PWB sends our congratulations out to John Ashbery and Robin Blaser who both won the Griffen Poetry Prize. The Griffin Poetry Prize Awards give $50,000 to the best book of Canadian poetry and $50,000 to the best book of international poetry published in English the preceding year.
John Ashbery won for Ashbery's Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems and Robin Blaser won for The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser.
Congrats, poets!
Saturday, June 14, 2008
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2 comments:
Congrats to both! Shall have to check out their work..:)
Am looking forward to the "forest" book. Have heard great stuff 'bout it!
Writerwoman:
I just started a second Blog--this one under "Poets Who Blog". It is called "Practice What You Peace".
Peace,kids.
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