Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry

Solarium

Jordan Zandi

Winner of the 2013 Kathryn A. Morton Prize Introduction by Henri Cole Author is an up-and-coming poet with strong ties to the poetry community

The Night We're Not Sleeping In

Sean Bishop

Mothers Over Nangarhar

Pamela Hart

NEA Fellowship recipient; Pamela is well connected to military family audience; Documentary-style war narrative with unique focus not on the war front but on the home front; Excellent candidate for course adoption; Situated in current events; Kathryn A. Morton Prize Winner, selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Antiquity

Michael Homolka

"The poems in [i]Antiquity very much abandon themselves to language, to the collective poetic endeavor, and they do so in a rich, textured, and sustained voice."—Mary Ruefle, from the introduction  Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Michael Homolka’s [i]Antiquity offers the present infused with the past, from Ancient Greece to the Holocaust to contemporary battlefields. A haunting and evocative debut.[b] [b][i] [b]Michael Homolka lives and works in New York City. Homolka’s poems have appeared in the[i] New Yorker, Ploughshares, the[i] Threepenny Review, and elsewhere.  

Thought That Nature

Trey Moody

Thought That Nature identifies and captures moments when the border between personal consciousness and the otherness of the physical become porous. Ironically, it also allows Moody to measure the distance between consciousness and direct experience, even as he casts this gap in memorable speech. This debut collection offers the reader sensual delight and intellectual pursuit—a rare and bracing combination.