Louise Glück has been awarded the 2008 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. This award carries with it a $100,000 prize and recognizes “outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry,” according to the Academy. Academy Chancellor Robert Pinsky says of Glück: “Louise sometimes uses language so plain it can almost seem like someone is speaking to you spontaneousely—but it's always intensely distinguished…There's always a surprise in Louise's writing; in every turn, every sentence, every line, something goes somewhere a little different, or very different, from where you thought it would.” The 2008 Academy Fellowship, which is awarded to a poet for distinguished poetic achievement has been awarded to Brigit Pegeen Kelly.