September 3rd, 2008
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky won the 11th Triennial Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. Pinsky, 67 of Newton Corner, MA, was chosen by a three-judge panel and will recieve $3,000 for his 2007 book, Gulf Music. Pinsky is the author of nine books of poetry and five books about poetry. Roethke (1908-63) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Waking. Read Pinsky’s Smartish Pace Q&A at this website.
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