“Discovery” Poetry Contest Winners

For a third year, Boston Review, in partnership with the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center, proudly presents the winners of the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prizes. Now in its fifth decade, the “Discovery” Poetry Contest recognizes and celebrates the achievements of poets who have not yet published a book. Many winners of this contest have gone on to distinguished careers as poets. This year’s judges are Nick Flynn, Susan Howe, and Claudia Rankine. From a pool of nearly 900 entries, the judges selected works by Chelsea Jennings, Brandon Kreitler, Tanya Olson, and Camille Rankine (no relation to Claudia Rankine), citing their intellectual complexity, artistic discernment, and clarity of vision as distinguishing characteristics. The winners read from their poems at the Unterberg Poetry Center in New York on May 10, 2010.

—The Editors