John Murillo Wins Four Quartets Prize

May 04, 2021

Poet John Murillo has won the 2021 Four Quartets Prize, which is administered by the T. S. Eliot Foundation and the Poetry Society of America, for his poem “A Refusal to Mourn the Deaths, by Gunfire, of Three Men in Brooklyn” from his collection Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry (Four Way Books, 2020). The poem was selected by judges Carolyn Forché, Donika Kelly, and Arthur Sze. Finalists for this year’s award were Don Mee Choi, for her book DMZ Colony, and Srikanth Reddy, for his book Underworld Lit, both published by Wave Books in 2020. Murillo will receive an award of $21,000, and each finalist will receive an award of $1,000.

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