1969. Death Ai was checked into the hospital on March 17, 2010, for pneumonia. Three days later, Ai died on March 20, 2010, at age 62, in Stillwater, Oklahoma, from complications of stage 4 breast cancer. Selected works Poetry collections Cruelty, Perseus Books Group, 1973, Killing Floor, Houghton Mifflin, 1979, Sin, Houghton Mifflin, 1986, Fate, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, Vice: New and Selected Poems, Norton, 1999, – winner of the National Book Award Dread: Poems, W.W. Norton, 2003, See also List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas References External links Academy of American Poets W. W. Norton & Company > Bio Page Oklahoma State University Faculty pages Modern American Poetry Ai 1947—2010 This "cyber-tombeau" at Silliman's Blog by poet Ron Silliman includes comments, tributes, and links 1947 births 2010 deaths African-American poets American poets American people of Cheyenne descent American people of Comanche descent American people of Irish descent American writers of Japanese descent Deaths from cancer in Oklahoma Deaths from breast cancer National Book Award winners American women poets American poets of Asian descent People from Albany, Texas People from Stillwater, Oklahoma Oklahoma State University faculty University of California, Irvine alumni University of Arizona alumni Poets from Arizona Writers from Oklahoma Writers from Texas 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers American Book Award winners American women academics 20th-century African-American women writers 20th-century African-American writers 21st-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women