News

• "When push came to shove, it was poetry I could count on" - a mother and daughter testimony[The New York Times]
• Poet Angie Estes wins $100,000 Tufts prize[The Associated Press]
• Award-winning British Columbia poet Elise Partridge dies at 56[The Globe and Mail]
• University of North Texas honors Mark Wunderlich with $10,000 Rilke Prize[University of North Texas]
• From the TCR archives: A video walk through Brooklyn with Philip Levine[The Cortland Review]
• You meet a lot of unpretentious people in Philip Levine’s spare, ironic poems[The New York Times]
• Philip Levine, poet of grit, sweat and labor, dies at 87[The New York Times]
• Nathaniel Mackey wins Yale 2015 Bollingen Prize for Poetry[Yale News]
• Poetry is well and truly in the margins – will it ever get out?[The Conversation]
• Center for Southern Studies to award Sidney Lanier Prize to poet Yusef Komunyakaa[Mercer University]
• Jack Leggett, famed director of University of Iowa Writers Workshop, dies at 97[The New York Times]
• Applications invited for Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place[Frostplace.org]
• Charles Simic remembers good times with friend Mark Strand: "how about a restaurant where the waiters would be well-known poets of our acquaintance?"[New York Review of Books]
• John Bayley dies; Oxford don who managed “to break down the barrier between common readers and daunting writers.”[The New York Times]
• David Harsent wins TS Eliot prize for poetry for Fire Songs[The Guardian]
• Q&A with Vijay Seshadri: "We are not sufficiently literary"[India.com]
• Dana Gioia, former head of the National Endowment for the Arts, among poets featured at 11th annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival[The Palm Beach Post]
• On the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy: Of course it is political![The Guardian]
• Academy of American Poets names three new chancellors: Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander, National Book Award finalist Linda Gregerson and award-winning poet-critic Alicia Suskin Ostriker[The New York Times]
• Paris Sirens: Henri Cole reflects from Paris - "It’s the wondering and the laughter that make us feel alive"[The New Yorker]
• Miller Williams, Arkansas poet who read at Clinton inauguration, dies at 84[The Washington Post]
• A look back at Robert Penn Warren: One Way to Love God[The Times Literary Supplement]
• Poet, dissident, Harvard Professor Stanislaw Baranczak dies[Radio Poland]
• Queen awards Pakistan-born poet Imtiaz Dharker the Gold Medal for Poetry[The Guardian]
• Q&A with the ambivalent laureate, Donald Hall: Still writing at 86, but verse is left behind[NPR]
• A tribute: Revisiting the poet Claudia Emerson[The Cortland Review]
• Claudia Emerson, who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her book “Late Wife,” dies at 57[The Associated Press]
• Prominent Lebanese poet Akl dies at over 100 years old; championed the use of colloquial Lebanese Arabic [Reuters]
• A profile of National Book Award finalist Claudia Rankine: poetry with urgency[The New York Times]
• A poetry reading and tribute to the late, unforgettable Bill Knott[NPR Boston]