X.J. Kennedy Wins $50K Jackson Poetry Prize

Poets & Writers announced X.J. Kennedy as the winner of the ninth annual Jackson Poetry Prize. The $50,000 prize is given each year to an American poet of "exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition." 

Kennedy's first book, Nude Descending a Staircase (1961), won a Lamont Award; In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New & Selected Poems (2007) was an ALA Notable Book. His most recent titles include Fits of Concision: Collected Poems of Six or Fewer Lines (2014) and a comic novel, A Hoarse Half-human Cheer (2015). 

 

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