[New-Poetry] For Immediate Release: Fanny Howe receives 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

Tue Apr 14 15:01:03 EDT 2009

Wonderful! and much deserved.

At 01:48 PM 4/14/2009, you wrote:

>For Immediate Release
>April 14, 2009
><http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/announcements.html>www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/announcements.html
>Media Director: Anne Halsey, 312.799.8016; 
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>Fanny Howe and Ange Mlinko Receive Major Literary Awards
>from Poetry Foundation
>Howe to receive $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
>
>CHICAGO — The Poetry Foundation, publisher of 
>Poetry magazine, is pleased to announce that 
>poets Fanny Howe and Ange Mlinko are the winners 
>of its sixth annual Pegasus Awards.
>
>Howe is the recipient of the 2009 Ruth Lilly 
>Poetry Prize. Established in 1986 and presented 
>annually by the Poetry Foundation to a living 
>U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant 
>extraordinary recognition, the Ruth Lilly Prize 
>is one of the most prestigious awards given to 
>American poets, and at $100,000 it is one of the 
>nation’s largest literary prizes. Poet and 
>critic Ange Mlinko is the winner of the Randall 
>Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism. The prizes 
>will be presented at the Pegasus Awards ceremony 
>at the Arts Club of Chicago on Tuesday, May 19.
>
>In announcing the Lilly Prize, Christian Wiman, 
>editor of Poetry magazine, said: “Fanny Howe is 
>a religious writer whose work makes you more 
>alert and alive to the earth, an experimental 
>writer who can break your heart. Live in her 
>world for a while, and it can change the way you think of yours.”
>
>“The selection of Fanny Howe as this year’s 
>winner of the Lilly Prize does honor to the 
>traditions—of excellence, importance, and 
>discovery—that the prize has stood for since it 
>was established over 20 years ago,” said John 
>Barr, president of the Poetry Foundation.
>
>The Poetry Foundation issued the following 
>statement in making the award: “Reading Fanny 
>Howe—both the poetry and the prose—one has the 
>sense of a life that has been inhabited so 
>intensely and lovingly that even her smallest 
>fragments seem steeped in that experience. Her 
>poetry can be elusive and hermetic, and then 
>abruptly and devastatingly candid; it is marked 
>by the pressures of history and culture, yet 
>defiantly, transcendently lyrical. She is a 
>demanding and deeply rewarding artist, and her 
>body of work seems larger, stranger, and more 
>permanent with each new book she publishes.”
>
>Fanny Howe, 68, has written many books of 
>poetry, including Gone (University of California 
>Press, 2003), Selected Poems (UC Press, 2000), 
>On the Ground (Graywolf Press, 2004), and The 
>Lyrics (Graywolf, 2007). She has also written 
>novels, five of which have been collected in one 
>volume called Radical Love. At age 17 Howe left 
>her home in Boston for California and has since 
>spent her life there and in England, Ireland, 
>and Massachusetts. In recent years she has won 
>the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, a fellowship 
>from the Guggenheim Foundation, and an award 
>from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 
>She has written two collections of essays, The 
>Wedding Dress (UC Press, 2003) and The Winter 
>Sun (Graywolf, 2009). Howe has three grown 
>children and six little grandchildren; she 
>currently lives on Martha’s Vineyard.
>
>Ange Mlinko is the third recipient of the 
>Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism. The 
>$10,000 prize is awarded for poetry criticism 
>that is intelligent and learned as well as 
>lively and enjoyable to read. Mlinko, 39, is the 
>author of two books, Matinees (Zoland Books, 
>1999) and Starred Wire (Coffee House Press, 
>2005), which was a National Poetry Series winner 
>in 2004 and a finalist for the James Laughlin Award the following year.
>
>The Poetry Foundation issued the following 
>statement in announcing Mlinko’s award: “From 
>Sappho to the Language poets, from Nicolas of 
>Cusa to The Brady Bunch, Ange Mlinko’s criticism 
>is brilliantly wide-ranging; it is eclectic and 
>astringent yet always lucid and generous. We are 
>pleased to recognize a young critic whose 
>distinctive sharp wit and formidable power have 
>helped revitalize the art of writing about poetry.”
>
>Mlinko was born in Philadelphia and currently 
>lives in the lower Hudson Valley, where she 
>raises her two sons. She has an undergraduate 
>degree in philosophy and mathematics from St. 
>John’s College and an MFA from the Creative 
>Writing Program at Brown University. Her poetry 
>and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming 
>in Poetry and the Poetry Foundation website, the 
>London Review of Books, The New Yorker, 
>Bookforum, and The Nation, where she also writes 
>an occasional column on language called Lingo.
>
>***
>
>About the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
>American poetry has no greater friend than Ruth 
>Lilly. Over many years and in many ways, it has 
>been blessed by her personal generosity. In 1985 
>she endowed the Ruth Lilly Professorship in 
>Poetry at Indiana University. In 1989 she 
>created Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships, for 
>$15,000 each, given annually by the Poetry 
>Foundation to undergraduate or graduate students 
>selected through a national competition. In 2002 
>her lifetime engagement with poetry culminated 
>in a magnificent bequest that will enable the 
>Poetry Foundation to promote, in perpetuity, a 
>vigorous presence for poetry in our culture.
>
>The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honors a living U.S. 
>poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant 
>extraordinary recognition. Established in 1986 
>by Ruth Lilly, the annual prize is sponsored and 
>administered by the Poetry Foundation, publisher 
>of Poetry magazine. Over the last 20 years, the 
>Lilly Prize has awarded more than $1,000,000. 
>The previous recipients are Adrienne Rich, 
>Philip Levine, Anthony Hecht, Mona Van Duyn, 
>Hayden Carruth, David Wagoner, John Ashbery, 
>Charles Wright, Donald Hall, A.R. Ammons, Gerald 
>Stern, William Matthews, W.S. Merwin, Maxine 
>Kumin, Carl Dennis, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lisel 
>Mueller, Linda Pastan, Kay Ryan, C.K. Williams, 
>Richard Wilbur, Lucille Clifton, and Gary Snyder.
>
>About the Pegasus Awards
>The Poetry Foundation has established a family 
>of prizes with an emphasis on new awards to 
>under-recognized poets and types of poetry. 
>Inaugurated in 2004, the Pegasus Awards are 
>announced annually in the spring. The Poetry 
>Foundation believes that targeted prizes can 
>help redress underappreciated accomplishments, 
>diversify the kinds of poetry being written, and 
>widen the audience for the art form. With this 
>in mind, it may create additional prizes in the years ahead.
>
>About the Poetry Foundation
>The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry 
>magazine and one of the largest literary 
>organizations in the world, exists to discover 
>and celebrate the best poetry and to place it 
>before the largest possible audience. The Poetry 
>Foundation seeks to be a leader in shaping a 
>receptive climate for poetry by developing new 
>audiences, creating new avenues for delivery, 
>and encouraging new kinds of poetry through 
>innovative literary prizes and programs. For 
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