23 Jun Announcing the 2020 JBLC Poetry Fellow

We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2020 Poetry Fellowship: Keith S. Wilson. Keith S. Wilson is an Affrilachian Poet and a Cave Canem fellow. He is a recipient of an NEA Fellowship, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, and an Illinois Arts Council Agency Award, and has received both a Kenyon Review Fellowship and a Stegner Fellowship. Additionally, he has received fellowships or grants from Bread Loaf, Just Buffalo Literary Center, Tin House, and the MacDowell Colony, among others. His book, Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love (Copper Canyon), was recognized by the New York Times as a best new book of poetry.

In addition to naming Keith S. Wilson as winner, five poets were recognized as finalists from the pool of over 100 applicants. The 2020 finalists (in alphabetical order) are: Mary-Kim Arnold, Nova Cypress Black, Armen Davoudian, Benjamin Garcia, and Michael Prior.

The Just Buffalo Literary Center Poetry Fellowship seeks to advance the career of an individual poet as well as raising Buffalo’s visibility nationwide as a literary city. More information about the fellowship can be found here.