National Book Foundation, Presenter of the National Book Awards -- On February 24, 2011, in New York, Elizabeth Alexander, Stephen Burt, Tony Hoagland, James Longenbach, Maureen McLane, and Susan Stewart kicked off the Foundation's celebration of 61 Years of National Book Awards Poetry with a panel discussion entitled “Lineage: American Poetry Since 1950,” moderated by Katie Peterson, using the National Book Award as a point of departure to assess post-War poetry trends and achievements. The following evening, Burt, Hoagland, Longenbach, McLane, Peterson, and Stewart will read from their own work at the Center for Book Arts.

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