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Announcing the Finalists for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for Poetry!

  • John Madera

    • We’re excited to announce the finalists for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for Poetry. The winner will be announced at the 2022 Big Other Book Awards Ceremony, which will be aired virtually (date and time to be announced).

    Without further ado, here are the finalists for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for Poetry:

    Will Alexander’s Divine Blue Light (for John Coltrane) (City Lights Books)

    Rae Armantrout’s Finalists (Wesleyan University Press)

    Margo Berdeshevsky’s Kneel Said the Night (Sundress Publications)

    Daniel Borzutzky’s Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 (Coffee House Press)

    Cynthia Cruz’s Hotel Oblivion (Four Way Books)

    CJ Evans’s Lives (Sarabande Books)

    Sarah Heady’s Comfort (Spuyten Duyvil)

    Paolo Javier’s True Account of Talking to the 7 in Sunnyside (Roof Books)

    Heller Levinson’s Lure (Black Widow Press)

    Alycia Pirmohamed‘s Another Way to Split Water (YesYes Books)

    Victoria Redel’s Paradise (Four Way Books)

    Martha Ronk’s The Place One Is (Omnidawn)

    Jerome Sala’s How Much?: New & Selected Poems (NYQ Books)

    John Schertzer’s Second Nature (Spuyten Duyvil)

    Rodrigo Toscano’s The Charm & the Dread (Fence Books)

     

    (Image: Remedios Varo’s Revelation or the Clockmaker, 1955)

    • John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024) and Nomad Science (Spuyten Duyvil Press, forthcoming in 2026).  His  fiction is also published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, Hobart, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His poetry is also published in elimae, Sixth Finch, Contrapuntos, and elsewhere. His criticism is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, two-time New York State Council on the Arts awardee John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.

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