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MADISON NATIVE WINS T.S. ELIOT POETRY PRIZE.(Editorial)

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From: The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Date: 20010209
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Christopher Bakken, a Madison native who now teaches English at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., has won the 2001 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. His poetry collection, "After Greece," was selected from more than 500 manuscripts.

Bakken - who is a 1990 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison - will receive $2,000, and his winning manuscript will be published in May. Bakken's work has previously been published in the Paris Review, Boulevard, Literal Latte and Modern Poetry in Translation.

The T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is sponsored annually by Truman State ...

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