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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). ==Events== * January 19 – Liz Lochhead becomes the second Scots Makar, the official national poet of Scotland. * April 4 – Canadian poet Christian Bök announces a significant break-through in his 9-year project to engineer "a life-form so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem, but also an operant machine for writing a poem".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Xenotext Experiment )〕 On April 3, Bök said that he * June 12 – A poet and student, Ayat al-Ghermezi of Bahrain, is sentenced to a year in prison as part of that kingdom's crackdown on Shiite protesters calling for greater rights.〔 〕 Ayat was arrested on March 30 for reciting a poem critical of the government and cursing the current prime minister, Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa, during the Bahraini uprising in Pearl Square, the main gathering place for demonstrators, in February 2011. * August 9 – Announcement that Philip Levine has been named Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (United States Poet Laureate). * October 6 – Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature * November 9 – The former United States Poet Laureate, Robert Hass, was participating in an Occupy movement demonstration at UC Berkeley called Occupy Cal, when he was hit in the ribs by a police officer wielding a baton. The incident occurred after his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, was shoved to the ground by a police officer, and Hass had tried to help her. He wrote about their experience in a November 19, 2011, ''New York Times'' opinion piece entitled "Poet-Bashing Police." Also, poet Geoffrey G. O'Brien suffered broken ribs at the same demonstration.〔(Jesse Kornbluth: The Police Riot at Berkeley: If They'll Beat a Poet Laureate, Will They Kill a Student? )〕 * November 11 – Politician, academic and poet Michael D. Higgins takes office as President of Ireland. * December 6 – A memorial to Ted Hughes is unveiled in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey by Seamus Heaney. * December 7 – Two British poets, Alice Oswald〔("Alice Oswald withdraws from TS Eliot prize in protest at sponsor Aurum )", Alison Flood, ''The Guardian'', 6 December 2011〕and John Kinsella,〔("TS Eliot prize: Second poet withdraws in sponsor protest" ) 7 December 2011 ''The Guardian''〕 have withdrawn from this year's T. S. Eliot Prize in protest over the prize's sponsorship by an investment company called Arum who focus on hedge funds. 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「2011 in poetry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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