The American Academy of Poets has selected Belgrade-born poet Charles Simic as this year's recipient of its $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award, the organization announced yesterday. Mr Simic is the author of several books of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems" (Harcourt, 1989). A more recent collection, "My Noiseless Entourage" (Harcourt, 2005), won the …

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There is always ferment in the world of poetry, probably because there is rarely money in the world of poetry (absent the eccentric bequest), so turmoil is the only recreation available. Here David Lehman, the general editor of the Best American Poetry…

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