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10.14.2009 12:14 pm

Carl Phillips is finalist for National Book Award

By Jane Henderson
Post-Dispatch Book Editor
Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips

Washington University professor Carl Phillips is a poetry finalist for this year’s National Book Awards.

“Speak Low,” published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, is one of five titles in the poetry category, the National Book Foundation announced today. The awards…

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01.20.2009 12:09 pm

Text of inaugural poem, “Praise Song for the Day”

By Jane Henderson
Post-Dispatch Book Editor

Just minutes after Yale professor Elizabeth Alexander read the poem she’d written for Barack Obama’s inauguration, a transcript appeared on CQ Politics.

It doesn’t seem perfectly transcribed and many of the lines may not break correctly, but here is what was…

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10.23.2008 10:17 am

Self-published author to open own store for holidays

By Jane Henderson
Post-Dispatch Book Editor

Self-published authors have to work hard to get attention. But Jefferson County poet Byron von Rosenberg seems to be taking his book-selling to a new level.

He’s going to open a store in Crestwood Plaza for the holiday season and name…

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