Van Duyn Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets: Jared Carter Spanish Premios de la Crítica awards in poetry: Castilian: Luis Rosales, Diario de una resurrección Catalan: Miquel Martí i Pol, Estimada Marta Galician: Eduardo Moreiras, O libro dos mortos Basque: Juan Mari Lekuona, Ilargiaren eskolan Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 3 – George Sutherland Fraser (born 1915), Scottish poet and critic February 12 – Muriel Rukeyser, 66 (born 1913), American, of a heart attack February 25 – Robert Hayden, 66, American poet, essayist, and educator, of a heart ailment March 25 – James Wright, 52, American, of cancer March 31 – Vladimir Holan, 74, Czech April 21 – Sohrab Sepehri (born 1928), Persian poet and painter April 30 – Luis Muñoz Marín (born 1898), Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician June 20 – Amy Key Clarke (born 1892), English mystical poet July 9 – Vinicius de Moraes (born 1913), Brazilian writer, poet and diplomat July 25 – Vladimir Vysotsky (born 1938), Russian singer-songwriter, poet and actor August 9 – Denis Glover (born 1911), New Zealand poet and publisher September 2 – Frederick T. Macartney (born 1887), Australian September 25 – Marie Under (born 1883), Estonian October 18 – Martin Haley (born 1905), Australian poet, essayist, translator and schoolteacher October 25 – Sahir Ludhianvi (born 1921), Urdu/Hindustani poet and Hindi film lyricist November 21 – A. J. M. Smith (born 1902), Canadian November 28 – Julia Reynolds, 98 See also Poetry List of years in poetry List of poetry awards Notes Britannica Book of the Year 1980 ("for events of 1979"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica 1980 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections) 20th-century poetry Poetry