Monday, October 28, 2019

Black Poetry: A Timeline, 2000 - 2019


Here's a partial, developing timeline on the histories of black poetry:

2000: Lucille Clifton wins the National Book Award for Poetry for her volume Blessing the Boats.
2000: Terrance Hayes receives the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for Muscular Music.
2001: Yusef Komunyakaa awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
2001: Terrance Hayes's Hip Logic (2002) is selected by Cornelius Eady as a National Poetry Series Winner.
2001: Sonia Sanchez is awarded the Robert Frost Medal.
2001: Lucille Clifton receives Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award.
2001: Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady is published. 
2002: Langston Hughes symposium, organized by Maryemma Graham, takes place.
2002: Amiri Baraka appointed Poet Laureate of New Jersey in July.
2002: Tracy K. Smith's volume The Body's Question selected by Kevin Young for Cave Canem Prize for poetry.
2002: Jay Wright receives Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award.
2002: Carl Phillips receives the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for The Tether.
2003: Major Jackson receives Whiting Writers' Award.
2004: Tyehimba Jess's Leadbelly: poems (2005), selected by Brigit P. Kelly as a National Poetry Series Winner.
2004: Second Furious Flower Poetry conference, organized by Joanne Gabbin, takes place September 22 - 25.
2004: A. Van Jordan receives Whiting Writers' Award.
2005: Patricia Smith's Teahouse of the Almighty (2006) is a National Poetry Series Winner.
2005: A. Van Jordan receives Anisfield-Wolf Award for Macnolia: Poems.
2005: Thomas Sayers Ellis receives Whiting Writers' Award.
2005: Tracy K. Smith receives Whiting Writers' Award.
2005: John Keene receives Whiting Writers' Award.
2006: Nathaniel Mackey wins the National Book Award for Poetry for his volume Splay Anthem.
2006: Tyehimba Jess receives Whiting Writers' Award.
2007: Lucille Clifton awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
2007: Elizabeth Alexander becomes first-ever recipient of Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize.
2007: Natasha Trethewey wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her volume Native Guard (2006).
2007: Nikki Giovanni reads poem on April 17, commemorating the April 16 Virginia Tech massacre.
2008: Michael S. Harper is awarded the Robert Frost Medal.
2008: Douglas Kearney's The Black Automaton (2009) selected as a National Poetry Series Winner.
2008: Adrian Matejka's Mixology (2009) is selected by Kevin Young as a National Poetry Series Winner.
2009: Elizabeth Alexander reads "Praise Song for the Day" at inauguration of Barack Obama.
2009: Praise Song For The Day by E. Alexander and Bicycles by Nikki Giovanni are top best selling volumes
2009: Jericho Brown receives Whiting Writers' Award. 
2010: Terrance Hayes wins National Book Award for Poetry for his volume Lighthead.  
2010: Lucille Clifton is awarded the Robert Frost Medal.
2010: "73 Poems for 73 Years: Celebrating the Life of Lucille Clifton" held on September 21.
2010: Elizabeth Alexander receives Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry.
2010: Harryette Mullen receives the Jackson Poetry Prize. 
2011: Nikky Finney wins National Book Award for Poetry for her volume Head Off & Split.
2011: Sonia Sanchez appointed Poet Laureate of Philadelphia.
2011: The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, edited by Rita Dove, is published.
2012: Elizabeth Alexander begins her "twitter poem project."
2012: Marilyn Nelson is awarded the Robert Frost Medal.
2012: Tracy K. Smith wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her volume Life on Mars.
2012: N. Giovanni, M. Angelou & Joanne Gabbin organize a celebration for Toni Morrison on October 16.
2012: The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 is published by BOA Editions Ltd.
2012: Natasha Trethewey is appointed Mississippi's Poet Laureate.
2012>: Natasha Trethewey is announced as the new U.S. Poet Laureate.
2012: Kevin Young's book The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness is published by Graywolf Press.
2013: Natasha Trethewey is reappointed as the U.S. Poet Laureate.
2013: Rowan Ricardo receives Whiting Writers' Award.
2014: Amiri Baraka dies January 9.
2014: Adrian Matejka receives the Anisfield-Wolf Award for The Big Smoke.
2014: Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine is published.
2014: Claudia Rankine receives the Jackson Poetry Prize.
2014: Adrian Matejka's The Big Smoke is named a finalist for Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. 
2014: Maya Angelou dies May 28.
2014: Nathaniel Mackey wins Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
2014: Terrance Hayes earns a MacArthur Fellowship.
2014: SOS--Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader edited by John H. Bracey Jr., Sonia Sanchez, and James Smethurst is published.
2014: Afaa Michael Weaver receives the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for The Government of Nature.
2014: Yona Harvey receives the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for Hemming the Water.
2014: #BlackPoetsSpeakOut launches.
2015: Nathaniel Mackey wins the Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.
2015: Safiya Sinclair awarded the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships.
2015: Kamau Brathwaite receives the Robert Frost Medal.
2015: Aracelis Girmay receives the Whiting Writers' Award.
2015: Roger Reeves receives the Whiting Writers' Award.
2015: Claudia Rankine wins the National Book Critics Circle Award.
2015: Gregory Pardlo wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
2015: Robin Coste Lewis wins the National Book Award for Poetry.
2015: Joshua Bennett is a National Poetry Series Winner.
2015: A. Van Jordan receives Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
2015: Nate Marshall awarded Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships.
2015: Ross Gay wins National Book Critics Circle Award.
2015: Kevin Young wins Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
2015: Jamila Woods awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.
2015: Elizabeth Alexander appointed the inaugural Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry.
2015: Black Poetry After the Black Arts Movement, an NEH Institute, led by Maryemma Graham takes place.
2015: Elizabeth Alexander appointed director of Creativity and Free Expression of Ford Foundation.
2016: Danez Smith earns the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
2016: Ross Gay earns the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
2016: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs receives a Whiting Writers' Award.
2016: Safiya Sinclair receives a Whiting Writers' Award.
2016: Will Alexander awarded Jackson Poetry Prize.
2016: Sonia Sanchez wins the Shelley Memorial Award.
2016: Ed Roberson receives the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
2016: Angel Nafis awarded Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.
2016: Alison C. Rollins awarded Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.
2016: Tyehimba Jess receives Lannan Foundation Literary Award.
2016: Claudia Rankine wins MacArthur Fellowship.
2016: Elizabeth Alexander elected to Pulitzer Prize Board.
2016: Kevin Young named as new director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
2017: Vievee Francis earns Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
2017: Phillip B. Williams earns Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
2017: Simone White receives Whiting Writers' Award.
2017: Phillip B. Williams receives Whiting Writers' Award.
2017: Tyehimba Jess awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
2017: Robin Coste Lewis named Los Angeles Poet Laureate.
2017: Cortney Lamar Charleston receives Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.
2017: Tracy K. Smith appointed Poet Laureate of U.S.
2018: Mellon Foundation names Elizabeth Alexander as president.
2018: Patricia Smith wins Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
2018: Donika Kelly wins the Kate Tufts Discover Award.
2018: Shane McCrae's In the Language of My Captor earns Anisfield Award.
2018: Tracy K. Smith named as incoming chair of Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton.
2018: Reginald Dwayne Betts and Tyehimba Jess earn Guggenheim Fellowships.
2018: Patricia Smith's Incendiary Art wins LA Times Book Prize for poetry.
2018: Rita Dove named poetry editor for The New York Times magazine.
2018: Poet Sonia Sanchez wins Wallace Stevens Award.
2018: Geffrey Davis won the 2018 James Laughlin Award for the forthcoming Night Angler.
2018: Malcolm Tariq wins the Cave Canem Poetry Prize.
2018: Safia Elhillo earns the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.
2018: Danez Smith wins Forward poetry prize.
2018: Justin Phillip Reed wins the National Book Award for Poetry for Indecency.
2019: Dawn Lundy Martin wins Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
2019: Tracy K. Smith’s Wade in the Water wins the Anisfield-Wolf Award.
2019: Sonia Sanchez receives the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award.
2019: Dante Micheaux wins the T. S. Eliot Foundation and the Poetry Society of America
2019: Marilyn Nelson is awarded Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
2019: Kyle Dargan wins the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
2019: Furious Flower 25th Anniversary Celebration. Washington D.C. Sept 27 & 28.
2019: Rita Dove wins the Wallace Stevens award.

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