Poet Louise Glück Winner of 2008 Wallace Stevens Award

Louise Glück has won the 2008 Wallace Stevens Award, which is sponsored by the Academy of American Poets and recognizes "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry." Academy Chancellor Robert Pinsky said that Glück "sometimes uses language so plain it can almost seem like someone is speaking to you spontaneously--but it's always intensely distinguished . . . There's always a surprise in Louise's writing; in every turn, every sentence, every line, something goes somewhere a little different, or very different, from where you thought it would." Glück, a Pulitzer Prize Winner, has published several collections of poetry, including: Firstborn, The House on Marshland, Descending Figure, The Triumph of Achilles, Ararat, The Wild Iris, Meadowlands, The First Five Books of Poems, Vita Nova, The Seven Ages, and Averno. Glück also has written a book of essays, Proofs and Theories. In the fall of 2003, she replaced Billy Collins as the Library of Congress's twelfth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. Currently, Glück is a writer in residence at Yale University.