PAUL SIMON RECEIVES FIRST GERSHWIN PRIZE FOR POPULAR SONG IN WASHINGTON
Poet laureate Billy Collins (L) performs with the Dixie Hummingbirds during a concert celebrating the music of Paul Simon, recipient of the first Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, at the Warner Theater in Washington on May 23, 2007. (UPI Photo/Alexis C. Glenn)
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WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named Kay Ryan as the library's 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-09.
WASHINGTON, May 17 (UPI) -- A high school senior from Columbus, Ohio, has won the nation's first Poetry Out Loud title for his performance at Washington's Lincoln Theatre.
CHICAGO, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- The newly rich Poetry Foundation has awarded two more large prizes to American poets, one who has been under-recognized and another a former U.S. poet laureate.
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