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Events

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  • January 19 – Liz Lochhead becomes the second Scots Makar, the official national poet of Scotland.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-12227515|title=Liz Lochhead confirmed as new Scots Makar|date=2011-01-19|work=BBC News|accessdate=2011-01-19}}
  • April 4 – Canadian poet Christian Bök announces a significant break-through in his 9-year project to engineer "a life-form so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem, but also an operant machine for writing a poem".{{cite web|url=http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/news/Bok_at_BBK|title=Contemporary Poetics Research Centre: Christian Bök – The Xenotext: A Progress Report|publisher=Bbk.ac.uk|date=2011-05-05|accessdate=2012-01-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210033044/http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/news/Bok_at_BBK|archive-date=2012-02-10|url-status=dead|df=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/vol5-2/editorial.asp|title=The Xenotext Experiment|publisher=Law.ed.ac.uk|accessdate=2012-01-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120101053132/http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/vol5-2/editorial.asp|archive-date=2012-01-01|url-status=dead|df=}} On April 3, Bök said that he {{blockquote|"received confirmation from the laboratory at the University of Calgary that my poetic cipher, gene X-P13, has in fact caused E. coli to fluoresce red in our test-runs—meaning that, when implanted in the genome of this bacterium, my poem (which begins “any style of life/ is prim...”) does in fact cause the bacterium to write, in response, its own poem (which begins “the faery is rosy/ of glow...”)."{{cite web|first=Christian|last=Bök|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/04/the-xenotext-works/|title=The Xenotext Works: |work=Harriet the Blog|publisher=The Poetry Foundation|date=2011-04-03|accessdate=2012-01-14}}}}
  • June 12 – A poet and student, Ayat al-Ghermezi of Bahrain, is sentenced to a year in prison as part of that kingdom's crackdown on Shiite protesters calling for greater rights.{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110612/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_bahrain|title=Bahrain woman gets year in jail for critical poems|work=Yahoo! News|publisher=News.yahoo.com|accessdate=2011-06-25}} {{Dead link|date=August 2013|bot=Theo's Little Bot}} Ayat was arrested on March 30 for reciting a poem critical of the government and cursing the current prime minister, Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa, during the Bahraini uprising in Pearl Square, the main gathering place for demonstrators, in February 2011.
  • August 9 – Announcement that Philip Levine has been named Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (United States Poet Laureate).{{cite news|last=McGrath|first=Charles|title=Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/books/philip-levine-is-to-be-us-poet-laureate.html?hp|accessdate=August 9, 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 9, 2011}}
  • October 6 – Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2011/announcement.html|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011 – Prize Announcement|publisher=Nobelprize.org|date=2011-10-06|accessdate=2012-01-14}}
  • November 9 – The former United States Poet Laureate, Robert Hass, was participating in an Occupy movement demonstration at UC Berkeley called Occupy Cal, when he was hit in the ribs by a police officer wielding a baton. The incident occurred after his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, was shoved to the ground by a police officer, and Hass had tried to help her.{{cite news|last=Hass|first=Robert|title=Poet-Bashing Police|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/opinion/sunday/at-occupy-berkeley-beat-poets-has-new-meaning.html|accessdate=November 27, 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 19, 2011}} He wrote about their experience in a November 19, 2011, The New York Times opinion piece entitled "Poet-Bashing Police." Also, poet Geoffrey G. O'Brien suffered broken ribs at the same demonstration.[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-kornbluth/the-police-riot-at-berkel_b_1091208.html?ref=college&ir=College Jesse Kornbluth: The Police Riot at Berkeley: If They'll Beat a Poet Laureate, Will They Kill a Student?]
  • November 11 – Politician, academic and poet Michael D. Higgins takes office as President of Ireland.
  • November 11 – The End Poem by Julian Gough is released in the Beta 1.9 version of Minecraft.{{Cite web |last=Limer |first=Eric |date=2011-11-11 |title=Minecraft Now Has an Ending Sequence and Credits |url=https://www.themarysue.com/minecraft-ending-sequence/ |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=The Mary Sue |language=en}}
  • December 6 – A memorial to Ted Hughes is unveiled in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey by Seamus Heaney.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15539247|title=Ted Hughes Poets' Corner memorial near TS Eliot|work=BBC News|date=2011-11-02|accessdate=2011-12-06}}
  • December 7 – Two British poets, Alice Oswald[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/06/alice-oswald-withdraws-ts-eliot-prize "Alice Oswald withdraws from TS Eliot prize in protest at sponsor Aurum]", Alison Flood, The Guardian, 6 December 2011 and John Kinsella,[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/07/ts-eliot-prize-second-poet-sponsor-protest?INTCMP=SRCH "TS Eliot prize: Second poet withdraws in sponsor protest"] 7 December 2011 The Guardian have withdrawn from this year's T. S. Eliot Prize in protest over the prize's sponsorship by an investment company called Arum who focus on hedge funds.

Works published in English

=Australia=

=Canada=

=India, in English=

  • Vivek Narayanan, Universal Beach, 80 pages, {{Proper name|ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni}} (SPD, dist.), {{ISBN|978-1-934639-10-8}}

=Ireland=

=New Zealand=

==Poets in ''Best New Zealand Poems''==

Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Chris Price for Best New Zealand Poems 2010, published online this year:

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= South Africa =

  • Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You, 202 pages, Central Avenue Publishing, {{ISBN|978-1-92676-068-1|}}

=United Kingdom=

  • Hal Duncan, Songs for the Devil and Death, 172 pages, Papaverua Press, {{ISBN|978-1-907881-04-6}}
  • Salena Godden, Under The Pier, Nasty Little Press
  • Ralph Pordzik, Pretending to See Elephants, 58 pages, Lulu Press, {{ISBN|978-1-4457-5568-7}}
  • William Walker (age 97), The Poetry of Flt Lt William Walker AE, The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust{{cite web|title=William's words of wisdom|url=http://www.battleofbritainmemorial.org/events/|publisher=The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust|year=2011|accessdate=2011-07-18}}
  • Eoghan Walls, The Salt Harvest, 64 pages, Seren Books, {{ISBN|978-1-85411-549-2}}{{cite news|first=Ian|last=Sansom|title=David Park|newspaper=The Guardian Review|location=London|date=21 April 2012|pages=12–13}}
  • Carol Watts, Occasionals, Reality Street, 88 pp., {{ISBN|978-1-874400-52-3}}

==Anthologies in the United Kingdom==

  • Being Human, edited by Neil Astley
  • New Poetries V, edited by Michael Schmidt with Eleanor Crawforth, 264 pages, Carcanet Press, {{ISBN|978-1-84777-131-5}}

=United States=

  • Seth Abramson, Northerners, 72 pages, New Issues Press, {{ISBN|978-1-930974-96-8}}
  • Ammiel Alcalay, “neither wit nor gold” (from them), 88 pp., Ugly Duckling Presse, {{ISBN|978-1-933254-84-5}}
  • Will Alexander, Compression & Purity, 100 pp., City Lights, {{ISBN|978-0-87286-541-9}}
  • Rae Armantrout, Money Shot, 80 pages, Wesleyan University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-8195-7130-4}}
  • Morris Berman, Counting Blessings, 44 pages, Cervena Barva Press, {{ISBN|978-0-5780-8091-8}}
  • Ernesto Cardenal, The Origin of the Species and Other Poems, translated & introduced by John Lyons, foreword by Anne Waldman, 168 pp., Texas Tech University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-89672-689-5}}
  • Billy Collins, Horoscopes for the Dead, 128 pages, Random House, {{ISBN|978-1-4000-6492-2}}
  • William Corbett, The Whalen Poem, 64 pages, Hanging Loose Press, {{ISBN|978-1-934909-13-3}}
  • Joshua Corey, Severance Songs, 84 pages, Tupelo Press, 978-1-932195-92-7
  • Forrest Gander, Core Samples from the World, 96 pages, New Directions, {{ISBN|978-0-8112-1887-0}}
  • Eloise Greenfield, The Great Migration: Journey to the North, 32 pages, Amistad, {{ISBN|978-0-06-125921-0}}
  • Jane Hirshfield, Come, Thief, 108 pages, Knopf, {{ISBN|978-0-307-59542-3}}
  • Harmony Holiday, Negro League Baseball, 104 pages, Fence Books, {{ISBN|978-1-934200-42-1}}
  • Susan Howe, That This, 112 pages, New Directions, {{ISBN|978-0-8112-1918-1}}
  • David Meltzer, When I Was A Poet, 150 pages, City Lights, {{ISBN|978-0-87286-516-7}}
  • Anna Moschovakis, You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, 132 pages, Coffee House Press, {{ISBN|978-1-56689-250-6}}
  • Alice Notley, Culture of One, 160 pages, Penguin, {{ISBN|978-0-14-311893-0}}
  • Edward Nudelman, What Looks Like an Elephant, 116 pp., Lummox Press, {{ISBN|978-1-929878-91-8}}
  • Ovid, Love Poems, Letters and Remedies of Ovid, transl. by David R. Slavitt; introd. by Michael Dirda, 384 pp., Harvard University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-674-05904-7}}
  • Michael Palmer, Thread, 112 pages, New Directions, {{ISBN|978-0-8112-1921-1}}
  • Ruben Quesada, Next Extinct Mammal, 62 pages, Greenhouse Review Press, {{ISBN|978-0-9655239-9-8}}
  • Matthew Rohrer, Destroyer and Preserver, 96 pages, Wave, {{ISBN|978-1-933517-50-6}}
  • Rabindranath Tagore, The Essential Tagore, ed. by Fakrul Alam & Radha Chakravarty, 864 pp., Belknap-Harvard, {{ISBN|978-0-674-05790-6}}
  • Tyrone Williams, Pink Tie, Hooke Press,
  • Elizabeth Willis, Address, 80 pages, Wesleyan, {{ISBN|978-0-8195-7098-7}}
  • Dean Young, Fall Higher, Copper Canyon Press, {{ISBN|978-1-55659-311-6}}

==Anthologies in the United States==

==Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States==

  • Charles Bernstein, Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions, 296 pages, University of Chicago Press, {{ISBN|978-0-226-04477-4}}
  • Robert Duncan, The H.D. Book, 696 pages, University of California Press, {{ISBN|978-0-520-26075-7}}
  • Oren Izenberg, Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life, 272 pages, Princeton University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-691-14866-3}}
  • Christopher Nealon, The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century, 202 pages, Harvard University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-674-05872-9}}

==Poets in ''The Best American Poetry 2011''==

These poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2011. David Lehman, general editor, and Kevin Young, guest editor (who selected the poetry):{{cite web |url=http://www.bestamericanpoetry.com |title=The Best American Poetry Series | Home Page |publisher=Bestamericanpoetry.com |date= |accessdate=2012-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623053216/http://bestamericanpoetry.com/ |archive-date=2011-06-23 |url-status=dead }}

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Works published in other languages

=Denmark=

=France=

=Germany=

  • Nora Bossong, Sommer vor den Mauern: Gedichte, 96 pages, Hanser, {{ISBN|978-3-446-23629-5}}
  • Tom Bresemann, Berliner Fenster: Gedichte, 96 pages, Bloomsbury, {{ISBN|978-3-8270-0973-9}}
  • Crauss., LAKRITZVERGIFTUNG. juicy transversions: Gedichte, 180 pages, Verlagshaus J. Frank, {{ISBN|978-3-940249-96-8}}
  • Dietmar Dath, Gott ruft zurück: Gedichte, 60 pages, Connewitzer Verlagsbuchhandlung, {{ISBN|978-3-937799-50-6}}
  • Synke Köhler, waldoffen: Gedichte, 76 pages, Lyrikedition 2000, {{ISBN|978-3-86906-180-1}}
  • Alexander Gumz, ausrücken mit modellen: Gedichte, 88 pages, kookbooks, {{ISBN|978-3-937445-44-1}}
  • Daniela Seel, ich kann diese stelle nicht wiederfinden: Gedichte, 64 pages, kookbooks, {{ISBN|978-3-937445-46-5}}
  • Lutz Steinbrück, Blickdicht: Gedichte, 76 pages, Verlagshaus J. Frank, {{ISBN|978-3-940249-38-8}}
  • Antony Theodore, Das Lieds meines Tanzes und der Tanz meiner Traume, 92 pages, Ventura Verlaghaus, {{ISBN|978-39-408531-0-3}}
  • Mathias Traxler, You’re welcome: Gedichte/ Aufzeichnungen, 127 pages, kookbooks, {{ISBN|978-3-937445-45-8}}
  • Mikael Vogel, Massenhaft Tiere: Gedichte, 100 pages, Verlagshaus J. Frank, {{ISBN|978-3-940249-40-1}}
  • Florian Voß, Datenschatten Datenströme Staub: Gedichte, 80 pages, Verlagshaus J. Frank, {{ISBN|978-3-940249-46-3}}
  • Matthew Zapruder, Glühend: Gedichte, a bilingual English/German edition; translated into German by Ron Winkler, 145 pages, Luxbooks, {{ISBN|978-3-939557-41-8}}
  • Judith Zander, oder tau: Gedichte, 100 pages, dtv, {{ISBN|978-3-423-24862-4}}

=Ireland=

  • Seán Ó Ríordáin, Na Dánta (Poems) {{ISBN|9781905560738}}{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0114/1224310229812.html|title=Art in the form of Artefact|first=Pól|last=Ó Muirí|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=2012-01-14|accessdate=2012-10-11}}

=Poland=

=Other languages=

Bengali

Ukrainian

  • Les Wicks, Shadows of the Read (Krok)
  • "AU/UA: Contemporary Poetry of Ukraine and Australia" (Krok) Meuse Press

Urdu

Awards and honors by country

=Australia awards and honors=

=Canada awards and honors=

=New Zealand awards and honors=

=United Kingdom awards and honors=

=United States awards and honors=

==From the Poetry Society of America==

==From the Poetry Society of Virginia Student Poetry Contest==

{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrysocietyofvirginia.org/contests.htm |title=The Poetry Society of Virginia website |publisher=Poetrysocietyofvirginia.org |date= |accessdate=2011-06-25 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726101415/http://www.poetrysocietyofvirginia.org/contests.htm |archivedate=26 July 2011 |url-status=dead |df= }}

2011 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Category 8: Virginia Student Prize :: Judge: Dr. Kate Simpson, Winchester, VA

  • 1st Place – Jake Robinson of Virginia Beach, VA for the poem "Makings of Men"
  • 2nd Place – Mikal Cardine of Midland, VA for the poem "Remember"
  • 3rd Place – Kira Tomlin of Front Royal, VA for the poem "Caught In Silence"
  • 1st Honorable Mention – Elliott Warren of Richmond, VA for the poem "Time Does Not Heal"
  • 2nd Honorable Mention – Franklin Ewing of Richmond, VA for the poem "Against Kosovel"
  • 3rd Honorable Mention – Andre Aganbi of Chester, VA for the poem "Classic Scene"

2011 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Category 7: College/University :: Judge: Bob Kelly, Newport News, VA

  • 1st Place Ishaway Friestad of Norfolk, VA for the poem "Super Nova"
  • 3rd Place Lauren "Wren" Brown of Springfield, VA for the poem "Spiral"

2011 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Category 6: Grades 11 & 12 :: Judge: Nancy Powell, Hampton, VA

  • 1st Place Franklin Ewing of Richmond, VA for the poem "Think"
  • 2nd Place Bridget Jamison of Vienna, VA for the poem "The Dance"
  • 3rd Place Stephen Wood of Richmond, VA for the poem "On The Rechristening of High Fructose Corn Syrup"

2011 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Category 5: Grades 9 & 10:: Judge: Pete Freas, Chesapeake, VA

  • 1st Place Hannah Wilson of Oak Park, IL for the poem “I came from a mother...”
  • 2nd Place Hannah Srajer of Oak Park, IL for the poem "Crusade"
  • 2nd Place Olivia O'Sullivan of Oak Park, IL for the poem “weekday drinking...”
  • 3rd Place Natalie Richardson of Oak Park, IL for the poem “his curious fingers...”
  • 3rd Place Yuliya Semibratova of Oak Park, IL for the poem “not red, nor white, nor blue...”
  • 1st Honorable Mention Rory Dunn of Fredericksburg, VA for the poem "The Feeling"

2011 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Category 4: Grades 7 & 8 :: Judge: ijil Rainbow Hawk Giver, Norfolk, VA

  • 1st Place Tess Hinchman of West Bath, ME for the poem "March 15"
  • 2nd Place Sam Herter of Brunswick, ME for the poem “Fears: Age 7”
  • 3rd Place Lilly Richardson of Whitefield, ME for the poem “Do You Remember?”
  • 1st Honorable Mention Sophia Carbonneau of Alna, ME for the poem "This Is Just To Say"
  • 1st Honorable Mention Sabrina Sammel of Stafford, VA for the poem "Silence"
  • 2nd Honorable Mention Morganne Elkins of Edgecomb, ME for the poem "Don"
  • 2nd Honorable Mention Caleb Rinderer of Newport News, VA for the poem "Country Daybreak"
  • 3rd Honorable Mention Rex Reilly of Miami Beach, FL for the poem "Chocolate"

Deaths

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

  • January 5 – Malangatana Ngwenya, age 74 (born 1936), Mozambican poet and painter{{cite web|url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/arts/news/article_1609556.php/Mozambican-painter-Malangatana-dies-in-Portugal |title=Mozambican painter Malangatana dies in Portugal |publisher=Monsters and Critics |date=2011-01-05 |accessdate=2011-06-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110109010559/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/arts/news/article_1609556.php/Mozambican-painter-Malangatana-dies-in-Portugal |archivedate=2011-01-09 |df= }}
  • January 10 – María Elena Walsh, age 80 (born 1930), Argentine musician, poet and writer ("Manuelita la tortuga"){{cite web|url=http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/55984/mar%C3%ADa-elena-walsh-dies-at-age-80 |title=María Elena Walsh dies at age 80 |publisher=BuenosAiresHerald.com |accessdate=2011-06-25| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110629101312/http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/55984/mar%C3%ADa-elena-walsh-dies-at-age-80| archivedate= 29 June 2011 | url-status= live}}
  • January 11 – Susana Chávez, age 36 (born 1974), Mexican poet and human rights activist, strangled{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12177543 | work=BBC News | title=Juarez killings activist Chavez murdered in Mexico | date=January 12, 2011}}
  • January 20
  • F. A. Nettelbeck, age 60 (born 1950), American poet{{cite web |url=http://lokidesign.net/2356/ |title=Four Minutes to Midnight |publisher=LOKi design |date= |accessdate=2011-06-25 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723190136/http://lokidesign.net/2356/ |archivedate=2011-07-23 |url-status=dead |df= }}{{cite web|author=Stephen Kessler |url=http://news.santacruz.com/2011/01/24/f._a._nettelbeck_outlaw_poet |title=F. A. Nettelbeck, Outlaw Poet – Santa Cruz News |publisher=News.santacruz.com |date=2011-01-24 |accessdate=2011-06-25 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716004511/http://news.santacruz.com/2011/01/24/f._a._nettelbeck_outlaw_poet |archivedate=16 July 2011 |url-status=dead |df= }}
  • Reynolds Price, age 77 (born 1933), American novelist, occasional poet, and scholar of the work of John Milton
  • January 23 – Novica Tadić, age 62 (born 1949), Yugoslavian poet{{cite web |url=http://www.glassrbije.org/info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27225:umro-pesnik-novica-tadi&catid=43:oko-nas&Itemid=58 |title=Medjunarodni Radio Srbija – Magazin | Umro pesnik Novica Tadić – Umro pesnik Novica Tadić Oko nas nedelja, 23 januar 2011 |publisher=Glassrbije.org |date= |accessdate=2011-06-25 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721094459/http://www.glassrbije.org/info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27225%3Aumro-pesnik-novica-tadi&catid=43%3Aoko-nas&Itemid=58 |archivedate=2011-07-21 |url-status=dead |df= }}
  • January 25 – R. F. Langley, age 72 (born 1938), English poet and diarist, loosely affiliated with the Cambridge poetry scene{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jan/26/poet-diarist-r-f-langley-dies|title= Poet and diarist RF Langley dies|last1= Page|first1= Benedicte|date=January 26, 2011|work= guardian.co.uk|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited |accessdate=January 27, 2011|location=London}}
  • February 3 – Édouard Glissant, age 82 (born 1928), French-Martiniquan poet and writer{{cite news|newspaper = The Guardian|date= February 13, 2011 |title = Edouard Glissant Obituary |url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/13/edouard-glissant-obituary}}
  • February 6 – Andrée Chedid, 90, Egyptian-born French poet and novelist{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12388674 | work=BBC News | title=Franco-Egyptian poet Andree Chedid dies at 90 | date=February 8, 2011}}
  • February 11 – Bo Carpelan, 84, Finnish poet and author{{cite web|url=http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Author+and+poet+Bo+Carpelan+dies+at+84/1135263737208 |title=Helsingin Sanomat – International Edition – Culture |publisher=Hs.fi |date= |accessdate=2011-06-25}} File:Ira cohen rapture cafe (1).jpg
  • February 25 – Aminath Faiza, 82, Maldivian poet and author{{cite web|url=http://www.haveeru.com.mv/english/details/35016 |title=Haveeru Online – Famed Maldivian poet Faiza passes away |publisher=Haveeru.com.mv |date=2011-02-25 |accessdate=2011-06-25 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722223032/http://www.haveeru.com.mv/english/details/35016 |archivedate=22 July 2011 |url-status=dead |df= }}
  • February 25 – Justinas Marcinkevičius, 80, Lithuanian poet and playwright{{cite web|url=http://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/mire-poetas-jmarcinkevicius.d?id=42063477 |title=Mirė poetas J.Marcinkevičius – DELFI Žinios |publisher=Delfi.lt |accessdate=2011-06-25| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110722150158/http://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/mire-poetas-jmarcinkevicius.d?id=42063477| archivedate= 22 July 2011 | url-status= live}}
  • March 2 – John Haines, 86, American poet and educator, former poet laureate of Alaska{{cite news |title=John Haines, a Poet of the Wild, Dies at 86 |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=March 5, 2011 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/arts/05haines.html |accessdate=2011-03-05}}
  • April 2 – Paul Violi, 66, American poet
  • April 25 – Ira Cohen, 76 (born 1935), American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker
  • May 10 – Patrick Galvin, 83 (born 1927), Irish poet and dramatist
  • May 19 – William Kloefkorn, 78 (born 1933), American poet and former "Nebraska State Poet"{{cite web|url=http://www.omaha.com/article/20110520/NEWS01/705209871/0 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905233734/http://www.omaha.com/article/20110520/NEWS01/705209871/0 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-09-05 |title=State poet Kloefkorn dies at 78 |publisher=Omaha.com |date=2011-05-20 |accessdate=2011-06-18 }}
  • May 23 – Roberto Sosa, 81 (born 1930), Honduran poet{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}}
  • May 25:
  • Edwin Honig, 91 (born 1919), American poet, critic and translator known for his English renditions of seminal works of Spanish and Portuguese literature{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/arts/edwin-honig-a-poet-and-translator-dies-at-91.html?ref=deathsobituaries|title=Edwin Honig, a Poet, Professor and Translator, Dies at 91|work=The New York Times|date=June 4, 2011|author=Margalit Fox|accessdate=2011-06-11}}
  • Yannis Varveris (born 1955), Greek poet, critic and translator
  • May 27 – Gil Scott-Heron, 62 (born 1949), American poet, spoken-word musician and author who helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression and spoken-word poetry{{cite news|title=Gil Scott-Heron, Spoken-Word Musician, Dies at 62|url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/05/27/us/AP-US-Obit-Gil-Scott-Heron.html?hp|accessdate=May 28, 2011|newspaper=The Associated Press|date=May 28, 2011}}

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  • May 29 – Da Real One, 46, American poet (Def Poetry) gunned down in North Miami{{cite web|url=http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/05/29/poet-gunned-down-in-north-miami/|title=Poet Gunned Down in North Miami|work=cbs miami.com|date=May 29, 2011|publisher=CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc|accessdate=2011-06-12| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110723143905/http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/05/29/poet-gunned-down-in-north-miami/| archivedate= 23 July 2011 | url-status= live}}
  • June 2 – Josephine Hart, 69 (born 1942), Irish-born British novelist and poetry promoter. As director of Haymarket Publishing, a founder of Gallery Poets and West End Poetry Hour{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/8555567/Josephine-Hart.html |title=Film obituaries: Josephine Hart |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date=3 June 2011 |work=telegraph.co.uk |publisher=Telegraph Media Group Limited |accessdate=June 12, 2011}}
  • June 21 – Robert Kroetsch, OC, 83 (born 1927), Canadian novelist, poet and non-fiction writer[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/robert-kroetsch-acclaimed-canadian-author-dies-in-alberta-crash/article2071261/ "Robert Kroetsch, acclaimed Canadian author, dies in Alberta crash"]. The Globe and Mail, June 22, 2011.
  • August 22 – Samuel Menashe, 85 (born 1925), American poet and the first poet to receive "The Neglected Masters Award", given by the Poetry Foundation of America, which he received in 2004{{cite web|date=August 23, 2011

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  • August 24 – Seyhan Erözçelik, 49 (born 1962), Turkish poet{{cite web|author=greenintegerblog |url=http://pippoetry.blogspot.com/2011/07/seyhan-erozcelik.html |title=The PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) Blog: Seyhan Erözçelik |publisher=Pippoetry.blogspot.com |date=2011-07-21 |accessdate=2011-08-26}}{{cite web|url=http://www.montevidayo.com/?p=1820 |title=The Death of Seyhan Erözçelik at Age 49 |publisher=Montevidayo |date= |accessdate=2011-08-26}}
  • August 26 – Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, 71 (born 1940), American novelist and poet, finalist for 1975 National Book Award in poetry for Granite Lady{{cite web|date=August 29, 2011|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/08/writer-susan-fromberg-schaeffer-has-died.html |title=Writer Susan Fromberg Schaeffer has died - latimes.com |publisher=Latimesblogs.latimes.com |accessdate=2012-01-14}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalbook.org/nba1975.html |title=1975 National Book Awards Winners and Finalists, The National Book Foundation |publisher=Nationalbook.org |date= |accessdate=2012-01-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110909065656/http://www.nationalbook.org/nba1975.html |archivedate=2011-09-09 |df= }}
  • September 4 – Hugh Fox, 79 (born 1932), prolific American novelist and poet, a founder of the Pushcart Prize
  • October 18 – Andrea Zanzotto, 90 (born 1921), Italian poet{{cite web|author=Corriere del Veneto|url=http://corrieredelveneto.corriere.it/treviso/notizie/cronaca/2011/18-ottobre-2011/morto-poeta-andrea-zanzotto-1901858307628.shtml|title=E' morto il poeta Andrea Zanzotto Il Veneto piange il suo maestro – Corriere del Veneto|publisher=Corrieredelveneto.corriere.it|date=2011-10-18|accessdate=2012-01-08}}
  • October 27 – Allen Mandelbaum, 85 (born 1926), American poet and translator
  • November 10 – Ivan Martin Jirous, 67 (born 1944), Czech poet
  • November 19 - Ruth Stone, 96 (born 1915), American poet
  • November 21 – Theodore Enslin, 86 (born 1925), American poet with close ties to Cid Corman, Charles Olson, and particularly the Objectivist tradition in the U.S.{{cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/11/with-great-respect-theodore-enslin-1925-2011/ |title=With Great Respect: Theodore Enslin, 1925–2011 : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog |publisher=The Poetry Foundation |date= |accessdate=2012-01-08}}
  • November 24 – Andrzej Mandalian, 85 (born 1926), Polish poet
  • December 14 – George Whitman, 98 (born 1913), heir to Sylvia Beach as proprietor of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris{{cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/12/george-whitman-1913-2011/ |title=George Whitman, 1913–2011 : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog |publisher=The Poetry Foundation |date= |accessdate=2012-01-08}}
  • December 18 – Václav Havel, 75 (born 1936) was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician; best known to the public as the last president of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993–2003){{cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/12/typograms-ptydepe-remembering-vaclav-havel/ |title=Typograms & Ptydepe: Remembering Vaclav Havel : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog |publisher=The Poetry Foundation |date= |accessdate=2012-01-08}}
  • December 30 – Eleanor Ross Taylor, 91, American poet who received the 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize of $100,000 which honors poets whose "lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition"{{cite web|url=http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/2012/jan/03/esteemed-poet-eleanor-taylor-dies-ar-1585126/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102072716/http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/2012/jan/03/esteemed-poet-eleanor-taylor-dies-ar-1585126/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-02 |title=Esteemed poet Eleanor Taylor dies |publisher=Daily Progress |date= |accessdate=2012-03-05 }}

See also

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Notes

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