Congratulations to Brian Teare!
Companion Grasses
was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award!
& is a finalist for the Lambda Award in Gay Poetry!
The winner of the 2014 Kingsley Tufts Award is Afaa Michael Weaver for The Government of Nature (University of Pittsburgh Press).
Brenda Shaughnessy was also a finalist for Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon Press).
Click Here to read more about this year’s Kinglsey Tufts Award winner.
The Lambda Literary Awards will be presented at a ceremony on June 2nd.
The finalists for the Gay Poetry award are:
Alternative Medicine, Rafael Campo, Duke University Press
The Apartment of Tragic Appliances, Michael D. Snediker, Peanut Books
Clay, David Groff, Trio House Press
Companion Grasses, Brian Teare, Omnidawn Publishing
Metaphysical Dog, Frank Bidart, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Obscenely Yours, Angelo Nikolopoulos, Alice James Books
Silverchest, Carl Phillips, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Straight Razor, Randall Mann, Persea Books
The Talking Day, Michael Klein, Sibling Rivalry Press
Unpeopled Eden, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Four Way Books
Click here for the full list of finalists, and for tickets to attend the award ceremony in New York.
to see more about COMPANION GRASSES, just click the book cover.