Announcing the Finalists for the 2023 Big Other Book Award for Poetry!

We’re excited to announce the finalists for the 2023 Big Other Book Award for Poetry. The winner will be announced at the 2023 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:

Maureen Alsop‘s Tender to Empress (Wet Cement Press)

Sarah Audsley’s Landlock X (Texas Review Press)

Jaswinder Bolina’s English as a Second Language and Other Poems (Copper Canyon Press)

Lauren Camp’s Worn Smooth Between Devourings (NYQ Books)

Maxine Chernoff’s Light and Clay: New and Selected Poems (Madhat)

Amanda Galvan Huynh‘s Where My Umbilical Is Buried (Sundress Publications)

Marie-Andrée Gill’s Heating the Outdoors (Book*hug Press), translated by Kristen Renee Miller

Janine Joseph’s Decade of the Brain (Alice James Books)

Tony Leuzzi’s Fog Notes (Tiger Bark Press)

Michael Dumanis’s Creature (Four Way Books)

sadé powell’s wordtomydead (Ugly Duckling Presse)

Elizabeth Robinson’s Excursive (Roof Books)

Kim Rosenfield’s Phantom Captain (Fence Books)

Cole Swensen’s And And And (Shearsman Books)

John Yau’s Tell It Slant (Omnidawn)

(Image: Roberto Matta’s Inscape (1943))

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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