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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

January 8th, 2010 6th Annual Beullah Rose Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace; Clare Banks & Traci O’Dea, Judges 1st Prize: “Remember” by Miriam Bird Greenberg2nd Prize: “When My Back Gave Out”…

December 31st, 2009 For his book Rain, Scottish poet Don Paterson was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry (Buckingham Palace). Carol Ann Duffy, who chaired the judging panel, said Paterson’s work was…

December 30th, 2009 Philanthropist Ruth Lilly died on December 30th at the age of 94. She was the last surviving great-grandchild of pharmaceutical magnate Eli Lilly. During her lifetime Lilly donated about $800 million, including…

December 1st, 2009 Smartish Pace 2009 Pushcart Prize Nominations, made by Editor Stephen Reichert From Issue 16 (April, 2009)Sherman Alexie: “Comedy Is Simply a Funny Way of Being Serious”Michael Chitwood: “The…

November 25th, 2009 Personal letters, first edition copies of books–including Les Fleurs du mall (The Flowers of Evil) worth an estimated $200,000–and a suicide note written by 19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire go on…