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Howell resident wins world's largest prize for poetry.
Groundbreaking book is also a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize.
Howell resident Patricia Smith and her collection “Incendiary Art: Poems,” which explores such topics as the violence done to black men and the grieving of black mothers, have won the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award based at Claremont Graduate University, the school announced Tuesday.
The award is one of the most prestigious and lucrative honors in poetry, and is given to a poet in mid-career. Its $100,000 prize is the largest in the world given for a single volume of poetry.
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