2012 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Bernadette Hall for Best New Zealand Poems 2011, published online this year:

The following poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2012.

David Lehman, general editor, and Mark Doty, guest editor (who selected the poetry):[9]

Bengali : Ukrainian : Urdu Awards announced this year: Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

John Ashbery at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival
Günter Grass in 2010
Eileen Myles reading in NYC, September 2006
Adrienne Rich, one of the 20th-century's most celebrated poets, died in 2012. Here she is in 1980.