Article: Fanny Howe and Ange Mlinko Receive Major Literary Awards from Poetry Foundation

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Contact: Anne Halsey of The Poetry Foundation, +1-312-799-8016, ahalsey@poetryfoundation.org

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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 ...

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