Poetry, Judged by Carl Phillips
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Insight: Carl Phillips Talks Risk
I still think its worth it to have written one’s way towards that space, but I understand the sense of disorientation and sometimes dismay that can result… |
Inspiration: 2014 Winner Raena Shirali
I left Lover when I found dirt roads—party for another / couple, soirée complete with deer heads lining a fixed-up barn’s walls, / absinthe, strung lights… |
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Fiction, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
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Insight: Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum on Raising Questions
…but I feel there’s room to raise these questions in smaller ways, like in programming a reading series or putting together a syllabus, or judging book prizes… |
Inspiration: 2014 Winner Edward McPherson
And so it goes, day after day, night after night, as I rattle these torn and cheapened canvases around the dim and dusty byways of this once great nation… |
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Nonfiction, Maggie Nelson
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Insight: Maggie Nelson Post-Reading Interview
The question of where culture begins and individual humans end is very interesting to me, especially as (human) culture is made of human beings.… |
Inspiration: 2014 Winner Noam Dorr
The drone operator does not see the Predator itself, the predator himself, the Predator is in Afghanistan, the operator in Nevada. We are stars… |
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