Simic Receives $100,000 Poetry Award

The American Academy of Poets has selected Belgrade-born poet Charles Simic as this year's recipient of its $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award, the organization announced yesterday.

Mr Simic is the author of several books of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems" (Harcourt, 1989). A more recent collection, "My Noiseless Entourage" (Harcourt, 2005), won the International Griffin Poetry Prize two years ago.

Named after the 20th century poet Wallace Stevens, the academy's award has been given out annually since 1994. Recipients are chosen by the organization's board of chancellors — poets Robert Pinsky , Ellen Bryant Voigt, and James Tate, among them. Mr. Tate has praised Mr. Simic as a poet who "carries our souls around in his back pocket like a map of a lost world."