Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Bollingen to Bidart

I haven't seen this posted too many places yet, but Frank Bidart has been awarded this year's Bollingen Prize. $100,000 ... not too shabby.

Here's the press release from Yale.

And here's another article about it.

2 comments:

A. D. said...

Sheesh. That's a lot of moolah.

Are you a Bidart fan?

Anne Haines said...

A.D., a lot of moolah indeed! I have to confess Bidart's been on my "poets I should get around to reading" list for a while -- I've read the odd poem of his here and there, but not enough to really say whether I'm a fan or not....