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Russo's is honored to be the official bookseller of nationally acclaimed poet Bakersfield-born Frank Bidart.  Now a professor a Wellesley, please give him a hometown welcome when he reads at CSUB. Awards:  Wallace Stevens Award Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America The Paris Review's first Bernard F. Conners Prize for "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" in 1981 Elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2003 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry (2007)