HANES AWARD FOR POETRY
Tiana Clark, 2020 Recipient
Tiana Clark is the author of Equilibrium (Bull City Press, 2016), which was selected to be the winner of the 2016 Frost Place Chapterbook Competition. Clark is also the author of I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), which won the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. She has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and Best New Poets 2015. Clark has also won a Pushcart Prize, the Rattle Poetry Prize, and the Furious Flower’s Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Poetry Prize.
Clark was brought up in both Nashville, Tennessee, and Southern California. She attended Tennessee State University where she received a BA in African and Women's Studies.
PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS:
C. Dale Young, 2017
Terrance Hayes, 2015
Brooks Haxton, 2013
Kate Daniels, 2011
Maurice Manning, 2009
Kathryn Stripling Byer, 2007
Betty Adcock, 2005
R.H.W. Dillard, 2003
Rodney Jones, 2001
T.R. Hummer, 1999
Yusef Komunyakaa, 1997
Andrew Hudgins, 1995
Ellen Bryant Voigt, 1993
Robert Morgan, 1991
Kelly Cherry, 1989