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[edit] Events
- Dead Poets Society, a film incorporating excerpts from many traditional poets, ending with the title and opening line of Walt Whitman's lament on the death of Abraham Lincoln, "O Captain! My Captain!"
- My Left Foot, a film about Christy Brown, the Irish poet, and based on his autobiography
[edit] Works published
- Raymond Carver, A New Path To The Waterfall
- Edward Dorn, The Gunslinger
- Rita Dove, Grace Notes
- Frederick Feirstein's Expansive Poetry gathered various essays on the New Formalism and the related movement New Narrative, under the umbrella term 'Expansive Poetry'
- E. A. Markham, editor, Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain
- Molly Peacock, Take Heart
- Charles Reznikoff, Poems 1918-1975: The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff, edited by Seamus Cooney (Black Sparrow Press)
- Michael Ryan, God Hunger (Viking Penguin, 1989)
- Hugo Williams, Selected Poems, Oxford University Press,
These 75 poets were included in The Best American Poetry 1989, edited by David Lehman, with Donald Hall, guest editor:
- Matilde Camus:
- Santander en mi sentir ("Santander in my heart")
- Sin alcanzar la luz ("Without reaching the Light")
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Deaths
- January 13 — Sterling Allen Brown, 87, poet, teacher and writer on folklore and of literary criticism
- February 28 — Richard Willard Armour, 82, of Parkinson's disease;
- August 25 — Hans Børli, 70, Norwegian poet, novelist, and writer
- September 15 — Robert Penn Warren, poet and writer, former U.S. Poet Laureate, of cancer
- December 4 — May Swenson, American poet and playwright
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