1951 in poetry
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| Years in poetry: | 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 |
| Years in literature: | 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 19th century 20th century 21st century |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s |
| Years: | 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 |
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[edit] Events
- Poet Cid Corman began Origin magazine in response to the failure of a magazine that Robert Creeley had planned. The magazine typically featured one writer per issue and ran, with breaks, until the mid 1980s. Poets featured included Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Denise Levertov, William Bronk, Theodore Enslin, Charles Olson, Louis Zukofsky, Gary Snyder, Lorine Niedecker, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Paul Blackburn. The magazine also led to the establishment of Origin Press, which published books by a similar range of poets.
- Bad Lord Byron, a film directed by David Macdonald about the Romantic poet
- Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet, translator, literary critic, future (1980) winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, becomes an exile this year.
[edit] Works published
- W.H. Auden, Nones
- Basil Bunting, Seeds, a long poem, published by Poetry magazine
- Charles Causley, Farewell Aggie Weston
- Hugh Kenner, The Poetry of Ezra Pound, highly influential in causing a re-assessment of Pound's poetry
- Robert Lowell, The Mills of the Kavanaughs
- Peter Mason Opie and Iona Margaret Balfour Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
- James Merrill, First Poems
- Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Chateau
- Poems of Today, British poetry anthology, fourth series
- William Carlos Williams:
- Paterson, Book IV
- Collected Earlier Poems
[edit] Awards and honors
- Nobel Prize in Literature: Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish poet, author, playwright and writer
- Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to E.E. Cummings
- National Book Award for Poetry: Wallace Stevens, The Auroras of Autumn
- Pulitzer Prize for poetry: Carl Sandburg, Complete Poems
- Bollingen Prize: John Crowe Ransom
[edit] Births
- March 12 — Susan Musgrave, Canadian poet and children's author
- March 21 — Lesley Choyce, he is a Canadian author of novels, non-fiction, children's books, and poetry
- May 9 — Joy Harjo, Native-American poet, musician, and author
- June 20 — Paul Muldoon Irish poet
- date not known:
- Ralph Angel, American poet and translator
- Robin Becker
- Ron Charach
- Peter Christensen (poet)
- James Galvin
- Garrett Hongo, American poet
- Andrew Hudgins
- Peter Johnson (poet)
- Brigit Pegeen Kelly, American poet and academic, daughter of poet Robert Kelly and married to poet Michael Madonick
- Betsy Struthers, Canadian poet and novelist
- Robert Priest, Canadian poet and children's author
- Afaa M. Weaver
- Robert Wrigley, American poet
- Eddy Yanofsky
- Ray A. Young
[edit] Deaths
- September 18 — Gelett Burgess, 85, American artist, art critic, poet, author, and humorist
- December 4 — Pedro Salinas
- dates not known:
