http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/02/14/rodney-jones-wins-the-kingsley-tufts/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:54:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/02/14/rodney-jones-wins-the-kingsley-tufts/comment-page-1/#comment-29828 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » Bidart Wins the Bollingen Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:36:21 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/02/14/rodney-jones-wins-the-kingsley-tufts/#comment-29828 [...] File this under, “Who Says Poetry Doesn’t Pay?” The News Blog of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Frank Bidart has won the 2007 Bollingen Prize for Poetry. (If you look at the URL on the link, it appears that the first draft misspelled the award’s name.) The prize is given by the Yale University Library and carries a cool $100,000 cash award. Mr. Bidart, who has written four volumes of poetry, was cited by the award’s judging panel as “a poet whose work exemplifies consistent originality of theme, sustained linguistic and formal explorations, and a strong sense of the profoundly serious and adventurous nature of the poetic calling.” [...]

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