2024 Shelley Memorial Award

The Poetry Society of America has awarded me with the 2024 Shelley Memorial Award, an award given by nomination to one poet a year for poetic genius. This is the biggest thing that’s ever happened to me in my 26 years of writing and publishing poetry. I share this prize with my artist mother, Noko Pai, and with all the small press publishers that ever believed in my work: La Alameda Press, 1913 Press, Press Lorentz, Convivio Bookworks, Booklyn Artists Alliance, Blue Cactus Press, and Empty Bowl.