Small presses and Selecteds dominate the finalist list for the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry, which was announced this week. Finalists are Henri Cole‘s Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007 (FSG); Maxine Kumin’s Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010 (W. W. Norton & Company); Yehoshua November’s God’s Optimism (Main Street Rag); Craig Santos Perez‘s From Unincorporated Territory {Saina} (Omnidawn); and Ed Roberson’s To See the Earth Before the End of the World (Wesleyan University Press).
Congratulations to Coldfront contributor Craig Santos Perez!