Saturday, August 27, 2011

$25,000 for the year's most outstanding book of poetry


New York, August 23—The Academy of American Poets announced today that C.D. Wright's One With Others (Copper Canyon Press) was chosen by poets Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, D.A. Powell, and Martha Ronk to receive the 2011 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, which awards $25,000 to the most outstanding book of poetry published in the previous year.

The award will be presented at the fifth annual Poets Forum in New York City, October 20-22.