Consultants in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Rita Dove, Louise Glück, and W.S. Merwin appointed Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mark Strand, Blizzard of One Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: Derek Attridge Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Maxine Kumin Wallace Stevens Award: Jackson Mac Low Whiting Awards: Michael Haskell, Terrance Hayes, Martha Zweig William Carlos Williams Award: B.H. Fairchild, The Art of the Lathe (Working Classics), Judge: Garrett Hongo Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Gwendolyn Brooks Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 13 – John Frederick Nims, 86, American poet February 18 – Felipe Alfau, 96 (born 1902), Spanish-American poet, translator and author February 22 – William Bronk, 81, American poet May 10 – Shel Silverstein, 68, American children's poet July 4 – Mark O'Brien, 49, American poet August 15 – Patricia Beer, 79, English poet and critic September 8 – Moondog (aka Louis T. Hardin), 83, American street poet October 9 – João Cabral de Melo Neto, 79, Brazilian poet and diplomat November 14 – Ida Affleck Graves, 97, Indian-born English poet November 22 – Sufia Kamal, 88 (born 1911), Bengali poet, writer, organizer, feminist and activist December 10 – Edward Dorn, 70, American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets See also Poetry List of years in poetry List of poetry awards Notes 20th-century poetry Poetry