Mary Ruefle wins the William Carlos Wiliams Award

Mary Ruefle's Selected Poems (Wave Books) has won the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award, given every year to an outstanding book of poetry.

From the PSA website, here's Rodney Jones on the collection:

What a civil, undomesticable, and heartening poet is Mary Ruefle: fond of experiment, but just as pleased to write of tilapia or county fairs; always novel, but never pandering to a mode; refusing neither the absurd nor the sublime. Any Ruefle poem is an occasion of resonant wit and language, subject to an exacting intelligence. For more than thirty years, she has freshened American poetry by humbly glorifying both the inner life and the outward experience. Her Selected Poems, like the work of William Carlos Williams, is a testimony not only to the power of artfulness, but to human empathy.