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)