Hear the Essential American Poets

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During his tenure as U.S. poet laureate, Donald Hall chose to share his lifelong pleasure of hearing poetry read aloud with others. He selected more than 100 essential American poets for people to listen to. This week, we're making available the first set of these recordings on poetryfoundation.org and on poetryarchive.org as part of a collaboration between Donald Hall and the U.K. Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion. Full Story

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Audiobooks - Poetry

British Publisher Touts American Indian Poets

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The most interesting project in American poetry isn't really an American project. Full Story

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Carter Revard
Gerald Vizenor
LeAnne Howe
Heid Erdrich
Janet McAdams
Diane Glancy
Deborah Miranda
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Robert Pinsky Wins Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize

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Robert Pinsky, 67, was chosen by a panel of three judges to receive the $3,000 Saginaw-based poetry prize for his 2007 book titled "Gulf Music." Full Story

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Gulf Music
Theodore Roethke

Louise Glück Wins Wallace Stevens Award

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The Wallace Stevens Award is given annually to recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry. Established in 1994, the award now carries a stipend of $100,000 for the recipient. Full Story

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Louise Gluck

Jefferson Hunter on Joseph Moncure March

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...in the long history of the cinema, how many pictures, let alone boxing pictures, can have been based on a poem? Full Story

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Joseph Moncure March

Lost Bob Dylan Poems to be Published

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Barry Feinstein, the rock 'n' roll photographer, was digging through his archives last year when he came across a long-forgotten bundle of pictures, dozens of dark, moody snapshots of Hollywood in the early 1960s. And tucked next to the photographs was a set of prose poems, written around the same time by an old friend: Bob Dylan. Full Story

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Bob Dylan

Restoring Edna St. Vincent Millay's Home, Literary Reputation

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In the 1920s, when she came to Steepletop, Millay was one of the most famous women in the United States, not just for her poetry and plays, but as a bohemian who predated the sexual revolution and feminism of the 1970s by half a century or more. Full Story

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Millay at Steepletop (Documentary)
Edna St. Vincent Millay

'Mad Men' Gives Frank O'Hara Sales Boost

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It's not unhead of for a TV show to boost sales of a book, but poetry titles don't often get the spotlight treatment. Full Story

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Frank O'Hara
Meditations in an Emergency
Mad Men

Arda Collins Wins Yale Younger Poets Prize

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Awarded since 1919, the Yale Younger Poets prize is the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Past winners include Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich, William Meredith, W.S. Merwin, John Ashbery, John Hollander, James Tate, and Carolyn Forché. Full Story

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