Congratulations to four authors in the Pitt Poetry Series, each awarded a $25,000 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for 2009: Bob Hicok, Julia Kasdorf, Michael McGriff and David Shumate.

Afaa Michael Weaver, author of The Plum Flower Dance, has been awarded the Ibbetson Street Press Lifetime Achievement Award for 2008.

Congratulations to John Hodgen, author of Grace, winner of the Beloit Poetry Journal's Chad Walsh prize.

Congratulations to Cheryl Dumesnil, winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, for her collection In Praise of Falling. Read the press release