Poetry Doesn’t Pay?
The Griffin Poetry Prize Announces the 2008 Canadian and International Shortlist
International Shortlist
Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems • John Ashbery
HarperCollins Publishers/Ecco
Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems • Elaine Equi
Coffee House Press
The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition
Clayton Eshleman, translated from the Spanish,
written by César Vallejo
University of California Press
Selected Poems 1969-2005 • David Harsent
Faber and Faber
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Canadian Shortlist
The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser • Robin Blaser
University of California Press
Notebook of Roses and Civilization
Robert Majzels and Erin Moure, translated from the French,
written by Nicole Brossard
Coach House Books
Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden • David McFadden
Insomniac Press/4 a.m. Books
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TORONTO – April 8, 2008 – Scott Griffin, founder of The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry and David Young, trustee, today announced the Canadian and International shortlist for this year’s prize. The C$100,000 Griffin Poetry Prize is one of the most lucrative poetry prizes in the world, exemplifying the international spirit of the form. The prize is awarded annually for the two best books of poetry, including translations, published in English in the previous year.
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Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She co-edited with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She also co-edits the anthology series, Bettering American Poetry, and is a professor of creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.
AMY KING 
Go Elaine! Maybe the Candadians will have more sense than the Californians.
Whoops, that was a typo–but Candada sounds like a nice place to live, doesn’t it. If the Candadans had a prize, Elaine would definitely win it!
Hi Amy. I would like to exchange links with you. I will add a link to your blog
(https://amyking.wordpress.com) on mine if you will add a link to my blog (http://birthdaysofpoets.blogspot.com) on yours. Andy Christ
Ok, it pays, but at about the same statistic frequency as the lottery.
I agree with Kate. How many people can actually say they live off of poetry? Maybe 1% or so…
Anyway, it is good to know there are still some people who believe in poetry!