Waldrop Wins National Book Award for Poetry

Providence poet and Brown Professor Keith Waldrop has won the National Book Award for "Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy."

Check it out: http://newsblog.projo.com/2009/11/providence-poet-waldrop-wins-n.html

This is delicious news. Along with this recognition, I hope it will also deliver Rosemarie Waldrop (his wife and poet in her own right) to the fore.
Rosemarie - she of the hyper-intellectual paragraph poem. She of the lines, "Though truth will still escape us, we must put our hands on bodies. Staying safe is a different death," that I spent a lot of time adoring last winter.

But back to the situation at hand, congratulations to the Mr. of this most illustrious pair.

And congrats to fair Providence! Brain drain? Nay. We have brilliant poets among us.

- Jessica