April 21, 2005

Williams wins giant poetry prize . . .

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Pulizer-winning poet C.K. Williams has been named as this year’s winner of the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, according to an Associated Press wire story. “The prize was announced Wednesday by Poetry magazine, where Williams’ first published verse appeared, in 1964.”

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