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Derek Walcott wins T.S. Eliot Prize January 24, 2011: via the Guardian: The winning collection, White Egrets, was described by the chair of judges, poet Anne Stevenson, as "moving and technically flawless". "It took us not very long to decide that this collection was the yardstick by which all the others were to be measured. These are beautiful lines; beautiful poetry," she said. Walcott was [...]
National Book Critics Circle Award finalists January 24, 2011: Are you sad your pick of the finalists to win the National Book Award didn't pick up the top honor? Well, three of them have another shot! Here are your National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for 2010 in poetry: Anne Carson. Nox. New Directions Kathleen Graber. The Eternal City. Princeton University Press Terrance Hayes. [...]
“Everyone is their own blindspot” when it comes to picking new talent January 21, 2011: Poet and editor Don Paterson talks to The Guardian about why it's necessary to publish and create awards for new poetry like the Picador Prize, awarded to Richard Meier this year. The legwork involved in uncovering these talents is only half the battle. The network of poets is so tight that it doesn't take much for one to get noticed and referred [...]
13 bloggers cover 61 years of 57 National Book Award poets in 10 weeks January 11, 2011: For ten weeks beginning in February, The National Book Foundation will host a celebration of 61 years of National Book Awards poetry winners. Taking place both on their website and in panels and events in New York, Minneapolis, and Portland, Oregon, the series will result in an NEA-funded digital literary archive featuring images of the [...]
Leave it to ME January 6, 2011: Traditionally, the poet laureate of Maine has been invited to deliver a poem at the governor’s inauguration, but this year, due to budget constraints, poetry was dropped from the program. So Betsy Sholl, the current laureate, staged a protest: Sholl and about fifty other members from across Maine's arts community descended upon Longfellow [...]
Scotland’s new poet laureate still unnamed, undefined January 4, 2011: The Guardian reports on Scotland's difficulties in naming its new poet laureate nearly three months after the death of Edwin Morgan. Morgan was the first ever poet laureate of Scotland and while he was appointed with no debate because he was considered to "be the obvious choice amongst all those who would've expressed an opinion at the time," the [...]
Elyse Fenton wins 2010 Dylan Thomas prize December 1, 2010: The University of Wales has just announced that Clamor, a first book by Philadelphia poet Elyse Fenton, has won the Dylan Thomas Prize for writers under 30: American poet Elyse Fenton has been awarded this year’s £30,000 ($48,000) University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize for Clamor, her striking collection of 21st century war poetry. [...]
A grouchy take on the National Book Awards November 30, 2010: Bob Hoover at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was happy that the National Book Awards honored Carnegie Melon's Terrance Hayes for his poetry. But other than that? Harumph: Ultimately, it's the judges who decide the outcome of America's top literary awards. Some are well known -- Cornelius Eady and Linda Gregerson in poetry, Sallie Tisdale and [...]
The 2011 NEA grant awards November 23, 2010: Check out the list of poetry winners here.
Small press, Patti Smith, and Terrance Hayes win at the 2010 National Book Awards November 18, 2010: via Jacket Copy: Iconic rocker Patti Smith has won the National Book Award for nonfiction for "Just Kids," her memoir of her close relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. The win took many by surprise. There was another surprise at the National Book Awards, held Wednesday night at Cirpriana Wall Street in New York City. Instead of [...]