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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). ==Events== * March 16 — Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrest and jail poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and dismiss a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem ''The Corrupt on Earth'' that criticizes the state's Islamic judiciary. In it, the poet accuses some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for their own personal benefit. * August 22 — Poet Ron Silliman starts his popular and controversial weblog, ''(Silliman's Blog )'', which will become one of the most popular blogs devoted largely to contemporary poetry and poetics. (By August 2006, the blog will reach a total of 800,000 hits and get its next 100,000 by early November.).〔In his blog entry for Saturday, November 04, 2006 (link here ) Silliman takes note of the following statistics: "In 2002–03, it took 50 weeks to get the first 50,000 visits. The last 100,000 came in just 14 (weeks)".〕 * August 27 in the United States; December 8 in Europe — Avril Lavigne's pop song ''Sk8er Boi'' is released; it is about the award-winning Irish performance poet Gerard McKeown, whom she has not met, but had seen performing in Belfast, Northern Ireland while on tour there. The single reached number ten on the United States ''Billboard'' Hot 100, number eight in the United Kingdom, number three in Australia, number thirteen in Canada and number one in Spain. Lavigne confirms the connection in a 2008 interview. * September - Amiri Baraka (b. 1934), an African-American poet and political activist from Newark, New Jersey who was appointed the second Poet Laureate of New Jersey, ignites a controversy and accusations of anti-Semitism with a public reading of "Somebody Blew Up America" at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival near Stanhope, New Jersey.〔Pearce, Jeremy. "When poetry seems to matter" in The New York Times (9 February 2003).〕 Baraka's poem discussed the September 11th attacks that was highly critical of racism in America, included angry depictions of public figures such as Rudolph Giuliani, Trent Lott, Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Ward Connerly, accused Israel of involvement in the World Trade Center attacks, and supported the theory the that the United States government knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance. Amid public outrage and pressure from state leaders, Baraka was asked to resign as the Poet Laureate by New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey who appointed him to the post two months earlier. Baraka refused.〔Purdy, Matthew. "New Jersey Laureate Refuses to Resign Over Poem" in The New York Times (28 September 2002).〕 Because there was no legal mechanism provided in the law to remove him as poet laureate, the state legislature and governor abolished the position to remove him from the post effective 2 July 2003.〔New Jersey State Legislature. "An Act concerning the State poet laureate and repealing P.L.1999, c.228." from Laws of the State of New Jersey (P.L.2003, c.123). Approved 2 July 2003. Retrieved 26 June 2013.〕 * ''Fulcrum, An annual of poetry and aesthetics'' is founded in the United States. * After Ghazi al-Gosaibi, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Britain, publishes a poem praising a suicide bomber who had killed himself and two Israelis after blowing himself up in a supermarket; the ambassador is recalled home.〔No byline, ("Ghazi al-Gosaibi, Saudi diplomat, poet, dead at 70" ), August 16, 2010, Agence France Press, retrieved August 20, 2010〕 * The office of Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate is instituted (see "Awards and honors" section below). * The office of Edinburgh Makar is instituted in Scotland, with Stewart Conn as first incumbent. * Influential Chinese literary magazine ''Tamen'' ("They/Them") revived as a webzine at www.tamen.net.〔 * Bowery Poetry Club, a New York City poetry performance space, founded by Bob Holman. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2002 in poetry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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