Jenny Xie Named 2017 Walt Whitman Award Recipient

The Academy of American Poets has announced that U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera has selected Jenny Xie as the recipient of the 2017 Walt Whitman Award, the nation’s most valuable first-book prize for a poet. Xie’s manuscript, Eye Level, will be published by Graywolf Press in 2018, and the Academy of American Poets will purchase and send copies of the book to its members, making it one of the most widely distributed poetry books of the year. Xie will also receive a six-week residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbria, Italy, and will be featured on Poets.org and in American Poets magazine.

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