Role: Judges

Claudia Rankine was the judge of Kore Press’ 2010 First Book Award, and chose Laura Newbern’s Love and the Eye as the winning poetry manuscript. Find Newbern’s book here. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, …

Patricia Smith was the judge of Kore Press’ 2009 First Book Award, and chose Heather Cousins’ Something in the Potato Room as the winning poetry manuscript. Find Cousins’ book here. Patricia Smith …

Harryette Mullen was the judge of Kore Press’ 2008 First Book Award, and chose Holly Iglesias’s Souvenirs of a Shrunken World as the winning poetry manuscript. Find Iglesias’s book here. Harryette …

Sonia Sanchez was the judge of Kore Press’ 2007 First Book Award, and chose Spring Ulmer’s Benjamin’s Spectacles as the winning poetry manuscript. Find Ulmer’s book here. Sonia Sanchez—poet, activist, …

Marilyn Chin was the judge of Kore Press’ 2006 First Book Award, and chose Sandra Lim’s Loveliest Grotesque as the winning poetry manuscript. Find Lim’s book here. Marilyn Chin is an award-winning …