May 17th, 2012
The Poetry Foundation awarded Hailey Leithauser the 2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award. The occasional award is designed to recognize an American poet of at least 40 years of age who has yet to publish a first collection of poetry. Leithauser’s book-length poetry manuscript Swoop will be published by Graywolf Press in October 2013, and she will receive a $10,000 prize.
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