November 19th, 2010
Poet Terrance Hayes won the National Book Award for Lighthead (Penguin Books). His new poems appear in Smartish Pace, Issue 17. Finalists for the NBA in poetry were Kathleen Graber, The Eternal City (Princeton University Press); Smartish Pace regular James Richardson, By the Numbers (Copper Canyon Press); C.D. Wright, One with Others (Copper Canyon Press); and Monica Youn, Ignatz (Four Way Books). The poetry judges were Rae Armantrout, Cornelius Eady, Linda Gregerson, Jeffrey McDaniel and Brenda Shaughnessy.
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