Winner of UK’s top prize and Missouri’s first poet laureate
“Sean O’Brien wins unprecedented poetry double,” by Sarah Crown from Guardian Unlimited, reports on O’Brien’s winning of the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize, making him the first author ever to win the UK’s…
"Sean O'Brien wins unprecedented poetry double," by Sarah Crown from Guardian Unlimited, reports on O'Brien's winning of the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize, making him the first author ever to win the UK's top two poetry awards in the same year. His collection, The Drowned Book, is described as "fierce, funny and deeply melancholy."
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"The Right Poet for Missouri," by John Mark Eberhart from KansasCity.com, approves of Missouri's first poet laureate: Walter Bargen.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
