Tag: poetry
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Introducing Lone Star Poetry Place
Lone Star Lit is celebrating National Poetry Month this April with a brand new page dedicated to Texas poets and poetry.
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San Antonio poet and English professor named Fulbright Scholar
Jenny Browne will write and teach at Queen’s University Belfast as a Fulbright Scholar
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UNT names $10,000 Rilke Poetry Prize-Winner
David Keplinger’s Another City (Milkweed Editions) has won the 2019 UNT Rilke Prize. The Rilke Prize is an annual award of $10,000 recognizing a book that demonstrates exceptional artistry and vision written by a mid-career poet and published in the preceding year. The prize is named after the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), a writer whose…
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Colleyville-based poet Tarfia Faizullah awarded major artist grant
CHICAGO—The Chicago-based nonprofit United States Artists (USA) announced its 2019 USA Fellows last week. Among the forty-five artists and collectives, working across disciplines, is Tarfia Faizullah, a poet who is based in Colleyville, Texas and grew up in Midland, Texas. Each grantee will receive an unrestricted $50,000 cash award. Faizullah is the author of two poetry collections, Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf, 2018)…