Breaking News: Sharon Olds Takes Home Wallace Stevens Award

We at Harriet send our collective congratulations to Sharon Olds for winning the Academy of American Poets's Wallace Stevens Award. The award comes with a $100,000 prize. As the Washington Post reports:

One of the country’s leading poets, Pulitzer Prize winner Sharon Olds, has won a $100,000 lifetime achievement award.

The Academy of American Poets told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Olds had been given the Wallace Stevens Award for “proven mastery in the art of poetry.” Olds, 73, won the Pulitzer in 2013 for “Stag’s Leap.” She is also known for “The Dead and the Living” and “Strike Sparks.”

Also honored today by the Academy were Natasha Trethewey, Lynn Emanuel, Mary Hickman, Ron Padgett, Stephen Sartarelli, and Donte Collins. Go to the Washington Post to read on. And go here to read the full press release at poets.org.