I am grateful to the Center for the Humanities at Tufts, the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Somerville Arts Council. Many thanks, also, to Becky Alexander, Will Barron, Erin Belieu, Jamie Boyle, Adam Clay, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Kathy Fagan Grandinetti, Ann Hamilton, Matt Hooley, Lisa Lowe, David Lynn, Mike Maday, Susan Maday, Tyler Meier, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, Cormac Slevin, Pablo Tanguay, Craig Morgan Teicher, and Jillian Weise. I am grateful for my inspiring colleagues and students at Tufts, and for all the support I have found there. Thank you to everyone at KR. Thank you to Michael Wiegers and to all the ingenious people at Copper Canyon Press. Thanks to all my parents, my sister, my in-laws, and my siblings-in-law. And to Martha. And one thousand times to the knockout R and to the shining F.

Lannan Literary Selections

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LANNAN LITERARY SELECTIONS 2020

Mark Bibbins, 13th Balloon

Victoria Chang, Obit

Leila Chatti, Deluge

Philip Metres, Shrapnel Maps

Natalie Shapero, Popular Longing

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Sherwin Bitsui, Dissolve

Jericho Brown, The Tradition

John Freeman, Maps

Jenny George, The Dream of Reason

Ha Jin, A Distant Center

Deborah Landau, Soft Targets

Maurice Manning, One Man’s Dark

Rachel McKibbens, blud

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Oceanic

Camille Rankine, Incorrect Merciful Impulses

Paisley Rekdal, Nightingale

Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Lima :: Limón

Frank Stanford, What About This: Collected Cents of Frank Stanford

Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

C.D. Wright, Casting Deep Shade

Javier Zamora, Unaccompanied

Matthew Zapruder, Father’s Day

Ghassan Zaqtan (translated by Fady Joudah), The Silence That Remains

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