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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19910519
Author:Robert Taylor, Special to the Globe
The Frost Silver Medal is awarded annually by the Poetry Society of America to the person "who has shown lifelong dedication and achievement in poetry." The award was first presented to Robert Frost himself. Other noted past recipients include Wallace Stevens, Carl Sandburg, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Ginsberg and Edna St. Vincent Millay; and now that roster is augmented by Donald Hall. The latest Frost medalist and his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, live near Eagle Pond in New Hampshire.
Maxine Hong Kingston, one of the most influential writers on the contemporary scene, winner of the 1989 PEN ...
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