Yale Younger Poets Prize Winner Announced

Yale University Press has announced their 2019 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition winner, chosen by judge Carl Phillips. Jill Osier’s manuscript, The Solace Is Not the Lullaby, will be the 114th volume in the series, to be published in April 2020. More:

Series judge Carl Phillips says: “‘It might have happened/at the river,’ begins one poem, called ‘Story,’ after which we are told several things, but never what happened, or to whom – a situation that could, in less capable hands, lead to reader frustration. But the poems of Osier’s The Solace Is Not the Lullaby quietly, cumulatively, persuasively argue for restraint and precision (both too often forgotten in contemporary poetry) as tools for the confession that the art of story – of telling – finally amounts to. The poems give record not to what’s been lost, but to the knowing ‘you may have had something/but lost it’...

Congratulations to Osier! More about the Yale Younger Prize here.