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Japan's 'beat poet' Kazuko Shiraishi, pioneer of modern performance poetry, dies at 93
TOKYO (AP) — Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. She was 93. Shiraishi, whom American poet and translator Kenneth Rexroth dubbed “the Allen Ginsberg of Japan,” died of heart...
Palestinian American poet Fady Joudah receives $100,000 prize
NEW YORK (AP) — Fady Joudah, a Palestinian American poet who has said he writes for the future because “the present is demolished,” has received a $100,000 award from Poets & Writers. Joudah is this year's winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize, given to an American writer of...
Robin Walter's 'Little Mercy' receives poetry academy's First Book Award
NEW YORK (AP) — Robin Walter’s “Little Mercy,” a debut collection of verse that celebrates the natural world, has won the 2024 Academy of American Poets’ First Book Award. Walter will receive $5,000 and a six-week residency in Umbria, Italy. Her book will be published next...
Poet-critic Hanif Abdurraqib among 8 winners of $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes.
NEW YORK (AP) — Poet-critic Hanif Abdurraqib, fiction writers Deirdre Madden and Kathryn Scanlan and playwright Christopher Chen are among this year's recipients of Windham-Campbell Prizes, for which winners each receive $175,000 cash awards. The prizes are designed to enable...
