Floyd Skloot honored for poetry collection

By JEWISH REVIEW

article created on: 2009-02-01T00:00:00

Oregon Jewish memoirist and poet Floyd Skloot has been selected by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association to receive its 2009 William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award for his “Selected Poems: 1970-2005.”

In making the announcement, the PNBA Awards Committee said, “In this selection from a long and accomplished career, the poet and memoirist Floyd Skloot has established his place as one of the nation’s premier poets. Across a wide range of moods, Skloot offers us his deeply moving and—ultimately—celebratory enthusiasm for the common moment.”

The PNBA awards will be presented March 28 at the Heathman Hotel.