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Intergenre, Essay
The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions

Larry Mitchell

Ned Asta

Translation, Intergenre, Essay
Sun of Consciousness

Édouard Glissant

Nathanaël

Intergenre, Literature / Queer Studies
We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

Lou Sullivan

Ellis Martin

Zach Ozma

Literature / Queer Studies
Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader

Steve Abbott

Jamie Townsend

Fiction
Grabeland: A Novel

eteam

Poetry
The Blue Absolute

Aaron Shurin

Poetry
In Praise of Fragments

Meena Alexander

Poetry
Repetition Nineteen

Mónica de la Torre

Essay
Tender Points

Amy Berkowitz

Translation, Poetry
The Next Loves

Stéphane Bouquet

Lindsay Turner

Poetry
A Little More Red Sun on the Human

Gillian Conoley

Poetry
Toxicon and Arachne

Joyelle McSweeney

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Awards |
March 27, 2020

Brian Teare wins the Four Quartets Prize!

Congratulations to Brian Teare! Selected by Cyrus Cassells, Forrest Gander, and Maureen McLane, the poem 'Toxics Release Inventory (Essay on Man)' from Doomstead Days is the winner of the Four Quartets Prize! The prize is $21,000. The Judges' Citation: “With his walking-activated line and stanza breaks and his mix of personal experience, documentary materials, and political implication, Brian Teare writes one of our times’ most affecting poems on environmental crises and ethical responsibility, focusing in ‘Toxics Release Inventory (Essay on Man)’ on the city of Philadelphia and his own corporeal implication in systemic and deadly pollution. In this bravura unfurling of reticulated…

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