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Poetry pays

Posted by Jan Gardner February 28, 2007 09:25 AM

As my colleague David Mehegan notes below, literature prizes in the US tend not to be as generous as those in other countries. But there are some exceptions to the rule: Yale University has awarded the $100,000 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry to Frank Bidart, who teaches at Wellesley College (which kindly posted two of his poems below the announcement of the prize.

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