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 Strand wins 1999 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Cunningham wins for fiction
Strand was honored for his most recent volume of poetry, "Blizzard of One." Plans are in progress for Strand to return to the UI as a visiting faculty member in the spring of 2000.
The 1999 Pulitzer Prizes in poetry and fiction bring to 26 the total of literary Pulitzers won by UI faculty or students, primarily in the Writers' Workshop.
Other recent UI-connected Pulitzer winners are former faculty member Philip Roth for fiction last year; Jane Smiley for fiction and James Tate for poetry in 1992; and Robert Olen Butler, a graduate of the UI department of theatre arts, for fiction in 1993.
www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/1999/april/0412pulitzer.html   (903 words)

  
 Gwendolyn Brooks' Life and Career
Just as receiving a Pulitzer Prize for poetry marked a milestone in her career, so also did her selection by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the 1994 Jefferson Lecturer, the highest award in the humanities given by the federal government.
Her poetry moves from traditional forms including ballads, sonnets, variations of the Chaucerian and Spenserian stanzas as well as the rhythm of the blues to the most unrestricted free verse.
In her narrative poetry the stories are simple but usually transcend the restrictions of place; in her dramatic poetry, the characters are often memorable not because of any heroism on their part but merely because they are trying to survive from day to day.
www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/brooks/life.htm   (1504 words)

  
 hendesonville.com news: Pulitzer.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
While Pulitzer Prize winners are either a rarity or nonexistent on most college faculties, Warren Wilson College and its exceptional MFA Program for Writers can be pleased with the knowledge that Dennis and Russo are the fifth and sixth writers who have taught in the program to receive the awards.
Carl Dennis (seen in top photo), 62, who first taught at Warren Wilson in 1987, won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his eighth collection of poems, "Practical Gods." The poetry prize is awarded for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author.
The prize is considered one of the most prestigious literary awards in the English language and, at $100,000, one of the more lucrative.
www.hendersonville.com /news/pulitzer.html   (613 words)

  
 Roethke Reading -- James Wright Interviews
James Wright, America's newest Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, is in Seattle with kind words for the nation's young people.
The formal British influence in poetry is being shaken off, Wright said -- a movement that began with him and a group of his friends in about 1960.
Theodore Roethke, also a former Pulitzer winner, who was a member of the University's faculty from 1947 until his death in 1963.
depts.washington.edu /engl/events/wright.html   (850 words)

  
 Marya Zaturenska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marya Zaturenska (1902‑1982) was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938.
She was an outstanding student and won a scholarship to Valparaiso University; she later transferred to the University of Wisconsin, where she met her husband, the prize-winning poet Horace Gregory.
She wrote eight volumes of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cold Morning Sky, and she edited six anthologies of poetry.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marya_Zaturenska   (145 words)

  
 Wright wins Pulitzer - News
He received a $10,000 prize and the prestige that comes along with being one of the few winners of a Pulitzer Prize.
Pulitzer originally named only 13 awards in his will to be given in journalism, drama, education and traveling scholarships.
The Pulitzer Prize board later increased the number of awards, and poetry was added to the list in 1922.
www.thetraveleronline.com /news/2004/04/07/News/Wright.Wins.Pulitzer-652917.shtml   (399 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Local / Moving poetry into the community
The image of a poet is such in this country that the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry hesitates to tell strangers that he is a poet.
The poetry center is allowed to use space at the Emerson Umbrella, although it does not have a designated room, while a formal agreement between the two organizations is being negotiated.
Wright said Houlihan, a published poet, is a force for poetry in the Boston area as an editor, writer, and critic.
www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2004/10/07/moving_poetry_into_the_community   (525 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Pulitzer Pize Winner- April 19,2000
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The winner in poetry this year was C.K. Williams for his book, "Repair." It touches on many topics, from the death of Martin Luther King to the housedresses worn by the poet's mother and her friends.
I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, "people" in the sense of larger numbers of people.
It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june00/williams_4-19.html   (1346 words)

  
 Stephen Dunn: Pulitzer-Winning Poetry Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He said news of the Pulitzer Prize astonished him and that he was honored to be in the company of other writers whose work he admires.
Rakowski was nominated for the prize in music for his "Ten of a Kind (Symphony No. 2)," which premiered May 20, 2001, at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Dennis conducted shortly after it was announced he had received the Pulitzer Prize, use this link to a page on the PBS web site.
www.yaddo.org /Yaddo/CarlDennis.shtml   (843 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prizes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
(1932-) won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his piece, Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra, which was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic.
(1924-) shared the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Local General Spot News Reporting with fellow U of I alumnus Arthur M. Petacque for uncovering new evidence that led to the reopening of efforts to solve the 1966 murder case of Illinois Sen. Charles Percy’s daughter.
(1944-) shared the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for his work on a family’s struggle with poverty, illiteracy, crime, and drug abuse in Washington, D.C. Dash became a U of I faculty member in 1998 and is a Swanlund Chair and professor of journalism and Afro-American Studies.
www.publications.uiuc.edu /info/pulitzer.html   (792 words)

  
 RTE.ie Entertainment - Pulitzer prize goes to poet Muldoon
The Irish-born poet Paul Muldoon has won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his collection 'Moy Sand and Gravel'.
The Pulitzer Prize for poetry recognises a volume of original verse by an American author.
He won the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry in 1994 and the Irish Times Poetry Prize in 1997.
www.rte.ie /arts/2003/0408/muldoonp.html   (161 words)

  
 LAMP: Journalism Award Winners: Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes are annual awards for achievements in American journalism, letters, drama and music.
The prizes have been awarded by Columbia University since 1917, on the recommendation of a Pulitzer Prize Board.
The prizes in letters are for fiction, history, poetry, biography or autobiography, and general nonfiction.
www.latinosandmedia.org /jawards/awards-pulitzer.html   (80 words)

  
 Stephen Dunn 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dunn's poetry draws from the tapestry of individual experiences to the reflective rhetoric that surrounds it.
Dunn said the full impact of winning the Pulitzer Prize had not hit him, a few minutes after the word was officially flashed over the news wires and the Pulitzer website.
At Princeton University, Yusef Komunyakaa won the 1998 prize for poetry, John McPhee won the 1999 Prize for general non-fiction literature, and Charles Kenneth Williams, won the 1998 Prize for poetry.
www2.stockton.edu /sdunn   (688 words)

  
 Princeton - News - Princeton professor wins Pulitzer Prize for poetry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
"Without the Pulitzer Prize, C.K. Williams was one of the most distinguished poets of his generation -- I think one of the best two or three poets writing in America," said poet Paul Muldoon, director of Princeton’s creative writing program.
Williams also edited collections of poetry and essays, and is the author of three works in translation.
Among the other honors Williams has received for his work are the Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Voelcker Career Achievement Award in Poetry and the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin.
www.princeton.edu /pr/news/00/q2/0411-pulitzer.htm   (327 words)

  
 Poets Laureate and Pulitzer Poetry Prize Winners of the United States of America.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the United States of America, the post of "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry" was established in 1985, copying the title from the Poets Laureate of Britain.
Before that, from 1937 to 1985, the Librarian of Congress had authority to appoint someone to Library of Congress Poetry Position, the post of "Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress." The name was changed by an act of Congress in 1985.
Rita Dove championed children's poetry, jazz with poetry, and the exploration of the African diaspora.
www.baymoon.com /~ariadne/poets/poets.laureate.usa.htm   (1454 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Award Winners - The Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize is awarded for the best novel written in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
In 1993 Salman Rushdie was awarded Best of Twenty Five Years of the Booker Prize for his novel Midnight's Children.
Winner of the 1994 Booker Prize, this witty, controversial, and brilliant bestselling novel has been compared to the works of Joyce, Beckett, and many other masters.
www.powells.com /prizes/booker.html   (600 words)

  
 CBC Arts: Roo Borson wins Griffin Poetry Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Veteran poets Roo Borson and Charles Simic are the newest winners of the $100,000 Griffin Poetry Prize, the world's richest prize for a single volume of poetry.
The Griffin prize, established in 2000 by entrepreneur Scott Griffin, was presented Thursday evening at a Toronto gala attended by more than 300 poetry fans, including Governor General Adrienne Clarkson and author Margaret Atwood, who is on the Griffin Prize board of trustees.
Griffin funds both the lucrative prize and the swanky party and says the cost is justified because it gives him the opportunity to shine the spotlight on poets and their work.
www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2005/06/03/Arts/griffinwin050603.html   (573 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Named after Hungarian newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, this award honors books which address the largest themes in life, the raw passion and tragedy of the human condition.
The prize for music went to "On the Transmigration of Souls" by John Adams.
A tribute to victims, survivors and heroes of September 11, "On the Transmigration of Souls" was premiered by the New York Philharmonic on September 19, 2002.
www.literature-awards.com /pulitzerprize.htm   (410 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | Muldoon scoops poetry Pulitzer
The prizes are awarded by Columbia University on recommendations of the Pulitzer board, which considers nominations from jurors in each category.
He has been awarded various literary prizes including the Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award in 1991, the TS Eliot Award for The Annals of Chile in 1994, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature in 1996, and the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for his New Selected Poems.
Other finalists for the $7,500 poetry prize were Music Like Dirt by Frank Bidart and Hazmat by JD McClatchy.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/2927809.stm   (383 words)

  
 April 11, 2002-Vol33n24: Dennis wins Pulitzer Prize in poetry
Dennis was not aware that he had been nominated for the Pulitzer and, in fact, the news that he had won for his eighth book of poetry was delivered in a call from an Associated Press reporter.
Although the prize was awarded for "Practical Gods," he assumes that he probably received it for the body of work he has written over the past 30 years, which includes eight critically acclaimed books of poems, scores of magazine publications, inclusion in the most prestigious literary anthologies and a book of essays.
As his poetry makes clear, Dennis is acutely aware of life's losses and gains.
www.buffalo.edu /reporter/vol33/vol33n24/f1.html   (916 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author.
However, special citations for poetry were presented in 1918 and 1919.
1923: The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Poetry   (316 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Poetry
The Pulitzer Prize in poetry is awarded for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author.
Some of the past winners of the prize are shown here.
American Literature: Poetry; Poetry; Sandburg, Carl; American Literature: Poetry
encarta.msn.com /media_461539021_0_-1_1__6/media.html   (48 words)

  
 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER FOR POETRY TO READ AT THE CITADEL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.
Komunyakaa won the prize for his collection "Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems," published by Wesleyan University Press.
The New York Times says this about Komunykaa's poetry: "He acknowledges poetry to be the most inaccessible of literary forms, requiring a commitment from readers that not many are willing to make...Poets need to be of eccentric and independent turn of mind, and Mr.
www.citadel.edu /pao/newsreleases/archives/spring95/nr95apr5.html   (240 words)

  
 Muldoon wins 2003 Pulitzer Prize for poetry
The Pulitzer Prize for poetry recognizes a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author.
In 1999, he was elected to also serve as a professor of poetry at the University of Oxford.
The Pulitzers are presented at a luncheon in late May at Columbia University, which awards the prizes on recommendations of an 18-member board.
www.princeton.edu /pr/news/03/q2/0407-muldoon.htm   (791 words)

  
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Brooks composed her first poem at the age of seven and by the age of 16 had a portfolio that included 75 published poems.
During the early forties Brooks began attending poetry workshops where she blossomed and produced poems that soon began to attract a fair amount of attention in Chicago.
Her early collections of poetry are exciting mixtures of modernist treatments of traditional literacy forms, such as the ballad and sonnet along with more popular African American Forms after the fashion of Langston Hughes.
instech.tusd.k12.az.us /aa/history/Brooks.doc   (276 words)

  
 NPR : Franz Wright, Poet and Muse
Weekend Edition - Saturday, April 24, 2004 ·; Franz Wright, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is the son of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
Wright also discusses the importance of his work with the mentally ill. The poet went through his own battles with depression, alcoholism and drug abuse, and feels strongly that his experience can help those who feel isolated and alone in their illness, as he once did.
Wright says his poetry was "the cure" for his depression.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1851833   (282 words)

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