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Ruth Stone
American poet (1915-2011) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 96
Ruth Stone was an American poet. She was published widely in periodicals throughout her career and was the author of thirteen collections, as well as a teacher at many schools before finding stable tenure at Binghamton University in 1990, in her 70s.
Ruth Stone is read about 14 times a day, in 6 languages.
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Awards
About this person
She found wide recognition late in life, in her 80s, winning a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1999 for the collection Ordinary Words, a National Book Award for Poetry and Wallace Stevens Award in 2002 for the collection In the Next Galaxy, becoming Poet Laureate of Vermont in 2007, and becoming a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2009 for the collection What Love Comes To.
Where to find them
The same award as Ruth
Jackson Mac LowBoth received Wallace Stevens Award
Lola RidgeBoth received Shelley Memorial Award
Mary Jo BangBoth received National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
Morgan ParkerBoth received National Book Critics Circle Award for PoetryJanet LewisBoth received Shelley Memorial Award
Gerald SternBoth received Wallace Stevens Award