Yale University has awarded the $100,000 Bollingen Prize in Poetry for 2007 to Wellesley College English professor Frank Bidart. A three-judge panel said Mr. Bidart’s poems — “eerie, probing, ...

and Frank Bidart's. Stern's style is raucous, loquacious; Bidart's is meditative and musical. But their excellent new collections share a heightened tone of urgency, offering key poems that speak ...

Behind the palest, least legible book cover of 2017 lies the year's most important release of writing by a gay man. "Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) adds a section ...

Frank Bidart’s poems are spare, elliptical, and swift with movement. As Louise Gluck writes, “The importance of Bidart’s work is difficult to overestimate; certainly he is one of the crucial figures ...

Frank Bidart, a professor of English at Wellesley College, has been chosen as the 2007 winner of the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. The prize, which is presented by the Yale University Library, ...

Ellen West, a new one-act chamber opera presented by Opera Saratoga, is based on a tragic poem by Frank Bidart, while Poul Ruders' The Thirteenth Child draws on a relatively obscure Grimm fairy tale.

Happy Thanksgiving to our American readers. Here are eight books to be grateful for, wherever you are: New poetry collections from the great Patrick Rosal and Frank Bidart, novels about the lives (and ...

Frank Bidart, a distinguished poet and a native of Bakersfield, will give a poetry reading as part of the California Writers Series at Cal State Bakersfield at 7 p.m. Tuesday, in the Dezember Room of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Playwright David Rabe, journalist and critic James Wolcott and poet Frank Bidart are among this year’s winners of awards given out by the PEN American Center, the literary and human ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Frank Bidart is a Poet with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1998 Forum. The year with the highest average number of views per program was ...