Title: Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
Speaker: Betty Sue Flowers, Mary Szybist, Danielle Legros Georges, Rob Casper
Series: From the Catbird Seat
Date: May 10, 2018
Running Time: 29:29 minutes
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Description:
On the third episode of From the Catbird Seat, Rob Casper goes behind the scenes with Betty Sue Flowers, Mary Szybist, and Danielle Legros Georges, the jurors of the 2016 Bobbitt Prize for Poetry. They discuss their decision to award the prize to Claudia Rankine for her book Citizen, and to Nathaniel Mackey for Lifetime Achievement. Then, we'll listen to a segment from the April 2017 prize event with readings by Rankine and Mackey.
