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Nikki Giovanni Bequeaths Copyrights to VA Tech
May 17th, 2010 Virginia Tech professor and poet Nikki Giovanni announced that she will confer copyright to all her works to Virginia Tech upon her death, making the university the trustee of…
Pinsky & Springsteen Perform Together
May 6th, 2010 Robert Pinsky and Bruce Springsteen performed together at Fairleigh Dickinson University to a crowd of 400 students, where they also discussed their work, influences and careers and joked about…
Dead Poets Remembrance Day
April 24th, 2010 A former teacher who founded the Dead Poets Society of America and traveled 15,000 miles to document the graves of poets has a new mission: to create…
Peter Porter Dies
April 23rd, 2010 One of Britain’s most distinguished poets, Peter Porter, died on April 23, 2010 at the age of 81. From when he started publishing in the 1960s, he…
Dodge Poetry Festival Finds New Home
April 20th, 2010 Four U.S. Poet Laureates will join 40+ acclaimed poets in Newmark, NJ, Oct. 7-10, 2010 for the 13th Dodge Poetry Festival. In 2009 Dodge Foundation president and CEO David Grant cancelled the festival based on rising…
Ai Dies
March 24th, 2010 Poet Ai, who was born Florence Anthony, died on Saturday in Oklahoma at the age 62. The author of seven collections including Cruelty (1973), Sin (1986), Fate (1991) and Greed (1993), Ai won the National…
Clewell Named Missouri Poet Laureate
March 4th, 2010 David Clewell, a professor of English at Webster University, has been named Missouri’s second poet laureate. A native of New Jersey, Clewell received his MFA at Washington…
Tribute Planned for Lucille Clifton
February 13th, 2010 Former Maryland Poet Laureate Lucille Clifton died at age 73. She was hospitalized last week in Columbia, MD, and passed away Saturday morning at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Clifton published…
Powell & Bachmann Win Tufts Awards
February 3rd, 2010 Claremont Graduate University has announced the winners of its Kingsley and Kate Tufts poetry awards. The Kingsley Tufts Award, and $100,000 prize money, will go to D. A. Powell…
David Franks Dies
January 14th, 2010 David Franks, poet, artist, songwriter and prankster, died on Jan. 14 in his Baltimore apartment at the age of 61. The list of David Franks stories is long: he wrote Congressional speeches in the mid-1970s, conducted…