She may teach in Illinois after spending a fellowship year in Wisconsin, and her book may have been published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, but Clark is a product of this city, and proud of it. That’s evidenced by the party she threw here in September to celebrate the release of I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood, her bravura debut collection and winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. You can publish a poem called “Nashville” in The New Yorker, but you can’t take the Nashville out of this rising star. STEVE HARUCH
Best Poetry Collection
Tiana Clark’s I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood
Photo: Daniel Meigs
