Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich, née le à Baltimore dans le Maryland et morte le à Santa Cruz, est une poétesse, essayiste, professeure d'université et théoricienne féministe américaine. À partir des années 1970, une part importante de son œuvre est consacrée à son lesbianisme et à son engagement contre l'hégémonie de l'hétérosexualité comme seule norme sociale de la sexualité. Adrienne Cecile Rich est née le 1929, à Baltimore, dans le Maryland.
1995 in poetryNationality 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 poetryNationality 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.
1992 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The Forward Prizes for Poetry in the U.K. are initiated and The Forward Book of Poetry, an associated annual anthology of best British poems, is published for the first time by the Forward Poetry Trust. By 2003, the publication is selling 5,000 to 7,000 copies a year. Each year, 50 to 80 poems are selected. The first wall poems in Leiden are installed.
1984 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). December 19 – Ted Hughes' appointment as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in succession to Sir John Betjeman is announced, Philip Larkin having turned down the post. After Ghazi al-Gosaibi, the Saudi Arabian minister of health, publishes a poem, "A Pen Bought and Sold", that criticizes the corruption and privilege of the country's elite, he is dismissed from his post.
