Wellesley College English professor Frank Bidart has won the
$100,000 Bollingen Prize in Poetry, awarded by Yale University for the
best book published or lifetime achievement. The judges called his
poems "eerie, probing, sometimes shocking, always subtle--venture into
psychic terrain left largely unmapped in contemporary poetry,"
according to Bloomberg. Bidart's works include Star Dust (FSG), Music Like Dirt (Sarabande Books), In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965-90 and Desire.
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The finalists for the 2007 Brontë Prize, which were culled from "more than 400 love stories published in North America in the past year," are:
- Angels Fall by Nora Roberts (Putnam)
- Bee Balms & Burgundy by Nelson Pahl (Cafe Reverie Press)
- Finding Noel by Richard Paul Evans (S&S)
- Tear Down the Mountain by Roger Alan Skipper (Soft Skull Press)
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Algonquin Books)