News

• Stolen WB Yeats letters identified at Princeton University[The Guardian]
• Tim Murphy, poet of Plains and pheasants, dies in Fargo[Capital Journal]
• Prolific, candid, former Poet Laureate Donald Hall dies at 89[The New York Times]
• Sharon Olds will be special guest at 2018 Palm Beach Poetry Festival[Palm Beach Poetry Festival]
• Statue of the late poet Gwendolyn Brooks scheduled for Chicago public park[Chicago Tribune]
• Life-changing politics and poetry recognized at Griffin Poetry Prize awards[The Irish Times]
• Cork poet Liam Ó Muirthile, who pushed the boundaries of Irish language literature, dead at 68[The Irish Times]
• National Book Foundation honors Academy of American Poets "Teach This Poem" program [National Book Foundation]
• Chinese American poet John Yau wins Jackson Poetry Prize[The Washington Post]
• Martín Espada awarded 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize[Poetry Foundation]
• J.D. McClatchy, poet and ‘literary polymath,’ dies at 72[The Washington Post]
• Sam Hamill, poet and founder of Copper Canyon Press, has died[Melville House]
• The Paris Review names a new editor: Emily Nemens of The Southern Review[The New York Times]
• Elizabeth Ebert, ‘Grand Dame of Cowboy Poetry,’ dies at 93[The New York Times]
• Nancy Sullivan, Rhode Island poet and educator, dies at 88[Providence Journal]
• John Wakeman, founder of acclaimed poetry magazine ‘The SHOp’, dies, aged 89[The Irish Times]
• The poet and teacher Lucie Brock-Broido, who contributed work to The New Yorker for more than two decades, has died at 61[The New Yorker]
• Raymond Danowski, who donated perhaps the largest private library of 20th-century poetry in English to Emory University, has died at 74[The New York Times]
• Poet Elizabeth Alexander to be next president of Mellon Foundation[The New York Times]
• Over a career spanning six decades, American poet W. S. Merwin transformed anger into art[Humanities ]
• Claribel Alegría, Central American poet who wrote of personal and political anguish, dies at 93[The Washington Post]
• Haim Gouri, poetic voice of a rising Israel, Is dead at 94[The New York Times]
• National Book Critics Circle awards nominees include poets Nuar Alsadir, James Longenbach, Layli Long Soldier, Frank Ormsby and Ana Ristovic[The Associated Press]
• Connecticut poet, essayist and educator Dick Allen dies at 78[Hartford Courant]
• Yu Guangzhong, exiled poet who longed for China, dies at 89[The New York Times]
• Nancy Willard, poet and prolific children’s book author, dies at 80[The New York Times]
• "The Poetry Don" - David Bonnano - longtime editor of American Poetry Review, dies at 68[The Philadelphia Inquirer]
• When did poetry speak to us? When we were very young[The New York Times]
• Cambridge poet Frank Bidart wins National Book Award[The Boston Globe]
• Seamus Heaney communicated with faxes; biographer races to see see them before they fade[The Guardian]