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John Keene has won the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry for “Punks: New & Selected Poems.” #NBAwards

Punks: New & Selected Poems by John Keene has won the 2022 #NBAwards for Poetry!

Read a poem by the newly minted #NBAwards winner for Poetry, John Keene (who is also a wonderful guy) lithub.com/phone-book/

Congratulations to John Keene, winner of the National Book Foundation’s National Book Award in poetry for Punks: New & Selected Poems from the song cave! #NBAwards

Big shout out to the song cave, a small poetry press that just won an #NBAwards for Poetry for John Keene's amazing collection!

John Keene thanks his literary ancestors, especially the Black, gay, queer, and trans writers, particularly those we lost to HIV/AIDS.

John Keene accepts the National Book Award for Poetry, dedicating it in particular to "black, gay, queer, and trans writers, especially those we lost to HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s." #NBAwards

CONGRATULATIONS to John Keene, faculty at the Rutgers Rutgers University-Newark MFA program, for winning 2022 #NBA award in poetry! We are so proud of you! Rutgers–Newark English Rutgers School of Arts & Sciences-Newark

Personally thrilled for the great John Keene (jstheater.bsky.social)

Congratulations to RU–N English Professor John Keene for winning the National Book Award for Poetry!

Two poems by John Keene. bombmagazine.org/articles/two-p…

Cooking from Hilda Hilst’s Letters From A Seducer a few years ago for The Paris Review . Translation: John Keene. theparisreview.org/blog/2020/02/0…

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