“West: A Translation” by Paisley Rekdal, was recently named the 2024 recipient of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Rekdal, a three-time finalist for the award, received news of her selection via a phone call from the judges a Tufts tradition a call she described as “a fantastic and career-defining moment.” The Kate Tufts Discovery Award, which recognizes a first book by a poet of unusual promise, went to Jacqui Germain’s collection, “Bittering the Wound.” Photo/courtesy of CGU
BOOK NEWS CAAPP Book Prize winner announced Pitt’s Center for African American Poetry and poetics has selected Jacqui Germain as the winner of the 2021 CAAPP Book Prize. Germain’s first full-length poetry manuscript was selected by Douglas Kearney and will be published by Autumn House Press in 2022.