Poet Pattieann Rogers wins the 2005 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry
by sernabad
Pattiann Rogers, one of America's best modern poets, was awarded the prestigious Lannan Literary Award for Poetry for 2005. The Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships were established in 1989 "to honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional quality."
In awarding Rogers the $125,00 purse, the Lannan Foundation said of her writing: "Roger's wise and complex poems read like a series of witty but deeply felt explorations of the phusical world and the presence of the divine." Among her twelve volumes of poetry are: Generations (2004), Song of the World Becoming: New and Collected Poems, 1981-2001 (c2001), and The Expectations of Light (c1981).
Rogers is no slouch in the awards department -- she is adding the Lannan to four Pushcart Prizes, one Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984, and two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Rogers is 65.
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