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WISLAWA SZYMBORKSA (1923-2012)
DOROTHEA TANNING (1910-2012) 

The Poetry Society of America is honored to announce thatMarilyn Nelson is the 2012 recipient of the organization's highest award, the Frost Medal, presented annually for "lifetime achievement in poetry." Previous winners of this award include Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Marianne Moore, and Charles Simic, who was the 2011 recipient. Read Full Post

In the year of the first electric watch, the first frisbee, Liz Taylor's second divorce, and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the Poetry Society took poetry to the high seas.

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Richard Howard at Bishop Centennial Celebration

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Vijay Seshadri, Kimiko Hahn, Elizabeth Alexander, and David Lehman at Bishop Centennial Celebration 

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Tom Sleigh at the Bishop Centennial Celebration

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Tracy K. Smith and Yusef Komunyakaa in the green room at The Great Hall for the Bishop Celebration

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Alice Quinn and Maria Tucci in the green room at The Great Hall for the Bishop Centennial Celebration

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Frank Bidart and James Fenton in the green room at The Great Hall for the Bishop Centennial Celebration 

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Paul Muldoon reading a letter by Howard Moss at the Bishop Centennial Celebration

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PSA President Ruth Kaplan with 2011 Frost Medalist Charles Simic at our Annual Awards Ceremony

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Lucie Brock-Broido at the National Arts Club for the 2011 Annual Awards Ceremony

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Suji Kwock Kim  and Rigoberto Gonzalaz winners of 2011 PSA Awards

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The audience on the steps of Borough Hall for the PSA Poets Laureate reading at the 2011 Brooklyn Book Festival

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Kenneth Goldsmith at the 2011 Brooklyn Book Festival 

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Alice Quinn and Brett Fletcher Lauer at the 2011 Brooklyn Book Festival

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Mark Strand at the 2011 Brooklyn Book Festival

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David Alexander and Richard Howard at Tanning 101, at the Museum of Modern Art to celebrate the release of Dorothea Tanning's new collection of poems

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Deborah Landau reading "One Art" at Tibor de Nagy's exhibition of Elizabeth Bishop's art and the art she owned

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Alice Quinn and PSA Programs Director Darrel Alejandro Holnes at the Tibor de Nagy gallery

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PSA Development and Membership Director Elsbeth Pancrazi standing in front of a Calder sculpture in Gramercy Park, photo by Alice Quinn

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Alice Quinn reading in the parlor of the National Arts Club, painted by Robert Beck, December 2011

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In recent years, our life at the PSA has been graced by the generosity and exuberance of the photographer, Lawrence Schwartzwald, who attends many of our events and sends us beautiful pictures the very next day. Lawrence has compiled his own "Best of 2011," and we thought it might be fun at the close of this year to share a group of our favorites of his PSA photographs. Read Full Post

The recently published Man Ray Portraits: Paris-Hollywood-Paris, from the Man Ray Archives of the Centre Pompidou, presents 500 photographs from the photographer who knew everyone. The tome includes photographs of Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, Alexander Calder, Robert Desnos, Hilda Doolittle, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, Max Jacob, James Joyce, Mina Loy, Raymond Queneau, Kurt Schwitters, Paul Valery, Dorothea Tanning, and on and on from members of the avant-garde, to ex-pats, to fashion and cinema stars.  Read Full Post