News

• Poetry is well and truly in the margins – will it ever get out?[The Conversation]
• Center for Southern Studies to award Sidney Lanier Prize to poet Yusef Komunyakaa[Mercer University]
• Jack Leggett, famed director of University of Iowa Writers Workshop, dies at 97[The New York Times]
• Applications invited for Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place[Frostplace.org]
• Charles Simic remembers good times with friend Mark Strand: "how about a restaurant where the waiters would be well-known poets of our acquaintance?"[New York Review of Books]
• John Bayley dies; Oxford don who managed “to break down the barrier between common readers and daunting writers.”[The New York Times]
• David Harsent wins TS Eliot prize for poetry for Fire Songs[The Guardian]
• Q&A with Vijay Seshadri: "We are not sufficiently literary"[India.com]
• Dana Gioia, former head of the National Endowment for the Arts, among poets featured at 11th annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival[The Palm Beach Post]
• On the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy: Of course it is political![The Guardian]
• Academy of American Poets names three new chancellors: Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander, National Book Award finalist Linda Gregerson and award-winning poet-critic Alicia Suskin Ostriker[The New York Times]
• Paris Sirens: Henri Cole reflects from Paris - "It’s the wondering and the laughter that make us feel alive"[The New Yorker]
• Miller Williams, Arkansas poet who read at Clinton inauguration, dies at 84[The Washington Post]
• A look back at Robert Penn Warren: One Way to Love God[The Times Literary Supplement]
• Poet, dissident, Harvard Professor Stanislaw Baranczak dies[Radio Poland]
• Queen awards Pakistan-born poet Imtiaz Dharker the Gold Medal for Poetry[The Guardian]
• Q&A with the ambivalent laureate, Donald Hall: Still writing at 86, but verse is left behind[NPR]
• A tribute: Revisiting the poet Claudia Emerson[The Cortland Review]
• Claudia Emerson, who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her book “Late Wife,” dies at 57[The Associated Press]
• Prominent Lebanese poet Akl dies at over 100 years old; championed the use of colloquial Lebanese Arabic [Reuters]
• A profile of National Book Award finalist Claudia Rankine: poetry with urgency[The New York Times]
• A poetry reading and tribute to the late, unforgettable Bill Knott[NPR Boston]
• Allan Kornblum, whose love for poetry and printing led to Coffee House Press, dies at 65[The New York Times]
• Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer prize winning poet Mark Strand dies at 80[The New York Times]
• The Frost Place announces 2015 Chapbook, Dartmouth Poet in Residence competitions[The Frost Place]
• Poet and Coffee House Press publisher Allan Kornblum dies at age 65[Iowa City Press-Citizen]
• Household staff member refuses to incinerate early Dylan Thomas notebook; now it goes to auction at Sothebys[FineBooksMagazine.com]
• A close look at the National Book Award finalists for poetry[The Washington Post]
• Has the social role of poetry changed since Shelley declared poets to be unacknowledged legislators?[The New York Times]
• Francis Harvey, celebrant of nature and laureate of County Donegal, dies at 89[The Irish Times]