Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Brooklyn-based poet wins Walt Whitman prize

This 2011 photo released by the Academy of American Poets shows poet Chris Hosea. Hosea has won the Walt Whitman Award for a debut collection, the Academy of American Poets announced Wednesday, April 10, 2013. Hosea will receive $5,000 and his book, "Put Your Hands In," will be published by Louisiana State University Press. (AP Photo/Academy of American Poets, Frank Oblak) NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn-based poet has won a prize named for one of the New York City borough's most famous former residents, Walt Whitman.








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