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Article: Fanny Howe and Ange Mlinko Receive Major Literary Awards from Poetry Foundation
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- U.S. Newswire
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- April 14, 2009
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Anne Halsey of The Poetry Foundation, +1-312-799-8016,
ahalsey@poetryfoundation.org
Howetoreceive$100,000RuthLillyPoetryPrize
CHICAGO, April 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Poetry
Foundation, publisher of Poetrymagazine, is pleased to announce that
poets Fanny Howe and Ange Mlinko are the winners of its sixth annual
Pegasus Awards.
Howe is the recipient of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
Established in 1986 and presented annually by the Poetry Foundation
to a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant
extraordinary recognition, the Ruth Lilly Prize is one of the most
prestigious awards given to American poets, and at $100,000 it is
one of the ...