The Poetry Society of America have announced the three finalists for the inaugural Four Quartets Prize, which is to be awarded to a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book in 2016 and/or 2017.

The judges, Linda Gregerson, Ishion Hutchinson, and Jana Prikryl, have selected:

Geoffrey G. O’Brien for “Experience in Groups” from Experience in  Groups (Wave Books)

Kathleen Peirce for Vault: a poem (New Michigan Press)

Danez Smith for “summer, somewhere” from Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press)

The prize will be presented by the T. S. Eliot Foundation in partnership with the Poetry Society of America and is launching in the 75th anniversary year of the original publication of Four Quartets in a single volume, in America, in 1943.

The winner will be announced at a private luncheon at the National Arts Club, New York on 13 April 2018.

Further information about the prize and biographies of the finalists can be found here.