2024 Claire Keyes Poetry Award Recipient

Laura Read of Spokane, WA won the 2024 Claire Keyes Poetry Award. She received $1,000, and her poems will be published in Volume 46 of Soundings East. Maria Mazziotti Gillan judged. The annual award is given for a group of poems. The next deadline is February 1, 2025.

Laura Read is the author But She Is Also Jane (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023, winner of the Juniper Prize); Dresses from the Old Country (BOA Editions, 2018); Instructions for my Mother’s Funeral (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, selected by Dorianne Laux), and The Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me of You (winner of the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award, 2011). Recipient of a Washington State Artists Trust Grant, a Florida Review Prize for Poetry, and the Crab Creek Review Prize for Poetry, Laura teaches at Spokane Falls Community College and in the MFA program at Eastern Washington University.