The Winner....
The winner of the 2019 Judy Gaines Young Book Award is Frank X. Walker for Last Will, Last Testament.
The winner of the Judy Gaines Young Student Writing Award is Taylor Insley ’20.
Please join us for the awards ceremony online January, 2020 to congratulate our winners and hear readings from their works.
The nominated books...
Last Will, Last Testament by Call Number: PS3623.A359 L3 2019ISBN: 9781936628490Publication Date: 2019-04-15In his latest collection, Last Will, Last Testament, Frank X Walker turns the same unflinching gaze he's committed to historic figures now towards his own lineage. As these poems bear witness in real time to his father's last breaths even as his new son takes his first, Walker serves again as the linchpin between generations. Ever a master distiller of the heart, Walker presents us with, arguably, his most complex elixir to date, best imbibed with no chaser. -- Bianca Lynne Spriggs
