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November 23rd, 2009 Yang Xianyi died in Beijing Monday at the age of 94. Yang was born in Tianjin in 1915 and studied English at Oxford where he met his future wife, the author Gladys Taylor.…

November 22nd, 2009 Over 2,500 unpublished letters by Philip Larkin were recently donated to the University of Hull where Larkin spent most of his career as a librarian. The letters…

November 20th, 2009 Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (U. of CA) by Keith Waldrop won the 2009 National Book Award in poetry. The book was selected by judges Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, A. Van Jordan,…

November 18th, 2009 9th Annual Erskine J. Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace; Stephen Reichert, Judge 1st Prize: “Hue and Cry” by Diane K. Martin2nd Prize: “Water Line” by Bethany Schultz Hurst3rd…

November 10th, 2009 Former British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has been accused of “burglary” over a poem he wrote for Remembrance Sunday. Military historian Ben Shephard is upset because all…

October 31st, 2009 71 pages of letters written by the late British poet George Gordon Byron sold for a record $458,000 according to Sotheby’s auction house in London. The London Times said…

October 28th, 2009 Poet Jay Hopler was named a recipient of a Whiting Writers Award given to emerging writers of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and plays. The award comes with a…

October 22nd, 2009 While driving his “Poemobile” Walter Skold of Freeport, Maine, has completed a three-month road trip visiting the graves of 150 poets in 23 states. The visits included…

October 17th, 2009 Lisa Russ Spaar won the poetry prize for “Satin Cash,” her fourth book of poems. She is a professor of English at the University of Virginia. Spaar’s…

October 15th, 2009 On October 29th and 30th the University of Maryland will host “A Celebration of Stanley Plumly and Poetry.” The event will include lectures and readings by Elizabeth Arnold, David…

October 1st, 2009 Stanley Plumly was appointed Poet Laureate of Maryland in a presentation by Governor Martin O’Malley and Alice McDermott at The State House in Annapolis, Maryland. Plumly becomes…

September 25th, 2009 The Poets House is reopening in lower Manhattan on Friday. Musician Natalie Merchant and poets, including U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, will perform at an “Invocation of the Muse” on Saturday, Sept. 26.…