Finalists Announced for 2016 Firecracker Awards for Independent Literary Publishing

The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (known to family and friends as CLMP) has announced the shortlists for the 2016 Firecracker Awards for Independent Literary Publishing in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Literary Magazine Publishing! Check out all of the finalists, titles, and details on the awards right here. As for us, we'd like to express sincere congratulations to the poets among them:

POETRY FINALISTS

Bastards of the Reagan Era by Reginald Dwayne Betts (Four Way Books)
Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón (Milkweed Editions)
Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer (Ahsahta Press)
Illocality by Joseph Massey (Wave Books)
Incorrect Merciful Impulses by Camille Rankine (Copper Canyon Press)
Let’s Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno by Ed Pavlić (Fence Books)
Life in a Box is a Pretty Box [sic] by Dawn Lundy Martin (Nightboat Books)
The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, The Big Box Store, The Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All by C. D. Wright (Copper Canyon Press)
S O S: Poems 1961-2013 by Amiri Baraka, edited by Paul Vangelisti (Grove Press)
Supplication: Selected Poems by John Wieners, edited by Robert Dewhurst, Joshua Beckman, and CAConrad (Wave Books)
What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford edited by Michael Wiegers (Copper Canyon Press)

Poetry judges were Kazim Ali (author and founding editor of Nightboat Books), Ifeanyi Menkiti (owner of Grolier Poetry Book Shop), Tim Nolan (author), Stephanie Strickland (author), and Jonathon Welch (Talking Leaves Books). Read more about the Firecracker Awards here.