Sean O'Brien & Walt Whitman

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Publish date:: Oct 9, 2007

There are a couple pieces on Sean O'Brien winning the U.K.'s Forward Poetry Prizes award for the Best Collection...for his third time.

"Sean O'Brien Becomes Third Time Recipient of U.K.'s Top Poetry Prize," by Sheveta Bansal for AHN.
"Poet Sean O'Brien wins unique hat-trick of Forward prizes," by John Ezard for The Guardian.

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"'Leaves of Grass' Still Growing, Inspiring," by Diane Ackerman for NPR, is a great piece on Walt Whitman and why his words are still vital to poets today. Personally, he's one of the best. Seriously.

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