(1925-2007)  Philip Booth published ten collections of poems including Letters from a Distant Land, which was the 1956 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and Lifelines: Selected Poems, 1950-1999, which received the 2001 Poets’ Prize, as well as, a book about writing, Trying to Say It: Outlooks and Insights on How Poems Happen.  Booth won multiple honors including Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and the Theodore Roethke Prize.