{"id":11668,"date":"2019-05-01T10:14:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T10:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/?p=11668"},"modified":"2019-05-01T10:14:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T10:14:20","slug":"dante-micheaux-wins-the-four-quartets-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/dante-micheaux-wins-the-four-quartets-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Dante Micheaux wins the Four Quartets Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Poetry Society of America and the T. S. Eliot Foundation are delighted to announce the winner of the Four Quartets Prize,\u00a0<strong>Dante Micheaux<\/strong>,\u00a0for his book\u00a0<em>Circus<\/em>. The prize is $20,000. He was selected by judges Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Carmen Gim\u00e9nez Smith, and Rosanna Warren.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11676 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Four-Quartets-Prize-winner-2019--300x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Four-Quartets-Prize-winner-2019--300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Four-Quartets-Prize-winner-2019--768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Four-Quartets-Prize-winner-2019--1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Four-Quartets-Prize-winner-2019-.png 1201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dante Micheaux is the author of\u00a0<em>Circus<\/em>\u00a0(Indolent Books, 2018) and\u00a0<em>Amorous Shepherd<\/em>\u00a0(Sheep Meadow Press, 2010). His\u00a0honours include a prize in poetry from the Vera List Center for Art &amp; Politics, the Oscar Wilde Award, and fellowships from Cave Canem Foundation and The New York Times Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The Judges said: &#8220;How right that this poet&#8217;s first name should be Dante. For his\u00a0<em>Circus<\/em>\u00a0is a Comedy: a savage comedy, lacerating dialects, fingering wounds, looking for loves right and wrong in the crevices of history and of humiliated bodes. And yet, and yet. His language exults, triumphs, and freely rummages in the treasuries of the Bible, Baudelaire, Whitman, Eliot, Baraka, and Mahalia Jackson, taking what it needs, making it his sovereign own, a wrested blessing. Congratulations, Dante Micheaux, on your astonishing\u00a0<em>Circus.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the prize <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetrysociety.org\/psa\/poetry\/blog\/dante-micheaux-wins-the-four-qua\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Poetry Society of America and the T. S. Eliot Foundation are delighted to announce the winner of the Four Quartets Prize,\u00a0Dante Micheaux,\u00a0for his book\u00a0Circus. The prize is $20,000. He was selected by judges Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Carmen Gim\u00e9nez Smith, and Rosanna Warren. &nbsp; &nbsp; Dante Micheaux is the author of\u00a0Circus\u00a0(Indolent Books, 2018) and\u00a0Amorous Shepherd\u00a0(Sheep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/dante-micheaux-wins-the-four-quartets-prize\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11677,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11668\/revisions\/11677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}