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William Carlos Williams Award
The William Carlos Williams Award is given out by the Poetry Society of America for a poetry book published by a small press, non-profit, or university press. The award is endowed by the family and friends of Geraldine Clinton Little, a poet and author of short stories and former vice-president of the society. The award is a "purchase prize" of $500 to $1000. Winners * 2018 Jennifer Chang, ''Some Say the Lark'', Judge: Paisley Rekdal * 2017 Monica Youn, ''Blackacre'', Judge: Robin Coste Lewis * 2016 Brandon Shimoda, ''Evening Oracle'', Judge: Katie Peterson * 2015 Jennifer Moxley, ''The Open Secret'', Judge: Ange Mlinko * 2014 Ron Padgett, ''Collected Poems'', Judge: Thomas Lux * 2013 Naomi Replansky, ''Collected Poems'', Judge: B. H. Fairchild * 2012 Bruce Smith, ''Devotions'', Judge: Elizabeth Macklin * 2011 Mary Ruefle, ''Selected Poems'', Judge: Rodney Jones * 2010 Eleanor Ross Taylor, ''Captive Voices'', Judge: Lynn Emanuel * 2009 Linda Gregg, ''All of It Singin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry Society Of America
The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the society have included such renowned poets as Witter Bynner, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens. History In 1910, the Poetry Society of America held its first official meeting in the National Arts Club in Manhattan, which is still home to the organization today. Jessie Belle Rittenhouse, a founding member and Secretary of the PSA, documented the founding of the Poetry Society of America in her autobiography ''My House of Life'' writing "It was not, however, to be an organization in the formal sense of the word, but founded upon the salon idea, a place where poets would gather to read and discuss their work and that of their contemporaries, the group to be united largely through the hospitality of our hosts at whose apartments it was proposed we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Ross Taylor
Eleanor Ross Taylor (June 30, 1920 – December 30, 2011) was an American poet who published six collections of verse from 1960 to 2009. This reference gives Taylor's birthdate. Her work received little recognition until 1998, but thereafter received several major poetry prizes. Describing her most recent poetry collection, Kevin Prufer writes, "I cannot imagine the serious reader — poet or not — who could leave ''Captive Voices'' unmoved by the work of this supremely gifted poet who skips so nimbly around our sadnesses and fears, never directly addressing them, suggesting, instead, their complex resistance to summary." Biography Eleanor Ross was born in rural North Carolina in 1920. She enrolled at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she studied with the poet Allen Tate and novelist Caroline Gordon. She graduated in 1940, and worked for a time as a high school English teacher. With the recomme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Jackson
Angela Jackson (born July 25, 1951) is an American poet, playwright, and novelist based in Chicago, Illinois. Jackson became the Illinois Poet Laureate in 2020. Biography Angela Jackson was born in Greenville, Mississippi, the fifth of nine children,Angela Jackson biography at Poetry Foundation. but grew up on the South Side of , where her father, George Jackson, Sr, and mother, Angeline Robinson Jackson, moved. Jackson lives and works in |
Gary Young (poet)
Gary Eugene Young (born 1951) is an American poet, printer and book artist. In 2010, he was named the first ever Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County. Life He graduated from University of California Santa Cruz and University of California, Irvine, with an M.F.A. His work has appeared in ''Poetry'', ''Antaeus'', ''The American Poetry Review'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''Montserrat Review'', ''ZYZZYVA''.''. In 1975, he founded Greenhouse Review Press. His print work is represented in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and The Getty Center for the Arts. His archive is held at Brown University. He teaches at the University of California Santa Cruz, and has lived near Santa Cruz for thirty years, with his wife and two sons. In 2012, Young and fellow poet Christopher Buckley published ''One for the Money: The Sentence as a Poetic Form, A Poetry Workshop Handbook and Anthology'' through Lynx House Press. Awards * 2009 Shell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Brock-Broido
Lucie Brock-Broido (May 22, 1956 – March 6, 2018) was an American author of four collections of poetry. Biography She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, she was Director of Poetry in the Writing Division at Columbia University School of the Arts in New York City. Her long narrative poem, ''Jessica from the Well'', tells the story of 18-month-old Jessica McClure, who was trapped in a well in Texas, from McClure's point of view, describing her as having a basic understanding of the physical and mythic elements of her situation. It has been reprinted numerous times. Brock-Broido died on March 6, 2018, aged 61, from cancer at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Awards and honors * She received many honors, including the Witter-Bynner prize of Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, the Harvard-Danforth Award for Distinction in Teaching, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Butts
Anthony Butts (born July 28, 1969 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American poet. Life He graduated from Wayne State University with a bachelor's degree, from Western Michigan University, with an MFA, and University of Missouri with a PhD. He taught at the University of Dayton as well as Carnegie Mellon University. He was married to journalist Leah Samuel (b. 1970) from 2004-2009. Award * 2004 William Carlos Williams Award The William Carlos Williams Award is given out by the Poetry Society of America for a poetry book published by a small press, non-profit, or university press. The award is endowed by the family and friends of Geraldine Clinton Little, a poet and ... Works "The Nut Gatherers", ''Poetry Society of American''* * * ''The Next Generation'' (CMU Press, 2000) * * * "Prayer" in Lines + Stars literary journal http://www.linesandstars.com/spring-2014/anthony-butts/prayer/ Anthologies * * * References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Butts, Anthony 1969 births Livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjorie Welish
Marjorie Welish ( ; born June 2, 1944) is an American poet, artist, and art critic. Welish is a graduate of Columbia University and received her M.F.A. degree from Vermont College and Norwich University. She also studied at the Art Students League of New York. She lives in New York City and teaches art and literary criticism and art history at Pratt Institute; she has also frequently taught poetry at Brown University. Welish was the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University in 2005. Welish's ''The Annotated 'Here' and Selected Poems'' was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Her writing on art has appeared in ''Art in America'', ''Art International'', ''Art News'', ''BOMB (magazine)'', ''Partisan Review'', and ''Salmagundi''. A collection of her art criticism came out in 1999 entitled, ''Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960''. In April 2001, a conference at the University of Pennsylvania was held to compile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenda Hillman
Brenda Hillman (born March 27, 1951 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American poet and translator. She is the author of ten collections of poetry: ''White Dress'', ''Fortress'', ''Death Tractates'', ''Bright Existence'', ''Loose Sugar'', ''Cascadia'', ''Pieces of Air in the Epic'', ''Practical Water'', for which she won the LA Times Book Award for Poetry, ''Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire'', which received the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Northern California Book Award for Poetry, and ''Extra Hidden Life, among the Days'', which was awarded the Northern California Book Award for Poetry. Among the awards Hillman has received are the 2012 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the 2005 William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. A professor of Creative Writing, she holds the Olivia Filippi Chair in Poetry at Saint Mary's College of California, in Moraga, California. Hillman is also involved in non-v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Hoagland
Anthony Dey Hoagland (November 19, 1953 – October 23, 2018) was an American poet. His poetry collection, ''What Narcissism Means to Me'' (2003), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other honors included two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and a fellowship to the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. His poems and criticism have appeared in such publications as ''Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, AGNI, Threepenny Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ninth Letter, Southern Indiana Review, American Poetry Review'' and '' Harvard Review.'' Biography Hoagland was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina in 1953. His father was an Army doctor, so Hoagland grew up on various military bases in Hawaii, Alabama, Ethiopia, and Texas. He had an older sister, and a twin brother who died of a drug overdose in high school. He was educated at Williams College, the University of Iowa (B.A.) and the University of Arizona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Zapruder
Matthew Zapruder (1967) is an American poet, editor, translator, and professor. His second poetry collection, ''The Pajamaist'', won the 2007 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and was chosen by ''Library Journal'' as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006. His first book, ''American Linden'', won the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize. His most recent book of poetry, ''Sun Bear'', brings the strangeness of poetry closer to everyday life. Life His poems have appeared in ''The Boston Review, The Believer, Fence, Bomb, McSweeney's, Jubilat, Conduit, Harvard Review, The New Republic,'' ''The New Yorker'', and ''The Paris Review''. In 2007, he was a Lannan Literary Fellow in Marfa, Texas.News release and web page"Young Poets Recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Five Receive Academy Prize in Honor of May Sarton", December 15, 2008, at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences website, retrieved December 17, 2008 He is the winner of the T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Silliman
Ron Silliman (born August 5, 1946) is an American poet. He has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. He is often associated with language poetry. Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, ''The Alphabet''. He has now begun writing a new poem, ''Universe'', the first section of which appears to be called ''Revelator''. Life and work In the 1960s, Silliman attended Merritt College, San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley, but left without attaining a degree. He lived in the San Francisco Bay area for more than 40 years. As a published poet, he has taught in the Graduate Writing Program at San Francisco State University, at the University of California at San Diego, at New College of California and, in shorter stints, at Naropa University and Brown University. Silliman has worked as a political organizer, a lobbyist, an ethnographer, a newspaper editor, a director of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aram Saroyan
Aram Saroyan (born September 25, 1943) is an American poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright, who is especially known for his minimalist poetry, famous examples of which include the one-word poem "lighght" and a one-letter poem comprising a four-legged version of the letter "m". There has been a resurgence of interest in his work in the 21st century, evidenced by the publication in 2007 of several previous collections reissued together as ''Complete Minimal Poems''. Early life Saroyan was born in New York City. His parents were author and playwright William Saroyan and actress Carol Grace and his sister was actress Lucy Saroyan. He is the father of Strawberry and Cream Saroyan. He is of Armenian descent from his father's side and Russian-Jewish from his mother's. Career During the 1970s and 1980s he lived in a writer's community in Bolinas, California, though by 1999 he was living in Santa Monica. Saroyan's poetry has been widely anthologized and appears ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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