Dobby Gibson has won the 2025 Four Quartets Prize for his poem "Hold Everything" from the collection Hold Everything (Graywolf Press). Sponsored by the T.S. Eliot Foundation and the Poetry Society of America, the prize celebrates the multipart poem and is awarded for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in the U.S. in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book.
Judges also selected CAConrad, for Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books), and Morgan Võ, for "To Market" from The Selkie (The Song Cave) as finalists.
Gibson receives $20,000, and each finalist receives $1,000.
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As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story From Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us by Sarah Hurwitz (HarperOne) has been selected as the Summer 2025 Natan Notable Book, sponsored by Natan and the Jewish Book Council and highlighting nonfiction books that "promise to catalyze conversations aligned with the themes of Natan's grantmaking: reinventing Jewish life and community for the twenty-first century, shifting notions of individual and collective Jewish identity, the history and future of Israel, understanding and confronting contemporary forms of antisemitism, and the evolving relationship between Israel and world Jewry." The author receives $5,000 and promotional support.