On the same day Charles Simic was named Poet Laureate of the United States, succeeding Donald Hall, he also received the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award for “outstanding and proven mastery” of the art of poetry from the American Academy of Poets.
On the same day Charles Simic was named Poet Laureate of the United States, succeeding Donald Hall, he also received the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award for “outstanding and proven mastery” of the art of poetry from the American Academy of Poets.