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==Events==
* [[Allen Ginsberg]] sells his papers to [[Stanford University]] for $1 million.<ref name=dl/>
* [[C. P. Cavafy|C.P. Cavafy's]] poem "Ithaka" is read at the funeral of [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]] by her longtime companion, Maurice Tempelsman.<ref name=dl/>
* [[October 31]] ([[Halloween]]) — 15,000 copies of [[Edgar Allan Poe|Edgar Allan Poe's]] "[[The Raven]]" are distributed free at public libraries. In [[Austin, Texas]], someone from the local coroner's office and someone from a local tax department gave a "death and taxes" reading of the poem.<ref name=dl/>
* [[Wyn Cooper|Wyn Cooper's]] "All I Wanna Do" is put to music by [[Sheryl Crow]] who makes it the nation's No. 1 hit rock tune.<ref name=dl/>
*[[Tony Curtis (Welsh poet)|Tony Curtis]] becomes Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan.
===Poets depicted in the movies===
* [[Dorothy Parker]]'s poems are featured in ''Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle''
* In the film ''[[Four Weddings and a Funeral]]'', directed by [[Mike Newell (director)|Mike Newell]], [[W. H. Auden]]'s "Stop all the clocks" is read as a eulogy. "[I]t so moved audiences that Random House published a slender paperback with "Funeral Blues" plus nine other Auden poems in a hot-selling edition of forty thousand copies."<ref name=dl>Lehman, David, "Forward", ''The Best American Poetry 1995''</ref>
* [[Pablo Neruda]]'s [[1952 in poetry|1952]] stay in a villa owned by [[Italy|Italian]] historian [[Edwin Cerio]] on the island of [[Capri]] is depicted in a fictionalized version this year the popular film ''[[Il Postino]]'' ("The Postman"). Neruda is treated worshipfully in the film.
==Works published in English==
===[[Australian literature|Australia]]===
* [[Robert Adamson (poet)|Robert Adamson]] ''Waving to Hart Crane''
* [[Jennifer Harrison]]: ''Michelangelo’s Prisoners'' (Black Pepper)
* [[Les Murray (poet)|Les Murray]]:
** ''Collected Poems'', Port Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia<ref name=paw>[http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed [[October 15]], [[2007]]</ref>
** ''Translations from the Natural World''<ref name=paw/>
* [[David Rowthbaum]], ''New and Selected Poems (1945-93)''
===[[Canadian literature|Canada]]===
* [[Christian Bök]], ''Crystallography'' ISBN 978-1-55245-119-9 ([[Canadian poetry|Canada]])
* [[Roo Borson]], ''Night Walk'', ISBN 0-19-541082-3 (nominated for a [[1995 Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Award]]) [[American poetry|American]]-[[Canadian literature|Canadian]]
* [[George Elliott Clarke]], ''Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems 1978–1993''. Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield, ISBN 0-919001-83-1 [[Canadian literature|Canada]]
* [[Don Domanski]], ''Stations of the Left Hand'' (nominated for a [[1995 Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Award]])
* [[Cherie Geauvreau]], ''Even the Fawn Has Wings'', a first collection
* [[Gary Geddes]], ''Girl by the Water''
* [[Ralph Gustafson]], ''Tracks in the Snow''
* [[Evelyn Lau]], ''In the House of Slaves''
* [[Tim Lilburn]], ''Moosewood Sandhills'', winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, [[Canadian poetry|Canada]]
* [[Susan Musgrave]], ''Forcing the Narcissus''
* [[P. K. Page]], ''Hologram: A Book of Glosas''
* [[John Pass]], ''Radical Innocence'' (ISBN 1-55017-107-0) [[Canadian poetry|Canadian]]
* [[Al Purdy]], ''Naked with Summer in Your Mouth''
* [[Linda Rogers]], ''Hard Candy'', including "Wrinkled Coloratura", winner of the new Stephen Leacock Award
* [[Joe Rosenblatt]], ''Beds and Consenting Dreamers''
* [[Stephen Scobie]], ''Gospel''
* [[Francis Sparshott]], ''The Hanging Gardens of Etobicoke''
* [[George Woodcock]], ''George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Poetry'', Toronto: ECW Press<ref>[http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_Archives/bright/woodcock/woodbiblio.html Web page titled "The Works of George Woodcock"] at the Anarchy Archives website, which states: "This list is based on The Record of George Woodcock (issued for his eightieth birthday) and Ivan Avakumovic's bibliography in A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock, edited by W.H. New, 1978, with additions to bring it up to date"; accessed [[April 24]], [[2008]]</ref>
===[[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]]===
* [[Fleur Adcock]] (New Zealand poet who moved to England in [[1963 in poetry|1963]]) translator, ''Hugh Primas and the Archpoet'', Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press<ref name=faua>[http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed [[April 26]], [[2008]]</ref>
* [[Lauris Edmond]], ''Selected Poems, 1975-1994'', Wellington: Bridget Williams Books<ref name=leox>Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'', 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article</ref>
* [[Michele Leggott]], ''DIA'', Auckland: Auckland University Press; winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
* [[Hone Tuwhare]], ''Deep River Talk'', 140 poems from 10 previous collections
===[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]===
* [[Fleur Adcock]] (New Zealand poet who moved to England in [[1963 in poetry|1963]]) translator, ''Hugh Primas and the Archpoet'', Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press<ref name=faua>[http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed [[April 26]], [[2008]]</ref>
* [[William Cookson]], editor, ''[[Agenda (poetry journal)|Agenda]] – An Anthology 1959-1993'', Carcanet Press, ISBN 978-1857540697
* [[James Fenton]], ''Out of Danger'', Penguin; Farrar Straus Giroux; winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry <ref name=jf>[http://www.jamesfenton.com/books/]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed [[October 11]], [[2007]]</ref>
* [[Elaine Feinstein]], ''Selected Poems'', Carcanet
* [[Hugo Williams]], ''Dock Leaves,'' Faber and Faber
====Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom====
* [[John Heath-Stubbs]], ''Hindsights : An Autobiography''
===[[American poetry|United States]]===
* [[Kim Addonizio]], ''The Philosopher's Club'' (BOA Editions)
* [[A.R. Ammons]], ''The North Carolina Poems''
* [[John Ashbery]], ''And the Stars Were Shining''
* [[Ted Berrigan]], ''Selected Poems''
* [[Sophie Cabot Black]], ''The Misunderstanding of Nature'', (Graywolf Press) received the [[Poetry Society of America]] Norma Farber First Book Award, ISBN 1-55597-190-3
* [[Rosellen Brown]], ''Cora Fry's Pillow Book''
* [[Russell Edson]], ''The Tunnel: Selected Poems of Russell Edson''
* [[Ian Hamilton]] editor, ''The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English'', New York: Oxford University Press<ref name=rcnam>Everett, Nicholas, [http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/creeley/life.htm "Robert Creeley's Life and Career"] at the ''Modern American Poetry'' website, accessed [[May 1]], [[2008]]</ref>
* [[Jane Hirshfield]], ''The October Palace''
* [[Edward Hirsch]], ''Earthly Measures''
* [[John Hollander]], ''Animal Poems''
* [[Andrew Hudgins]], ''The Glass Hammer''
* [[Galway Kinnell]], ''Imperfect Thirst'' ([[Houghton Mifflin]])
* [[Kenneth Koch]]:
** ''On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems, 1950-1988'', New York: Knopf<ref name=kkpf>Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3809 "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)"] at Poetry Foundation website, accessed [[May 15]], [[2008]]</ref>
** ''One Train: Poems'', New York: Knopf<ref name=kkpf/>
* [[James McMichael]], ''Each in a Place Apart''
* [[Robert Pinsky]], translation of [[Dante]]'s ''Inferno''
* [[Mary Jo Salter]], ''Sunday Skaters''
* [[Patti Smith]], ''[[Early Work]]''
* [[Rosmarie Waldrop]], ''A Key Into the Language of America'' ([[New Directions Publishing|New Directions]])
====Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States====
* [[Louise Glück]], ''Proofs & Theories'', with pieces on [[George Oppen]], [[John Berryman]], [[Robinson Jeffers]], and [[Stanley Kunitz]]
* [[Janet Malcolm]], ''The Silent Woman'', a study of Sylvia Plath
* [[Mary Oliver]], ''A Poetry Handbook''
====Anthologies in the United States====
* [[Douglas Messerli]], editor, ''[[From the Other Side of the Century|From the Other Side of the Century: A New American Poetry, 1960-1990]]'', including [[American poetry|American]] and [[Canadian poetry|Canadian]] poets; Sun and Moon Press (Messerli's own imprint) ISBN 978-1-55713-131-7
* [[Carolyn Forché]], ''Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness''
* [[Jane Hirshfield]], editor, ''Women in Praise of the Sacred: Forty-Three Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women''
* Paul Hoover, editor, ''[[Postmodern American Poetry]]'' (Norton) The introduction identifies the use of postmodern with its early mention by [[Charles Olson]], and identifies the field chosen as experimental poetry from after 1945; about 20 short essays on poetics also included
* [[E. Ethelbert Miller]], ''In Search of Color Everywhere'', including almost 150 African-American poets
=====Poets in ''[[The Best American Poetry 1994]]'' anthology=====
Poems from these 75 poets were in ''[[The Best American Poetry 1994]]'' edited by [[David Lehman]], guest editor [[A.R. Ammons]]:
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*[[Dick Allen (poet)|Dick Allen]]
*[[Tom Andrews]]
*[[John Ashbery]]
*[[Burlin Barr]]
*[[Cynthia Bond]]
*[[Catherine Bowman]]
*[[George Bradley (poet)|George Bradley]]
*[[Charles Bukowski]]
*[[Rebecca Byrkit]]
*[[Amy Clampitt]]
*[[Michelle T. Clinton]]
*[[James Cummins]]
*[[Ramola Dharmaraj]]
*[[Thomas M. Disch]]
*[[Mark Doty]]
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*[[Denise Duhamel]]
*[[Tony Esolen]]
*[[Richard Foerster]]
*[[Alice Fulton]]
*[[Allison Funk]]
*[[Jorie Graham]]
*[[Debora Greger]]
*[[Donald Hall]]
*[[Forrest Hamer]]
*[[Lyn Hejinian]]
*[[Roald Hoffmann]]
*[[John Hollander]]
*[[Janet Holmes]]
*[[Paul Hoover]]
*[[Richard Howard]]
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*[[Phyllis Janowitz]]
*[[Mark Jarman]]
*[[Alice Jones]]
*[[Rodney Jones]]
*[[Brigit Pegeen Kelly]]
*[[Caroline Knox]]
*[[Kenneth Koch]]
*[[Dionisio D. Martínez]]
*[[J. D. McClatchy]]
*[[Jeffrey McDaniel]]
*[[James McManus]]
*[[James Merrill]]
*[[W. S. Merwin]]
*[[Stephen Paul Miller]]
*[[Jenny Mueller]]
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*[[Harryette Mullen]]
*[[Brighde Mullins]]
*[[Fred Muratori]]
*[[Sharon Olds]]
*[[Maureen Owen]]
*[[Kathleen Peirce]]
*[[Carl Phillips]]
*[[Lloyd Schwartz]]
*[[Frederick Seidel]]
*[[Alan Shapiro]]
*[[Angela Shaw]]
*[[Charles Simic]]
*[[W. D. Snodgrass]]
*[[Elizabeth Spires]]
*[[A. E. Stallings]]
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*[[Mark Strand]]
*[[Sharan Strange]]
*[[May Swenson]]
*[[Janet Sylvester]]
*[[James Tate]]
*[[Patricia Traxler]]
*[[William Wadsworth]]
*[[Kevin Walker (poet)|Kevin Walker]]
*[[Rosanne Wasserman]]
*[[Bruce Weigl]]
*[[Joshua Weiner]]
*[[Henry Weinfield]]
*[[Michael White]]
*[[Richard Wilbur]]
*[[Dean Young (poet)|Dean Young]]
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===Other in English===
* [[Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin]]: ''The Brazen Serpent'', Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, [[Irish poetry|Ireland]]<ref name=encpiw>[http://ireland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11162&x=1 Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin"] at Poetry International website, accessed [[May 3]], [[2008]]</ref>
==Works published in other languages==
===[[Danish literature|Danish]]===
* [[Ole Wivel]], ''Iris''
* [[Benny Andersen]], ''Denne kommen og gåen''
* [[Lundbye]], ''Lundbyes dyrefabler''
* [[Pia Tafdrup]], ''Territorialsang''
===[[Dutch literature|Dutch]]===
* [[Bernlef]], ''Vreemde wil''
* [[Toon Tellegen]], ''Tijger onder de slakken''
* [[Leonard Nolens]], ''Honing en As''
===French language===
====[[Canadian literature|Canada]]====
* [[Robert Mélançon]], ''L'Avant-printemps à Montréal''
====[[French poetry|France]]====
* [[Edouard Glissant]], ''{{lang|fr|Poèmes complets}}''
===[[German literature|German]]===
* [[Grünbein]], ''Falten und Fallen''
* [[Jürgen Kolbe]], a book of poetry
* [[Robert Gernhardt]], a book of poetry
====Criticism, scholarship, and biography in Germany====
* [[Erich Mühsam]], ''Tagebücher, 1910-1924'' (posthumous)
===[[Hebrew literature|Hebrew]]===
* [[Haim Gouri]], ''Ha-Ba Aharai'' ("Poems"), [[Israeli literature|Israel]]<ref>[http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=101]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed [[October 6]], [[2007]]</ref>
===Spanish language===
====[[Spanish poetry|Spain]]====
* [[Matilde Camus]], ''Ronda de azules'' ("Blue avenue")
====[[Latin American literature|Latin America]]====
* [[José Emilio Pacheco]], ''El silencio de la luna'', Mexico
* [[Francisco Hernández]], ''El infierno es un decir'', Mexico
* [[Octavio Paz]]. ''Obras completas'', Mexico
===[[Swedish literature|Sweden]]===
* [[Katarina Frostenson]], ''Tankarna''
* [[Ann Jäderlund]], ''Mörker mörka mörkt kristaller''
* [[Arne Johnsson]], ''Faglarnas eldhuvuden''
====Criticism, scholarship and biography in Sweden====
* [[Lars Huldén]], ''[[Carl Michael Bellman]]'', on the 18th-century poet
* [[Olof Lagercrantz]], ''In Jag bor i en annan värld men du bor ju i samma'', about the author's friendship with poet [[Gunnar Ekelöf]]
* [[Lars Gustafsson]], ''Ett minnespalats. Vertikala memoarer.'', a memoir
* [[Ylva Eggehorn]], ''Kvarteret Radiomottagaren'', a memoir of her childhood
===Other languages===
* [[Hugo Claus]], ''Gedichten 1948-1993'', [[Flemish literature|Flemish]]
==Awards and honors==
===[[Australian poetry|Australia]]===
* [[C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry]]: [[Robert Gray (poet)|Robert Gray]], ''Certain Things''
* [[The Age Book of the Year|Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize]]: ''[[The Monkey's Mask]]'' by [[Dorothy Porter]]
* [[Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry]]: [[Barry Hill (writer)|Barry Hill]], ''Ghosting William Buckley''
* [[Mary Gilmore Prize]]: [[Aileen Kelly]] - ''Coming Up for Light''
===[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]===
* [[Gerald Lampert Award]]
* [[Archibald Lampman Award]]
* See [[1994 Governor General's Awards]] for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
* [[Pat Lowther Award]]
* [[Prix Alain-Grandbois]]
===[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]===
* [[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[Ruth Fainlight]], [[Gwen Harwood]], [[Elizabeth Jennings]], [[John Mole]]
* [[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[Julia Copus]], [[Alice Oswald]], [[Steven Blyth]], [[Kate Clanchy]], [[Giles Goodland]]
* [[Forward Poetry Prize]] (United Kingdom, Best Collection): [[Alan Jenkins]], ''Harm ''(Chatto & Windus)
* [[Forward Poetry Prize]] (United Kingdom, Best First Collection): [[Kwame Dawes]], ''Progeny of Air'' (Peepal Tree)
* [[T. S. Eliot Prize]] (United Kingdom and Ireland): [[Paul Muldoon]], ''The Annals of Chile''
* [[Whitbread Awards|Whitbread Award]] for poetry: [[James Fenton]], ''Out of Danger''
===[[American poetry|United States]]===
* [[Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize]]: [[Jan Beatty]], ''Mad River''
* [[Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry]]: [[Wendell Berry]]
* [[Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry]]: [[Stewart James]], "Vanessa", and (separately) [[Marilyn Hacker]], "Cancer Winter"
* [[Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry]]: [[A. R. Ammons]], ''Garbage''
* [[National Book Awards#Poetry|National Book Award]] for poetry (United States): [[James Tate]], ''A Worshipful Company of Fletchers''
* [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Yusef Komunyakaa]], ''Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems''
* [[Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize]]: [[Donald Hall]]
* [[Wallace Stevens Award]] inaugurated with first award this year: [[W. S. Merwin]]
* [[William Carlos Williams Award]]: [[Cyrus Cassells]], ''The Mud Actor''
* [[Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets]]: [[David Ferry]]
===[[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]]===
* [[Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry|Montana Book Award for Poetry]]: [[Bill Manhire]], ed., ''100 New Zealand Poems''
* [[Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry|New Zealand Book Award for Poetry]]: [[Andrew Johnston]], ''How to Talk''
===Other===
* [[Norwegian literature|Norway]]: [[Brague Prize]]: [[Sigmund Mjelve]] for ''Omrade aldri fastlagt''
==Deaths==
* [[March 9]] — [[Charles Bukowski]], 73, [[American poetry|American]] poet and novelist, of leukemia
* [[March 29]] — [[Lynda Hull]], 49, [[American poetry|American]] poet, in an automobile accident;
* [[May 24]] — [[John Wain]], 69, [[English poetry|English]] poet, novelist and critic, of a stroke
* [[September 10]] — [[Amy Clampitt]], 74, [[American poetry|American]] poet, of ovarian cancer
* date not known:
** [[Rolf Jacobsen]]
==Notes==
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==See also==
{{portal|Poetry}}
*[[Poetry]]
*[[List of years in poetry]]
*[[List of poetry awards]]
{{Schools of poetry}}
[[Category:Years in poetry]]
[[Category:1994|Poetry]]