Louise Glück has been selected as the recipient of the 2008 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. The $100,000 prize recognizes outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry.

Brigit Pegeen Kelly has been selected as the recipient of the 2008 Academy Fellowship, which is awarded once a year to a poet for distinguished poetic achievement and provides a stipend of $25,000.

Carcanet would like to congratulate both Louise Glück and Brigit Pegeen Kelly on their honours, which were awarded by the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets, a body of fourteen eminent poets.