News

• 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]
• Sara Mcguire, British poet and translator of leading poets of history, has died at 60[The Guardian]
• Dolores Kendrick, Washington DC’s ‘first lady of poetry,’ dies at 90[The Washington Post]
• Fay Chiang, 65, poet who championed Asian-American culture, dies[The New York Times]
• Poets Frank Bidart, Lali Long Soldier among National Book Award finalists[NPR]
• Richard Wilbur, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer winner, dies at 96[The New York Times]
• John Ashbery, a singular poet whose influence was broad, dies at 90[The New York Times]
• Academy of American Poets announces recipients of the 2017 American Poets Prizes[Academy of American Poets]