LA Times Book Prize Finalists Announced

Sally Wen Mao's Oculus and Carmen Giménez Smith's Be Recorder (both, Graywolf) are among the finalists for the LA Times Book Prize in poetry, reports Margaret Wappler; and Ben Lerner's The Topeka School is a finalist in the fiction category. "Winners will be announced at an evening ceremony in Los Angeles on April 17, the day before the start of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Stories and Ideas on the USC campus." The full list:

Poetry

Reginald Dwayne Betts, “Felon”

Ilya Kaminsky, “Deaf Republic”

Sally Wen Mao, “Oculus”

Mary Ruefle, “Dunce”

Carmen Giménez Smith, “Be Recorder”

Find out more about the finalists, which also include Ronan Farrow and Colson Whitehead, here.