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Poetry Foundation Names Finalists for Young Poets Award [1]

8.3.10

The Poetry Foundation has revealed the twenty-nine finalists for its five coveted Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship [2] awards. The winners of the fifteen-thousand-dollar prizes, given annually to support poets between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one in their writing and study of poetry, will be announced by September 1.

Out of a reported eleven-hundred entrants, the finalists are:
Justin Boening
Julie Brown [3]
Lily Brown
Kara Candito [4]
George David Clark [5]
Brooklyn Copeland
Tarfia Faizullah
Patrick Ryan Frank
Andrew Grace
Miriam Bird Greenberg
Chelsea Jennings
Paul Killebrew
Nate Klug
Laura Koritz
Brandon Kreitler
Dora Malech [6]
Jamaal May [7]
Amanda Nadelberg
Kathryn Nuerenberger
Idra Novey
Brittany Perham
Cherry Pickman
Frances Justine Post
Courtney Queeney [8]
Margaret Reges
Christopher Robinson
Sarah Schweig
Christopher Shannon
Will Tyler

In the video below, finalist Idra Novey reads from her debut collection The Next Country, published by Alice James Books [9] in 2008 as part of the Kinereth Gensler Award [10].


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/poetry_foundation_names_finalists_for_young_poets_award [2] https://www.pw.org/content/ruth_lilly_poetry_fellowships [3] https://www.pw.org/content/%5Btitle%5D_4091 [4] https://www.pw.org/content/kara_candito [5] https://www.pw.org/content/george_david_clark [6] https://www.pw.org/content/dora_malech [7] https://www.pw.org/content/%5Btitle%5D_4779 [8] https://www.pw.org/content/courtney_queeney [9] https://www.pw.org/content/alice_james_books [10] https://www.pw.org/content/kinereth_gensler_awards