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B. H. Fairchild
B.H. Fairchild (born 1942) is an American poet and former college professor. His most recent book is ''An Ordinary Life'' (W.W. Norton, 2023), and his poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''The New Yorker'', ''The Paris Review'', ''The Southern Review'', ''Poetry'', ''TriQuarterly'', ''The Hudson Review'', ''Salmagundi'', ''The Sewanee Review.'' His third poetry collection, ''The Art of the Lathe,'' winner of the 1997 Beatrice Hawley Award (Alice James Books, 1998), brought Fairchild's work to national prominence, garnering him a large number of awards and fellowships including the William Carlos Williams Award, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, California Book Award, Natalie Ornish Poetry Award, PEN Center USA West Poetry Award, National Book Award (finalist), Capricorn Poetry Award, and Rockefeller and Guggenheim fellowships. The book ultimately gave him international prominence, as The Waywiser Press in England published the U.K. edition of the book. ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' has a wide audience outside New York and is read internationally. It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers, its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric American culture, its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of short stories and literary reviews, its rigorous fact checking and copy editing, its journalism on politics and social issues, and its single-panel cartoons sprinkled throughout each issue. Overview and history ''The New Yorker'' was founded by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a ''New York Times'' reporter, and debuted on February 21, 1925. Ross wanted t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aiken Taylor Award For Modern American Poetry
The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize, administered by the ''Sewanee Review'' and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career. It was established through a bequest by Dr. K.P.A. Taylor, a poet and younger brother of Conrad Aiken. Winners * 1987 — Howard Nemerov * 1988 — Richard Wilbur * 1989 — Anthony Hecht * 1990 — W. S. Merwin * 1991 — John Frederick Nims * 1992 — Gwendolyn Brooks * 1993 — George Starbuck * 1994 — Wendell Berry * 1995 — Maxine Kumin * 1997 — Fred Chappell * 1998 — X. J. Kennedy * 1999 — George Garrett * 2000 — Eleanor Ross Taylor * 2001 — Frederick Morgan * 2002 — Grace Schulman * 2003 — Daniel Hoffman * 2004 — Henry Taylor * 2005 — B.H. Fairchild * 2006 — Brendan Galvin * 2007 — Anne Stevenson * 2008 — John Haines * 2009 — Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Poets
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Poets From California
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Capricorn Poetry Award
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National Book Award
The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors. The National Book Awards were established in 1936 by the American Booksellers Association, "Books and Authors", ''The New York Times'', 1936-04-12, page BR12. "Lewis is Scornful of Radio Culture: Nothing Ever Will Replace the Old-Fashioned Book ...", ''The New York Times'', 1936-05-12, page 25. abandoned during World War II, and re-established by three book industry organizations in 1950. Non-U.S. authors and publishers were eligible for the pre-war awards. Now they are presented to U.S. authors for books published in the United States roughly during the award year. The nonprofit National Book Foundation was established in 1988 to administer and enhance the National Book Awards and "move beyond heminto the fields of edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PEN Center USA West Poetry Award
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Natalie Ornish Poetry Award
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California Book Award
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Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards are a pair of American prizes based at Claremont Graduate University. They are given to poets for their collections of poetry written in the English language, by a citizen or legal resident alien of the United States. The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is a $100,000 prize presented to a mid-career, emerging poet who already possesses an established body of work. The Kingsley Tufts award is known to be one of the world's most lucrative poetry prizes. Its counterpart, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, is given to a poet who demonstrates genuine promise in their first book of published poetry, with an attached purse of $10,000. History Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Kingsley Tufts held executive positions in the Los Angeles shipyards and wrote poetry as his avocation. His poetry has been featured in ''The New Yorker'', '' Esquire'', and '' Harpers'', among other publications. Following his death in 1991, Kingsley's wife, Kate, sold her home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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