An incomplete list: Joy Williams, Stuart Dybek, Anne Carson, Alice Munro, Mary Gaitskill, Lydia Davis, Bhanu Kapil, Deborah Eisenberg, Edward P.

NEWYORKER: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Previous winners include Don Paterson, Ted Hughes and Anne Carson.

BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Poets vie for ?10,000 Eliot prize

On a slightly lesser comedic level, the 50, 000-volume literary center has also recently installed lyrical works in Little Rock and New Orleans and hosted such notables as Anne Carson and Thomax Lux, shown above, reading poetry on the Brooklyn Bridge.

FORBES: A Poetry Bonanza in Lower Manhattan