[New-Poetry] Yale Series winner 2010

Mon Nov 29 13:10:57 EST 2010

Look at this run...
62 1967 James Tate The Lost Pilot 
61 1965 Jean Valentine Dream Barker 
60 1964 Peter Davison The Breaking of the Day 
59 1963 Sandra Hochman Manhattan Pastures 
58 1962 Jack Gilbert Views of Jeopardy 
57 1961 Alan Dugan Poems 
56 1960 George Starbuck Bone Thoughts 
55 1959 William Dickey Of the Festivity 
54 1958 John Hollander A Crackling of Thorns 
53 1957 James Wright The Green Wall 
52 1956 John Ashbery Some Trees 
51 1954 Daniel Hoffman An Armada of Thirty Whales 
50 1953 Edgar Bogardus Various Jangling Keys 
49 1952 W. S. Merwin A Mask for Janus 
48 1951 Adrienne Rich A Change of World 
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I think a lot these were Auden's picks...he dun good.

Looking up Bogardus (the one name I didn't recognize) I find he died at age 30. (Again according to Wikipedia).
Finnegan

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I've largely lost track of the series, too, but it has to do with more than the proliferation of first book awards.  I suppose this may be a chicken-and-egg situation, in that the award itself once propelled poets a good way into "success," and it no longer has the clout.  But such propulsion  can only get you so far; then your own talent and drive have to take over.  Anyway, it sure can seem as though judges since Auden haven't had his knack of predicting which young poets will prosper and grow.

Kunitz picked at least a couple poets I like, and that was a long time ago.  I am thinking of Robert Hass and Carolyn Forche.  But who are the most notable winners since Forche in 1976?

On 11/29/10 11:47 AM, "jforjames at aol.com" <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

Thinking of the Yale Younger Poets made me realize how much I've lost track of that series. [Way back when it was the Yale, the Whitman (AAP), and the Starrett Prize (Pitt) and that was about it for ms. contests for first books.] 

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/youngerpoets.asp
The winner of the 2010 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, as chosen by judge Louise Glück, is Katherine Larson's Radial Symmetry. Katherine Larson is a poet, research scientist and field ecologist. She is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, The Massachusetts Review and Notre Dame Review, among other places. She lives in Arizona.
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It appears that Louise Gluck has picked 8 thus far in her tenure as judge. Here is the announcement of this year's winner.
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/SeriesPage.asp?Series=113

Finnegan

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Kunitz founded Poets House--
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Founded in 1985 by poet Stanley Kunitz <http://poetshouse.org/stanley.htm>  and arts administrator Elizabeth Kray, Poets House has created a home for all who read and write poetry. From 1990 to 2007 that home was located in an intimate loft at 72 Spring Street in Soho. As rent increases began to make Soho an impractical location, Poets House was fortunate to be designated by the Battery Park City Authority as a rent-free tenant in a new building on the banks of the Hudson River. In the summer of 2009, Poets House moved to its permanent home at 10 River Terrace in Battery Park City <http://poetshouse.org/newsbpc92007.htm> and opened to the public on September 25, 2009. 

Throughout its transformations, the heart of Poets House has remained its poetry collection <http://poetshouse.org/library.htm> . With over 50,000 volumes of poetry—including books, journals, chapbooks, audio and video tapes, and digital media—our collection is among the most comprehensive, open-access collections of poetry in the United States and is the foundation for all our programs and services.
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Perhaps some of that 'other material' has slipped into its collection over time.

Kunitz wrote some good poems. He helped a lot of poets over his long career. He was certainly mainstream. And connected to establishment. (He was judge of Yale Younger Poets Series for many years.) 

Compared to someone like Anthony Hecht, say, Gerald Stern is a 'wildman' of poetry. Compared to Bukowski, not so much. James Tate is wild in a completely different way than Stern. So it's all a matter of context, and range within that context. 

I spent 4 hours with Kunitz once, on a drive up from NYC to a CT reading, and stopping for lunch at Peruvian restaurant in Danbury. (His taste in food was not too narrow.) From our free-wheeling conversation (I was driving carefully), I'd say he knew more than his share about poetry. And I felt I was only scratching the surface, and doing so rather late in his life.

Who is the mythical literary figure who manages to know all poets/poetries (all the compass points), is well-versed in all schools and sub-genres, and who loves, reads, and promotes them all with equal gusto? I don't know that person. Is he/she is on this list?

Finnegan
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From: Mark Weiss <junction at earthlink.net>
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I knew him slightly, and many of my friends knew him a lot better than that. Take my word for it. 

At 06:12 AM 11/29/2010, you wrote:

On 11/28/2010 11:54 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:

He was also well aware of the poetry he chose not to acknowledge. As was his right.

How do we know that?  If his remark about Stern was about Stern as a poet, he certainly wasn't aware of very much of the poetry continuum.

--Bob
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