-0-9788811-9-1Steven Seymour, translator, If There is Something to Desire: One Hundred Poems, translated from the original Russian of his wife, Vera Pavlova, 128 pages, Knopf, ISBN 978-0-307-27225-6Melissa Stein, Rough Honey, 98 pages; American Poetry ReviewEdwin Torres, In the Function of Extreme Circumstances, Nightboat Books, Callicoon, NYNguyen Trai, Beyond the Court Gate: Selected Poems, edited & translated by Nguyen Do & Paul Hoover, Counterpath, Denver, 2010Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, Selected Poems, edited by Ben Mazer with an introduction by Stephen Burt, Belknap Press (Harvard University Press), Cambridge, MARosmarie Waldrop, Driven to Abstraction, New Directions, NYConnie Wanek, On Speaking Terms, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend, WAKaren Weiser, To Light Out, Ugly Duckling Presse, BrooklynC.D. Wright, One With Others (Copper Canyon Press)Matthew Zapruder, Come On All You Ghosts, 111 pages; Copper Canyon PressDavid Fideler and Sabrineh Fideler, editors and translators, Love's Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, 240 pages, New World Library, ISBN 978-1-57731-890-3David Groff and Philip Clark, Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS, 240 pages, Alyson Books, ISBN 978-1-59350-153-2Naomi Shihab Nye, Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25, for "young adults", 256 pages, Greenwillow Books, ISBN 978-0-06-189637-8Kevin Young, editor, The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing, 150 poems arranged to correspond with the grieving process, grouped by: Reckoning, Remembrance, Rituals, Recovery and Redemption; 336 pages, Bloomsbury USA, ISBN 978-1-60819-033-1Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
Robert Archambeau, Laureates and Heretics: Six Careers in American Poetry (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press) ISBN 978-0-268-02036-1David Biespiel, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces (Kelson Books)Norma Cole, To Be At Music: Essays & Talks (Richmond, CA: Omnidawn Publishing) ISBN 978-1-890650-44-5Stephen Ratcliffe, Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet (Denver, CO: Counterpath Press, 2010)These poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2010, with David Lehman, general editor, and Amy Gerstler, guest editor (who selected the poetry):
Jöannes Nielsen, Broer af sultne ord ("Bridges of Hungry Words"), translated from the Faeroese by Erik Skyum-Nielsen, ISBN 978-87-92286-17-8, 52 pagesAndrea Petri, Kulørte balletfantasier ("Colored Ballet Fantasies"), ISBN 978-87-92467-65-2, 41 pagesAllan Strandby Nielsen, Hvis der ikke er sandstorme, så er der nok noget andet ("If There Are Sandstorms, Then There Is Probably Something Else"), ISBN 978-87-02-09049-9, 88 pagesMarc Alyn, Anthologie poétique amoureuse, 330 pages, Ecriture, ISBN 978-2-909240-98-5Luc Bérimont, Poésies Complètes, publisher: Presses Universitaires d'AngersAbdellatif Laabi, Oeuvre poétique II, publisher: La DifférenceYvon Le Men, Le Tour du monde en 80 poèmes, publisher: FlammarionBernard Noël, Les Plumes d'éros ("The Feathers of Eros"), Works, Volume 1, poetry and prose, 448 pages, Galimard, ISBN 978-2-84682-349-4Sergio Badilla Castillo Ville Asiégée. Al Manar. Voix Vives de Méditerraée. Juillet 2010Anthologies in France
Marie-Claire Bancquart, editor, Couleurs femmes: Poèmes de 57 femmes, Le Castor AstralChristine Planté, editor, Femmes poètes du XIXe siècle: Une anthologie, PULErhan Turgut, editor, Voix de femmes. Anthologie de femmes poètes et photographes du monde, Turquoise EditionsJohn Ashbery, Ein weltgewandtes Land: Gedichte. Zweisprachig ("A Worldly Country: Poems"), a bilingual English/German edition; translated into German by Gerhard Falkner, Jan Wagner, Ron Winkler, Uljana Wolf et. a. 340 pages, luxbooks, ISBN 978-3-939557-26-5Tadeusz Dabrowski, Schwarzes Quadrat auf schwarzem Grund. Zweisprachig a bilingual Polish/German edition; translated into German by Andre Rudolph, Monika Rinck, 140 pages, luxbooks, ISBN 978-3-939557-94-4Rolf Haufs, Tanzstunde auf See: Gedichte, 128 pages, Hanser, ISBN 978-3-446-20678-6Martina Hefter, Nach den Diskotheken: Gedichte, 80 pages, Kookbooks, ISBN 978-3-937445-41-0Gert Jonke, Alle Gedichte: Gedichte ("Complete Poems"), 160 pages, Jung und Jung, ISBN 978-3-902497-65-9Nadja Küchenmeister, Alle Geister: Gedichte, 104 pages, Schöffling, ISBN 978-3-89561-225-1Ben Lerner, Die Lichtenbergfiguren: Gedichte. Zweisprachig ("The Lichtenberg Figures: Poems"), a bilingual English/German edition; translated into German by Steffen Popp, 70 pages, luxbooks, ISBN 978-3-939557-42-5Gwendolyn McEwen Die T. E. Lawrence Gedichte: Gedichte. Zweisprachig, a bilingual English/German edition; translated into German by Christine Koschel, 160 pages, Edition Rugerup, ISBN 978-91-89034-26-6Benard Noel, Körperextrakte: Gedichte. Zweisprachig, a bilingual French/German edition; translated into German by Angela Sanmann, 106 pages, Das Wunderhorn, ISBN 978-3-88423-349-8Jörn Pfennig, Grondlos Zärtlich: Gedichte ("Unwarranted Tenderness: Poems"), 116 pages, Talberg, ISBN 978-3-9813473-0-2Marion Poschmann, Geistersehen: Gedichte ("Seeing Ghosts"), 126 pages, Suhrkamp, ISBN 978-3-518-42129-1Marcus Roloff, Im toten Winkel des goldenen Schnitts, 72 pages, Gutleut, ISBN 978-3-936826-49-4Doris Runge, Was da auftaucht: Gedichte, 84 pages, dtv, ISBN 978-3-421-04485-3Lutz Seiler, Felderlatein: Gedichte, 102 pages, Suhrkamp, ISBN 978-3-518-42169-7Ernest Wichner Bin ganz wie aufgesperrt, 47 pages, Das Wunderhorn, ISBN 978-3-88423-352-8Ron Winkler, Frenetische Stille: Gedichte ("Frenetic Silence: Poems"), 96 pages, Berlin Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8270-0920-3Poland
Jacek Gutorow, Na brzegu rzeki; publisher: Biuro LiterackieJiří Kolář, Sposób użycia i inne wiersze, selected, translated from the original Czech and annotated by Leszek Engelking; publisher: Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUTUrszula Kozioł, Horrendum; publisher: Wydawnictwo LiterackieEwa Lipska, Pogłos; publisher: Wydawnictwo LiterackieAndrzej Sosnowski, Poems (untranslated title); publisher: Biuro LiterackieBohdan Zadura, Węgierskie lato. Przekłady z poetów węgierskich, translated from the original Hungarian; publisher: Biuro LiterackeAdam Zagajewski, Wiersze wybrane (Selected Poems), publisher: Wydawnictwp a5Elvis Dino Esquivel, Llantos del silencio, Solar Empire Publishing, ISBN 978-0-61559-440-8Sergio Badilla Castillo Ok Atacama. Pentagrama edicions. Julio 2010, Santiago de Chile,Bei Dao, author, and Eliot Weinberger, translator and editor, The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems, a bilingual English/Chinese edition of poems written in Chinese by Bei Dao; preface by Bei Dao, afterward by Eliot Weinberger; 304 pages; New Directions, ISBN 978-0-8112-1848-1; published in the United StatesJános Háy, Egy szerelmes vers története ("The Story of a Love Poem"), Palatinus; HungaryAwards and Honors
Awards announced this year:
Golden Wreath of Poetry: Lyubomir Levchev (Bulgaria)Australia awards and honors
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry:Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry:Canada awards and honors
Archibald Lampman Award: Craig Poile, True ConcessionsAtlantic Poetry Prize: Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen, Lean-To2010 Governor General's Awards: Richard Greene, Boxing the Compass (English); Danielle Fournier, effleurés de lumière (French)Griffin Poetry Prize:Canadian: Karen Solie, PigeonInternational, in the English Language: Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, The Sun-fishLifetime Recognition Award: Adrienne RichGerald Lampert Award: James Langer, Gun DogsPat Lowther Award: Karen Solie, PigeonPrix Alain-Grandbois: Paul Bélanger, RépitNew Zealand awards and honors
Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:Montana New Zealand Book Awards (poetry category):United Kingdom awards and honors
Cholmondeley Award:Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry: Christopher Reid A ScatteringShortlist:English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes:Eric Gregory Award (for a collection of poems by a poet under the age of 30):Forward Poetry Prize:Best Collection:Shortlist: Seamus Heaney (for Human Chain), Lachlan Mackinnon (for Small Hours), Sinéad Morrissey (for Through the Square Window), and Fiona Sampson (for Rough Music), Robin Robertson (for The Wrecking Light), Jo Shapcott (for Of Mutability)Best First Collection:Shortlist: Christian Campbell (for Running the Dusk), Hilary Menos (for Berg), Abegail Morley (for How to Pour Madness into a Teacup), Helen Oswald (for Learning Gravity), Steve Spence (for A Curious Shipwreck), and Sam Willetts (for New Light for the Old Dark)Best Poem:Shortlist: Kate Bingham (for On Highgate Hill), Julia Copus (for An Easy Passage), Lydia Fulleylove (for Night Drive), Chris Jones (for Sentences), Ian Pindar (for Mrs Beltinska in the Bath), and Lee Sands (for The Reach)Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:Shortlist:Manchester Poetry Prize:Michael Marks Award for Pamphlet of the Year: "Advice On Wearing Animal Prints" Selima Hill (Flarestack Poets)National Poet of Wales:National Poetry Competition 2010:T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Derek Walcott, White EgretsShortlist (announced in November 2010): 2010 Short ListThe Times/Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation:United States awards and honors
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Glenn Shaheen for PredatoryAML Award for Poetry awarded to Marilyn Bushman-Carlton for Her Side of It: PoemsAndrés Montoya Poetry Prize awarded to Emma Trelles for TropicaliaKingsley Tufts Poetry Award: D. A. Powell for ChronicLenore Marshall Poetry Prize: John Koethe, Ninety-fifth StreetNational Book Award for Poetry: "Lighthead" by Terrance HayesNational Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: to C.D. Wright for One With OthersNorth Carolina Poet Laureate: Cathy Smith Bowers appointed.PEN Award for Poetry in Translation: Anne Carson for translation from the Greek of An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides. Judge: Richard SieburthPEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry: Marilyn HackerPoet Laureate of Virginia: Kelly Cherry, two-year appointment 2010 to 2012Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): Rae Armantrout, VersedFinalists: Tryst by Angie Estes and Inseminating the Elephant by Lucia PerilloRaiziss/de Palchi Translation Award: Paul VangelistiRuth Lilly Poetry Prize : Eleanor Ross TaylorWallace Stevens Award: Galway KinnellWhiting Awards: Matt Donovan, Jane Springer, L.B. ThompsonFrost Medal: Lucille CliftonShelley Memorial Award: Kenneth Irby / Eileen Myles Judges:Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award: Marlene Rosen Fine Judge: Marie PonsotLyric Poetry Award: Ira Sadoff Judge: Megan O'RourkeLucille Medwick Memorial Award: Sandra Stone Judge: Juan Felipe Herrera; finalist:Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award: Rebecca Morgan Frank Judge: Marilyn Hacker; finalists:Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: Liya Person-Rechtman Judge: Arda Collins; finalists:George Bogin Memorial Award: Sawnie Morris Judge:Hettie JonesRobert H. Winner Memorial Award: Leslie Williams Judge: David St. John ; finalists:Cecil Hemley Memorial Award: Karla Kelsey Judge: Forrest GanderNorma Farber First Book Award: Scott Coffel Judge: Edward HirschWilliam Carlos Williams Award: Eleanor Ross Taylor Judge: Lynn Emanuel; finalists:2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Poetry Society Prize
1st place Catherine Ray, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Where Poems Hide For Me"2nd place Sophia Rose Carbonneau, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Alter Ego"3rd place Abbie Hinchman, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “What's in My Journal”1st Honorable Mention Abbey Hutchins, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Wabanaki"2nd Honorable Mention Hari Srinivasan, Cupertino, CA for the poem “Non-Entity”3rd Honorable Mention Sophie Bell, Pound Ridge, NY for the poem "The Calming Book"2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Jenkins Prize
1st place Edyt Dickstein, Livingston, NJ for the poem "Promises"2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Virginia Student Prize
1st place Lauren Rae (Wren) Brown, Springfield, VA for the poem “Truly (Louis XVI's monologue)”2nd place Meredith Makhoul, Richmond VA for the poem "Intersection of Patterson and Chopt"3rd place Taylor Knight, Richmond, VA for the poem "Father"1st Honorable Mention Audrey Crothers, Virginia Beach, VA for the poem "Odysseus Returns"2nd Honorable Mention James Ruml, Richmond, VA for the poem "I Wanted"3rd Honorable Mention Hunter Johnson, Richmond, VA for the poem "English Class"2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-8 Category – Undergraduate College
1st place Chelsea Henderson, Charlottesville, VA for the poem "Indignities"2nd place Stephanie Wang, Roslyn, NY for the poem "He Wrote My Name In Snow"3rd place Audrey Walls, Richmond, VA for the poem “My Sister, January 1989”1st Honoralbe Mention Liam Kane-Grade, Prairie du Sac, WI for the poem "Ants in the Rain"2nd Honorable Mention Nathan W. Friedman, Richmond, VA for the poem, “Re-enactors”2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-5 Category – Grades 9 & 10
1st place Amber Brown, Oak Park, IL for the poem "Moon"2nd place Alexis Mia Phillips, Oak Park IL for the poem “Case# 07CR0304”3rd place Damiano R. Girona, Newport News, VA for the poem "Natural Love"2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-4 Category – Grades 7 & 8
1st place Maria Abrams, Bedford, NY for the poem "Sentences"2nd place Domonique, Hampton, VA for the poem "Just Because"3rd place Heidi Ziegra, Edgecomb, ME for the poem “Blue Jay, Black Cat”1st Honorable Mention Corey Albright, Bedford NY, for the poem "The Bus"2nd Honorable Mention Abby Williams, Richmond, VA for the poem "Devotion"3rd Honorable Mention Abbey Hutchins for the poem "Together"Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Bingo Gazingo, 85, American performance poet, struck by carJanuary 8 – Slavka Maneva, 75, Macedonian writer and poetJanuary 11 – Fina de Calderón, 82, SpanishJanuary 14 – P. K. Page, 93 (born 1916), Canadian poetJanuary 20:Taner Baybars, 73, Cypriot-born British poet and painterAvrom Sutzkever, 96 (born 1913), Israeli, Yiddish-language poetFebruary 6 – Robert Dana, 80 (born 1929), American poet, was the poet laureate for the State of Iowa from 2004–2008, pancreatic cancer.February 13 – Lucille Clifton, 73 (born 1936), American poet and former Poet Laureate of Maryland (1974–1985).March 12 – Todd Moore, 72 (born 1937), American poetMarch 14 – Vinda Karandikar, 91 (born 1918), Indian, Marathi-language poet and writer, after short illness. [3]March 20 – Ai, 62 (born 1947), American poet whose book Vice (1999) won the National Book Award for Poetry. Born Florence Anthony, she legally changed her name to Ai.April 2 – Carolyn Rodgers, 69 (born 1940), American poet based in Chicago, participated in Gwendolyn Brooks's Writers Workshops and gained prominence as part of the Black Arts Movement.April 5 – William Neill, 88 (born 1922), Scottish poet.April 23 – Peter Porter, 81 (born 1929), Australian-born British poet. Associated with referred to in Britain as The Group, he was also recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia.May 6 – Hoàng Cầm, 88 (born 1922), Vietnamese poet and playwrightMay 7 – Rane Arroyo, 55, (born 1954), American poet and playwright.May 10 – David Chaloner, 65 (born 1944), English designer (of interior public spaces) and poetMay 17:Mukhran Machavariani (Georgian: მუხრან მაჭავარიანი), 81 (born 1929), Georgian poet, died while delivering a speech on the stage of the Rustaveli Theatre on the occasion of the 85th birthday of a fellow poet, Pridon KhalvashiJudson Crews, 92, (born 1917), American poet, small press publisher, and bookseller.May 18:Edoardo Sanguineti, 79, (born 1930), Italian poet, playwright, critic and winner of the Bagutta Prize.Peter Seaton, 67, (born 1942), American poet associated with the Language poetry movement, of an apparent heart attack.May 20 – Alberto Valcárcel Acuña, 65, Peruvian In a tribute to Valcarcel organized by Argentine poet Gabriel Impaglione, 30 poets recited free-verse poems on May 31.May 21 – Driek van Wissen, 66, Dutch poet, intracranial hemorrhageMay 22 – Veturi Sundararama Murthy (Telugu: వేటూరి సుందరరామమూర్తి), 74, Telugu-language Indian poet, journalist, writer and lyricist in the Indian cinema, cardiac arrest.May 28 – Leslie Scalapino, 65, (born 1944), American poet, playwright, and editor, winner of the American Book Award.May 30 – Peter Orlovsky, 76, (born 1933), American poet and lifelong companion of Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg.June 1 – Andrei Voznesensky, 77 (born 1933), Russian poetJune 7:José Albi, 88 (born 1922), Spanish poet, literary critic and translatorNdoc Gjetja, 66 (born 1944), Albanian poet and magazine editor, after long illnessJune 16 – Allen Hoey, 57 (born 1952), American poet who received a Pulitzer prize nomination for his 2008 collection Country Music,, of a heart attack.June 18 – Jose Saramago, 87 (born 1922), Portuguese novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, communist political commentator and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for literatureJuly 2 – Tommy Tabermann, 62 (born 1947), Finnish poet and politicianJuly 3 – Roberto Piva, 72 (born 1937), Brazilian poet and writerJuly 5 – Pete Morgan, 71 (born 1939), EnglishJuly 12 – Tuli Kupferberg, 86, American Beat poet and singerAugust 3 – Marilyn Buck, 62 (born 1947), radical American left-wing terrorist and poetAugust 15 – Ghazi Abdul Rahman Algosaibi, 70, (born 1940), Saudi Arabian statesman, writer, novelist and poetAugust 16 – Narayan Gangaram Surve (Devanagari: नारायण गंगाराम सुर्वे), 83 (born 1926), Indian, Marathi-language poetAugust 17:Ludvik Kundera, 90 (born 1920), Czech writer, translator, poet, playwright, editor and literary historian; a cousin of Milan KunderaEdwin Morgan, 90 (born 1920), Scottish poet in English and Scots, appointed first "Scottish Makar" (national poet of Scotland) in 2004, an honor which he held the rest of his lifeAugust 27:George Hitchcock, 96 (born 1914), American poet; editor and publisher of Kayak magazine and books.Ravindra Kelekar, 85 (born 1925), Indian author, poet and activist, after short illness.September 3:Micky Burn, 97 (born 1912), English writer, journalist, World War II commando and prize-winning poetCarmelo Arden Quin, 97 (born 1913), Uruguayan poet, political writer, painter, sculptor and co-founder of the international artistic movement “Madi”September 27:Michael Gizzi, 61 (born 1949), American poet and editor, author of more than 10 books of poetryCarmelo Arden Quin, 97 (born 1913), Uruguayan poet, painter and sculptorOctober 21:A. Ayyappan, 61 (born 1949), Indian poetKjell Landmark, 80 (born 1930), Norwegian poet and politicianOctober 22 – Alí Chumacero, 92 (born 1918), Mexican writer and poetNovember 4:Viola Fischerová, 75 (born 1935), Czech poetOphelia Alcantara Dimalanta, 76 (born 1934), Filipino poetNovember 5 – Adrian Păunescu, 67 (born 1943), Romanian author, poet and politician.November 9 – Ektor Kaknavatos, 90 (born 1920), Greek poet, pen name of Yorgis Kontoyorgis.November 11 – Carlos Edmundo de Ory, 87 (born 1923), Spanish poet, leukemia.November 29 – Bella Akhmadulina, 73, (born 1937), Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer and translator.December 23 – Janine Pommy Vega, 68, (born 1942) American Beat Generation poet. 
