Frost Medal: Allen Ginsberg / Richard Eberhart Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress appointed: Robert Penn Warren Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Henry Taylor, The Flying Change Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Adrienne Rich Whiting Awards: John Ash, Hayden Carruth, Frank Stewart, Ruth Stone Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Irving Feldman and Howard Moss Births Raymond Antrobus, English poet and educator Caroline Bird, English poet Fateme Ekhtesari, Persian poet and midwife Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 4 – Christopher Isherwood (born 1904), English-born American novelist and poet January 9 – W. S. Graham (born 1918), Scottish poet January 12 – Bob Kaufman, at 60 (born 1925), American Beat poet, of emphysema March 4 – Elizabeth Smart, at 72 (born 1913), Canadian poet and novelist March 8 – Kersti Merilaas, at 72 (born 1913), Estonian poet, translator and author of children's fiction March 30 – John Ciardi, at 69 (born 1916), American poet, translator and etymologist, of a heart attack April 15 – Jean Genet, at 75 (born 1910), French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist and political activist April 21 – Salah Jahin, also spelled "Salah Jaheen" صلاح جاهين (born 1930), Egyptian, Arabic-language poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist May 25 – Carlo Betocchi, at 87 (born 1899), Italian poet June 24 – Rex Warner (born 1905), English classicist, author, poet and translator July 13 – Brion Gysin, at 70 (born 1916), English painter, writer, sound poet and performance artist August 19 – Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, at 73 (born 1913), Urdu poet, essayist, critic, biographer August 20 – Milton Acorn, at 63 (born 1923), Canadian poet, writer and playwright, of heart disease and diabetes August 31 – Elizabeth Coatsworth, at 93 (born 1893), American author of children's fiction and poetry November 10 – Laurence Collinson (born 1925), Australian playwright, actor, poet, journalist and secondary school teacher, in London December 8 – Henry Reed, at 72 (born 1914), English poet, translator, radio playwright and journalist Also: Atul Chandra Hazarika (born 1903), Indian, writing in Assamese; poet, dramatist, children's story writer and translator; called "Sahitycharjya" by an Assamese literary society Audrey Longbottom (born c. 1922), Australian See also Poetry List of years in poetry List of poetry awards References 20th-century poetry Poetry