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Monday, September 14, 2009

Jean Valentine and Harryette Mullen Receive Major Poetry Awards from the Academy of American Poets

New York, September 15—Jean Valentine has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. The $100,000 prize recognizes outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry. Harryette Mullen has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Academy Fellowship. The Fellowship is awarded to a poet for distinguished poetic achievement and provides a stipend of $25,000. The Academy’s Board of Chancellors, a body of sixteen eminent poets, selects the Wallace Stevens Award and Academy Fellowship recipients.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ~ Novalis

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