Money lined up to support poets
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Poets & Writers, a nonprofit literary organization, has received a $2-million donation to support its Jackson Poetry Prize, a $50,000 award founded in 2007 for emerging American poets.
The money comes from the Liana Foundation, a philanthropic organization based in Far Hills, N.J., that is co-managed by poet Susan Jackson.
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