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March 18th, 2009 Irish poet Seamus Heaney won the £40,000 David Cohen prize for literature. Poet laureate and chair of the award’s judges, Andrew Motion, honored Heaney for a body…

March 17th, 2009 Nicholas Hughes, son of poets Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) and Ted Hughes (1930-1998) hanged himself yesterday, March 16th, at his home in Alaska. He was 47 years old.

March 13th, 2009 The National Book Critics Circle gave out its annual awards at a ceremony at The New School in New York City yesterday. For the first time in…

March 12th, 2009 The audio and video collection, of more than 1,300 tapes and reel-to-reel recordings of poetry, at the University of Buffalo will be digitized and catalogued thanks in…

March 11th, 2009 Of the thousands who visited in February, 2009, the greatest number of you were from New York, 9%; followed by Maryland, 8%; California, 6%; Virginia, 5%; DC,…

March 8th, 2009 The two most important positions in the British poetry establishment will be filled in the next few weeks and it looks like, for the first time, both…

March 4th, 2009 Smartish Pace has nominated Adam Giannelli and Stephen Kampa for Best New Poets, 2009 (www.bestnewpoets.org). In 2008 we nominated Amber L. Cohen and Bro. Yao; and in 2007,…

March 3rd, 2009 More than 100 poets from 45 countries will participate in the 2nd annual festival that runs from March 3rd to 10th. The festival will launch the opening of…

March 1st, 2009 Allen Grossman has been named the 2009 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Established in 1949, the $100,000 prize is awarded biennially to an…

February 26th, 2009 Rockland County, New York, became one of just a handful of counties in the US to create a Poet Laureate position. Dan Masterson, a 75 year old…

February 23rd, 2009 Anne Frydman Dixon died on February 23 in Baltimore, MD from Multiple Sclerosis. Poet, teacher, translator, Chekhov Scholar. Mother of Sophia and Antonia Dixon; wife of Stephen Dixon;…

February 11th, 2009 The T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize panel comprised of Lavinia Greenlaw and Tobias Hill, and chaired by British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, selected Jen Hadfield’s Nigh-No-Place as the 2009 winner. Hadfield…