Congratulations to New Guggenheim Fellows Betts, Jess, & Kaminsky!
Congratulations to Reginald Dwayne Betts, Tyehimba Jess, and Ilya Kaminsky, who were awarded 2018 Guggenheim fellowships for poetry!
Listen Up: April is National Poetry Month!
Celebrate National Poetry Month by listening to some of the amazing voices archived here at the Fishouse. Click on this link to generate automatic, random, suggestions.
Tracy K. Smith Reappointed Poet Laureate
Tracy K. Smith has been reappointed US Poet Laureate for a second term. Read more at The Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog.
Long Soldier Wins National Book Critics Circle Award
Layli Long Soldier won the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award for her collect Whereas (Graywolf, 2017).
Long Soldier Finalist for National Book Award
Congratulations to Layli Long Soldier, who is a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for her collection Whereas (Graywolf, 2017)! Additional congratulations to Chen Chen, longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for his collection When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA, 2017)!
Tracy K. Smith Named US Poet Laureate
Congratulations to Tracy K. Smith, one of the first poets Fishouse recorded in 2004, who has just been named United States Poet Laureate!
Tyehimba Jess Awarded 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Congratulations to Tyehimba Jess, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection, Olio (Wave Books, 2016)! Tyehimba was one of the first poets we featured when we first launched Fishouse in 2005!