Kay Ryan took the prize for poetry for "the Best of It: New and Selected Poems."

凯瑞恩因为其诗歌选集《凯瑞恩精选集》获得诗歌奖。

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Kay Ryan said she wanted to celebrate the fact that all over America, community colleges save lives and minds.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Here is part of the poem. (READER) The current Poet Laureate,Kay Ryan, opened this year's National Poetry Month April first with a videoconference call to four American community colleges.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Taking part will be several of the poetry world's leading lights, including Irish writer Seamus Heaney, New Zealand's Bill Manhire and former US poet laureate Kay Ryan.

BBC: A festival of Olympic wordsmiths

Next week 24 poets including Kay Ryan, Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Mark Strand and the brothers Matthew and Michael Dickman will converge in Newark, N.

FORBES: Dodge Poetry Festival Features Pulitzer Winners, U.S. Poet Laureates

The event has attracted poets of all ages, continents and literary stature -- from Nobel Laureates Seamus Heaney (Ireland) and Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) to Poet Laureates Kay Ryan (U.S.) to Bill Manhire (New Zealand).

CNN: A deluge in London, but this time it's raining poems