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Much deserved. At 12:28 PM 4/3/2010, you wrote: >NEW YORK — Harryette Mullen has won a $50,000 >Jackson Poetry Prize for being a poet of >"exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition." > > >The nonprofit literary organization Poets & >Writers Inc. announced Mullen as the winner of >the fourth annual Jackson Poetry Prize on Friday. > > >The 56-year-old Mullen has written such books as >"Recyclopedia," "Muse & Drudge" and "Sleeping >With the Dictionary." Her socially and >politically conscious verse is influenced by the >feminist and civil rights movements. > > > > > >many on the list will be familiar with Harryette's work > > > Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University of California Press). http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland "Not since the 1982 publication of Paul Auster's Random House Book of Twentieth Century French Poetry has a bilingual anthology so effectively broadened the sense of poetic terrain outside the United States and also created a superb collection of foreign poems in English. There is nothing else like it." John Palattella in The Nation