It’s an extraordinary honor to have “Thanks a Lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling” selected as the winner of the 2020 Fischer Poetry Prize! A special thank you to judge Claire Blotter and the Talking Gourds crew for making my 2020 a little less horrible, and congrats to all the other finalists!
Category Archives: Poetry
“Nothing in Life is Easy”, shortlisted for the 2020 Sexton Prize for Poetry
An enormous thank you to The Black Spring Eyewear Press Group and to judge Terese Svoboda for shortlisting my manuscript for the 2020 Sexton Prize for Poetry! And congratulations to the winner, Denise Miller, for their work “A Ligature For Black Bodies”! More information on their book can be found here:
https://store.eyewearpublishing.com/blogs/news/the-2020-sexton-prize-for-poetry-winner
“Animal House,” selected for The Poetry Society’s “Zoo” competition, 2019
“To Sugarcoat the Truth,” selected for The Poetry Society’s “Truth” competition, 2019
Runner-Up in America’s 2019 Foley Poetry Contest: “Thanks a Lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling”
“Un incendio difícil de traducir”, Notre Dame Review, 2018, audio recording
Audio of “Fire Flowers”, RATTLE, 2014
Audio of 2017 Ledbury Poetry Competition Winners Event, “The fire escape, no longer weighed down”
Phillippa Slinger’s introduction (12:03-13:05)
“The fire escape, no longer weighed down” (13:05-14:45)
Fiona Sampson’s remarks (14:45-15:22)
