News

• Andrea Barrett wins $30,000 Rea Award for the Short Story[The Associated Press]
• Poet Claudia Rankine to join Yale Faculty [Yale Daily News]
• Profile: What you need to know about Peter Balakian, the new Pulitzer Prize-winning poet[The Washington Post]
• Poet Will Alexander receives $50,000 Jackson Prize[The New York Times]
• Poet Douglas Gordon Jones, who helped the art of translation flourish in Canada, has died[The Globe and Mail]
• Poet Brian Blanchfield among 2016 Whiting Foundation writing award winners[The New York Times]
• Jim Harrison, poet, novelist and essayist, is dead at 78[The New York Times]
• California poet Mai Der Vang is winner of the 2016 Walt Whitman Award[Poets.org]
• Last poem by James Tate, found in his typewriter[The Paris Review]
• Geoffrey H. Hartman, scholar who saw literary criticism as art, dies at 86[The York Times]
• Zbigniew Herbert literature Prize goes to Swedish poet Lars Gustafsson; previous winners include American poets Charles Simic and William Stanley Merwin [Radio Poland]
• Caitríona O’Reilly wins Irish Times Poetry Now award[The Irish Times]
• Airea Matthews is named the Yale Younger Poet for her ‘rollicking, destabilizing’ debut collection[Yale News]
• 2016 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Go to Ross Gay and Danez Smith[Poetry Foundation]
• LA Times Book Prizes to honor U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and author James Patterson[Los Angeles Times]
• Two poems by J.R.R. Tolkien found in school publication in England[The New York Times]
• National Book Critics Circle honors poet Wendell Berry with the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award; 5 other poets are finalists for 2015 NBCC awards[National Book Critics Circle]
• Francisco Alarcon, Mexican-American poet who explored the complexities of Chicano life in the U.S, dies at 61[Sacramento Bee]
• Sarah Howe Wins T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize[The New York Times]
• Brenda Hillman named chancellor of Academy of American Poets[The Associated Press]
• Poet C.D. Wright dies at 67[Poets&Writers]
• Q&A with Miles Coon, founder of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival[Palm Beach Post]
• Q&A with Linda Pastan: First, the writing, then "the planting, sowing, farming phase, otherwise known as revision"[The Paris Review]
• John Trudell, American Indian activist who became a poet, dies at 69[The Washington Post]
• Q&A with poet Terrance Hayes: "Read to write"[Boston Globe]
• A. Van Jordan wins 2015 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry[Rutgers University]
• The curious persistence of poetry shops[The New York Times]
• New mystery surfaces four decades after Pablo Neruda’s death[The New York Times]
• Law, poetry and crafted language: Four federal judges read at Poets House[KirkCenter.org]
• Poetry is a witness to suffering wrought by civil war in Syria[The Los Angeles Times]