1956 in poetry

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Years:	1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

1 Events
2 Works published
- 2.1 Criticism, scholarship and biography
3 Awards and honors
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 See also
7 Notes

[edit] Events

Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath marry
Black Mountain College, the birthplace of the Black Mountain School of poetry, goes defunct, although it doesn't officially close until the spring of 1957, and the final issue of the Black Mountain Review is published in the fall of 1957.
Quadrant magazine was founded in Australia by Richard Krygier, a Polish-Jewish refugee who had been active in social-democrat politics in Europe, and James McAuley, a Catholic poet.
September 6 — The New York Times sent poet Richard Eberhart to San Francisco to report on the poetry scene there. Eberhart's resulting article, published this day in the New York Times Book Review, was titled "West Coast Rhythms" and helped call national attention to Howl as "the most remarkable poem of the young group" of poets who were becoming known as the spokesmen of the Beat generation^[1]

[edit] Works published

John Ashbery, Some Trees, United States
John Berryman, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy^[2]
Gwendolyn Brooks, Bronzeville Boys and Girls
Robert Chapman and Jonathan Bennett, editors, An Anthology of New Zealand Verse, Oxford University Press
Robert Creeley, If You, American^[3]
Charles Doyle, A Splinter of Glass, New Zealand^[4]^[5]
Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems, a signature of the Beat Generation published by City Lights Books, United States
Zbigniew Herbert's first book: Struna światła, Poland
W. Höllerer, editor, Transit, anthology, German^[6]
John Holloway, The Minute and Longer Poems, Hessle, East Yorkshire: Marvell Press^[2]
Anne Lindbergh, The Unicorn, and Other Poems, United States
Norman MacCaig, Riding Lights, London: Hogarth Press^[2]
Harry Martinson, Aniara
Octavio Paz, La estación violenta
Kenneth Rexroth (translator), 30 Spanish Poems of Love and Exile and (translator), 100 Poems from the Chinese, United States
Reed Whittemore, An American Takes a Walk
Richard Wilbur, Things of This World: Poems, New York: Harcourt, Brace^[2], United States

[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography

Rupert Hirschenauer and Albrecht Weber, editors, Wege zum Gedicht, 2 volumes (second volume, on the ballad, in 1963), Germany ^[7]
Walther Killy, Wandlungen des lyrischen Bildes^[7]

[edit] Awards and honors

Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Randall Jarrell appointed this year.
National Book Award for Poetry: W. H. Auden, The Shield of Achilles
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Elizabeth Bishop: Poems - North & South
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Edmund Blunden
Bollingen Prize: Conrad Aiken
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: William Carlos Williams
Adonais Prize (Spain): María C. Lacaci, Humana voz

[edit] Births

October 7 — Diane Ackerman, American poet and naturalist
date not known:
- Henri Cole, American poet
- Annie Finch, American poet, librettist, and theorist
- Forrest Gander, American poet, essayist and translator
- Amy Gerstler, American poet
- Amir Or, Israeli poet

[edit] Deaths

January 31 — A. A. Milne, 74, English author of children's books and children's poetry
March 30 — Edmund Clerihew Bentley, 80, popular English novelist and humorist and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics
June 22 — Walter de la Mare, 83, English poet, short story writer and author of children's books
July 7 — Gottfried Benn (born 1886), German expressionist poet; buried in Dahlem Waldfriedhof, Berlin
July 11 — Dorothy Wellesley, 70, English socialite, author, poet and literary editor
July 8 — Giovanni Papini, 75, Italian poet, essayist, journalist, literary critic, and novelist.
August 31 — Percy MacKaye, 81, American playwright and poet

[edit] See also

Poetry Portal

[edit] Notes

^ Allen Ginsberg, Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Editions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public Reading, Legal Skirmishes, Precursor Texts & Bibliography, edited by Barry Miles [HarperPerennial, 1995], p. 155
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d M. L. Rosenthal, The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, "Selected Bibliography: Individual Volumes by Poets Discussed", pp 334-340
^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
^ <ref>Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837</li> <li id="cite_note-4">'''[[#cite_ref-4|^]]''' [http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/L/LiteraturePoetry/DenisGlover/en "Denis Glover" article] in ''The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed [[April 21]], [[2008]]</li> <li id="cite_note-gape-5">'''[[#cite_ref-gape_5-0|^]]''' Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474</li> <li id="cite_note-aptbpe-6">^ [[#cite_ref-aptbpe_6-0|<sup>'''''a'''''</sup>]] [[#cite_ref-aptbpe_6-1|<sup>'''''b'''''</sup>]] Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474</li></ol></ref>