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Gunn and Kitay continued to reside together until Gunn's death. [7] While at Stanford he taught a class called "The Occasions of Poetry". [8] Gunn taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1958 to 1966 and again from 1973 to 2000. [9] He was "an early fan" of the radical gay sex documentary zine Straight to Hell. [10]
Thom Gunn, 74, British poet. [105] Eddie Hopkinson, 68, English football goalkeeper. [106] Shota Kveliashvili, 66, Georgian sports shooter and Olympic silver medalist.
The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry is an annual literary award presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of gay male poetry. First presented in 2001 as the Triangle Award for Gay Poetry, the award was renamed in memory of British poet Thom Gunn, the award's first winner, following his death in 2004.
Timothy MacKenzie Gunn (born July 29, 1953) is an American author, academic, and television personality. He served on the faculty of Parsons School of Design from 1982 to 2007 and was chair of fashion design at the school from August 2000 to March 2007, after which he joined Liz Claiborne (now Kate Spade & Company) as its chief creative officer.
He edited, in 1956 and 1962, the influential New Lines anthologies, introducing works by them, as well as Thom Gunn, Dennis Enright, and others, to a wider public. [38] He spent 1959–60 as visiting poet at the University of Buffalo .
Whose pure precision was of death. — Thom Gunn [3] Praise to the Lord, the Almighty. Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation,
Between 1971 and 1981, it published sixteen titles, comprising poems by Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Ruth Fainlight, Thom Gunn, and Seamus Heaney. The works were printed by Daedalus Press in Norfolk, [48] Rampant Lions Press, and the John Roberts Press. Hughes was appointed Poet Laureate in December 1984, following Sir John Betjeman.
Siken received a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his book Crush was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for "Gay Men's Poetry" in 2005, [5] and the Thom Gunn Award from Publishing Triangle. The 1990 death of his boyfriend influenced his writing of the book. [6] [7]