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Marianne Boruch wins $100,000 Jackson Poetry Prize as judges hail human genius in AI age
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Marianne Boruch wins $100,000 Jackson Poetry Prize as judges hail human genius in AI age

The Independent·Hillel Italie·26 days ago
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A poet renowned for her insights into the natural world and our inner lives has received a $100,000 award. Marianne Boruch is this year's winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize for “exceptional talent.” Judges praised Boruch's work, including such collections as “Bestiary Dark” and “The Anti-Grief” as affirmations of human genius amid the rise of AI. The prize is overseen by the nonprofit organization Poets & Writers . “Marianne Boruch renders luminous the expanse and reach of human thought,” the prize citation, released Wednesday by Poets & Writers, reads in part. “In an age of simulated intelligence, Boruch sets to tremble the whole of our collective knowledge where the soul, as she suggests in several poems, is a vastness of wanting and boundless curiosity.” Boruch, 75, is a resident of West Lafayette, Indiana , who taught for decades at Purdue University , where she founded the school's MFA creative writing program.…

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