Joseph J. Capista wins 2018 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize!

Congratulations to Joseph J. Capista (poetry, ’16)! Beth Ann Fennelly, poet laureate of Mississippi, has selected Joseph J. Capista’s Intrusive Beauty as this year’s Hollis Summers winner, to be published next spring.

“Both wry and ardent, Intrusive Beauty is an immensely accomplished book,” she wrote. “Readers have all the pleasures of great poetry here—nuanced syntax, a musician’s harmonious ear, and a remarkably deft and varied handling of form.…Nothing is precious here—even the poems about fatherhood and nature, those baited traps, are leapt over by Capista’s nimble speaker.” […continue reading here]

The 2017 Hollis Summers winner was Idris Anderson (poetry, ’06)