$100,000 poetry prize awarded
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From Associated Press
Poet C.K. Williams, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and many other honors, has been named this year’s recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, for which he will be awarded $100,000.
The prize was announced Wednesday by Poetry magazine, where Williams’ first published verse appeared, in 1964.
The 68-year-old Williams’ many books include “The Singing,” “Flesh and Blood” and “Repair,” winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2000.
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