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<blockquote data-quote="WPLG" data-source="post: 23220" data-attributes="member: 158">Sonia Sanchez has received the Jackson Poetry Prize, an $80,000 award that continues a recent wave of lifetime achievement honors for the 87-year-old poet, educator and activist.Her award was announced Tuesday by Poets &amp; Writers ( <a href="https://www.pw.org/" target="_blank">https://www.pw.org</a> ), the publisher of Poets &amp; Writers magazine.“Over her 7-decade career, Sonia Sanchez has distinguished herself as a major figure in American letters,&quot; the judges' citation reads in part. “Her vast and commanding oeuvre of published poetry invokes the power and revolutionary properties of language itself — intoning the struggles and joys of entire communities while reinvigorating traditional forms.”Since 2018, Sanchez has also received the Wallace Stevens Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award, the Dorothy &amp; Lillian Gish Prize and the Edward MacDowell Medal.Sanchez was a founding member of the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960s and is widely regarded as a pioneering teacher of Black studies. Her poetry collections include “Homecoming,” “Love Poems” and “Shake Loose My Skin.”<a href="https://www.local10.com/entertainment/2022/04/26/sonia-sanchez-wins-80000-jackson-poetry-prize/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="WPLG, post: 23220, member: 158"] Sonia Sanchez has received the Jackson Poetry Prize, an $80,000 award that continues a recent wave of lifetime achievement honors for the 87-year-old poet, educator and activist. Her award was announced Tuesday by Poets & Writers ( [URL='https://www.pw.org/']https://www.pw.org[/URL] ), the publisher of Poets & Writers magazine. “Over her 7-decade career, Sonia Sanchez has distinguished herself as a major figure in American letters," the judges' citation reads in part. “Her vast and commanding oeuvre of published poetry invokes the power and revolutionary properties of language itself — intoning the struggles and joys of entire communities while reinvigorating traditional forms.” Since 2018, Sanchez has also received the Wallace Stevens Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award, the Dorothy & Lillian Gish Prize and the Edward MacDowell Medal. Sanchez was a founding member of the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960s and is widely regarded as a pioneering teacher of Black studies. Her poetry collections include “Homecoming,” “Love Poems” and “Shake Loose My Skin.” [url="https://www.local10.com/entertainment/2022/04/26/sonia-sanchez-wins-80000-jackson-poetry-prize/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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