Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Maxine Kumin appointed this year. MacArthur Fellowships: A.R. Ammons, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Penn Warren National Book Award for poetry (United States): Lisel Mueller, The Need to Hold Still National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: A.R. Ammons, A Coast of Trees (Norton) Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Maxine Kumin appointed Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Schuyler: The Morning of the Poem Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Richard Hugo Walt Whitman Award: Alberto Ríos, Whispering to Fool the Wind (Sheep Meadow Press) Judge: Donald Justice Births April 6 – Marie Šťastná, Czech poet Emily Berry, English poet Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu, Eritrean poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Irish-language poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 29 – John Glassco (born 1909), Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist February 23 – Nan Shepherd (born 1893), Scottish novelist and poet March 15 – Horiguchi Daigaku 堀口 大学 (born 1892), Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period poet and translator of French literature; a member of the Shinshisha ("The New Poetry Society"); accompanied his father on overseas diplomatic postings April 25 – Takis Sinopoulos (born 1917), Greek April 26 – Robert Garioch (born 1909), Scots language Scottish poet and translator April 29 – Leonard Mann (born 1895), Australian April 30 – Peter Huchel (born 1903), German May 8 – Uri Zvi Grinberg (born 1896), Jewish May 31 – Falguni Ray (born 1945), Bengali poet and youngest member of Hungryalism movement August 19 – Badawi al-Jabal (born 1905 or 1907), Syrian Arab August 27 – James Larkin Pearson (born 1879), American poet, newspaper publisher; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 1953–1981 September 12 – Eugenio Montale, 85, Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975 October 26 – Marie Uguay, 26 (born 1955), French-Canadian), from bone cancer October 30 – Georges Brassens (born 1921), French singer-songwriter and poet November 14 – Anton Podbevšek (born 1898), Slovene avant-garde poet Also: Adolf Beiss (born 1900), German Ada Verdun Howell (born 1902), Australian See also Poetry List of years in poetry List of poetry awards Notes Britannica Book of the Year 1982 ("for events of 1981"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica 1982 (source of many items in "Works published" section and