News

• Poetry Center Cave Canem wins honorary National Book Award[The Associated Press]
• Vermont poet Leland Kinsey - “unofficial poet laureate of the Northeast Kingdom” - dies at 66[Vermont Digger]
• Donald Hall and Rita Dove are among 10 writers on the poetry longlist for the National Book Awards[U.S. News & World Report]
• University of Pittsburgh professor Lynn Emanuel awarded the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize[The Tribune Review]
• Sharon Olds wins $100,000 Wallace Stevens poetry prize[The Associated Press]
• 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship winners announced[The Poetry Foundation]
• Max Ritvo, poet who chronicled his battle with cancer, dies at 25. “That’s it,” he told his mother, “I can’t write any more." [The New York Times]
• Creating "new" ancient poems: Q&A with poet Daniel Ladler[The New York Times]
• Stanford lecturer and poet Brittany Perham wins 2016 Barnard Women Poets Prize[Stanford News]
• The Poet Kevin Young named director of Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem[The New York Times]
• Eight poets, critics and essayists receive 2016 Poetry Magazine Awards[Poetry Foundation]
• Penn offers previously unreleased recordings of Robert Frost reading his poetry[University of Pennsylvania]
• Yves Bonnefoy, regarded as France’s pre-eminent poet of the postwar era, dies at 93[The New York Times]
• Geoffrey Hill, allusive British poet, dead at 84[The New York Times]
• Utah State University community looks for ways to raise profile of May Swenson[The Herald News]
• Bill Berkson, poet and art critic of ’60s Manhattan "in-crowd", dies at 76[The New York Times]
• Former Poetry Book Socitey director Chris Holifield to manage T S Eliot Prize; 2017 judges announced[The Bookseller]
• Oscar winning writer plans a new film on the life of Sufi poet Rumi - DiCaprio and/or Downey Jr.? [Daily Mail]
• Aileen Ward, author of award-winning Keats biography, dies at 97[The New York Times]
• Ontario writer Liz Howard wins Griffin Poetry Prize for her debut “Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent”[Toronto Metro]
• Sufi poet and playwright Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore of Philadelphia dies at 75[The Philadelphia Enquirer]
• Scientists use astronomical software to date 2500-year-old poem by Sappho[University of Texas at Arlington]
• Brown University Professor Michael S. Harper, poet with a jazz pulse, dies at 78[The New York Times]
• Ed Roberson awarded 2016 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize; "The Poems of T.S. Eliot" wins 2016 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism[The Poetry Foundation]
• Maurice Kenny, who explored his Mohawk heritage in poetry, dies at 86[The New York Times]
• 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]