Charles Bernstein has been awarded America’s top prize for poetry – the Bollingen Prize. The award, which comes with a $165,000 purse, is given every two years from Yale University to an American poet for lifetime achievement on the event of a new publication. In the case of Professor Bernstein, it recognizes his book “Near/Miss,” published last fall. Read more at https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/news/charles-bernstein-wins-yale%E2%80%99s-2019-bollingen-prize-poetry