The 2021 National Book Critics Circle Awards Winners "Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Anthony Veasna So and Clint Smith are among this year's seven winners of National Book Critics Circle Awards for work published in 2021, announced Thursday during a virtual awards ceremony by the organization of American book critics....The poetry prize went to Diane Seuss for 'frank: sonnets,' a deeply personal collection that explores the author's life and her search for some semblance of 'beauty or relief.'" via LOS ANGELES TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry: fahima ife (New Orleans) on Ecopoetry Now "That I required a desert to write poetry of the swamp. I open another poetry collection, wander inside the wet density of word, step outside world as we know it. As if poets hold access to the mycelial inner-dimensionalities of Earth as we continue singing in its wake. Something about lack of old forest in the DeepSouth—as you say: the woods here are less than one-hundred years old, on a billions of years old planet, in a newly-contested country, written in the lineage of descent." |
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