News

• Tracy K. Smith named U.S. Poet Laureate[The New York Times]
• Edith Shiffert, a poet inspired by nature and her life in Japan, dies at 101[The New York Times]
• Chana Bloch, poet and Hebrew translator, Is dead at 77[The New York Times]
• Helen Dunmore, who wrote about legacy and loss, dies at 64[The New York Times]
• Chana Bloch, California poet and activist, dies At 77[Forward]
• Why Czeslaw Milosz still matters[The New York Times]
• Muskogee (Creek) Nation poet Joy Harjo wins $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize [Poetry Foundation]
• Jack Mueller, renowned poet of San Francisco and the Western Slope of Colorado, has died[Ouray County Plaindealer]
• A palm forest grows in Chicago to celebrate Maui poet W.S. Merwin[The Maui News]
• Poetry Foundation awards 2017 Emily Dickinson First Book Award to poet Kristen Tracy[Poetry Foundation]
• Margarita Engle named Young People’s Poet Laureate[Poetry Foundation]
• Patricia Spears Jones wins $50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize [Poets&Writers.com]
• Olio by Tyehimba Jess wins 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry[The Pulitzer Prizes]
• Thomas Lux: “Poetry’s great power is its ability to make us more human and alive. Less alone."[HuffingtonPost]
• Thomas Lux, "Poet Laureate of Unintended Results"[Ted.Burke.com]
• Remembering a one-of-a-kind poet, Tom Lux[The Atlantic]
• A past profile of poet Thomas Lux, who died In Atlanta, Sunday Feb. 6[Ploughshares]
• Thomas Lux 1946 - 2017: A note from Palm Beach Poetry Festival Founder, Miles Coon[Palm Beach Poetry Festival]
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who saw life and poetry as a bowl of borscht[The New York Times]
• Trailblazing Beat poet Joanne Kyger dies at 82[SF Gate]
• Emerging from the Slush: 10 iTps for Writers[Tahoma Literary Review]
• Nancy Willard, poet and prolific children’s book author, dies at 80[The New York Times]
• Kevin Young succeeds Paul Muldoon as Poetry Editor at The New Yorker[The New York Times]
• Derek Walcott, poet and Nobel Laureate of the Caribbean, dies at 87[The New York Times]
• Poet Ocean Vuong on the refugee experience and literature[New England Public Radio]
• Farewell to John Felstiner, critic, translator, poet: “an exemplary life in literature”[Stanford University]
• Thomas Lux: “Poetry’s great power is its ability to make us more human and alive. Less alone."[Huffington Post]
• Native Pacific Islander Craig Santos Perez receives Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship for Poetry[NBC News]
• Taking Whitman to the streets of Alabama[Poetry Foundation]
• Jean Valentine is 50th poet to be honored by Yale with the Bollingen Prize for Poetry[Yale News]