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Poet Ruth Padel Breaks 301-Year Streak
May 16th, 2009 Ruth Padel has been elected the new Oxford professor of poetry and will be the first women to hold the post since it was established in 1708.…
Smartish Pace on Poetry Daily
May 16th, 2009 Poetry Daily is featuring the following poems from Smartish Pace, Issue 16: James Richardson’s “Emergency Measures” on May 16, 2009.Alan Shapiro’s “Edenic Simile” on May 22, 2009. Thanks Diane…
Issue 16 Release Party Tonight! Fri. May 15th
May 15th, 2009 The Smartish Pace Issue 16 release party is tonight, Fri. May 15, 2009 (8pm), at Cyclops in Baltimore. Poetry, Music, Food and Drinks. Readings by Matt Anserello, Lucy Biederman, Maggie Glover, Reginald Harris, Alex…
Craig Arnold Missing
May 2nd, 2009 Craig Arnold, 41, vanished after hiking up to the volcano on the island of Kuchinoerabu-jima in the northern Ryuky Islands of southern Japan. He is visiting the island…
Carol Ann Duffy named UK Poet Laureate
May 1st, 2009 Replacing Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy was named to a 10-year term as the United Kingdom’s Poet Laureate. The first woman and first openly gay poet serving…
Linda Gregg wins Jackson Poetry Prize
April 21st, 2009 Linda Gregg, 66, won the third annual Jackson Poetry Prize, a $50,000 award given to an author who has written at least one book of “recognized literary…
Merwin wins Pulitzer Prize
April 20th, 2009 Beating out Frank Bidart and Ruth Stone for the award, W.S. Merwin won this year’s (and his second overall) Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for The Shadow of Sirius (Copper…
Smartish Pace at Verse Daily!
April 17th, 2009 Thanks to the good folks at Verse Daily for featuring Bruce Bond’s Sand today, and for featuring Maggie Glover’s “On Finally Blaming Myself a Little Finally” and Sherman Alexie’s “Missed Connections” earlier…
Fanny Howe & Ange Mlinko win Pegasus Awards
April 14th, 2009 Fanny Howe won the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Established in 1986 by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, the prize awards $100,000. Ange Mlinko won the Randall Jarrell Award…
Debroah Digges dies at 59
April 11th, 2009 Poet Deborah Digges died yesterday (Friday night) at the McGuirk Alumni Stadium at the University of Massachusetts, in what police are calling a suicide. She was the author of…