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HILLEL ITALIE
NEW YORK (AP) — A poet renowned for her insights into the
natural world and our inner lives has received a $100,000 award.
Marianne Boruch is this year's winner of the Jackson Poetry
Prize for “exceptional talent.”
Judges praised Boruch's work, including such collections as
“Bestiary Dark” and “The Anti-Grief” as affirmations of human
genius amid the rise of AI. The prize is overseen by the
nonprofit organization Poets & Writers.
“Marianne Boruch renders luminous the expanse and reach of human
thought,” the prize citation, released Wednesday by Poets &
Writers, reads in part. “In an age of simulated intelligence,
Boruch sets to tremble the whole of our collective knowledge
where the soul, as she suggests in several poems, is a vastness
of wanting and boundless curiosity.”
Boruch, 75, is a resident of West Lafayette, Indiana, who taught
for decades at Purdue University, where she founded the school's
MFA creative writing program. Previous winners of the Jackson
prize, established 20 years ago with a gift from the Liana
Foundation, include former U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo and the
current laureate, Arthur Sze.
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