Towson professor, poet is finalist for National Book Award
Towson University professor Leslie Harrison came one step closer on Wednesday to winning one of the most coveted annual literary awards in the U.S. — the 2017 National Book Award for poetry.
Harrison’s “The Book of Endings” is one of five titles to make the shortlist, the organization announced Wednesday. The finalists were culled from nearly 250 submissions.
According to the awards organization’s website, “The poems in ‘The Book of Endings’ try to make sense of, or at least come to some kind of reckoning with absence — the death of the author's mother, the absence of the beloved, the absence of an accountable god, cicadas, the dead stars arriving, the dead moon aglow in the night sky.”
The winners of the fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature will be announced in New York on Nov. 15.
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