Poet and Professor Juliana Spahr Honored for Writing and Teaching [1]
Folger Poetry, a program of the Folger Shakespeare Library [2] in Washington, D.C., announced yesterday that it will award Juliana Spahr its nineteenth annual O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize [3]. She will receive the ten-thousand-dollar award and give a reading at the library on October 9.
The prize, named for poet, teacher, and former Folger director O. B. Hardison, is awarded to recognize poets' work as writers and their service as educators. Spahr, who teaches at Mills College in California, most recently published The Transformation (Atelos Press, 2007), a lyric memoir. Claudia Rankine [4] and Joshua Weiner selected her for the honor.
Past winners of the poetry prize are:
2008 Mary Kinzie
2007 David Wojahn [5]
2006 David Rivard [6]
2005 Tony Hoagland [7]
2004 Reginald Gibbons [8]
2003 Cornelius Eady [9]
2002 Ellen Bryant Voigt [10]
2001 David St. John [11]
2000 Rachel Hadas [12]
1999 Alan Shapiro [13]
1998 Heather McHugh [14]
1997 Frank Bidart [15]
1996 Jorie Graham [16]
1995 E. Ethelbert Miller [17]
1994 R. H. W. Dillard [18]
1993 John Frederick Nims
1992 Cynthia MacDonald [19]
1991 Brendan Galvin [20]