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Nobel Prize in Literature
October 8th, 2008 Horace Engdahl’s comments about American literature (and Dr. Robert Gallo’s related snub as a non-recepient of the Prize in Medicine) suggests to us that a smart reader-of-literature…
Hayden Carruth dies at 87
September 29th, 2008 Hayden Carruth, born in Waterbury, Conn., died at his home in Munnsville, New York. Smartish Pace poet Brooks Haxton states that the cause of Carruth’s death was complications from…
Frank Stanford Literary Festival
September 28th, 2008 Fayetteville, ArkansasOctober 17th – 19thFrankstandford Festival
Robert Pinsky Wins Roethke Prize
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…
Happy Birthday, John
August 19th, 2008 John Milton turns 400 today!
Apostrophe Cast Celebrates One Year
August 13th, 2008 Congratulations to Apostrophe Cast (http://apostrophecast.com/) for churning out 26 episodes over the past year. (Past episodes have features SP poets, Daniel Groves and Cecily Parks.) Number 27,…
Mahmoud Darwish Dies at 67
August 13th, 2008 Mahmoud Darwish, widely considered Palestine’s national poet, died on August 9 of complications due to heart surgery. A prolific writer of prose, lyrics, and poetry, he wrote…
Ron Tanner Elected AWP President
August 1st, 2008 Baltimore writer Ron Tanner is the new president of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), which represents over 28,000 writers, 400 writing programs, and 128…
Kay Ryan Next U.S. Poet Laureate
July 13th, 2008 Kay Ryan will begin her term as U.S. Poet Laureate on October 16, 2008. She will replace Charles Simic and receive a salary of $35,000. Ryan is…
SP’s Best New Poets Nominations
April 15th, 2008 Smartish Pace nominated Amber L. Cohen and Bro. Yao for Best New Poets (www.bestnewpoets.org). In 2007 we nominated Carey McHugh and Sally Smits.