Harryette Mullen Wins $50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize

Posted on April 6, 2010

Poets & Writers Inc. has announced that Harryette Mullen won a $50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize. The $50,000 prize honors an American poet of exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition.

The judges described Ms. Mullen's poems as "brilliant and enigmatic, familiar and subversive. Like jewels, her poems are multifaceted and shoot off lights. Mullen uses the techniques of sound association, innuendo, and signifying, and this way makes the reader alert to the cunning of the English language."

Photo: Hank Lazer