Amston NewsLocal news for Amston, CT continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Local Poet Wins Verse Drama Prize- October 20, 2007 John Surowiecki, a poet from Amston who teaches at Manchester Community College, is the first recipient of an award created by the Poetry Foundation, the literary organization based in Chicago that publishes Poetry magazine. His honor is one of four called the Pegasus Awards, which celebrate under-recognized poets and types of poetry.The new award, called the Verse Drama Prize, goes to a living poet who has written an outstanding original drama in verse that had not been previously published...http://www.topix.net/city/amston-ct/2007/10/local-poet-wins-verse-drama-prize?fromrss=1 |