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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). ==Events== * 1 May 1999 — Andrew Motion becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom for 10 years * 1 July 1999 — Scotland's Parliament opens with the singing of Robert Burns' "A Man's a Man For A'That", instead of "God Save The Queen" * 4 October 1999 — In the United States, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman signs into law Assembly Bill No. 2714 (P.L. 1999, c. 228) sent to her from the state legislature and creates the ''New Jersey William Carlos Williams Citation of Merit''—effectively, Poet Laureate of New Jersey. Whitman subsequently selected poet Gerald Stern (b. 1925), then a resident of Lambertville, New Jersey as the first appointed to the post in the following April.〔New Jersey State Legislature. ("An Act establishing the New Jersey William Carlos Williams Citation of Merit, supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes and making an appropriation" ) from ''Laws of the State of New Jersey'' (P.L. 1999, c. 228), Approved 4 October 1999. Retrieved 26 June 2013.〕 * The Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award is established at the Fifth Annual West Chester University Poetry Conference. The award is given to scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification. Derek Attridge is the first winner * Carl Rakosi's 99th birthday celebrated at the Kelly Writers House with a live audiocast * A new grave slab is installed at the Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh over the final resting place of William Topaz McGonagall (1825–1904), comically renowned as the worst poet in the English language; the slab is inscribed: :William McGonagall :Poet and Tragedian :"I am your gracious Majesty :ever faithful to Thee, :William McGonagall, the Poor Poet, :That lives in Dundee." 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「1999 in poetry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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