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Bhanu Kapil was the judge of Kore Press’ 2011 First Book Award, and chose Michelle Chan Brown’s Double Agent as the winning poetry manuscript. Find Brown’s book here. Bhanu Kapil lives in Colorado …

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, …