New York, August 23—The Academy of American Poets announced today that C.D. Wright's One With Others (Copper Canyon Press) was chosen by poets Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, D.A. Powell, and Martha Ronk to receive the 2011 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, which awards $25,000 to the most outstanding book of poetry published in the previous year.
The award will be presented at the fifth annual Poets Forum in New York City, October 20-22.