The Poetry Foundation announced that Nathaniel Mackey won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which honors a living U.S. poet for outstanding lifetime achievement. Don Share, editor of Poetry magazine, said Mackey "continues an American bardic line that unfolds from Whitman's Leaves of Grass to H.D.'s Trilogy to Olson's Maximus Poems, winds through the whole of Robert Duncan's work and extends beyond all of these."
In addition, the foundation presented the first annual $7,500 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism to University of California Press for two books in their Collected Writings of Robert Duncan series--Robert Duncan: The Collected Later Poems and Plays, edited by Peter Quartermain; and Robert Duncan: Collected Essays and Other Prose, edited by James Maynard.
The winners will be honored during a ceremony at the Poetry Foundation on June 9.
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Art Libraries Society of North America announced that this year's winner of its George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award, which is given to a North American art publication that represent "the highest standards of content, documentation, layout and format in art publishing," went to Interaction of Color by Josef Albers (App for iPad). Yale University Press published the 50th anniversary edition of Albers's masterwork in art education last year.
