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Poet Will Alexander receives Jackson Prize

NEW YORK – Will Alexander, one of the country’s most imaginative and unpredictable poets, has won the 10th annual $50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize.

Poets & Writers, a nonprofit literary resource organization that presents the Jackson award, told The Associated Press on Thursday that Alexander is being honored for “his peerless inventiveness over the last three decades.”

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