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Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Conrad Aiken appointed this year. Harriet Monroe Prize from Poetry magazine: E.E. Cummings; National Book Award for Poetry: William Carlos Williams, Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems
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January 19 – Isaac Asimov's first full-length novel, Pebble in the Sky, is published in the United States by Doubleday. [1]January 26 – For the film noir Gun Crazy, released on this day in the United States, co-writer Dalton Trumbo is billed as Millard Kaufman, due to the former's inclusion on the Hollywood blacklist.
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The Movement produced two anthologies, Poets of the 1950s (edited by D. J. Enright, published in Japan, 1955) and New Lines (edited by Robert Conquest, 1956).Conquest, who edited the New Lines anthology, described the connection between the poets as "little more than a negative determination to avoid bad principles".
Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; ... 1950 literary awards (3 P) B. ... 1950 poems (3 P) 1950 in poetry (2 C) S. 1950 short stories (1 C, 59 P)
1920 in poetry – The Epic of Manas is published; approximate date of Mikhail Khudiakov's Dorvyzhy; The Dial, a longstanding American literary magazine, is re-established by Scofield Thayer, with the publication becoming an important outlet for Modernist poets and writers (until 1929), with contributors this year including Sherwood Anderson ...
May 1 – First African American winner of a Pulitzer Prize: Gwendolyn Brooks wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her 1949 volume Annie Allen. May 9 – L. Ron Hubbard publishes Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health .