Eryn Green, a doctoral candidate at the University of Denver, has joined Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, W.S. Merwin and Jack Gilbert on the illustrious list of winners of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, the nation’s oldest annual literary award.
Artsbeat: Young Poet Wins Old Prize
By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER, New York Times: Books
Fri, 03/15/2013 - 6:20am
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