Rae Armantrout is awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her book, “Versed”, Wesleyan University Press.   She is a professor of writing and literature at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of ten books of poetry. 

Other finalists:  “Tryst,” by Angie Estes (Oberlin College Press) and “Inseminating the Elephant,” by Lucia Perillo (Copper Canyon Press).

I think I just got a new birthday wish list :)