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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...
US poet laureate Ada Limón to launch book and parks project 'You Are Here'
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. poet laureate, Ada Limón, is launching her intended signature project in April, which is National Poetry Month. The project is called “You Are Here” and includes an anthology of nature poems and visits to seven national parks. “I...
N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner and giant of Native American literature, dead at 89
NEW YORK (AP) — N. Scott Momaday, a Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist whose debut novel "House Made of Dawn" is widely credited as the starting point for contemporary Native American literature, has died. He was 89. Momaday died Wednesday at his home...
