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O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize
The O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize was awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library to honor a U.S. poet whose art and teaching demonstrated great imagination and daring. Folger Shakespeare Library Web site, Web page titled "David Rivard", accessed October 27, 2006 The poet must have published at least one book within the last five years, must have made important contributions as a teacher, and must be committed to furthering the understanding of poetry. The prize is named after former Folger Library Director O.B. Hardison Jr. (1928–1990), who founded the Folger Poetry Series in 1970. Hardison Prize honorees received $10,000. Recipients *2009—[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folger Shakespeare Library
The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period (1500–1750) in Britain and Europe. The library was established by Henry Clay Folger in association with his wife, Emily Jordan Folger. It opened in 1932, two years after his death. The library offers advanced scholarly programs and national outreach to K–12 (education), K–12 classroom teachers on Shakespeare education. Other performances and events at the Folger include the award-winning Folger Theatre, which produces Shakespeare-inspired theater; Folger Consort, the early-music ensemble-in-residence; the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series; the PEN/Faulkner Reading Series; and numerous other exhibits, seminars, talks and lectures, and family programs. It also has several publications, including the Folger Libr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Shapiro
Alan Richard Shapiro (born February 18, 1952 in Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ..., Massachusetts) is an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Shapiro's poetry books include ''Tantalus in Love'', ''Song and Dance'', and ''Dead Alive and Busy''. In addition to poetry, Shapiro has published two personal memoirs, ''Vigil'' and ''The Last Happy Occasion''. Bibliography Poetry collections *''The Courtesy'' *''Happy Hour'' *''Covenant'' *''Mixed Company'' *''The Last Happy Occasion'' *''Vigil'' *''After the Digging'' *''The Dead Alive and Busy'' *''Song and Dance'' *''Tantalus in Love'' *''Old War'' *''Night of the Republic'' *''Reel to Reel'' List of poems Essays * Awards and hono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Years In Poetry
This article gives a chronological list of years in poetry (descending order). These pages supplement the List of years in literature pages with a focus on events in the history of poetry. 21st century in poetry 2020s * 2023 in poetry * 2022 in poetry * 2021 in poetry * 2020 in poetry - Lana Del Rey's ''Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass'' 2010s * 2019 in poetry * 2018 in poetry * 2017 in poetry * 2016 in poetry * 2015 in poetry * 2014 in poetry Death of Madeline Gins, Amiri Baraka, Juan Gelman, José Emilio Pacheco, Maya Angelou * 2013 in poetry Death of Thomas McEvilley, Taylor Mead, Seamus Heaney * 2012 in poetry Günter Grass's poem "What Must Be Said" leads to him being declared ''persona non grata''; Death of Adrienne Rich, Wisława Szymborska * 2011 in poetry Tomas Tranströmer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Liz Lochhead succeeds Edwin Morgan (poet), Edwin Morgan as The Scots Makar; Death of Josephine Hart, Václav Havel, Robert Kroetsch * 2010 in poetry Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Literary Awards
This list of literary awards from around the world is an index to articles about notable literary awards. International awards All nationalities & multiple languages eligible (in chronological order) * Nobel Prize in Literature – since 1901 * Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings – since 1966 * Neustadt International Prize for Literature – since 1970 * International Botev Prize – since 1972 * The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year – since 1978 * Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service – since 1979 * America Award – since 1994 * Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award – since 1997 * Franz Kafka Prize – since 2001 * Sense of Gender Awards – since 2001 * Ovid Prize – since 2002 * Dayton Literary Peace Prize – since 2006 * European Union Prize for Literature – since 2009 * Jan Michalski Prize for Literature – since 2009 * Paris Literary Prize – since 2010 * KONS International Literary Award – since 2011 * Grand Prix of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Poetry Awards
Major international awards * Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings * Bridges of Struga (for a debuting author at Struga Poetry Evenings) * Griffin Poetry Prize (The international prize) * International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine (Open First Prize=£5000) * Montreal International Poetry Prize ($20,000 prize for one poem) * National Poetry Competition (International, First Prize=£5000) * Nobel Prize in Literature (Not exclusively for poetry) * Poetic Republic Poetry Prize (Anonymous peer review poetry competition) * Poetry London Prize (First Prize=£5000) * Rhysling Award (For science-fiction poetry) * Pushcart Prize ("Best of the Small Presses") * Charles Causley Trust International Poetry Competition (First Prize=£2000) * Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry Asia * SAARC Literary Award Africa * Brunel University African Poetry Prize Australia * Anne Elder Award * Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize * Christopher Brennan Award * C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Poetry
American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry already existed among Native American societies). Unsurprisingly, most of the early colonists' work relied on contemporary English models of poetic form, diction, and Theme (literary), theme. However, in the 19th century, a distinctive American Common parlance, idiom began to emerge. By the later part of that century, when Walt Whitman was winning an enthusiastic audience abroad, List of poets from the United States, poets from the United States had begun to take their place at the forefront of the English-language ''avant-garde''. Much of the American poetry published between 1910 and 1945 remains lost in the pages of small circulation political periodicals, particularly the ones on the far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan Galvin
Brendan James Galvin is an American poet. His book, ''Habitat: New and Selected Poems 1965–2005'', was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award. Life During forty years of college teaching, he served as Wyndham Robertson Visiting Writer in Residence in the MA program at Hollins University, Coal Royalty Distinguished Writer in Residence in the MFA program at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and Whichard chair in the Humanities at East Carolina University. He lives with his wife, Ellen, in Truro, Massachusetts. His translation of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis appeared in the Penn Greek Drama Series in 1998. Awards His narrative poem Hotel Malabar, winner of the 1997 Iowa Poetry Prize (University of Iowa Press, 1998). His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA fellowships, the Sotheby Prize of the Arvon Foundation (England), and Poetry’s Levinson Prize, the OB Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Charity Randall Citation from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Macdonald
Cynthia Lee Macdonald (February 2, 1928 – August 3, 2015) was an American poet, educator, and psychoanalyst. Life Macdonald was born in Manhattan to screenwriter Leonard Lee and his wife Dorothy Kiam. She earned a B.A. in English from Bennington College in 1950 and pursued studies in voice at the Mannes School of Music in 1951-1952. She pursued a career in opera and concert singing from 1953-1966. After changing her focus to poetry, Macdonald received a master's degree in writing and literature from Sarah Lawrence College. She went on to teach creative writing at Sarah Lawrence University and Johns Hopkins University. She co-founded the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston with fellow poet Stanley Plumly in 1979. She was a member of the English Department at the University of Houston until her retirement in 2004, receiving the Esther Farfel Award for faculty excellence. Macdonald also worked as a psychoanalyst, having received a certification from the Houston- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Frederick Nims
John Frederick Nims (November 20, 1913 in Muskegon, Michigan – January 13, 1999, aged 85, in Chicago, Illinois) was an American poet and academic. Life He graduated from DePaul University, University of Notre Dame with an M.A., and from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1945. He published reviews of the works by Robert Lowell and W. S. Merwin. He taught English at Harvard University, the University of Florence, the University of Toronto, Williams College, University of Missouri, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was editor of ''Poetry'' magazine from 1978 to 1984. The John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize, for poetry translation, is awarded by the Poetry Foundation. Awards * American Academy of Arts and Letters grant * National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities grant * Institute of the Humanities fellowship * 1982 Academy of American Poets fellowship * 1986 Guggenheim Fellowship * 1991 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. * 1993 O.B. Hardiso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham (; born May 9, 1950) is an American poet. The Poetry Foundation called Graham "one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation." She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, becoming the first woman to be appointed to this position. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1996) for ''The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994'' and was chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003. She won the 2013 International Nonino Prize in Italy. Books and awards Jorie Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including notable volumes like ''The End of Beauty'', ''The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994'', ''Sea Change'', ''P L A C E'', ''From the New World (Poems 1976-2014)'', ''Fast'', and ''Runaway''. She has also edited two anthologies, ''Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language'' (1996) and ''The Best American Poetry 1990''. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart (born May 27, 1939) is an American academic and poet, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Biography Bidart is a native of California and considered a career in acting or directing when he was young. In 1957, he began to study at the University of California at Riverside, where he was introduced to writers such as T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound and started to look at poetry as a career path. He then went on to Harvard, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. He began studying with Lowell and Reuben Brower in 1962. He has been an English professor at Wellesley College since 1972, and has taught at nearby Brandeis University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and he is gay. In his early work, he was noted for his dramatic monologue poems like "Ellen West," which Bidart wrote from the point of view of a woman with an eating disorder, and "Herbert White," which he wrote from the point of view of a psychopath. He has also written ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather McHugh
Heather McHugh (born August 20, 1948) is an American poet notable for the independent ranges of her aesthetic as a poet, and for her working devotion to teaching and translating literature. Life Heather McHugh, a poet, translator, educator and caregiver-respite provider, was born in San Diego, California, to Canadian parents. They raised McHugh in Gloucester Point, Virginia. There, her father directed the marine biological laboratory on the York River. She began writing poetry at age five and claims to have become an expert "eavesdropper" by the age of twelve. At the age of seventeen, she entered Harvard University. One notable work was ''Hinge & Sign: Poems 1968–1993'', which won the Bingham Poetry Prize of the Boston Book Review and the Pollack-Harvard Review Prize, and which was named by ''The New York Times Book Review'' a ''Notable Book of the Year''. Another was "Glottal Stop: Poems by Paul Celan" which, with Nikolai B. Popov, she co-translated and introduced; the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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