Finalists Announced for The Believer Poetry & Book Awards & PSA's T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize

Announcing awards aplenty: Yesterday, The Believer Poetry Award and Believer Book Award shortlists came in, with the following poets and poet-novelists all in there (the winners will be announced in The Believer's next issue):

The Believer Poetry Award Editors' Short List

Some Beheadings by Aditi Machado (Nightboat Books)

Fort Not by Emily Skillings (The Song Cave)

semiautomatic by Evie Shockley (Wesleyan Press)

The Magic My Body Becomes by Jess Rizkallah (University of Arkansas Press)

Some Say by Maureen N. McLane (FSG Books)

Imaginary Royalty by Miranda Field (Four Way Books)

 

The Believer Book Award Editors' Short List

MacArthur Park by Andrew Durbin (Nightboat Books)

Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan (Restless Books)

Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang (Lenny Books)

I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking by Leyna Krow (Featherproof Books)

The Others by Matthew Rohrer (Wave Books)

Also announced yesterday are the finalists for the T. S. Elio Foundation and Poetry Society of America's Inaugural T. S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, which "is first and foremost a celebration of the multi-part poem." The $20,000 purse will be awarded to "a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book in 2016 and/or 2017." 

The judges, Linda Gregerson, Ishion Hutchinson, and Jana Prikryl, have selected:

• Geoffrey G. O'Brien for "Experience in Groups" from Experience in Groups (Wave Books)
• Kathleen Peirce for Vault: a poem (New Michigan Press)
• Danez Smith for "summer, somewhere" from Don't Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press)

That's all we got! Congrats to everyone.