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==Charles Simic==
==Charles Simic==
Charles Simic’s work resists categorization and is often haunting, sly, mysterious, and always engaging. Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator. He has written 20 books of poetry, seven books of essays, a memoir, and numerous books of translations of French, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovenian poetry. He has received many literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. Simic was the Poet  Laureate of the United States from 2007-08. To learn more, visit Simic's [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/charles-simic Poetry Foundation biography].  
Charles Simic’s work resists categorization and is often haunting, sly, mysterious, and always engaging. Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator. He has written 20 books of poetry, seven books of essays, a memoir, and numerous books of translations of French, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovenian poetry. He has received many literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. Simic was the Poet  Laureate of the United States from 2007-08. To learn more, visit Simic's [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/charles-simic Poetry Foundation biography].
 
==Reviews and excerpts==
 
“Simic is a master of the absurd and the unexpected.” —Publishers Weekly on ''The World Doesn’t End''
 
 
From ''Lancelot, Prone''
 
I’m prone to rashes and overreactions.
 
I’m liable to send forth flares to silence
 
small lights below, my fire seeking
 
its own level, as water might. O Reader,
 
so far off, you flicker.
 
But you’ll do.
 
''From GUINEVERE IN BALTIMORE © 2013 by Shelley Puhak, published by The Waywiser Press. Used with permission.''

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The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, created in honor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, is awarded annually by The Waywiser Press for a poetry collection by a poet who has published no more than one book. It includes publication, and a $3,000 prize.

The Folger co-sponsored the presentation of the award in the Folger Elizabethan Theatre with The Waywiser Press on November 18, 2013 at 7:30. Shelley Puhak, the 2012 recipient, read with prize judge Charles Simic, introduced by Joesph Harrison, poet and Senior American Editor of The Waywiser Press. Tickets were $15.

Shelley Puhak

Shelley Puhak is an Assistant Professor at Notre Dame of Maryland University in Baltimore. She is the author of Stalin in Aruba, which won the 2010 Towson Prize for Literature, and The Consolation of Fairy Tales, which won Split Oak Press’s 2011 Stephen Dunn Prize. Charles Simic selected her second collection of poetry, Guinevere in Baltimore, as this year’s Hecht Prize winner. To learn more, visit Puhak's website.

Charles Simic

Charles Simic’s work resists categorization and is often haunting, sly, mysterious, and always engaging. Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator. He has written 20 books of poetry, seven books of essays, a memoir, and numerous books of translations of French, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovenian poetry. He has received many literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. Simic was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2007-08. To learn more, visit Simic's Poetry Foundation biography.