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Milkweed at AWP: Landscape and Literary Culture with Kazim Ali, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, & Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Moderated by Elena Passarello

In this AWP featured event, Milkweed authors discuss the intersections of literary culture and the natural world: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders; Kazim Ali, author of Northern Light; and Kerri ní Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places. Moderated by Animals Strike Curious Poses author Elena Passarello. This event will also be livestreamed. Learn more!

Awards & Prizes

Christopher Brean Murray Wins the Sixth Annual Jake Adam York Prize

Milkweed Staff — 02/23/2022

ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE 2021–22 JAKE ADAM YORK PRIZE!

Copper Nickel and Milkweed Editions are thrilled to announce that judge Dana Levin has chosen Christopher Brean Murray’s book Black Observatory as the winner of the 2021–22 Jake Adam York Prize. Black Observatory will be published by Milkweed Editions in February, 2023, and Murray will receive $2,000.

Christopher Brean Murray’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bennington Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, New Ohio Review, Quarterly West, Washington Square Review, and other journals. He lives in Houston.

In choosing Murray’s book, Levin

Christopher Brean Murray

Christopher Brean Murray is the author of Black Observatory, winner of the 2022 Jake Adam York Prize. He has received awards from the Academy of American Poets and Inprint Houston, and he served as online poetry editor of Gulf Coast.