University Times

"Chickamauga" by Charles Wright was named the winner of this year's Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize on Oct. 28. "The Art of Drowning" by Billy Collins, a part of the Pitt Poetry Series published by the University Press, had been a finalist for the $10,000 prize.

The Marshall prize was established in 1975 by the New Hope Foundation in memory of poet, novelist, essayist and political activist Lenore Marshall. Along with publishing novels, poetry and short stories, Marshall, in 1956, was one of the founders of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and successfully lobbied for a partial nuclear test ban treaty in 1963.