The Believer Poetry Award finalists

Next month, periodical-of-note the Believer will announce the winner of its first annual poetry award. It will also announce how exactly it gets its smell. The nominees (for the poetry award) are:

The Waste Land and Other Poems
by John Beer (Canarium Books)

Thin Kimono
by Michael Earl Craig (Wave Books)

Romey’s Order
by Atsuro Riley (University of Chicago Press)

R’s Boat
by Lisa Robertson (University of California Press)

Come On All You Ghosts
by Matthew Zapruder (Copper Canyon Press)

Read more about the prize—and the finalists—at the Believer hq.