Jorie Graham Wins 2016 L.A. Times Book Prize for Poetry

Jacket Copy announces the 2016 winners of the L.A. Times Book Prize! This year's ceremony, which honored the previous year's best books and their authors at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, took place at Bovard Auditorium on the USC campus in Los Angeles on Saturday. The winner for Poetry is Jorie Graham, for From the New World: Poems 1976-2014 (Ecco/HarperCollins). "The Pulitzer Prize-winning Graham helped redefine American poetry in the postwar era and into the new millennium. Her style's evolution is reflected in this collection, which covered nearly 40 years of work." And the finalists in this category:

Rick Barot, Chord, Sarabande Books
Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus, Alfred A. Knopf
Fiona Sze-Lorrain, The Ruined Elegance, Princeton University Press
Jean Valentine, Shirt in Heaven, Copper Canyon Press

Congrats also go out to Juan Felipe Herrera, who won this year's Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. Find all of the winners and finalists here.