1998 in poetry
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Events
[edit]- May 12 — John Montague is named as first holder of The Ireland Chair of Poetry.
- August — English poet and playwright Tony Harrison's film-poem Prometheus is first shown.
- Fall — Skanky Possum poetry magazine founded in Austin, Texas.
- Samizdat poetry magazine founded in Chicago (it will run until 2004).
Works published in English
[edit]Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
- Robert Gray, New Selected Poems
- Jennifer Harrison, Dear B (Black Pepper)
- Frieda Hughes, Wooroloo, English-born Australian poet, originally published in United States by Harper Flamingo
- John Leonard, editor, Australian Verse: An Oxford Anthology, Melbourne: Oxford University Press (anthology)
- Philip Salom, New and Selected Poems. (Fremantle Arts Centre) ISBN 978-1-86368-218-3
- John Tranter, Late Night Radio, Polygon Press
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Whirling, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Gary Barwin, Outside the Hat, (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-030-7
- Stephen Cain, dislexicon (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-027-7
- Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Margaret Christakos, The Moment Coming (Oakville: ECW)
- Don Domanski, Parish of the Psychic Moon
- Louis Dudek, The Poetry of Louis Dudek. Ottawa: The Golden Dog.[1]
- Paul Dutton, Aurealities, (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-0-88910-414-3
- Michael Holmes, Satellite Dishes from the Future Bakery, (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-004-8
- Sylvia Legris, Iridium Seeds
- Dorothy Livesay, Archive for Our Times: Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of Dorothy Livesay, Irvine Dean ed. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.[2]
- Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart; New York: Knopf, 1999[3] ISBN 0-375-40559-3
- E. J. Pratt, Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Sandra Djwa, W.J. Keith, and Zailig Pollock ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.[4]
Canadian anthologies
[edit]- Allan Forrie, Patrick O'Rourke, and Glen Sorestad, editors, In the Clear: A Contemporary Canadian Poetry Anthology, Saskatoon: Thistledown Press
- Kwame Dawes, editor, Wheel and Come Again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry, Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane
- Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, The Transfiguring Places ( Poetry in English ), Ravi Dayal, New Delhi, ISBN 81-7530-019-1[5]
- K. Satchidanandan, How to go to the Tao Temple, Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi.[6]
- Dilip Chitre, The Mountain, Pune: Vijaya Chitre[7]
- Dermot Bolger, Taking my Letters Back: New and Selected Poems, Dublin: New Island Books[8]
- Ciaran Carson:
- The Alexandrine Plan, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-218-9
- The Twelfth of Never, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-235-6
- Peter Fallon, News of the World, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-214-1
- Raewyn Alexander, Concrete, Auckland: Penguin[9]
- Alan Brunton, Moonshine, Bumper Books[10]
- Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie, editors, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Melbourne; Auckland: Oxford University Press
- Kate Camp, Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars, Victoria University Press
- Ciarán Carson: The Alexandrine Plan, (adaptations of sonnets by Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud); Gallery :Press, Wake Forest University Press
- Carol Ann Duffy, The Pamphlet,[11] Anvil Press Poetry[12]
- Paul Farley, The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You
- Salena Godden, The Fire People
- Seamus Heaney:
- Audenesque, Maeght
- Translator, Beowulf[11]
- Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996, Faber & Faber; in the United States, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux; a New York Times "notable book of the year" for 1999
- Paul Henry, The Milk Thief, Seren
- Ted Hughes:
- Birthday Letters, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a verse chronicle of the author's relationship with Sylvia Plath, his late wife; a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Translator, Phedre[11]
- Jackie Kay, Off Colour United Kingdom
- Peter Levi, Reed Music[11]
- Kevin MacNeil, Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides, Scottish poet published in Scotland
- Andrew Motion, Selected Poems 1976–1997[11]
- Paul Muldoon, Hay[11]
- Carol Rumens, Holding Pattern[11]
- Jo Shapcott, My Life Asleep[11]
- Jon Stallworthy, Rounding the Horn[11]
Anthologies in the United Kingdom
[edit]- Simon Armitage and Robert Crawford, editors, Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland Since 1945, Viking, ISBN 978-0-670-86829-2
- Sean O'Brien, editor, The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland after 1945 (Picador), anthology
- Lloyd Searwar, editor, They Came in Ships: An Anthology of Indo-Guyanese Prose and Poetry, Leeds: Peepal Tree
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
[edit]- Sean O'Brien, The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Bloodaxe), criticism
- John Heath-Stubbs, The literary essays of John Heath-Stubbs, edited by A.T. Tolley
- Michael Schmidt, Lives of the Poets, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
- John Ashbery:
- 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"
- Wakefulness
- Renée Ashley, The Various Reasons of Light
- Ted Berrigan, Great Stories of the Chair
- Henri Cole, The Visible Man
- Billy Collins, Picnic, Lightning (ISBN 0-8229-4066-3)
- Fanny Howe, Q
- 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
- Kenneth Koch, Straits: Poems, New York: Knopf [13]
- William Logan, Vain Empires: Poems, (Penguin, paper); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- W. S. Merwin:
- Translator, East Window: The Asian Translations, translated poems from earlier collections, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
- The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative, a "novel-in-verse" New York: Knopf[14]
- 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
- Carl Phillips, From the Devotions[15]
- 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"; by a Canadian native long living in and published in the United States
- Patti Smith, Patti Smith Complete
- James Tate, Shroud of the Gnomes: Poems, (Ecco); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Richard Tayson, The Apprentice of Fever, winner of the 1997 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
- Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Well Well Reality (The Post-Apollo Press)
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
[edit]- Laurence Breiner, An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, Cambridge University Press, scholarship[16]
- Kenneth Koch, Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry, New York: Scribner[13]
- Eric L. Haralson, editor, Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn
- Mary Oliver, Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
Anthologies in the United States
[edit]- Barbara Tran, Monique T. D. Truong, and Luu Truong Khoi, editors, Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, New York: Asian American Writers' Workshop
Poets in The Best American Poetry 1998
[edit]Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1999, general editor David Lehman, guest editor John Hollander:
Works published in other languages
[edit]Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
- Klaus Høeck; Denmark:
- Inger Christensen, Samlede digte ("Collected Poems")[18]
French language
[edit]- Olivier Barbarant, Odes dérisoires et quelques autres un peu moins, publisher: Editions Champ Vallon, ISBN 978-2-87673-272-8
- Salah Stetie, Fievre et guerison de l'icone
- Jean-Michel Maulpoix, Domaine public
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
- Amarjit Chandan, Chhanna, Navyug, New Delhi; Punjabi-language[19]
- Anamika, Anushtup, Delhi: Kitab Ghar; Hindi-language[20]
- Gagan Gill, Yah Akanksha Samay Nahin, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, New Delhi, 1998, Bharatiya Jnanpith; Hindi-language[21]
- K. Satchidanandan, Apoornam, ("Imperfect"); Malayalam-language[6]
- Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih, Ban Sngewthuh ia ka Poitri ("Understanding Poetry"), Shillong: Gautam Brothers; Khasi-language[22]
- Mallika Sengupta; Hindi-language:
- Meyeder Aa Aaa Ka Kha, Kolkata: Prativas Publication[23]
- Translator, Akaler Madhye Saras, translation from the original Hindi of Kedarnath Singh, Kolkata: Sahitya Akademi[23]
- Manushya Puthiran, Itamum Iruppum, Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathipagam, Tamil language[24]
- Prathibha Nandakumar, Kavadeyata ("Game of Cowry"), Bangalore: Kannada Sangha, Christ College[25]
- Raghavan Atholi, Mozhimattam, Kottayam: Sahitya Pravarthaka Cooperative Society (SPCS)[26]
- Rajendra Bhandari, Kshar/Akshar ("Perishable/ Imperishable"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Jana Paksha Prakashan; Nepali-language[27]
- Varavara Rao (better known as "VV"), Aa Rojulu ("Those Days"), Hyderabad: Akruti Printers[28][29]
- Stanisław Barańczak, Chirurgiczna precyzja ("Surgical Precision"), Krakow: a5[30]
- Zbigniew Herbert:
- Ewa Lipska:
- Jan Twardowski:
- Adam Zagajewski, Trzej aniołowie, Three Angels (sic) Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie[34]
- Dejan Stojanović, Krugovanje: 1978–1987 (Circling),[35] Second Edition, Narodna knjiga–Alfa, Beograd
- Matilde Camus, Fuerza creativa ("Creative strength")
Other languages
[edit]- Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Marcel Beyer, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1998/99 ("Poetry Yearbook 1998/99"), publisher: Beck; anthology[36]
- Ndoc Gjetja, Dhjata ime ("My Testament"); Albania[37]
- Haim Gouri Ha-Shirim ("The Poems"), in two volumes by an Israeli writing in Hebrew[38]
- Chen Kehua, Yinwei siwang er jingying de fanfu shipian ("Engaging in a Complicated Poetry for the Sake of Death ") Chinese (Taiwan)[39]
- Maria Luisa Spaziani, La traversata dell'oasi, Italy
- Rahman Henry, Banbhojoner Moto Aundhokar ( Darkness as Picnic is), Bengali
Awards and honors
[edit]- 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
- Archibald Lampman Award: Sandra Nicholls, Woman of Sticks, Woman of Stones
- Atlantic Poetry Prize: Carmelita McGrath, To the New World
- Gerald Lampert Award: Mark Sinnett, The Landing
- 1998 Governor General's Awards: Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems (English); Suzanne Jacob, La Part de feu / Le Deuil de la rancune (French)
- Pat Lowther Award: Barbara Nickel, The Gladys Elegies
- Prix Alain-Grandbois: Paul Chanel Malenfant, Fleuves
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Patricia Young, What I Remember from My Time on Earth
- Prix Émile-Nelligan: Tony Tremblay, Rue Pétrole-Océan
- Sahitya Akademi Award : Arun Kamal for Naye Ilake Mein
- Poetry Society India National Poetry Competition : K. Srilata for In Santa Cruz, Diagnosed Home Sick
- Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
- Montana New Zealand Book Awards (no award given in poetry category this year) First-book award for poetry: Kapka Kassabova, All Roads Lead to the Sea, Auckland University Press
- 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)
- National Poetry Competition : Caroline Carver for Horse Underwater
- 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
- American Book Award: Angela Y. Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
- American Book Award: Allison Hedge Coke, Dog Road Woman, Coffee House Press "American Book Award 1998"
- AML Award for poetry to Alex Caldiero for Various Atmospheres: Poems and Drawings
- 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
- Poet Laureate of Virginia: Joseph Awad, two year appointment 1998 to 2000[40]
- 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
- Whiting Awards: Nancy Eimers, Daniel Hall, James Kimbrell, Charles Harper Webb, Greg Williamson
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Charles Simic
Births
[edit]- Amanda Gorman, American poet
Deaths
[edit]Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 23 — John Forbes, 47 (born 1915), Australian poet
- February 8
- Enoch Powell, 85 (born 1912), British MP from 1950 to 1987, classicist and poet
- Niall Sheridan, 85 (born 1912), Irish poet, fiction writer and broadcaster
- March 23 — Hilda Morley, 81 (born 1916), American poet, after a fall
- April 19 — Octavio Paz, 84 (born 1914), Mexican writer, poet, diplomat and winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature
- April 21 — Ivan Chtcheglov, 65 (born 1933), French political theorist, activist and poet
- April 30 — Nizar Qabbani, 75 (born 1923), Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher of Arabic poetry
- May 29 — Philip O'Connor, 81 (born 1916), English writer and surrealist poet
- June 25 — John Malcolm Brinnin, 81 (born 1916), American poet and critic
- July 1 — Martin Seymour-Smith, 70 (born 1928), English poet, critic and biographer
- July 14 — Miroslav Holub, 75 (born 1923), Czech poet and immunologist
- July 28 — Zbigniew Herbert, 73 (born 1924), influential Polish poet, essayist and moralist
- August 26 — Ryūichi Tamura 田村隆, 75 (born 1923), Japanese Shōwa period poet, essayist and translator of English-language novels and poetry
- October 25 – Dick Higgins, 60 (born 1938), English-born poet, composer and early Fluxus artist with ties to the Language poets
- October 28 — Ted Hughes, 68 (born 1930), English poet, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom since 1984
- Date not known
- Aimee Joan Grunberger, 44, American poet, of cancer
- Michalis Katsaros (born 1919), Greek poet
See also
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Notes
[edit]- ^ "Louis Dudek: Publications Archived 2011-05-23 at the Wayback Machine," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011.
- ^ "Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works", Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011.
- ^ Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008; also Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4051-1361-8, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
- ^ "The Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt: A Hypertext Edition," TrentU.ca, Web, May 3, 2011.
- ^ Web page titled "Arvind Krishna Mehrotra" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
- ^ a b Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Dilip Chitre" Archived 2012-02-14 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Dermot Bolger" Archived 2010-02-17 at the Wayback Machine, at the New Island Books website, retrieved February 1, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Raewyn Alexander / New Zealand Literature File" Archived 2004-08-11 at the Wayback Machine at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ 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. 2009-05-08.
- ^ a b Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008
- ^ Amazon.com Web page titled "The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative (Hardcover)", with reprinted review "From Publishers Weekly" ("His sprawling new novel-in-verse [...]"), retrieved June 8, 2010
- ^ McClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003
- ^ "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ a b Web page titled [stage]=5&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[uid]=115&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
- ^ Liukkonen, Petri. "Inger Christensen". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 23 January 2009.
- ^ Web page titled "Amarjit Chandan" Archived July 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Anamika" Archived 2010-09-29 at the Wayback Machine at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Gagan Gill" Archived September 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih" Archived 2009-06-25 at the Wayback Machine at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
- ^ a b Web page title "Mallika Sengupta" Archived 2012-02-25 at the Wayback Machine, at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Manushya Puthiran" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 15, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Prathibha Nandakumar" Archived 2012-03-10 at the Wayback Machine at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Raghavan Atholi" Archived February 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Rajendra Bhandari" Archived 2013-05-30 at the Wayback Machine at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010
- ^ "Varavara Rao". Poetry International. Archived from the original on February 14, 2012. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
- ^ Gopal, Venu (December 15, 2005). "Varavara Rao - A brief sketch by N. Venu Gopal". Venu Gopal website, varavararao.org. Archived from the original on 2010-04-20. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
- ^ Web page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek" Archived 2011-09-16 at the Wayback Machine, at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
- ^ a b Web page titled "Herbert Zbigniew" Archived 2009-04-18 at the Wayback Machine, at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website, retrieved February 27, 2010
- ^ a b Web pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (in English Archived 2011-09-16 at the Wayback Machine and Polish Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010
- ^ a b Web page titled "Jan Twardowski" Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine, at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
- ^ Web page titled Zagajewski Adam" Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine, at the Instytut Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliografia: Poezja:" section, retrieved February 19, 2010
- ^ Web page titled Krugovanje, Drugo izdanje (Second edition) by Dejan Stojanović at the Open Library
- ^ Web page titled "Übersicht erschienener Jahrbücher" Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine at Fischerverlage website, retrieved February 21, 2010
- ^ "Ndoc Gjetja, hera e fundit në bibliotekën publike", June 8, 2010, Telegrafi of Pristina (Google translation of Web page), retrieved June 10, 2010
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-10-06.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007 - ^ Poetry International website Web page on Chen Kehua, retrieved November 22, 2008
- ^ https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/poets/virginia.html Virginia Law and Library of Congress List of Poets Laureate of Virginia