1994 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). May 23 — C. P. Cavafy's poem "Ithaka" is read at the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by her longtime companion, Maurice Tempelsman. October 6 — First annual National Poetry Day in the United Kingdom, established by William Sieghart. October 31 (Halloween) — 15,000 copies of 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 gives a "death and taxes" reading of the poem. Allen Ginsberg sells his papers to Stanford University for $1 million. Wyn Cooper's "All I Wanna Do" is put to music by Sheryl Crow who makes it the United States' No. 1 hit rock tune. Welsh poet Tony Curtis becomes Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan. Poetry Canada Review folds, the publication was founded in 1978 by Clifton Whiten in order to publish and review poetry from across Canada. 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, 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." Pablo Neruda's 1952 stay in a villa owned by 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. Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Robert Adamson Waving to Hart Crane Jennifer Harrison: Michelangelo's Prisoners, winner of the 1995 Anne Elder Award for first book of poetry; North Fitzroy: Black Pepper Les Murray: Collected Poems, Port Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia Translations from the Natural World David Rowthbaum, New and Selected Poems (1945-93) Christian Bök, Crystallography Roo Borson, Night Walk, (nominated for a Governor General's Award) American-Canadian Margaret Christakos, Other Words for Grace (Stratford, Ontario: Mercury Press) George Elliott Clarke, Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems 1978–1993.

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Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Cecile Rich (ˈædriən ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse". Rich criticized rigid forms of feminist identities, and valorized what she coined the "lesbian continuum", which is a female continuum of solidarity and creativity that impacts and fills women's lives.

1995 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 16 – It is announced that 300 poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge have been discovered. February 17 – Sotheby's announce discovery of four Walt Whitman notebooks. March 1 – The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea (Wales) is opened by Jimmy Carter. May 26 – Cannes Film Festival première of movie Dead Man, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, about a man named William Blake on a trek through the American West who is taken as the resurrected Romantic poet by a character named Nobody.

1991 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Forward Poetry Prize created Dana Gioia, writing in The Atlantic Monthly suggests (in an article titled "Can Poetry Matter?") that poets recite the works of other poets at public readings. Joseph Brodsky, the United States poet laureate, suggests in The New Republic that an anthology of American poetry be put beside the Bible and telephone directory in every hotel room in the country.