The Academy of American Poets has announced their 2023 American Poets Prizes.
Major Jackson (Incoming Writing Fellow 2024) received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship which recognizes distinguished poetic achievement. Academy Chancellor Marilyn Chin (CRF 2015) called Jackson’s body of work “eclectic but refined, musical, talky, and witty,” adding that his poems “celebrate a wide swath of humanity through a very personal lens.”
Moira Egan (CRF 2009) was awarded the Raiziss/de Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship for her translation of “Letters of Black Fire” by Italian poet Giorgiomaria Cornelio. The prize is given for the translation into English of a significant work of modern Italian poetry.
Judges Jennifer Scappettone (CRF 2019), Graziella Sidoli, and John Taylor said: “Moira Egan offers us Giorgiomaria Cornelio’s enigmatic, experimental, and truly contemporary voice in the present Italian poetic landscape with an English that fully matches his linguistic and challenging power. With equal beauty and ferocity, each one of her renditions is an astonishing new poem while remaining faithful to the original, which is the key to the exacting task of the translator.”
Congratulations to all the recipients. See the full list of awards here.