{"id":15403,"date":"2021-05-05T14:55:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T14:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/?p=15403"},"modified":"2021-05-05T14:55:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T14:55:01","slug":"john-murillo-wins-2021-four-quartets-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/john-murillo-wins-2021-four-quartets-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"John Murillo wins 2021 Four Quartets Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15406 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/John-Murillo_Four-Quartets-Prize-2021-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/John-Murillo_Four-Quartets-Prize-2021-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/John-Murillo_Four-Quartets-Prize-2021-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/John-Murillo_Four-Quartets-Prize-2021.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The T. S. Eliot Foundation and the Poetry Society of America are pleased to announce that\u00a0<strong>John Murillo is the winner of the 2021 Four Quartets Prize for his poem \u201cA Refusal to Mourn the Deaths, by Gunfire, of Three Men in Brooklyn\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>from his collection\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/11580\/9781945588471\">Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Four Way Books, 2020).<\/p>\n<p>He was selected by judges Carolyn Forch\u00e9, Donika Kelly, and Arthur Sze.<\/p>\n<p>The judges also named\u00a0<strong>Don Mee Choi<\/strong>\u00a0for her book\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/11580\/9781940696959\">DMZ Colony<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and<strong>\u00a0Srikanth Reddy<\/strong>\u00a0for his book\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/11580\/9781940696935\">Underworld Lit<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>both published by Wave Books in 2020.\u00a0Mr. Murillo will receive an award of $21,000 and each finalist will receive an award of $1,000.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Judges\u2019 Citation:\u00a0<\/strong>John Murillo&#8217;s &#8220;A Refusal to Mourn the Deaths, by Gunfire, of Three Men in Brooklyn&#8221; lights a match and holds us in the flame. In this extraordinary fifteen-sonnet redoubl\u00e9, the speaker meditates on the recent history of murderous racism in America that makes of Black men targets, and centers in the lyric space Black anger and Black pain. Murillo reminds us that his is a long lineage and each sonnet\u2019s epigraph marks the genealogy of resistance Black poets continue to enact. Murillo\u2019s anti-elegy demonstrates a lyrical virtuosity, passion, and command of language that makes this work urgent, essential, and enduring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Biographies and videos of each finalist reading from their shortlisted works can be found on the Poetry Society of America&#8217;s website <a href=\"https:\/\/poetrysociety.org\/about\/news\/john-murillo\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The T. S. Eliot Foundation and the Poetry Society of America are pleased to announce that\u00a0John Murillo is the winner of the 2021 Four Quartets Prize for his poem \u201cA Refusal to Mourn the Deaths, by Gunfire, of Three Men in Brooklyn\u201d\u00a0from his collection\u00a0Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry\u00a0(Four Way Books, 2020). He was selected by judges Carolyn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/john-murillo-wins-2021-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\/15403"}],"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=15403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15408,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15403\/revisions\/15408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}