Kevin Goodan’s Anaphora is the co-winner of this year’s Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize, along with Shara Lessley’s The Explosive Expert’s Wife. Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s Isako Isako was also chosen as an honorable mention.
There will be a celebration for all the winners to read from their collections at Cambridge Public Library on September 29 at 2:00pm EST. A reception follows the reading.
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The 2020 Alice James Award Editor’s Choice
Longlisted for the 2022 Julie Suk Award
Featured in Poets & Writers Magazine's “Page One”
Recommended by The New York Times
“Marya's debut lands in the gorgeous, messy place where the sacred and profane overlap. Sugar Work has a compelling narrative bent and generous eyes, stunning in its southern reality and recognition of suffering and work. Marya is a psychologically astute poet, a bright new talent in touch with her own humanity and that of others—allowing strippers dignity on stage, and looking upon addicts and her own young self with nuance and compassion.”
—Megan Mayhew Bergman
June 2022
ISBN: 9781948579261
Winner of the 2022 GLCA New Writers Award
A finalist in the 2020 Foreword INDIES Awards
A finalist in the 2020 Julie Suk Award
"Chakraborty writes poems that are full of life and joy even when she is thinking through violence and grief, but in their sweep, they defy easy notions of aboutness."
—Elisa Gabbert for The New York Times
A Bookmarks Most-Anticipated Poetry Collection for Fall/Winter 2020
September 2020
ISBN: 9781948579117
Recommended by Publishers Weekly,LitHub, and Library Journal
"A new retrospective of her work, Light Me Down, out this week from Maine-based press Alice James Books, showcases Valentine’s ability to charge between the dreamy and unalloyed precision. ... These are poems of snow, of the quiet, profound transformation, of moments of altering nothingness in the night. Valentine, who died in 2020, does with language what poetry is meant to do with language, which is to go beyond it."
—Nina MacLaughlin, The Boston Globe
April 2024
ISBN: 9781949944594
Franny Choi
A Book Riot Top Queer Poetry Collections to Read During National Poetry Month
Paris Review Staff Pick
A Book Riot Must-Read Poetry Collection
Recommended by Buzzfeed News
A Rumpus Book Club Pick
One of Nylon’s Best Books to Read in 2019
One of Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2019
". . . Choi creates an exhilarating matrix of poetry, science, and technology."
—Publishers Weekly
April 2019
ISBN: 9781938584992