Congratulations to Marianne Boruch, winner of the 2026 Jackson Poetry Prize. Awarded annually by Poets & Writers to an American poet of exceptional talent, the prize carries an award of $100,000. Read the press release: at.pw.org/JP26pr #jacksonprize #JacksonPoetryPrize #Poetry Esteemed poets Major Jackson, Cole Swensen, and Afaa Michael Weaver @elder-afaa.bsky.social, who served as judges, wrote of Boruch’s work: “In poems rhetorically sinuous and compelling, Marianne Boruch renders luminous the expanse and reach of human thought.” @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social 
