Final judge Nan Cohen has selected the winner of the Dryden-Vreeland Book Prize: Christopher Blackman for his manuscript Three-Day Weekend. His book will be forthcoming from Gunpowder Press in 2024. Seven other poets were selected as finalists:
- Jasmine Marshall Armstrong, The School Custodian’s Daughter
- Kirsten Casey, Grieving Birds
- Nicelle Davis, Ars/Ours
- James Dickson, Hoping to Embrace the Moon
- Alicia Hoffman, You Are Browsing as a Guest
- Barry Peters, The Cohesion of Fizz
- Jessica Purdy, Lung Hours
Christopher Blackman is a poet from Columbus, Ohio. His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, DIAGRAM, Cleaver Magazine, Southeast Review, Booth, and Epiphany, among other publications. Former co-host of the podcast Poem Party, he received his MFA from Columbia University, and has been an instructor for the Kenyon Review Young Writers’ Workshop. He was a finalist for the National Poetry Series, and a semi-finalist for the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. He currently lives outside of Boston and works at Dana Hall School, a 5-12 Day and Boarding Girls School in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Thank you to all the K-12 teachers and educational support staff who sent manuscripts for consideration. We created this prize to honor your work and commitment to poetry.
