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- October 9, 2006:
Senegal celebrates the centenary of the birth of its first president, the poet
Léopold Sédar Senghor
- October 5, 2006: The
Forward Poetry Prizes go to
Robin Robertson,
Tishani Doshi, and
Sean O'Brien.
- June 14, 2006:
Donald Hall is named new U.S.
Poet Laureate.
- June 1, 2006:
Sylvia Legris and
Kamau Brathwaite receive the 2006
Griffin Poetry Prize.
Robin Blaser is presented with a lifetime achievement award.
- May 14, 2006:
Stanley Kunitz dies at the age of 100.
- April 17, 2006:
Claudia Emerson wins the 2006
Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
- March 29, 2006:
Grolier Poetry Bookstore is sold.
- 25 February 2006: Ethiopian poet laureate
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin dies in
New York at the age of 69.
- 21 February 2006:
Chuvash/Russian poet
Gennadiy Aygi dies at the age of 71
- January 4, 2006: Romanian-born Canadian poet
Irving Layton dies in Montreal at the age of 92.