2019 in poetry

• October 25 – The 2019 Princeton poetry Festival is inaugurated at Lewis Center of Arts by Pulitzer prize winning poet Paul Muldoon.^[1]

• Charmaine Papertalk Green, Nganajungu Yagu
• Gerald Murnane, Green Shadows and Other Poems

• Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild

• Antony Theodore, Jesus Christ in Love
• Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses : Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters
• Tapan Kumar Pradhan, I, She and the Sea
• Tishani Doshi, Small Days and Nights

• Fatimah Asghar, If They Come For Us

• Hala Alyan, The Twenty-ninth Year

• Ana Luisa Amaral, What��s in a Name

• Raquel Salas Rivera, While They Sleep (under the bed is another country)

• Anthony Anaxagorou, After the Formalities
• Deryn Rees-Jones, Erato

• Rachel Allen, Kingdomland

• Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

• Hanif Aburraqib, A Fortune for Your Disaster
• Sarah Borjas, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff
• Franny Choi, Soft Science
• Andrea Cohen, Nightshade
• Michael Dickman, Days and Days
• Eve Ewing, 1919
• Camoghne Felix, Build Yourself a Boat
• Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
• Campbell McGrath, Nouns and Verbs
• Jane Mead, To the Wren
• Fred Moten, All That Beauty
• Jana Prikryl, No Matter

• Stephane Bouquet, Les Amours Suivants (The Next Loves)

• See also: List of poetry awards

Awards announced this year:

• Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Laureate : Ana Blandiana for ‘’Romania’’

• Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry formerly known as C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry : Kate Lilley for ‘’Tilt’’
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry : Judith Bishop for ‘’Interval’’

• Archibald Lampman Award: '
• J. M. Abraham Poetry Award:
• Governor General's Awards:
• Griffin Poetry Prize : Eve Joseph for ‘’Quarrels’’
• Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize:
• Gerald Lampert Award:
• Pat Lowther Award:
• Prix Alain-Grandbois:
• Raymond Souster Award:
• Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize:
• Prix Émile-Nelligan:

• Prix Goncourt de la Poésie:

• Sahitya Akademi Award : Nand Kishore Acharya for Chhelate Hue Apne Ko (Hindi)
• Jnanpith Award : Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri

• Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
  • Poetry: 
• Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry :

• Cholmondeley Award : Malika Booker
• Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry : Mary Jean Chan for ‘’Fleche’’
• English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes:
• Eric Gregory Award (for a collection of poems by a poet under the age of 30):
• Forward Poetry Prize: Fiona Benson for ‘’Vertigo and Ghost’’
  • Best Collection:
  • Best Poem:
• Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
• Manchester Poetry Prize : Momtaza Mehri for ‘’Amniotica’’
• National Poet of Wales:
• National Poetry Competition : Susannah Hart for ‘’Reading the Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy’’
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry:
• T. S. Eliot Prize : Roger Robinson for ‘’A Portable Paradise’’

• Arab American Book Award (The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award):
  • Honorable Mentions:
• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize:
• Anisfield-Wolf Book Award:
• Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books:
• Bollingen Prize:
• Jackson Poetry Prize:
  • Gay Poetry:
  • Lesbian Poetry:
• Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize:
• Los Angeles Times Book Prize:
• National Book Award for Poetry (NBA):
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry:
• The New Criterion Poetry Prize:
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States) : Forrest Gander for ‘’Be With’’
• Wallace Stevens Award:
• Whiting Awards:
• PEN Award for Poetry in Translation:
• PEN Center USA 2019 Poetry Award:
• PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry: (Judges: )
• Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award:
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize:
• Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award:
• Walt Whitman Prize – – Judge:
• Yale Younger Series:

• Frost Medal:
• Shelley Memorial Award:
• Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award:
• Lyric Poetry Award:
• Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award:
• Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award:
• George Bogin Memorial Award:
• Robert H. Winner Memorial Award:
• Cecil Hemley Memorial Award:
• Norma Farber First Book Award:
• Lucille Medwick Memorial Award:
• William Carlos Williams Award:

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

• January 17 – Mary Oliver (b. 1935), American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner^[2]
• January 25 – Krishna Sobti (b. 1925), Indian Hindi poet
• March 15 – W. S. Merwin (b. 1927), American poet and translator
• March 20 – Linda Gregg (b. 1942), American poet
• April 29 – Les Murray (b. 1938), Australian poet and critic
• July 05 – Marie Ponsot (b. 1921), American poet, critic and essayist
• September 23 – Al Alvarez (b. 1929), British poet
• October 12 – Kate Braverman (b. 1949), American poet and novelist
• October 15 – Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri (b. 1926), Indian Malayalam poet and essayist, in Thrissur^[3]
• November 7 – Nabaneeta Dev Sen (b. 1938), Indian Bengali poet and writer
• November 24 – Clive James (b. 1939), Australian-born poet, critic and journalist

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