2006 in poetry
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==Events==
[[Image:Grolerpoetybookshopaug2005.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Grolier Poetry Bookstore]]
*French public notary Patrick Huet unveils ''[[Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World]]'' in [[Lyon]]. It is reportedly the longest modern hand-written poem in the world.
* [[March 29]] — [[Grolier Poetry Bookstore]] is sold.
* ''[[BLATT]]'', an English-language literary magazine and publishing imprint is started in [[Prague, Czech Republic]].
* May — The [[Poetry Out Loud]] recitation contest is created this year by the [[National Endowment for the Arts]] and [[The Poetry Foundation]] to increase awareness in the art of performing poetry, with a top prize a $20,000 scholarship. State finalists performed in [[Washington D.C.]] during the second week of May.
* [[November 1]] — A [[Sylvia Plath]] sonnet from her college years was discovered and first published by ''Blackbird'', an online literary journal run by the English Department at [[Virginia Commonwealth University]] in [[Richmond, Virginia]].
* November — The most influential American poets of all time are [[Walt Whitman]], [[T. S. Eliot]], [[William Carlos Williams]], [[Wallace Stevens]], and [[Sylvia Plath]], according to [[Christian Wiman]], editor of ''[[Poetry Magazine]]''. Wiman named the poets in a sidebar article to a December ''[[The Atlantic Monthly]]'' cover story about the "100 Most Influential Americans" — no poet made it on that larger list.<ref>Wiman, Christian, "An Expert's Opinion: Influential Poets", ''[[The Atlantic Monthly]]'', December 2006, released in November, page 75</ref>
* [[November 10]] — A new series, "The Best of Irish Poetry" was launched by Southword Editions in Ireland with the 80-page ''The Best of Irish Poetry 2007'' The project is under the direction of [[Patrick Cotter]], with [[Colm Breathnach]] as Irish-language editor and [[Maurice Riordan]] as English-language (or Hiberno-English) editor. "Quite often readers abroad are presented with a selection of Irish poets restricted to those who are first published in the USA or the UK," Cotter wrote. "This annual series will present a more general selection generated by more informed pundits."<ref>[http://ireland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=8188&x=1] "New Irish Anthology Series Launched", post dated [[December 1]], [[2006]] at the Poetry International Web site, accessed [[December 18]], [[2006]]</ref>
==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 literature|Australia]]===
* [[Robert Adamson (poet)|Robert Adamson]] ''The Goldfinches of Baghdad''
* [[Robert Gray (poet)|Robert Gray]], ''Nameless Earth''
* [[Jennifer Harrison]]: ''Folly & Grief'' (Black Pepper) ISBN 1876044454
* [[Chris Mansell]], ''Love poems'' (Kardoorair, Armidale)
* [[Les Murray (poet)|Les Murray]], ''The Biplane Houses'' (Black Inc.), ISBN 1863952144
* [[Dorothy Porter]], ''The Best Australian Poems 2006'' (Black, Inc.), ISBN 1863952624
* [[Chris Wallace-Crabbe]], ''Then''
===[[Canadian literature|Canada]]===
* [[Margaret Avison]], ''Momentary Dark''
* [[George Elliott Clarke]], ''Black''. Vancouver: Polestar, ISBN 1551929031
* [[Don McKay]]:
** ''Strike/Slip'' winner of the 2007 Canadian [[Griffin Poetry Prize]]<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2007/06/07/mckay-griffin-poetry.html]"Celebrated Canadian poet Don McKay wins $50,000 Griffin Prize" Canadian Press article, at the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] Web site, [[June 7]], [[2007]] accessed [[October 8]], [[2007]]</ref> and the [[Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize]]
** ''Field Marks: The Poetry of Don McKay'' edited by [[Méira Cook]]
* [[Michael Ondaatje]], ''The Story'', Toronto: House of Anansi, ISBN 0887841945<ref name=mopf>Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5142 "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )"] at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed [[May 7]], [[2008]]</ref>
===[[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]]===
* [[Glenn Colquhoun]], ''Playing God''
* [[Cilla McQueen]], ''A Wind Harp'' (compact disc)<ref>[http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/mcqueen.htm Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Alison Wong]], ''Cup'', Publisher: Steele Roberts
====Poets in ''Best New Zealand Poems''====
Poems from these 25 poets were selected by [[Andrew Johnston (New Zealand poet)|Andrew Johnston]] for ''[[Best New Zealand Poems series|Best New Zealand Poems 2005]]'', published online this year:
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* [[Michele Amas]]
* [[Angela Andrews]]
* [[Stu Bagby]]
* [[Jenny Bornholdt]]
* [[James Brown (New Zealand poet)|James Brown]]
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* [[Janet Charman]]
* [[Geoff Cochrane]]
* [[Mary Cresswell]]
* [[Wystan Curnow]]
* [[Stephanie de Montalk]]
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* [[Fiona Farrell]]
* [[Bernadette Hall]]
* [[Anne Kennedy]]
* [[Michele Leggott]]
* [[Anna Livesey]]
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* [[Karlo Mila]]
* [[James Norcliffe]]
* [[Gregory O'Brien]]
* [[Vivienne Plumb]]
* [[Anna Smaill]]
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* [[Elizabeth Smither]]
* [[Robert Sullivan (New Zealand poet)|Robert Sullivan]]
*[[Brian Turner (New Zealand poet)|Brian Turner]]
* [[Ian Wedde]]
* [[Sonja Yelich]]
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===[[British poetry|United Kingdom]]===
* [[Carol Ann Duffy]] and [[Jane Ray]], ''The Lost Happy Endings'', Penguin
* [[James Fenton]]:
** ''Selected Poems (2006) Penguin<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>
** Editor, ''The New Faber Book of Love Poems'' (anthology)<ref name=jf/>
* [[John Haynes]], ''Letter to Patience'', a book-length poem in iambic pentameter, winner of the [[Costa Book Award]]
* [[Seamus Heaney]], ''[[District and Circle]]'', Faber & Faber
*[[Allison Hedge Coke]] - ''[[Blood Run]]'' [[Salt Publications]]
* [[Geoffrey Hill]]: ''[[Without Title]]''
* [[Derek Mahon]], ''Adaptations'' (A collection of versions, rather than translations proper, from poets such as [[Pasolini]], [[Satires of Juvenal|Juvenal]], [[Bertolt Brecht]], [[Valery]], [[Baudelaire]], [[Rilke]], and [[Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill]].) Gallery Press
* [[Sean O'Brien (writer)|Sean O'Brien]], ''Inferno: a verse version of [[Dante]]'s Inferno'' (Picador)
* [[Robin Robertson]], ''Swithering'', winner of the 2006 [[Forward Poetry Prize]] for Best Collection, shortlisted for the [[T.S. Eliot Prize]]
* [[Claire Tomalin]], ''[[Thomas Hardy]]'', Penguin Press, one of the ''[[New York Times]]'' "100 Notable Books of the Year" for 2007 (biography)
* [[Hugo Williams]], ''Dear Room'', (Faber and Faber)
====Poets included in ''New Writing 14''====
This book of British writing (Granta, ISBN 1-86207-850-5), edited by [[Lavinia Greenlaw]] and [[Helon Habila]], contains short stories, essays and excerpts of novels in addition to poems by these poets:
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*[[Carrie Etter]]
*[[Iain Galbraith]]
*[[Chenjerai Hove]]
*[[Stephen Knight]]
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*[[Frances Leviston]]
*[[Carola Luther]]
*[[Jamie McKendrick]]
*[[David Morley]]
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*[[Paul Muldoon]]
*[[Blessing Musariri]]
*[[Sean O'Brien (writer)|Sean O'Brien]]
*[[Don Paterson]]
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*[[Paul Perry (poet)|Paul Perry]]
*[[Greta Stoddart]]
*[[Eoghan Walls]]
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===[[American poetry|United States]]===
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* [[A. R. Ammons]], ''Selected Poems'', American Poets Project of the Library of America; distributed by Penguin Putnam, posthumous
* [[Robin Becker]], ''Domain of Perfect Affection'', Pittsburgh University Press
* [[Elizabeth Bishop]], ''Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments'', [[Alice Quinn]], editor (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) posthumous
* [[Charles Bukowski]], ''Come On In!: New Poems'' (Ecco)
* [[Hayden Carruth]], ''Toward the Distant Islands: New and Selected Poems'', Copper Canyon Press, edited by [[Sam Hamill]]
* [[Hart Crane]], ''Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters'', edited by [[Langdon Hammer]], Library of America (posthumous)
* [[Robert Creeley]], ''On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay'' (University of California Press)
* [[Dick Davis]], ''Trick of Sunlight'', Swallow Press
* [[Michael Dumanis]] and [[Cate Marvin]], Editors, ''Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century'' ([[Sarabande]] Books)
* [[Daisy Fried]], ''My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again'' (University of Pittsburgh Press), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
* [[Jack Gilbert]]:
** ''Tough Heaven: Poems of Pittsburgh''
** ''Transgressions: Selected Poems''
* [[Allen Ginsberg]], ''Collected Poems, 1947-1997'' (posthumous), one of the ''New York Times'' "100 Notable Books of the Year", an expanded edition of the [[1984 in poetry|1984]] ''Collected Poems, 1947-1980''
* [[Jesse Glass]], ''The Passion of Phineas Gage and Selected Poems'' (West House/Ahadada)
* [[Eugene Gloria]], ''Hoodlum Birds'', Penguin
* [[Louise Glück]], ''Averno'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), one of the ''New York Times'' "100 Notable Books of the Year"
* [[Linda Gregg]], ''In the Middle Distance'', Graywolf
* [[Donald Hall]], ''White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006'' (Houghton Mifflin)
* [[Suheir Hammad]], ''ZataarDiva'', book and CD (Cypher/Rattapallax)
* [[Jim Harrison]], ''Saving Daylight'' ([[Copper Canyon Press]]) ISBN 1-55659-235-3
* [[Seamus Heaney]], ''District and Circle'', Farrar Straus & Giroux
*[[Allison Hedge Coke]] - ''[[Blood Run]]''US edition
* [[George Heym]], ''Poems'' (Northwestern University Press, translated from [[German literature|German]] by [[Antony Hasler]]
* [[Jeffrey Harrison]], ''Incomplete Knowledge'', Four Way Books
* [[Jane Hirshfield]], ''After: Poems'', (HarperCollins), named as one of the best books of the year by ''[[The Washington Post]]''
* [[Paul Hoover]], ''Edge and Fold'' (Apogee Press)
* [[Frieda Hughes]], ''Forty-Five (HarperCollins)
* [[Troy Jollimore]], ''Tom Thomson in Purgatory'' (MARGIE/Intuit House), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
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* [[Patricia Spears Jones]], ''Femme du Monde: Poems'', (Tia Chucha Press)
* [[Mary Karr]], ''Sinners Welcome: Poems'' (HarperCollins)
* [[Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis]], ''Intaglio'', Kent State
* [[Galway Kinnell]], ''Strong Is Your Hold'' (Houghton Mifflin Books), the poet's first collection of new poems in more than a decade, one of the ''New York Times'' "100 Notable Books of the Year"
* [[Thomas Kinsella]], ''Collected Poems: 1956–2001'', Wake Forest
* [[Kei Miller]], ''Kingdom of Empty Bellies'', [[Jamaican literature|Jamaican]] poet published in the United States:
* [[Hannah Nijinsky]] and [[John Most]], ''Persephone'' (AQP Collective)
* [[Alice Notley]], ''Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005'' (Wesleyan University Press)
* [[Mary Oliver]], ''Thirst'' (Beacon Press)
* [[Carl Phillips]], ''Riding Westward'', New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
* [[Ishmael Reed]], ''New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006'', one of the ''New York Times'' "100 Notable Books of the Year"
* [[Lisa Robertson (poet)|Lisa Robertson]], ''The Men: A Lyric Book'' (BookThug) ISBN 0973974257
* [[Theodore Roethke]], ''Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke'', compiled by [[David Wagoner]] from "277 spiral notebooks of poetry fragments, aphorisms, jokes, memos, journal entries, random phrases, bits of dialog, commentary, and fugitive miscellany", [[Copper Canyon Press]], ISBN 1556592485 (posthumous)<ref>Web page titled [http://www.coppercanyonpress.org/500_news_and_events/530_forthcoming/forthcoming.cfm# "Theodore Roethke / Straf for the Fire"] at Copper Canyon Press website, accessed [[April 20]], [[2008]]</ref>
* [[Miltos Sachtouris]], ''Poems (1945 - 1971)'', bilingual edition, Greek with English translation by [[Karen Emmerich]] (Archipelago Books), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
* [[Frederick Seidel]], ''Ooga-Booga'', (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
* [[Julie Sheehan]], ''Orient Point: Poems'', (W.W. Norton & Co.)
* [[Patricia Smith]], ''Teahouse of the Almighty: Poems'', selected by [[Ed Sanders]] (Coffee House Press, 2006)
* [[W.D. Snodgrass]], ''Not For Specialists, New and Selected Poems'', (BOA Editions, Ltd.), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
* [[Mark Strand]], ''Man and Camel'' (Alfred A. Knopf)
* [[Rosmarie Waldrop]]:
** ''Splitting Image'' (Zasterle)
** ''Curves to the Apple'' ([[New Directions Publishing|New Directions]])
* [[Alicia E. Vasquez]], ''1719 Union St.'' (Wasteland Press)
* [[Eliot Weinberger]], ''Muhammed'', (Verso, W.W. Norton & Co.)
* [[Dara Wier]], ''Remnants of Hannah'', Wave Books
* [[Jack Wiler]], ''Fun Being Me: Poems'' (CavanKerry Press, Ltd.)
* [[George Witte]], ''The Apparitioners'', Three Rail Press
* [[Charles Wright (poet)|Charles Wright]], ''Scar Tissue'', (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
* [[Franz Wright]], ''God's Silence'' (Alfred A. Knopf)
* [[Robert Wrigley]], ''Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems'', Penguin
* [[Louis Zukofsky]], ''Selected Poems'', American Poets Project of the Library of America, distributed by Penguin Putnam; posthumous
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====Anthologies in the United States====
* [[Harold Bloom]] and [[Jesse Zuba]], editors, ''American Religious Poems: An Anthology'', Library of America
* [[Michael Hofmann]], editor, ''Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
* [[Joy Katz]] and [[Kevin Prufer]], editors, ''Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems'', 76 poems, each selected by a poet who was asked to provide an "unknown or underappreciated poem written by anyone, in any language, from any era", along with a brief essay by the selecting poet about the poem each chose; Illinois University Press
* [[Jeb Livingood]], series editor; [[Eric Pankey]], editor, ''Best New Poets 2006: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers'', Samovar
====Poets included in ''The Best American Poetry 2006''====
Poets included in ''[[The Best American Poetry 2006]]'', edited by [[David Lehman]], co-edited this year by [[Billy Collins]]:
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*[[Kim Addonizio]]
*[[Dick Allen]]
*[[Craig Arnold]]
*[[John Ashbery]]
*[[Jesse Ball]]
*[[Krista Benjamin]]
*[[Ilya Bernstein]]
*[[Gaylord Brewer]]
*[[Tom Christopher]]
*[[Laura Cronk]]
*[[Carl Dennis]]
*[[Stephen Dobyns]]
*[[Denise Duhamel]]
*[[Stephen Dunn]]
*[[Beth Ann Fennelly]]
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*[[Megan Gannon]]
*[[Amy Gerstler]]
*[[Sarah Gorham]]
*[[George Green]]
*[[Debora Greger]]
*[[Eamon Grennan]]
*[[Daniel Gutstein]]
*[[R. S. Gwynn]]
*[[Rachel Hadas]]
*[[Mark Halliday]]
*[[Jim Harrison]]
*[[Robert Hass]]
*[[Christian Hawkey]]
*[[Terrance Hayes]]
*[[Bob Hicok]]
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*[[Katia Kapovich]]
*Laura Kasischke
*[[Joy Katz]]
*[[David Kirby]]
*[[Jennifer L. Knox]]
*[[Ron Koertge]]
*[[John Koethe]]
*[[Mark Kraushaar]]
*[[Julie Larios]]
*[[Dorianne Laux]]
*[[Reb Livingston]]
*[[Thomas Lux]]
*[[Paul Muldoon]]
*[[Marilyn Nelson]]
*[[Richard Newman]]
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*[[Mary Oliver]]
*[[Danielle Pafunda]]
*[[Mark Pawlak]]
*[[Bao Phi]]
*[[Donald Platt]]
*[[Lawrence Raab]]
*[[Betsy Retallack]]
*[[Liz Rosenberg]]
*[[J. Allyn Rosser]]
*[[Kay Ryan]]
*[[Mary Jo Salter]]
*[[Vejay Sheshadri]]
*[[Alan Shapiro]]
*[[Charles Simic]]
*[[Gerald Stern]]
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*[[James Tate]]
*[[Sue Ellen Thompson]]
*[[Tony Towle]]
*[[Alison Townsend]]
*[[Paul Violi]]
*[[Ellen Bryant Voigt]]
*[[David Wagoner]]
*[[Charles Harper Webb]]
*[[C. K. Williams]]
*[[Terence Winch]]
*Susan Wood
*[[Franz Wright]]
*[[Robert Wrigley]]
*[[David Yezzi]]
*[[Dean Young (poet)|Dean Young]]
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====Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States====
* [[Jason Shinder]], editor, ''“The Poem That Changed America: 'Howl' Fifty Years Later'', essays on [[Allen Ginsberg]]'s poem, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
===Other===
* [[Chandrashekhar Bhattacharya]], ''Tomake Ebong Tomake: Poems '' (Manaswini Publication), Bangladesh
* [[Mohit.K.Misra]], ''Ponder Awhile'' Booksurge Publishers
==Awards and honors==
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]: [[Orhan Pamuk]], [[Turkish literature|Turkey]]
===[[Australian poetry|Australia]]===
* [[C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry]]:
* [[The Age Book of the Year|Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize]]: ''Friendly Fire'' by [[Jennifer Maiden]]
* [[Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry]]:
===[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]===
* [[Atlantic Poetry Prize]]: [[Jenny MacDougall]]
* [[Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate]]: [[John Steffler]] (until [[December 3]], [[2008 in poetry|2008]])
* [[Griffin Poetry Prize]] (Canada): [[Sylvia Legris]], ''Nerve Squall''
* [[Griffin Poetry Prize]] (International, in the English Language): [[Kamau Brathwaite]], ''Born to Slow Horses''
* [[Pat Lowther Award]]: [[Sylvia Legris]], ''Nerve Squall''
* [[Prix Alain-Grandbois]]: [[Fernand Ouellette]]
* [[Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award]]: [[Kate Marshall Flaherty]], ''Unfathom'', ISBN 978-1-55253-065-8
===[[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]]===
* Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
* [[Montana New Zealand Book Awards]] (poetry category): [[Bill Manhire]], ''Lifted'', Victoria University Press
===[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]===
* [[Forward Poetry Prize]] Best Collection: [[Robin Robertson]] for ''Swithering''.
* [[Forward Poetry Prize]] Best First Collection: [[Tishani Doshi]], for ''Countries of the Body.''
* [[Forward Poetry Prize]] Best Single Poem: [[Sean O'Brien (writer)|Sean O'Brien]], for "Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright".
* [[T. S. Eliot Prize]] (United Kingdom and Ireland): [[Seamus Heaney]], for ''District and Circle''
* [[Costa Book Awards]] (formerly [[Whitbread Awards|Whitbread Award]]) for poetry: [[John Haynes (poet)|John Haynes]] for ''Letter to Patience''
* [[Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry]]: [[Fleur Adcock]]
===[[American poetry|United States]]===
* [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]]: poets [[Paul Auster]] and [[Frank Bidart]] elected to the [[List of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature|Literature Department]]
* [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress]]: [[Donald Hall]] appointed
* [[Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards]]: [[Moira Linehan]], ''If No Moon''
* [[James Laughlin Award]] for poetry: [[Tracy K. Smith]]
* [[National Book Awards#Poetry|National Book Award]] for poetry: [[Nathaniel Mackey]], ''Splay Anthem'', [[New Directions]]
**Finalists: [[Louise Glück]], ''Averno'', [[Farrar, Straus & Giroux]]; [[H.L. Hix]], ''Chromatic'', [[Etruscan Press]]; [[Ben Lerner]], ''Angle of Yaw'', [[Copper Canyon Press]]; [[James McMichael]], ''Capacity'', [[Farrar, Straus & Giroux]]
* [[National Poetry Review Book Prize]]: [[Bryan Penberthy]], ''Lucktown''.
* [[Poets' Prize]]: [[Catherine Tufariello]], ''Keeping My Name''
* [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] (United States): [[Claudia Emerson]], ''Late Wife''
* [[Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award]]: [[John Hollander]]
* [[Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize]]: [[Richard Wilbur]]
* [[Whiting Writers' Award]] (poetry winners): [[Sherwin Bitsui]], [[Tyehimba Jess]], [[Suji Kwock Kim]]
* [[Wallace Stevens Award]]: [[Michael Palmer]]
* [[Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition]]: [[Jessica Fisher]], ''Frail-Craft''; Judge: [[Louise Glück]]
* [[Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets]]: [[Carl Phillips]]
====From the [[Poetry Society of America]]====
* [[Frost Medal]]: [[Maxine Kumin]]
* [[Shelley Memorial Award]]: [[George Stanley (poet)]], Judges: [[Sonia Sanchez]], [[Joshua Clover]]
* [[Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award]]: [[Nicole Cooley]], "The Anatomical Museum", Judge: [[Gerald Stern]]
* [[Cecil Hemley Memorial Award]]: [[Rusty Morrison]], "Sky Clutches Any Strong Beat", Judge: [[Cal Bedient]]
*[[Lannan Literary Awards#Lannan Literary Award for Poetry|Lanan Literary Award for Poetry]]: [[Bruce Weigl]]
* [[Lyric Poetry Award]]: [[Alice Jones]], "Valle D'Aosta", Judge: [[Toi Derricotte]]
* [[Lucille Medwick Memorial Award]]: [[Lynne Knight]], "Recovery", Judge: [[Grace Schulman]]
** Finalists: [[Amy Dryansky]], ''Somewhere Honey from Those Bees''; [[J.C. Todd]], ''What's Left'';
* [[Alice Fay di Castagnola Award]] (for a manuscript in progress): [[G.C. Waldrep]], ''Archicembalo'',
** Finalists: [[John Isles]], ''The Arcadia Negotiations''; [[Wayne Miller]], ''The Book of Props''; [[Emily Rosko]], ''Weather Inventions''; Judge: [[Forrest Gander]]
* [[Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award]]: [[Katherine Browning]], "to discover the cartography of blankness", Judge: [[Prageeta Sharma]]
* [[George Bogin Memorial Award]]: [[Kevin Prufer]]
** Finalists: [[Susan Briante]], [[Jill McDonough]], Judge: [[Marie Howe]]
* [[Robert H. Winner Memorial Award]]: [[Daneen Wardrop]], ''Archicembalo'', Judge: [[Jean Valentine]]
* [[Norma Farber First Book Award]]: [[Cammy Thomas]], ''Cathedral of Wish'', Judge: [[Medbh McGuckian]]
* [[William Carlos Williams Award]]: [[Brenda Hillman]], ''Pieces of Air in the Epic'', Judge: [[Marjorie Welish]]
** Finalists: [[Ethan Paquin]], ''The Violence'' (Ahsahta Press); [[Aaron Shurin]], ''Involuntary Lyrics'' (Omnidawn Press)
==Deaths==
[[Image:Jerzy Ficowski monument.JPG|right|150px|thumb|[[Jerzy Ficowski|Jerzy Ficowski's]] grave, Warsaw]]
{|
||[[January 4]] || [[Irving Layton]], 93 || [[Canadian]] poet
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||[[February 21]] || [[Gennadiy Aygi]], 71 || [[Chuvash language|Chuvash]]/Russian poet
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||[[February 25]] || [[Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin]], 69 || Ethiopian poet laureate, in [[New York]]
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||[[March 3]] || [[Ivor Cutler]] ||[[Scottish literature|Scots]] poet
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||[[March 15]]|| [[Ken Brewer]], 64 ||[[American poetry|American]] poet
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||[[March 27]] || [[Ian Hamilton Finlay]], 80 || [[English literature|Scots]] poet, writer, artist, gardener
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| [[May 9]] || [[Jerzy Ficowski]], 81 || [[Polish literature|Polish]] poet, writer and translator
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| [[May 14]] || '''[[Stanley Kunitz]]''', 100 || former [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress|U.S. Poet Laureate]]
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| [[May 18]] || [[Gilbert Sorrentino]], 77 || [[American poetry|American]] novelist and poet
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||[[June 26]] || [[Jim Simmerman]], 54 || [[American poetry|American]] poet
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|| [[July 6]] || [[Lisa Bellear]], 45 || [[Australian literature|Australian]] poet
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||[[July 14]] || [[Patricia Goedicke]] || [[American poetry|American]] poet, of pneumonia
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||[[July 26]] || [[Louise Bennett-Coverley]] || [[Jamaican literature|Jamaican]] folk poet known as "Miss Lou"
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||[[July 30]] || [[Trinidad Sánchez Jr.]], 63 ||American Chicano performer/poet (stroke complications)
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||[[November 27]] || [[Győző Határ]], 92 ||Hungarian poet and writer
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||[[November 29]] || [[Mario Cesariny]], 83 || [[Portuguese literature|Portuguese]] painter and surrealist poet
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||[[December 2]] || [[kari edwards]], 52 || [[poet]], [[artist]] and [[gender]] [[activist]]
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==Notes and references==
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*[http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the ''Representative Poetry Online'' Web site, University of Toronto
==See also==
{{portal|Poetry}}
*[[Poetry]]
*[[List of poetry awards]]
{{Schools of poetry}}
[[Category:Years in poetry]]
[[Category:2006 poems]]