Four Quartets Prize
The Four Quartets Prize is an award of the Poetry Society of America, presented annually since 2018 in partnership with the T. S. Eliot Foundation. It is "first and foremost a celebration of the multi-part poem, which includes entire volumes composed of a unified sequence as well as novels in verse and book-length verse narratives." Background The awards are named for T. S. Eliot's ''Four Quartets,'' written over a four-year period. The award recognizes the 75th anniversary of Eliot's New York publisher first collecting them in a single volume in 1943. Eligibility The prize is awarded for a unified and complete sequence of poems. Examples of existing sequences that would fit the category: * Gwendolyn Brooks, ''A Street in Bronzeville'' (1945), or ''The Anniad'' (1950) * John Berryman John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Poetry Society Of America
Poetry (from the Greek word '' poiesis'', "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet. Poets use a variety of techniques called poetic devices, such as assonance, alliteration, euphony and cacophony, onomatopoeia, rhythm (via metre), and sound symbolism, to produce musical or other artistic effects. They also frequently organize these effects into poetic structures, which may be strict or loose, conventional or invented by the poet. Poetic structures vary dramatically by language and cultural convention, but they often use rhythmic metre (patterns of syllable stress or syllable (mora) weight). They may also use repeating patterns of phonemes, phoneme groups, tones (phonemic pitch shifts found in tonal languages), words, or entire phrases. These inc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Four Quartets
''Four Quartets'' is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published over a six-year period. The first poem, ''Burnt Norton'', was published with a collection of his early works (1936's ''Collected Poems 1909–1935''). After a few years, Eliot composed the other three poems, ''East Coker (poem), East Coker'', ''The Dry Salvages'', and ''Little Gidding (poem), Little Gidding'', which were written during World War II and the The Blitz, air-raids on Great Britain. They were first published as a series by Faber and Faber in Great Britain between 1940 and 1942 towards the end of Eliot's poetic career (''East Coker'' in September 1940, ''Burnt Norton'' in February 1941, ''The Dry Salvages'' in September 1941 and ''Little Gidding'' in 1942). The poems were not collected until Eliot's New York publisher printed them together in 1943. ''Four Quartets'' are four interlinked Meditation (writing), meditations with the common theme being man's relationship with time, the unive ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for '' Annie Allen'', making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. Throughout her prolific writing career, Brooks received many more honors. A lifelong resident of Chicago, she was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968, a position she held until her death 32 years later. She was also named the U.S. Poet Laureate for the 1985–86 term. In 1976, she became the first African-American woman inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Early life Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas, and was raised on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. She was the first child of David Anderson Brooks and Keziah (Wims) Brooks. Her father, a janitor for a music ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Berryman
John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry. His '' 77 Dream Songs'' (1964) won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Life and career John Berryman was born on October 25, 1914, in McAlester, Oklahoma, where he was raised until the age of ten, when his father, John Smith, a banker, and his mother, Martha (also known as Peggy), a schoolteacher, moved to Florida. In 1926, in Clearwater, Florida Clearwater is a city and the county seat of Pinellas County, Florida, United States, west of Tampa, Florida, Tampa and north of St. Petersburg, Florida, St. Petersburg. To the west of Clearwater lies the Gulf of Mexico and to the southeast lies T ..., when Berryman was 11 years old, his father shot and killed himself. Smith was jobless at the time, and he and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Danez Smith
Danez Smith is an American poet, writer and performer from St. Paul, Minnesota. They are queer, non-binary and HIV-positive. They are the author of the poetry collections '' nsertBoy'' and ''Don't Call Us Dead: Poems'', both of which have received multiple awards, and ''Homie/My Nig''. Their most recent poetry collection ''Bluff'' was published in 2024. Early life and education Smith was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and attended Saint Paul Central High School. They grew up with their mother and grandparents in the Selby Neighborhood. Their family is from Mississippi and Georgia. Smith has said that they struggled with reading up until the third grade. A teacher told them that being able to read would allow them to read video-game magazines, which inspired Smith. Smith was a First Wave Urban Arts Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduating with a BA in 2012. Career Smith is a founding member of Dark Noise Collective with Fatimah Asghar, Franny Choi, Nate Marsh ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dante Micheaux
Dante Micheaux is an American poet whose work ''Circus'' was the winner of the 2019 Four Quartets Prize, presented by the Poetry Society of America in partnership with the T. S. Eliot Foundation, having been selected by judges Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Carmen Giménez Smith and Rosanna Warren. Among other honors Micheaux has received are a poetry prize from the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, the Oscar Wilde Award, the 2020 '' Ambit Magazine'' Poetry Prize, and fellowships from Cave Canem Foundation and ''The New York Times'' Foundation. Journals and anthologies in which his poems and translations have appeared include ''The American Poetry Review'', ''Callaloo'', ''Poetry'', ''PN Review'', and ''Tongue''. Micheaux is Director of Programs at Cave Canem. Background Dante Micheaux grew up in New Jersey, United States, and studied at New York University, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing. With his first book of poetry, ''The Amorous Shepherd ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Catherine Barnett
Catherine Barnett is an American poet and educator. She is the author of ''Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space'' (Graywolf Press, 2024); ''Human Hours'' (Graywolf Press, 2018), winner of the ''Believer'' Book Award; ''The Game of Boxes'' (Graywolf Press, 2012), winner of the James Laughlin Award; and ''Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced'' (Alice James Books, 2004), winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award. Her honors include an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. She has published widely in journals and magazines including ''The American Poetry Review'', '' Barrow Street'', ''The Iowa Review'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''The Massachusetts Review'', ''The New York Review of Books'', ''The New Yorker'', ''Harper's'', ''The Nation'', ''Pleiades'', ''Poetry'', the ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', and ''The Washington Post''. Her poetry was featured i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Geoffrey G
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Kathleen Peirce
Kathleen Peirce (born 1956, Moline, Illinois Moline ( ) is a city in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. With a population of 42,985 in the 2020 census, it is the largest city in Rock Island County and the List of municipalities in Illinois, ninth-most populous in Illinois outside ..., United States) is an Americans, American poet. She graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1988. She currently teaches at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, for the Texas State University MFA. She has one son. Awards * 1990 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for ''Mercy'' * 1993 Whiting Awards, Whiting Award * 1998 Iowa Poetry Prize for ''The Oval Hour'' * 2000 William Carlos Williams Award for ''The Oval Hour'' * 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship * 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship Works"Anima Forma Corporis"; "Confession 3.10.18"; "Apart" ''Reading Between A&B'' ''Blackbird'' ''Nothing to Say and Saying It'' ''courtland Review'' Bibliography *''M ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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American Poetry Awards
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Awards Established In 2018
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2018 Establishments In The United States
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