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Barbara
Helfgott Hyett's Programs
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Grants,
Awards, Juries, Fellowships
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 1998:
Fellowship in Poetry, MCC Artists Grants Awards Program, MA
1995: Appointed Juror (ongoing), Elie Wiesel Foundation For
the Humanities
1995: Gretchen Warren Award, New England Poetry Club
1994: Fellow, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico
1993 Fellow, Viginia Center for the Creative Arts
1992: Pulitzer Prize nominee
Fellow, the Corporation of Yaddo
Brookline Arts Lottery; grant for travel to wildlife sanctuaries
to research book on North American endangered species
First Prize, Herman Melville Commemorative Poetry of the Sea
Contest, Salem State College
Heroism Prize: National Juried Art and Poetry Competition, Riverhead,
NY
1991-92: Nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry
Fellow, Writers' Room of Boston; to write a book on endangered
wildlife
1990: Appointee, United States Colombian Quincentennial Commission
1989: Sproat Award for Excellence in Teaching, English Department,
Boston University
Appointed Juror, Boston University Alumni Poetry Prize
1988-91: Fellow, Writers' Room of Boston; to write book on first
voyage of Christopher Columbus
1988: Gretchen Warren Award, New England Poetry Club
Worcester County Poetry Association Prize, Worcester, MA
Norman Bernstein Trust, Washington, DC, research grant to study
Columbus documents in Spain and Portugal
1986: Brookline Council for the Arts and Humanities, grant to
write on Columbus
1985: Finalist, "Discovery": The Nation Poetry Prize
Finalist, Yale Younger Poets Prize
1984: Awarded the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship in Poetry
Finalist, Associated Writing Programs Poetry Award
1983: Finalist, Walt Witman Prize, Academy of American Poets
Brookline Arts Lottery grant to write on the liberation of Nazi
concentration camps
1981: Appointed Juror, Literature Panel, Massachusetts Council
on the Arts and Humanities
1978-81: National Endowment for the Arts and U.S. State Department
of Education inner-city Tryarts Grants to further interracial
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“A
poet of great talent, she has vision and passion. Her words
carry the weight of her experience.... I believe her work
would be an important contribution to the understanding of
events that lie beyond human comprehension.”
- Elie Wiesel, Writer, Humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize
Recipient
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