NEW YORK (AP) — 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.…