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Poetry Foundation Awards

June 1, 2009

Fanny Howe and Ange Mlinko have received this year’s Pegasus Awards. According to an April 14 announcement by the Poetry Foundation, Howe has won the Ruth Lilly Prize and Mlinko, the Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism. Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine said, “Fanny Howe is a religious writer whose work makes you more alert and alive to the earth, an experimental writer who can break your heart. Live in her world for a while, and it can change the way you think of yours.” Wiman went on to praise Mlinko, stating, “From Sappho to the Language poets, from Nicolas of Cusa to The Brady Bunch, Ange Mlinko’s criticism is brilliantly wide-ranging; it is eclectic and astringent yet always lucid and generous. We are pleased to recognize a young critic whose distinctive sharp wit and formidable power have helped revitalize the art of writing about poetry.”

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