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
