REELY'S POETRY BLOG

Poet, Mark Doty, is the winner in the National Book Awards poetry category for 2008. This year’s winners received a bronze statue and $10,000.

His poetry collection, Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems (HarperCollins) beat out 4 other nominees:

Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Reginald Gibbons, Creatures of a Day (Louisiana State University Press)
Richard Howard, Without Saying (Turtle Point Press)
Patricia Smith, Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press)

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Ok, it’s been a while since we got a new audio, but check out our latest:

Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Such a poignant yet beautiful poem. Please give it a listen and don’t forget to vote.

Reely

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