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The New York City chapter of the Romance Writers of America held its annual Golden Apple awards reception at the Flatiron Building (Macmillan's headquarters) Thursday night. Stacey Agdern (center) of Posman Books in Grand Central Terminal was named bookseller of the year for her work in promoting romance books to a wide customer base, including commuters, tourists and frequent "literary" readers who are convinced to try their first romance. She's flanked here by Smart Bitches, Trashy Books publisher Sarah Wendell ("media source of the year") and Carina Press editorial director Angela James ("editor of the year"). A full list of winners can be found at the RWA-NYC website. --Ron Hogan
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The Academy of American Poets announced this year's winners of its annual poetry prizes. The recipients will be honored October 25 during the Poets Forum at the New School in New York City. This year's winners are:
Philip Levine won $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award, which recognizes "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry."
Carolyn Forche received the $25,000 Academy of American poets fellowship, which honors "distinguished poetic achievement."
Patricia Smith's Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Coffee House Press) won the $25,000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for "the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year."
Jillian Weise's The Book of Goodbyes (BOA Editions) won the $5,000 James Laughlin Award, which is given for a second book of poetry published in the U.S.
John Taylor's translation of Selected Poems by Lorenzo Calogero won the $25,000 Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Fellowship.
Cynthia Hogue and Sylvain Gallais's translation of Virginie Lalucq and Jean-Luc Nancy's Fortino Samano (The Overflowing of the Poem) (Omnidawn, 2012) won the $1,000 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
Chris Hosea's Put Your Hands In (forthcoming from LSU Press) won the $5,000 Walt Whitman Award for an American who has not yet published a book of poetry.