News

• Lee Bennett Hopkins, champion of poetry for children, dies at 81[The New York Times]
• Poet and translator Marie Ponsot dies at 98[NYT]
• Simon Armitage succeeds Carol Ann Duffy as UK poet laureate[The Guardian]
• Group purchases Donald Hall farmhouse with preservation in mind[Valley News]
• Stanley Plumly, lyrical poet influenced by Keats, dies at 79[The New York Times]
• W.S. Merwin, poet with two Pulitzer Prizes, has died at 91[The New York Times]
• Why W.H. Auden hated his most famous political poems[The Daily Beast]
• David Keplinger honored with annual Rilke Prize by University of North Texas[Art&Seek.org]
• Mary Oliver: "Her work is an ode to the power of paying compassionate attention"[The Washington Post]
• Political poetry is hot again. The Poet Laureate explores why, and how[The New York Times]
• 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]