Portal:Poetry/Events archive/December 2006


 * October 9, 2006: Senegal celebrates the centenary of the birth of its first president, the poet Léopold Sédar Senghor
 * October 5, 2006: The Forward Poetry Prizes go to Robin Robertson, Tishani Doshi, and Sean O'Brien.
 * June 14, 2006: Donald Hall is named new U.S. Poet Laureate.
 * June 1, 2006: Sylvia Legris and Kamau Brathwaite receive the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize. Robin Blaser is presented with a lifetime achievement award.
 * May 14, 2006: Stanley Kunitz dies at the age of 100.
 * April 17, 2006: Claudia Emerson wins the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
 * March 29, 2006: Grolier Poetry Bookstore is sold.
 * 25 February 2006: Ethiopian poet laureate Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin dies in New York at the age of 69.
 * 21 February 2006: Chuvash/Russian poet Gennadiy Aygi dies at the age of 71
 * January 4, 2006: Romanian-born Canadian poet Irving Layton dies in Montreal at the age of 92.

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