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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.

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

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