Portal:Poetry/Events archive/June 2006

Recent events the year in poetry In the news More culture and entertainment news from Wikinews&hellip;
 * Donald Hall named new U.S. Poet Laureate
 * Carol Ann Duffy wins the T. S. Eliot Prize
 * W.S. Merwin wins the 2005 National Book Award for poetry.
 * Christopher Logue wins the 2005 Whitbread Award for poetry
 * Finnish poet Bo Carpelan wins the Finlandia Prize, thus becoming the first person to win the prize twice
 * 4 January 2006: Romanian-born Canadian poet Irving Layton, close friend of Leonard Cohen dies in Montreal at the age of 92
 * there is a campaign to save the London house where Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine lived, the actor Simon Callow is the spokesperson for the campaign
 * Claudia Emerson wins the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for poetry
 * May 14, 2006: Stanley Kunitz dies at the age of 100
 * June 10, 2006 New Owner at Grolier Poetry Bookstore to expand international selection
 * June 13, 2005 Dannie Abse hurt, wife killed in car accident