News at Eleven: "Poetry is the deepest language we've got . . .

I encourage you all to get busy and start writing," said [Robin Blaser] the author of "The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser" (University of California Press).

[John] Ashbery, who won for "Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems" (HarperCollins Publishers/Ecco), told a packed dining room in the historic Distillery District, "I've never experienced anything like this before."

from The Canadian Press: Prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize goes to Blaser and Ashbery

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