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Sir Derek Alton Walcott KCSL OBE OM OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. [1] His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement."
The Cholmondeley Awards (/ ˈ tʃ ʌ m l i / CHUM-lee) are annual awards for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. Since 1991 the award has been made to four poets each year, to the total value of £8000.
Poetic Republic Poetry Prize (Anonymous peer review poetry competition) Poetry London Prize (First Prize=£5000) Rhysling Award (For science-fiction poetry) Pushcart Prize ("Best of the Small Presses") Charles Causley Trust International Poetry Competition (First Prize=£2000) Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry; The Poetry.com Contest (First Prize ...
Stephen Breslow of University of Tampa had since the mid-1980s predicted that Walcott would become a Nobel laureate in literature and explained that the likely reasons why Swedish Academy chose Derek Walcott was because his work had "a strong regional voice that transcends its topical locality, through the depth and breadth of its poetic resonance and through its global human implication."
BPT was founded in 1981 by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott when he began teaching poetry and playwriting at Boston University. Under the leadership of Walcott's student Kate Snodgrass, the program expanded from a one-year Master of Arts to a three-year Master of Fine Arts degree. The program's alumni have been produced in regional and New York ...
Diversity's impact on financial performance. Based on a survey this year of 400 C-suite and HR leaders, executive search firm Bridge Partners found leaders said the top benefit of DEI efforts is a ...
Produced off-Broadway by the Negro Ensemble Company in 1971, it won an Obie Award that year for "Best Foreign Play". [2] In a review of the Negro Ensemble production in The New Yorker, the journalist Edith Oliver called the play "a masterpiece" and "a poem in dramatic form or a drama in poetry", noting that "poetry is rare in modern theater."
September 2 – Tim Key, English comic performer and performance poet; Jen Hadfield, British poet and visual artist; Meghan O'Rourke, American writer, editor and poet; writer for Slate; a poetry editor for The Paris Review; Yolanda Wisher, African American poet and spoken word artist