About Kay Ryan
Kay Ryan is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. From 2008 to 2010 she was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate. In 2011 she was named a MacArthur Fellow and she won the Pulitzer Prize.
Known for:
The Best of It
Notable works:
The best of it
Awards:
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize|Guggenheim Fellowship|MacArthur Fellows Program|National Humanities Medal|Pulitzer Prize for Poetry|Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
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