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Brenda Hillman’s Practical Water awarded Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Practical Water, by Brenda Hillman, received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Poetry category. Brenda Hillman’s bold, experimental poetry charts a course into unexplored territory. In “Practical Water,” her commitment to innovation and interiority is galvanized by the need to speak back to the stark realities of our situation. Observing absurd sessions of…

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Versed by Rae Armantrout awarded Pulitzer Prize

The 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was awarded to “Versed,” by Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan University Press), a book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, offering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading. (Pulitzer Prize citation) Read more here.