NEW YORK (AP) — Fadi Juda, a Palestinian-American poet who says he writes for the future because “the present has been demolished,” has received a $100,000 award from the Poets and Writers Association.
Jodha is this year’s winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize, which is awarded to an American writer for “extraordinary talent.” They were chosen by a panel of three poets: Natalie Diaz, Gregory Pardlow and Diane Seuss.
The judges’ citation, released Thursday, noted Judah’s “vital and evolving body of work, distinguished by the courage to speak in the face of the unspeakable, the brevity and intensity of the poems.”
Juda’s books include “The Earth in the Attic” and “Tethered to the Stars” with English-language translations by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Her other honors include winning the Yale Series of Young Poets Competition in 2007, and receiving the PEN USA Literary Award.
The Jackson Prize was established in 2007 and has previously been awarded to Sonia Sanchez, Joy Herjo and Claudia Rankine.
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