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NEW YORK - Avant-garde poet Michael Palmer has won the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize given annually for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry."

"Michael Palmer is the foremost experimental poet of his generation and perhaps of the last several generations," according to a statement issued earlier this week by the Academy of American Poets, which gives the prize.

"A gorgeous writer who has taken cues from Wallace Stevens, the Black Mountain poets, John Ashbery, contemporary French poets, the poetics of Octavio Paz and from language poetries. He is one of the most original craftsmen at work in English at the present time."

Palmer, 63, is the author of "Company of Moths," "Codes Appearing" and numerous other collections.

Previous winners of the Stevens award, which was founded in 1994, include John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich and W.S. Merwin.
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`imperfect Sep 6, 2006  Hobbyist Writer
I shall try and find some links to his stuff!
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`imperfect Sep 6, 2006  Hobbyist Writer
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:iconjon-law:
That's $100,000 of boring.
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:iconiheartralphnad:
the ruth lilly prizes usually pick such bores,,, at least thats the prize i believe this is, its the only prize related to adrienne rich that awards 100,000 i can think of.
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:iconjon-law:
Boring seems to be the new interesting in poetry. I went reading lit mags and quarterlies to find out where to submit what, and fell asleep reading each and every one. It's a wasteland out there : (
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`Amberlouie Mar 15, 2007  Professional Writer
huzzah! You could try some poetry journals/mags in australia. :D
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`Amberlouie Mar 16, 2007  Professional Writer
The Adelaide Review

Blue Dog Aust Poetry

Famous Reporter

Imago

Mattoid

Papertiger

Salt/westerly

Tamba

The Age

Cordite

Island

Going down swinging

Meanjin

Quadrant

The Australian

Heat

Stylus...

just to name a few I know of.
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:iconiheartralphnad:
eh, thats not necessarily true. for the most part the "leading" poetry mags, like ones endorsed by poets.org and the writers chronicle seem to be. but if you look at online literary journals like [link] (GutCult, one of my favs), [link] Sleeping Fish, Bird Dog [link]. Those are all I can really think of right now. Have you had any further luck finding quarterlies because I found some pretty good ref sites just from searching the net and asking my poetry teacher at the university I go to. Just hit me up if youre interested
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:iconmsjames:
I must agree.
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