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Events

Nikki Giovanni at a Virginia Tech rally
  • March 5: a car bomb was exploded on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. This locale is the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, a winding street filled with bookstores and outdoor book stalls. Named after the famed 10th century classical Arab poet, Al-Mutanabbi, it was an established street for bookselling for hundreds of years and the heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community. On March 8, to remember the tragic event, Baghdad poets presented readings on the remains of the street. [1] This was followed by various poetry readings around the United States commemorating the bombing of the historic center of the literary and intellectual community of Baghdad, many of the readings took place in the final weeks of August 2007. [2]
  • April 17: Nikki Giovanni, a professor of English at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the U.S. state of Virginia, both spoke and recited poetry at the campus convocation commemorating the Virginia Tech massacre of the day before. Giovanni taught the Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho in a poetry class. She had previously approached the department chair to have Cho taken out of her class.[3] "We are the Hokies! We will prevail! We will prevail! We are Virginia Tech!" Giovanni said, bringing the audience to its feet and into a spontaneous cheer. Giovanni closed the ceremony with a chant poem, intoning, "We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on. We are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech... We do not understand this tragedy... No one deserves a tragedy."[3]
  • August 9: Bangladeshi poet Taslima Nasreen was attacked at a book signing in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh by a crowd of protesters who shouted for her death.[4] The attackers consisted of lawmakers and members of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party who objected to her writings on religion and oppression of women. After the attack, India criminally charged Nasreen with "hurting Muslim feelings", punishable by up to three years in jail.[5]
  • The New Yorker magazine announced that longtime poetry editor Alice Quinn was leaving and, as of November, Paul Muldoon, an Irish native and U.S. citizen, would be taking over what The Chronicle of Higher Education called "one of the most powerful positions in American poetry".[6]
  • The Eagles set "An Old-Fashioned Song", a poem by John Hollander, to music (four-part harmony with guitar chords, but mostly singing it a cappella), named it "No More Walks in the Wood" after its first line. They released it on the album, "Long Road Out of Eden". The band added no words to the 21-line poem, and there are no choruses.[7]
  • In Russia, the jury for the Bunin Prize for poetry dissolved itself amid reports of interference and pressure from sponsors. A new jury was formed and awarded the prize to Andrei Dementyev.[8]

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:

Australia

See also: 2007 in Australian literature

  • Judith Bishop, Event
  • Lisa Gorton, Press Release
  • David Malouf, Typewriter Music
  • Les Murray, Selected Poems (Black Inc.) ISBN 9781863954044
  • Dorothy Porter, El Dorado
  • Petra White, The Incoming Tide

Australian anthologies

  • Peter Rose, editor, Best of Australian Poetry (Black Inc) ISBN 9781863954174
Poets in Best Australian Poetry 2007

The Best Australian Poetry 2007 (ISBN 9780702236075), by series editors Bronwyn Lea and Martin Duwell; with 2007 guest editor John Tranter (University of Queensland Press), published work by these 40 poets:

Canada

Ireland

New Zealand

Poets in Best New Zealand Poems

These poets wrote the 25 poems selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2006, published this year:

  • Geoff Cochrane
  • Murray Edmond
  • David Eggleton
  • Cliff Fell
  • Brian Flaherty

United Kingdom

Glyn Maxwell in 2007

United States

  • Rae Armantrout, Next Life (Wesleyan University Press), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year", 92 pages, ISBN 0-8195-6820-1
  • John Ash, The Parthian Stations (Carcanet), ISBN 1857548728
  • John Ashbery:
    • A Worldly Country: New Poems Ecco/HarperCollins, ISBN 0061173835 ISBN 9780061173837
    • Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems, Ecco/HarperCollins, ISBN 0061367176 ISBN 9780061367175
  • W. H. Auden, Collected Poems, edited by Edward Mendelson (Modern Library) (Anglo-American poet), posthumous
  • Mary Jo Bang, Elegy, Graywolf, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
  • Roger Bonair-Agard, Tarnish and Masquerade (Cypher Books, Rattapallax Press)
  • Yosa Buson (1716–1783), Haiku Master Buson, translated from the Japanese by Edith Shiffert and (posthumous) Yuki Sawa, University of Washington Press, ISBN 1893996816; claimed by the publisher to be "the only translation of the work of this important haiku poet in English"
  • Laynie Browne, Daily Sonnets, Counterpath Press
  • Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned, edited by John Martin, Ecco/HarperCollins
  • Kelly Cherry, Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press), ISBN 978-0807132630
  • Henri Cole, Blackbird and Wolf (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Jim Daniels, Now Showing (Ahadada Books)
  • Edward Dorn:
    • Way More West, edited by Michael Rothenberg, Penguin Books ISBN 978-0143038696 (posthumous)
    • Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes, edited by Joseph Richey, University of Michigan Press ISBN 978-0472068623 (posthumous), criticism
  • Mark Doty, Dog Years (HarperCollins)
  • Michael Dumanis, My Soviet Union, (University of Massachusetts Press, Juniper Prize for Poetry)
  • Amy England, Victory and Her Opposites, Tupelo Press
  • Aaron Fagan, Garage (Salt Publishing)
  • Jessica Fisher, Frail-Craft, foreword by Louise Glück (Yale UP)
  • Graham Foust, Necessary Stranger, Flood Editions
  • Nikki Giovanni, Acolytes: Poems, William Morrow
  • Albert Goldbarth, The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems 1972–2007, Graywolf
  • Noah Eli Gordon, Novel Pictorial Noise, HarperCollins
  • Mildred White Greear, Moving Gone Dancing (Fall Line Arts Press), ISBN 978-0-9799379-0-3
  • Linda Gregerson, Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin)
  • Paul Guest, Notes For My Body Double, University of Nebraska
  • Forrest Hamer, Rift (Four Way Books)
  • Matthea Harvey, Modern Life, Graywolf, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
  • Robert Hass, Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005 (Ecco/Harper-Collins), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
  • Christian Hawkey, Citizen Of, Wave Books
  • Brian Henry, The Stripping Point, Counterpath Press
  • Zbigniew Herbert, The Collected Poems: 1956-1998 (Ecco), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
  • Bob Hicok, This Clumsy Living, Pittsburgh University Press
  • Anselm Hollo, Guests of Space, Coffee House
  • Fanny Howe, The Lyrics, Graywolf Press
  • Susan Howe, Souls of the Labadie Tract (New Directions)
  • Eugen Jebeleanu, Secret Weapon: The Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu, translated from Romanian by Matthew Zapruder, (Coffee House)
  • Pierre Joris, Meditations on the Stations of Mansour Al-Halla, 1 – 21, (Anchorite Press, Albany, NY)
  • James Browning Kepple, Kim Göransson, Couplet (pretend genius [press])
  • Henia Karmel and Ilona Karmel, A Wall of Two: Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Kraków to Buchenwald and Beyond, adapted by Fanny Howe, University of California Press
  • Karl Kirchwey, The Happiness of This World[8]
  • Yusef Komunyakaa and Chad Gracia, Gilgamesh: A Verse Play, Wesleyan University Press
  • Hiram Larew, More Than Anything (VRZHU Press) ISBN 978-1-4303-1406-6
  • James Longenbach, Draft of a Letter (Spring)
  • Martial, Martial: The World of the Epigram, translated by William Fitzgerald, University of Chicago Press (posthumous)
  • Michael Meyerhofer Leaving Iowa (Briery Creek Press)
  • William Michaelian:
    • Another Song I Know (Cosmopsis Books) ISBN 978-0-9796599-1-1
    • Winter Poems (Cosmopsis Books), ISBN 978-0-9796599-0-4
  • Jennifer Moxley The Line (The Post-Apollo Press)
  • Ann E. Mullaney, translator, Teofilo Folengo (1491-1544), Baldo, Volume 1, Books I-XII, translated from a blend of Latin and various Italian dialects (Harvard University Press), posthumous
  • Laura Mullen, Murmur, Futurepoem Books
  • Kate Northrup, Things Are Disappearing Here: Poems Braziller/Persea
  • Alice Notley In the Pines (Penguin Books)
  • Michael O'Brien, Sleeping and Waking, Flood, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
  • George Oppen, Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers (edited by Stephen Cope), University of California Press, 2007 (publication was 2007, but not available until 2008)
  • Terry Philips, Oulipoems (Ahadada Books)
  • Carl Phillips, Quiver of Arrows: Selected poems (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
  • Tom Pickard, The Ballad of Jamie Allan, Flood, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
  • Robert Pinsky, Gulf Music (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), ISBN 0374167494 ISBN 978-0374167493
  • J. E. Pitts The Weather of Dreams (David Robert Books)
  • Meghan O'Rourke, Halflife (Norton)
  • Bin Ramke, Tendril, Omnidawn
  • Donald Revell, A Thief of Strings, Alice James Books
  • Adrienne Rich, Poetry and Commitment (Norton)
  • Kim Roberts, The Kimnama (VRZHU Press) ISBN 978-1-4303-1407-3
  • Martha Ronk, Vertigo, Coffee House Press
  • J. Allyn Rosser, Foiled Again, (Fall) Ivan R. Dee
  • Jerome Rothenberg, China Notes & The Treasures of DunHuang (Ahadada Books)
  • Tadeusz Rozewicz, New Poems, Archipelago, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
  • Leslie Scalapino, Day Ocean State of Stars' Night: Poems & Writings 1989 & 1999-2006 (Green Integer)
  • Grace Schulman, The Broken String[8]
  • W. G. Sebald, Unrecounted, New Directions
  • David Shapiro, New and Selected Poems, 1965-2006 (Overlook Press)
  • Ron Silliman, The Age of Huts (complete) (UC Press)
  • Tom Sleigh, Space Walk[8]
  • Cathy Song, Cloud Moving Hands, University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Rod Smith, Deed (Iowa UP)
  • Gary Soto, A Simple Plan[8]
  • Mark Strand, New Selected Poems, by a Canadian native long living in and published in the United States
  • Cole Swensen, The Glass Age, Alice James Books
  • Tony Tost, Complex Sleep (Iowa UP)
  • David Trinidad, The Late Show: Poems Turtle Point
  • Nance Van Winckel, No Starling, University of Washington Press, ISBN 9780295987354
  • Derek Walcott, Selected Poems, edited by Edward Baugh (Faber), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
  • G. C. Waldrep, Disclamor, BOA Editions
  • Philip Whalen, The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen, Wesleyan University Press
  • John Wieners, A Book of Prophecies (Bootstrap Press
  • C. D. Wright, One Big Self: An Investigation, a book-length poem, Copper Canyon
  • C. Dale Young, The Second Person (Four Way Books)
  • Kevin Young, For the Confederate Dead, (Knopf)

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Anthologies in the United States

Poets in The Best American Poetry 2007

These poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2007, with David Lehman, general editor, and Heather McHugh, guest editor (who selected the poetry) (Scribner ISBN 0743299736):

Other in English

Works published in other languages

Denmark

  • Annette Kure Andersen, Andetsteds ("Elsewhere")[13]
  • Thomas Boberg, Gæstebogen ("Guest Book")[13]
  • Anne-Louise Bosmans, Villa ("Villa")[13]
  • Duna Ghali, En have med duft af mand ("A Garden with the Scent of Man")[13]
  • Simon Grotrian:
    • Din frelser bliver din klippe ("Your Savior is Your Rock"), psalms[13]
    • Tyve sorte kinder ("Twenty Black Cheeks")[13]
  • Lone Hørslev, Lige mig ("Me to a T")[13]
  • Niels Lyngsø, 39 digte til det brændende bibliotek ("39 Poems for a Burning Library")[13]
  • Hendrik Nordbrandt, Besøgstid ("Visiting Hours")[13]
  • Palle Sigsgaard, Glitrende støv danser ("Glittering Dust Dances"), a short collection[13]
  • Peter Christensen Teilmann, Friværdi ("Equity")[13]

France

  • Guillaume Apollinaire, Je pense à toi mon Lou ("I Think of You My Lou"), publisher: Textuel; writings published for the first time
  • Louise Gaggini, Les Enfants sont la mémoire des hommes ("Children Are the Memory of Men"), publisher: Multitudes, a poetic tale for the benefit of UNICEF
  • Jean Grosjean, Arpèges et paraboles, ("Arpège and parables"), publisher: Gallimard
  • Claude Esteban, La Mort à distance ("Death at a Distance"), published posthumously, publisher: Gallimard

Anthologies published in France

  • L'Année poétique 2007 ("The Poetry Year 2007"), publisher: Seghers; 125 contemporary poems; anthology
  • Jean Orizet, editor, Anthologie de la poésie française ("Anthology of French Poetry"), publisher: Larousse, anthology
  • Christian Poslianec, editor, Duos d'amour, ("Love Duets"), publisher: Seghers, anthology of love poems

Spanish language

Latin America

Other languages

  • Qaysar Aminpur, Dastur-i zaban-i eshq (“A Grammar of Love”), the best-selling poetry book this year in Iran[8]
  • Dimitris P. Kraniotis, Dunes, published in Bucharest (Romania), ISBN 978-973-8430-44-0 (bilingual edition, French and Romanian translation of selected poems), Greece
  • Suzan 'Ulaywan, Bayt min sukkar, ("A House Made of Sugar"), Arabic[8]

Awards and honors

Australia

Canada

New Zealand

United Kingdom

United States

From the Poetry Society of America

Awards and honors given elsewhere

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

Notes

  1. ^ Iraq's Cultural Curators Defy Sectarian Unrest
  2. ^ ::Arc Poetry::Portage link::Mutanabbi Street Memorial Reading::
  3. ^ a b Police: Cho taken to mental health center in 2005
  4. ^ Taslima Nasreen, Poet, Attacked in India: Men Attack Her; Other Men Try to Sheild (sic) Her
  5. ^ CBC.ca Arts - India to charge writer Nasreen with 'hurting Muslim feelings'
  6. ^ [1]Howard, Jennifer, "New Gatekeeper of Poetry at 'The New Yorker' Will Be Princeton Professor" item on the "News blog" of The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 21, 2007, accessed October 6, 2007
  7. ^ Boynton, Cynthia Wolfe, "Venerable Poet's Words To a Pop Music Beat", article, The New York Times, Connecticut and the Region section, February 10, 2008, p 6
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y "Literature" article, with numerous pages by different authors on literature in various nations and languages, Britannica Book of the Year 2007, published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2008, online version retrieved January 14, 2009
  9. ^ "Publications" Web page at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2
  10. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article
  11. ^ a b O’Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page, titled "Carol Ann Duffy" at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. Archived 2009-05-08.
  12. ^ Joshi, Manju (16). "Words of wisdom". India: The Tribune. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20071216/spectrum/book2.htm. Retrieved January 1, 2009.  
  13. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k van der Liet, Henk, translated by Russell Dees, "Images, Sounds and the Return of the Divine? Some Forays into Danish Poetry 2007", Danish Poetry Magazine, Spring 2008, retrieved January 1, 2010
  14. ^ CHARLES SIMIC RECEIVES THE WALLACE STEVENS AWARD Press release from Academy of American Poets (August 2, 2007)
  15. ^ a b c d e "Poetry in the News 2007" web page at the Poetry Society website, retrieved November 30, 2008
  16. ^ UBUWEB Historical: Emmett Williams, USA | 1925-2007
  17. ^ Shimon Tzabar, 81, dies in London - Haaretz - Israel News
  18. ^ Robert Dickson n'est plus
  19. ^ globeandmail.com: Arts
  20. ^ Topic Galleries - themorningcall.com
  21. ^ Pulitzer Prize-winning Connecticut poet dies - Boston.com
  22. ^ Sarah Hannah, 40; teacher, poet known for incisiveness, fervence - The Boston Globe
  23. ^ "Remembering Poet and Translator Michael Hamburger - Forward.com"
  24. ^ Nazik al-Malaika, 85; the exiled Iraqi poet wrote in free verse - Los Angeles Times
  25. ^ San Jose Mercury News - Mary Ellen Solt, 86, poet
  26. ^ Blast Kills Iraqi Peace Poet
  27. ^ Javno - Croatia
  28. ^ VietNamNet - Talented female poet dies
  29. ^ Poet Philip Booth dies at 81
  30. ^ [2]
  31. ^ "Australian poet, Noel Rowe dies", Poetry International website, ("Sydney poet, Noel Rowe died on July 11th after a long illness"), retrieved December 21, 2008
  32. ^ PASSINGS - Dmitri Prigov, 66; artist and influential poet of the post-Soviet era - Los Angeles Times
  33. ^ Topic Galleries - chicagotribune.com
  34. ^ CBC.ca Arts - Canadian poet Margaret Avison dies at 89
  35. ^ Top N.Y. Poet Kills Self
  36. ^ Veteran poet Khalid Alig passes away -DAWN - Top Stories; August 16, 2007
  37. ^ Acclaimed Writer Grace Paley Dies at 84 - washingtonpost.com
  38. ^ "Never forgotten", page 2, web page at the Western and Cowboy Poetry at the Bar D Ranch" website of the Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry Inc., retrieved December 21, 2008
  39. ^ "He was a friend of poets..." from poet Pierre Joris's weblog
  40. ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/nov/05/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries "James MichiePublisher, translator and poet whose themes were love, dreams and death"], obituary, The Guardian, November 5, 2007; retrieved November 30, 2008
  41. ^ Fox, Margalit, "Paul Roche, Poet in Bloomsbury Group, Is Dead at 91", obituary, The New York Times, November 25, 2007, retrieved December 22, 2008
  42. ^ "Jaleh Esfahani: Iranian poet and activistwhose rich and prolific output across sixty years of exile told of veils, walls and the unheard voices of women", obituary, The Times, December 18, 2007, retrieved January 14, 2009
  43. ^ Fox, Margalit, "Diane Wood Middlebrook, Biographer, Dies at 68", obituary, The New York Times, December 17, 2007, retrieved December 10, 2008

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