NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Poet Afaa Michael Weaver has won the Wallace Stevens Award, a lifetime achievement honor presented by the Weaver, whose books include 鈥淪pirit Boxing,鈥� 鈥淎 Fire in the Hills鈥� and 鈥淐ity of Eternal Spring,鈥� will receive $100,000.
The Stevens prize was among many American Poets Prizes announced Tuesday by the academy, which was founded in 1934.
Major Jackson, who just published the collection 鈥淩azzle Dazzle,鈥� was given the Academy of American Poets Fellowship. It includes a $25,000 stipend and a residency at the T.S. Eliot summer home in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ama Codjoe's 鈥淏luest Nude鈥� won the $25,000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for best poetry book of 2022, and Moira Egan's translation of Italian poet Giorgiomaria Cornelio's 鈥淟etters of Black Fire鈥� won the Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship, also a $25,000 honor.
"The Academy commits more than $1.3 million each year to support poets in a myriad of ways - from funding vibrant community projects by laureates across the nation to launching first books by aspiring poets, and honoring distinguished lifetime achievements by masters of the art form,鈥� Tess O鈥橠wyer, the academy's board chair said in a statement.
A $1,000 prize for most promising young poet, age 23 and under, was awarded to Edgar Morales for his poem 鈥淪wim." Stephanie McCarter won a $1,000 prize for her translation from the Latin of Ovid's 鈥淢etamorphoses鈥� and poet Margarita Pintado Burgos' and translator Alejandra Quintana Arocho's 鈥淥jo en Celo鈥� ("Eye in Heat") won a $1,000 prize for a poetry manuscript written in Spanish and translated into English.
The Associated Press
