The T. S. Eliot Foundation @eliotfoundation & Poetry Society are pleased to announce Courtney Faye Taylor @thecourtcase is the 2023 Four Quartets Prize winner for Concentrate @GraywolfPress, selected by Terrance Hayes, Hoa Nguyen & Geoffrey G. O’Brien.
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El gatito is out of the bag!🥰I couldn’t have dreamt of something like this for my first book. Thank you, mil gracias from my deepest heart to @EduardoCCorral for believing in this book enough to open this door for me. Thank you to @POETSorg for your incredible generosity.
📢 Applications are now open for the 2023–2024 Citizen Literary Fellowship!
Apply by May 21st, and attend our informational session on April 24th.
Details here ⬇️
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It feels so surreal that my book is out swimming in the world today!!✨✨🌊🌊 . I’m eternally grateful to @GraywolfPress@TyehimbaJess@POETSorg@ChantzErolin @nikayparedes @umichWriters and so many more for making this possible. Happy national poetry month!
but when i was 15, 16, 17—whether we were walking through parts of detroit after bar close that we prolly shouldn't have, or at the all ages venue in the burbs that turned out to be connected to a police station(!?)—he made me feel safe, that i belonged, that i was capable.