New York, August 22—The Academy of American Poets announced today that Anna Moschovakis's collection You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake (Coffee House Press, 2011) was chosen by poets Juliana Spahr, Brian Teare, and Mónica de la Torre to receive the 2011 James Laughlin Award, which presents $5,000 for the most outstanding second book by an American poet in the previous year. The award will be presented at the Academy's Awards Ceremony on October 21, as part of the fifth annual Poets Forum in New York City.
