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2012 in poetry

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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 31 – A Chinese court sentences poet and political dissident Zhu Yufu to a seven-year prison term for "inciting subversion of state power". During Yufu's trial hearing, prosecutors have cited a poem and messages he had sent on the internet. February 13 – In a ceremony at the White House, John Ashbery is awarded the National Humanities Medal and Rita Dove awarded the National Medal of Arts. The honors are bestowed to 15 artists in all by President Barack Obama. April 4 – Günter Grass's poem "What Must Be Said" is first published. Four days later, Eli Yishai, the Israeli Minister for the Interior, declares Grass persona non grata. June 7 – Natasha Trethewey is chosen by the Library of Congress to be the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate. November 29 – A Qatari poet, Muhammad Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami, age 36, is sentenced to life imprisonment for "comments said to be critical of the Qatari leadership," and "attempts to destabilise the country." In February 2013, his sentence is reduced to 15 years in prison. Poetry of the Taliban, an anthology translated from Pashto, is published in English. Les Wicks - Barking Wings (PressPress) Barry McKinnon, Into the Blind World, above/ground press, rob mclennan, Sextet: six poems from Songs for little sleep, above/ground press, Lisa Robertson, Nilling: Prose, Toronto: BookThug Robert Bringhurst, Selected Poems, Copper Canyon Press, Helen Heath, Graft, Victoria University Press Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Bernadette Hall for Best New Zealand Poems 2011, published online this year: John Adams Tusiata Avia Hera Lindsay Bird Peter Bland Rachel Bush Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle Joan Fleming Janis Freegard Rhian Gallagher Rob Hack Dinah Hawken Anna Jackson Brent Kininmont Michele Leggott Helen Lehndorf Kate McKinstry Bill Manhire Harvey Molloy James Norcliffe Rachel O'Neill Marty Smith Rānui Taiapa Tim Upperton Louise Wallace Douglas Write Sean Borodale, Bee Journal, Jonathan Cape Basil Bunting, Bunting's Persia: Translations by Basil Bunting, edited by Don Share, Flood Editions Ben Parker, The Escape Artists, Tall Lighthouse Andy Croft, Nineteen Forty-Eight, Five Leaves Kathleen Jamie, The Overhaul, Scottish poet Ralph Pordzik, Night Passage Across the Sea.

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