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Events

★ Samizdat poetry magazine founded in Chicago (it will run until 2004).

★ Skanky Possum poetry magazine founded in Austin, Texas.

Works published

★ John Ashbery:

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★ ''The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry'' (Ecco) collection of the poet's work from 1956 to 1972; a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"

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★ ''Wakefulness''

★ Ted Berrigan, ''Great Stories of the Chair''

★ Anne Carson, ''Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse'' (Knopf); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"

★ Billy Collins, ''Picnic, Lightning'' (ISBN 0-8229-4066-3)

★ Deborah Garrison, ''A Working Girl Can't Win: And Other Poems'', (Random House); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"

★ Lee Harwood, ''Morning Light''

★ Ted Hughes:

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★ ''Birthday Letters,'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"

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★ ''Tales from Ovid'', (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"

★ David Lehman, general editor, Harold Bloom, guest editor, ''The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997''

★ William Logan, ''Vain Empires: Poems'', (Penguin, paper); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"

★ Michael Palmer, ''The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972-1995'' (New Directions), first retrospective of Palmer's work selected by the author himself reprinting much work that had gone out of print

★ Marie Ponsot, ''The Bird Catcher'', winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

★ Frederick Seidel ''Going Fast: Poems'', (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"

★ Mark Strand, ''Blizzard of One: Poems'', (Knopf); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"

★ James Tate, ''Shroud of the Gnomes: Poems'', (Ecco); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"

★ Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, ''Well Well Reality'' (The Post-Apollo Press)

=Poets in ''The Best American Poetry 1998''

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Poems from these 75 poets were in ''The Best American Poetry 1999'', general editor David Lehman, guest editor John Hollander:

★ Jonathan Aaron

★ Agha Shahid Ali

★ Dick Allen

★ A. R. Ammons

★ Daniel Anderson

★ James Applewhite

★ Craig Arnold

★ Sarah Arvio

★ John Ashbery

★ Frank Bidart

★ Robert Bly

★ George Bradley

★ John Bricuth

★ Anne Carson

★ Turner Cassity

★ Henri Cole

★ Billy Collins

★ Alfred Corn

★ James Cummins

★ Tom Disch

★ Denise Duhamel

★ Lynn Emanuel

★ Irving Feldman

★ Emily Fragos

★ Debora Greger

★ Allen Grossman

★ Thom Gunn

★ Marilyn Hacker

★ Rachel Hadas

★ Donald Hall

★ Joseph Harrison

★ Anthony Hecht

★ Daryl Hine

★ Edward Hirsch

★ Richard Howard

★ Andrew Hudgins

★ Mark Jarman

★ Donald Justice

★ Brigit Pegeen Kelly

★ Karl Kirchwey

★ Carolyn Kizer

★ Kenneth Koch

★ John Koethe

★ Rika Lesser

★ Phillis Levin

★ Philip Levine

★ Rebecca McClanahan

★ J. D. McClatchy

★ Heather McHugh

★ Sandra McPherson

★ W. S. Merwin

★ Robert Mezey

★ A. F. Moritz

★ Thylias Moss

★ William Mullen

★ Eric Ormsby

★ Jacqueline Osherow

★ Robert Pinsky

★ Reynolds Price

★ Wyatt Prunty

★ Stephen Sandy

★ Alan Shapiro

★ Robert B. Shaw

★ Charles Simic

★ Mark Strand

★ James Tate

★ Sidney Wade

★ Derek Walcott

★ Rosanna Warren

★ Rachel Wetzsteon

★ Susan Wheeler

★ Richard Wilbur

★ C. K. Williams

★ Greg Williamson

★ Charles Wright

French language

France

★ Salah Stetie, ''Fievre et guerison de l'icone''

★ Jean-Michel Maulpoix, ''Domaine public''
===Spain===

★ Matilde Camus, ''Fuerza creativa'' ("Creative strength")

Other

★ Mary Oliver, ''Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse''

Awards and honors

===Australia===

★ C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Coral Hull, ''Broken Land''

★ Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: No awards were presented this year

★ Mary Gilmore Prize: Lucy Dougan, ''Memory Shell''
===Canada===

★ Atlantic Poetry Prize

★ Gerald Lampert Award

★ Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Alice Munro: ''The Love of a Good Woman''

★ Pat Lowther Award

★ Prix Alain-Grandbois

★ Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award
===United Kingdom===

★ Cholmondeley Award: Roger McGough, Robert Minhinnick, Anne Ridler, Ken Smith

★ Eric Gregory Award: Mark Goodwin, Joanne Limburg, Patrick McGuinness, Kona Macphee, Esther Morgan, Christiania Whitehead, Frances Williams

★ Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Ted Hughes, ''Birthday Letters'' (Faber and Faber)

★ Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Paul Farley, ''The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You'' (Picador)

★ Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Les Murray

★ T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Ted Hughes, ''Birthday Letters'' (Faber and Faber)

★ Whitbread Award for poetry and for book of the year: Ted Hughes, ''Birthday Letters'' (Faber and Faber)
===United States===

★ Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Shara McCallum, ''The Water Between Us''

★ Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: X.J. Kennedy

★ American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Horton Foote

★ American Academy of Arts and Letters: Robert Fagles elected a member of the Literature Department

★ Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Sherod Santos, "Elegy for My Sister", and (separately) Neil Azevedo, "Caspar Hauser Songs"

★ Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Frank Bidart, ''Desire''

★ National Book Award for poetry: Gerald Stern, ''This Time: New and Selected Poems''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Charles Wright, ''Black Zodiac''

★ Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: W.S. Merwin

★ Wallace Stevens Award: A. R. Ammons

★ William Carlos Williams Award: John Balaban, ''Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems'', Judge: Robert Phillips

★ Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Charles Simic

Deaths

★ January 23 — John Forbes, 47, Australian poet

★ March 23 — Hilda Morley, 81, American poet, after a fall

★ April 19 — Octavio Paz, 84, Mexican writer, poet, diplomat, and winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature

★ April 30 — Nizar Qabbani, 75, Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher

★ June 25 — John Malcolm Brinnin, American poet and critic

★ July 1 — Martin Seymour-Smith, British poet, critic and biographer

★ July 14 — Miroslav Holub, 75, a Czech poet and immunologist

★ July 28 — Zbigniew Herbert, influential Polish poet, essayist and moralist

★ October 28 — Ted Hughes, 68, English poet and British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death

★ date not known — Aimee Joan Grunberger, 44, of cancer

★ date not known — Michalis Katsaros, Greek

See also

★ Poetry

★ List of years in poetry

★ List of poetry awards