2023 in poetry

This is a list of poetry events and publications in 2023.

Events

April 20-22 — The Queensland Poetry Festival occurs at the State Library of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Its theme is "Story/Verse".{{Cite web |title=Poetry festivals in Asia and Europe in 2023 |url=https://culture360.asef.org/news-events/poetry-festivals-in-asia-and-europe-in-2023/ |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=ASEF culture360 |language=en}}

May 5-7 — The Massachusetts Poetry Festival occurs in Salem, Massachusetts, U.S., with over 150 poets attending.{{Cite web |title=Massachusetts Poetry Festival |url=https://festival.masspoetry.org/ |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=Massachusetts Poetry Festival |language=en-US}}

May 16-20 — The Cork International Poetry Festival, organized by the Munster Literature Centre, is held in Cork, Ireland.

June 9-11 — The Poetry International is held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

August 5 — The Bengaluru Poetry Festival is held in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.{{Cite web |title=Bengaluru Poetry Festival |url=https://www.bengalurupoetryfestival.org/2023/ |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=www.bengalurupoetryfestival.org |language=en}}

September 27-October 1 — The Druskininkai Poetic Fall is held in Lithuania in the cities of Druskininkai and Vilnius and was attended by about 120 people.

Selection of works published in English

= Ukraine =

{{Cite book |last=Zhadan |first=Serhiy |author-link=Serhiy Zhadan |title=How Fire Descends: New and Selected Poems |date=October 3, 2023 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300272468 |translator-last=Tkacz |translator-first=Virlana |translator-last2=Wanda |translator-first2=Phipps}} Discusses the Russo-Ukrainian War.{{Cite web |last=Hoffert |first=Barbara |title=Best Poetry of 2023 |url=https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/best-poetry-2023 |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=Library Journal}}

= United States =

{{Cite book |last=Graham |first=Jorie |author-link=Jorie Graham |title=To 2040 |date=April 25, 2023 |publisher=Copper Canyon Press |isbn=9781556596773}}
{{Cite book |last=Hacker |first=Marilyn |author-link=Marilyn Hacker |title=Calligraphies: Poems |date=April 4, 2023 |publisher=Norton |isbn=9781324036463}} Discusses life in Beirut, Paris, and Montpeyroux.
{{Cite book |last=Lerner |first=Ben |title=The Lights |date=September 5, 2023 |publisher=Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |isbn=9780374721206}}{{Cite news |date=2023-11-15 |title=11 great poetry collections from 2023 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/11/15/best-poetry/ |access-date=2024-08-26 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en}}
{{Cite book |last=Nicholson |first=Sara |title=April |publisher=SongCave |year=2023 |isbn=9781737277590}}
{{Cite book |last=Shimoda |first=Brandon |title=Hydra Medusa |date=June 27, 2023 |publisher=Nightboat Books |isbn=9781643621715}}
{{Cite book |last=Schiff |first=Robyn |author-link=Robyn Schiff |title=Information Desk: An Epic |date=August 15, 2023 |publisher=Penguin Publishing Group |isbn=9780525508311}}

Works published in other languages

Awards and honors by country

= United States awards and honors =

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:
Wallace Stevens Award:
Whiting Awards:
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation:
PEN Center USA 2021 Poetry Award:
PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry: (Judges: )
Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award:
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize:
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award: Roger Reeves, Best Barbarian{{Cite web |title=Previous Winners & Finalists |url=https://arts.cgu.edu/tufts-poetry-awards/winners-finalists/previous-winners-finalists/ |url-status=live |archive-date= |access-date=2 May 2025 |website=Tufts Poetry Awards - Claremont Graduate University}}
Kate Tufts Discovery Award: Robert Wood Lynn, Mothman Apologia
Walt Whitman Prize – – Judge:
Yale Younger Series: Cindy Juyoung Ok, Ward Toward (Judge: Rae Armantrout){{Cite web |title=Yale Series of Younger Poets Winners |url=https://yalebooks.yale.edu/yale-series-of-younger-poets-winners/ |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=Yale University Press |language=en-US}}

Deaths

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January 2 — Dumitru Radu Popescu (b. 1935), Romanian poet{{Cite web |last=Lăcătuș |first=Daniel |date=2023-01-02 |title=Dumitru Radu Popescu a murit la vârsta de 87 ani » Interne |url=https://infocultural.eu/dumitru-radu-popescu-a-murit-la-varsta-de-87-ani/ |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=Info Cultural - Știri și informații culturale |language=ro-RO}}
January 7 —Henri Heurtebise (b. 1936), French poet and editor{{Cite web |date=2023-01-07 |title=Lot-et-Garonne : le poète Henri Heurtebise n'est plus |url=https://www.sudouest.fr/lot-et-garonne/agen/lot-et-garonne-le-poete-henri-heurtebise-n-est-plus-13594255.php?csnt=1918f49c886 |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=SudOuest.fr |language=fr-FR}}
??? — Richard Kell (b. 1927), Irish poet, composer, teacher, and reviewer{{Cite news |last=Kell |first=Tim |date=2023-02-07 |title=Richard Kell obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/07/richard-kell-obituary |access-date=2024-08-26 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}
March 10 —David Bottoms (b. 1949), American poet{{Cite web |last=Dyer |first=Candace |date=March 20, 2023 |title=Remembrance: In praise of poet David Bottoms' remarkably textured voice |url=https://www.artsatl.org/remembrance-in-praise-of-poet-david-bottoms-remarkably-textured-voice/ |access-date=August 26, 2024 |website=ARTSATL}}
April — R. H. W. Dillard (b. 1937), American poet, critic, and writing professor{{Cite web |last=Gangloff |first=Mike |date=April 6, 2023 |title=R.H.W. Dillard, poet, critic and longtime Hollins writing professor, dies at 85 |url=https://roanoke.com/r-h-w-dillard-poet-critic-and-longtime-hollins-writing-professor-dies-at-85/article_713134e4-d4a3-11ed-9d9c-df9a488972ae.html |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=Roanoke Times |language=en}}
April 9 — Huub Oosterhuis (b. 1933), Dutch theologian and poet{{Cite news |last=van Dijk |first=Marc |date=April 10, 2023 |title=Huub Oosterhuis (1933-2023), invloedrijk vernieuwer én buitenstaander tegen wil en dank |url=https://www.trouw.nl/religie-filosofie/huub-oosterhuis-1933-2023-invloedrijk-vernieuwer-en-buitenstaander-tegen-wil-en-dank~bbbb02a6/ |work=Trouw |language=nl}}
April 21 — John Tranter (b. 1943), Australian poet, publisher and editor{{cite web |title=John Tranter Death Notice - Sydney, New South Wales |url=https://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/477443/john-tranter/ |access-date=25 April 2023 |website=tributes.smh.com.au |publisher=Sydney Morning Herald}}
May 19 — Pete Brown (b. 1940), American poet and songwriter{{Cite news |date=2023-05-20 |title=Cream and Jack Bruce songwriting collaborator Pete Brown passes away aged 82 |url=https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/05/20/cream-and-jack-bruce-songwriting-collaborator-pete-brown-passes-away-aged-82/ |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=Euro Weekly News |language=en-GB}}
May 22 — Andrew Burke (b. 1944), Australian poet{{Cite web |title=Andrew Burke |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A4686 |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |publisher=The University of Queensland}}
June 7 —Saskia Hamilton (b. 1967), American poet, professor, and vice provost{{Cite news |last=Genzlinger |first=Neil |date=2023-06-18 |title=Saskia Hamilton, Poet Who Edited Another Poet's Letters, Dies at 56 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/books/saskia-hamilton-poet-who-edited-another-poets-letters-dies-at-56.html |access-date=2024-08-26 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
June 30 — Ron Pretty (b. 1940), Australian poet{{Cite web |last=Roberts |first=Mark |date=2023-07-04 |title=Vale Ron Pretty |url=https://rochfordstreetreview.com/2023/07/05/vale-ron-pretty/ |access-date=2023-07-06 |website=Rochford Street Review |language=en}}
July 7 —Ahmed Ilias (b. 1934), Bangladeshi poet{{Cite web |date=2023-07-07 |title=Bangladesh's renowned Urdu poet Ahmed Ilias dies |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/obituary/bangladeshs-renowned-urdu-poet-ahmed-ilias-dies-661590 |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=The Business Standard |language=en}}
August 11 — Kenneth White (b. 1936), Scottish poet{{Cite web |last=Ouest-France |date=2023-08-14 |title=À Trébeurden, Kenneth White, le grand poète écossais, est décédé |url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/bretagne/trebeurden-22560/a-trebeurden-kenneth-white-le-grand-poete-ecossais-est-decede-e99f708e-3a7f-11ee-8474-26257e7765fa |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=Ouest-France.fr |language=fr}}
November 18 — Nan Witcomb (b. 1927/1928, Australian poet and radio broadcaster[https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/lifestyle/adelaide-former-talkback-host-and-poet-nan-witcomb-dies-aged-95/news-story/eeeb2725483bdfae57110411a49db1d0 Adelaide former talkback host and poet Nan Witcomb dies aged 95] {{subscription required}}
December 28 — Abubakar Siddique (b. 1934), Pakistani poet and professor{{Cite web |date=28 December 2023 |title=Poet Abu Bakar Siddique passes away in Khulna |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/poet-abu-bakar-siddique-passes-away-khulna-3505246 |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}