2002 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).

List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005

Events

  • March 16 — Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrest and jail poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and dismiss a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticizes the state's Islamic judiciary. In it, the poet accuses some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for their own personal benefit.
  • August 22 — Poet Ron Silliman starts his popular and controversial weblog, Silliman's Blog, which will become one of the most popular blogs devoted largely to contemporary poetry and poetics. (By August 2006, the blog will reach a total of 800,000 hits and get its next 100,000 by early November.).[1]
  • August 27 in the United States; December 8 in Europe — Avril Lavigne's pop song Sk8er Boi is released; it is about the award-winning Irish performance poet Gerard McKeown, whom she has not met, but had seen performing in Belfast, Northern Ireland while on tour there. The single reached number ten on the United States Billboard Hot 100, number eight in the United Kingdom, number three in Australia, number thirteen in Canada and number one in Spain. Lavigne confirms the connection in a 2008 interview.
  • September - Amiri Baraka (b. 1934), an African-American poet and political activist from Newark, New Jersey who was appointed the second Poet Laureate of New Jersey, ignites a controversy and accusations of anti-Semitism with a public reading of "Somebody Blew Up America" at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival near Stanhope, New Jersey.[2] Baraka's poem discussed the September 11th attacks that was highly critical of racism in America, included angry depictions of public figures such as Rudolph Giuliani, Trent Lott, Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Ward Connerly, accused Israel of involvement in the World Trade Center attacks, and supported the theory the that the United States government knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance. Amid public outrage and pressure from state leaders, Baraka was asked to resign as the Poet Laureate by New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey who appointed him to the post two months earlier. Baraka refused.[3] Because there was no legal mechanism provided in the law to remove him as poet laureate, the state legislature and governor abolished the position to remove him from the post effective 2 July 2003.[4]
  • Fulcrum, An annual of poetry and aesthetics is founded in the United States.
  • After Ghazi al-Gosaibi, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Britain, publishes a poem praising a suicide bomber who had killed himself and two Israelis after blowing himself up in a supermarket; the ambassador is recalled home.[5]
  • The office of Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate is instituted (see "Awards and honors" section below).
  • The office of Edinburgh Makar is instituted in Scotland, with Stewart Conn as first incumbent.[6]
  • Influential Chinese literary magazine Tamen ("They/Them") revived as a webzine at www.tamen.net.[7]
  • Bowery Poetry Club, a New York City poetry performance space, founded by Bob Holman.

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

Canada

India, in English

Ireland

  • Vona Groarke, Flight, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Ireland
  • Justin Quinn:
    • Fuselage Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,
    • Gathered Beneath the Storm: Wallace Stevens, Nature and Community, University College of Dublin Press, 2002 (criticism)

New Zealand

Poets in Best New Zealand Poems

Best New Zealand Poems series, an annual online anthology, is started this year with Iain Sharp as the first annual editor. Twenty-five poems by 25 New Zealand poets are selected from the previous year. The first selection is called Best New Zealand Poetry 2001. Unlike The Best American Poetry series, the year named in each edition refers to the year the poems were originally published, not the following year, when the collection is put together and made public. Sharp chose poems published in 2001 from these poets:

United Kingdom

United States

Poets in The Best American Poetry 2002

Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 2002, David Lehman, editor; Robert Creeley, guest editor:

Works published in other languages

China

  • Han Dong:
    • Baba zai tianshang kan wo ("Daddy's Watching Me in Heaven"), Hebei: jiaoyu chubanshe,[7]
    • Jiaocha paodong ("Running Criss-cross"), Dunhuang: wenyi chubanshe[7]
  • He Xiaozhu, 6 ge dongci, huo pingguo ("6 Verbs, or Apples"), Hebei: jiaoyu chubanshe[27]
  • Jimu Langge, Jingqiaoqiao de zuolun ("The silent revolver"), Hebei: jiaoyu chubanshe[28]

French language

Canada, in French

France

India

In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Hindi

Other in India

Poland

Other languages

Awards and honors

Australia

Canada

New Zealand

United Kingdom

United States

Other

Deaths

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

See also

Notes

  1. In his blog entry for Saturday, November 04, 2006 link here Silliman takes note of the following statistics: "In 2002–03, it took 50 weeks to get the first 50,000 visits. The last 100,000 came in just 14 (weeks)".
  2. Pearce, Jeremy. "When poetry seems to matter" in The New York Times (9 February 2003).
  3. Purdy, Matthew. "New Jersey Laureate Refuses to Resign Over Poem" in The New York Times (28 September 2002).
  4. New Jersey State Legislature. "An Act concerning the State poet laureate and repealing P.L.1999, c.228." from Laws of the State of New Jersey (P.L.2003, c.123). Approved 2 July 2003. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  5. No byline, "Ghazi al-Gosaibi, Saudi diplomat, poet, dead at 70", August 16, 2010, Agence France Press, retrieved August 20, 2010
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  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Simon Patten, "Han Dong", article, Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2009
  8. 8.0 8.1 [1] Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
  9. Web page titled "Canadian Poets / P.K. Page, Published Works", at the University of Toronto Library website, retrieved January 3, 2009
  10. "Joe Rosenblatt: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011.
  11. "Notes on Life and Works," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
  12. 12.0 12.1 Web page titled "Meena Alexander", Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
  13. Web page titled "Sujata Bhatt", Sawnet website, retrieved July 27, 2010
  14. Web page titled "Keki Daruwalla", Poetry International website, retrieved July 12, 2010
  15. Nayar, Rana, "Enigma of 'Elphinstonian' arrival!", book review, March 24, 2004, The Tribune of Chandigarh, India, retrieved July 11, 2010
  16. Web page titled "Sudeep Sen", Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010
  17. Web page titled "C. P. Surendran", Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
  18. Web page title "Mallika Sengupta", at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
  19. Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article
  20. 20.0 20.1 Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75–76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
  21. Cilla McQueen – NZ Literature File – LEARN – The University Of Auckland Library
  22. 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.
  23. [2] Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
  24. Web page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008
  25. 25.0 25.1 Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925–2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008
  26. McClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003
  27. Daton, D., "He Xiaozhu", article at the Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
  28. Dayton, D., "Jimu Langge", article at the Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
  29. Web page titled "Denise Desautels" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
  30. Web page titled "Madeleine Gagnon" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
  31. Web page titled "Pierre Nepveu" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
  32. Web page titled "Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
  33. Web page titled "Jean Royer" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
  34. 34.0 34.1 Web page titled "Gulzar" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 10, 2010
  35. Web page titled "Kunwar Narain" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
  36. Web page titled "Rituraj" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
  37. Web page titled "Vinod Kumar Shukla" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved August 3, 2010
  38. Web page titled "Bharat Majhi" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010
  39. Web page titled "Chandrakant Shah" at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010
  40. Web page title "Joy Goswami", at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010
  41. Resume for K. Satchidanandan titled "K. Satchidanandan/Bio data: Highlights" at the National Translation Mission website, retrieved July 11, 2010
  42. Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan", Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
  43. 43.0 43.1 Web page titled "K. Siva Reddy" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010
  44. Web page titled "Kutti Revathi" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
  45. 45.0 45.1 45.2 Web page titled "Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
  46. Web page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti", at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
  47. Web page titled "Yash Sharma" at the Poetry International website, retrieved August 3, 2010
  48. Web pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (in English and Polish), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010
  49. Web pages titled "Miłosz Czesław" (both English version [for translated titles] and Polish version [for diacritical marks]), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010
  50. Web pages titled "Tadeusz Rozewicz" (in English and Polish), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved February 28, 2010
  51. Web page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek", at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
  52. Web page titled "Übersicht erschienener Jahrbücher" at Fischerverlage website, retrieved February 21, 2010
  53. Web page titled "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
  54. Page titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon, 2007
  55. http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/poets/virginia.html Virginia Law and Library of Congress List of Poets Laureate of Virginia
  • [3] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto