"Winners of Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards"
"Paisley Rekdal (West: A Translation, Copper Canyon Press) is the winner of the $100,000 Kinglsey Tufts Award, and Jacqui Germain (Bittering the Wound, Autumn House Press) is the winner of the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Both awards commend outstanding poetry volumes published in the preceding year, with a legacy that includes books by luminaries such as Henri Cole, Tom Sleigh, Patricia Smith, and Ross Gay."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jessica Fisher on Language as Form
"When the voice began, it wasn’t mine, nor did it belong to anyone else in particular—it was instead something like the possibility of speech beginning again, after a period of long silence. Writing often begins for me with this form of potential opening, and the work is to follow the voice as it accrues—or, to follow its underlying rhythm. I love that the I/you relation so central to lyric poetry can accommodate a simultaneous intimacy and anonymity, that there doesn’t have to be any external circumstance to which the poem refers." |
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