News

• Meena Alexander, whose book of poetry Illiterate Heart won the 2002 PEN Open Book Award, dies at 67[Scroll.In]
• "Indecency," by Justin Phillip Reed, wins National Book Award for Poetry[The New York Times]
• Poetry Daily, the online poetry journal, moves to George Mason University[George Mason University]
• Annual CantoMundo Poetry Prize awarded to Gina Franco[University of Arkansas Press]
• Alistair Elliot, poet and translator whose work was inspired by the classical world, has died at 86[The Guardian]
• Tony Hoagland, poet with a wry outlook, is dead at 64[The New York Times]
• Canadian Poet Priscila Uppal dies at 43 — ‘a genuine spirit is gone’[Toronto Star]
• Announcing the 2018 American Poets Prizes Winners[Academy of American Poets]
• Tom Clark -- poet, biographer, baseball bard and former poetry editor of The Paris Review -- has died at 77[The New York Times]
• Georgia poet who was diagnosed with cancer while pregnant dies[The Macon Telegraph]
• 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 ]