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David Mascellani
12-31-2004, 12:16 AM
Or,
That Was The Poetic Year That Was (2004)


January 19: Don Paterson Wins Second TS Eliot Prize
www.poetryinternational.org/cwolk/view/21690

February 4-7: WORLD POETRY SLAM CHAMPIONSHIP 2004 (iWPS)
www.poetsasylum.org/slam2004.html

March 19: 200th anniversary of the composition of "Daffodils"
www.rc.umd.edu/blog/archives/000125.html

April: Women Reflect on National Poetry Month 2004
www.riverwestcurrents.org/2004/April/001568.html

May: KAY RYAN WINS 2004 RUTH LILLY PRIZE
www.poetrymagazine.org/ruth_lilly_prize.html

June, Pam Ayres - awarded an MBE for services
to Literature and Entertainment
www.hrpl.u-net.com/pamayres_profile.html

June 3, –Anne Simpson's Loop and August Kleinzahler's
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
Win the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize
www.griffinpoetryprize.com/awards_winners.php

June 23: Mattie Stepanek, poet and muscular dystrophy advocate, dies at 13
www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2004-06-23-stepanek-obit_x.htm

July 12: Pablo Neruda’s 100th Birthday Celebrations
http://poetry.about.com/b/a/067498.htm

AUGUST 6: Donald Justice Dies at 78
http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,11617,1294505,00.html

10 August:Haul of rare Larkin poems found
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3550924.stm

August 16:Czeslaw Milosz Dies at 93
www.missourireview.com/mt/mt-dropanote.cgi?entry_id=157

September 01: Agents of Impurity
Sonic Arts Network and Resonance FM present “The Agents of Impurity” -
a Night of Sound, Poetry and Sound Poetry
http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/diffusion/diffusion_01_09_04.htm

October 03: Michael Donaghy dies at 50
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/story.jsp?story=567734

October 5: Poets across Canada hit the streets to commit "Random Acts of Poetry"
www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2004/05/c4313.html

October. 6: Dylan's Words Strike Nobel Debate
http://election.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/06/entertainment/main647862.shtml

October 6: Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie wins Forward Prize
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3720938.stm

October 11: Jacques Derrida Dies
www.humanities.uci.edu/remembering_jd

November. 11:The Poetry Of Alicia Keys
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/11/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main655152.shtml

December 17: Dylan Thomas love letter sold at auction
http://www.rte.ie/arts/2004/1217/thomasd.html

December 31 (Australia):
David Mascellani wishes the members and mods of the PFFA a Happy New Year .



Happy New Year.

David

Scotty
12-31-2004, 01:58 AM
Aaaaah, Pam Ayres, my kind of poet...

Happy New Year to you too, David.

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