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1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize (Poetry)

The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of $10,000, awarded annually for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States by an American, is administered mutually by the A

Marilyn Hacker

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Rhyme Is All I've Got: A Q&A With Calvin Trillin
Jon Wiener

How do you rhyme “Obama” with “Yokahama”?

December 16, 2012
'Poem about My Rights': Todd Akin, Meet June Jordan
Laura Flanders

Todd Akin, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan all have me thinking of June Jordan’s great “Poem about My Rights.”

August 22, 2012
Adrienne Rich's Touch Was Political
John Nichols

A poet passionately engaged with writing and politics, she said "art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of the power which holds it hostage."

March 28, 2012
Writers and The Bomb (Part II): Poets to the Rescue
Greg Mitchell

If the great Hiroshima novel remains unwritten, a number of major poets have written brilliantly on nuclear concerns.

August 16, 2011
Katha Pollitt Wins 'Lifetime Achievement' American Book Award
Nation in the News
August 25, 2010