Stephen Massimilla’s new prizewinning poetry book, Frank Dark, was published by Barrow Street Press and won the 2023 American Book Festival Best Book Award, the North American Book Award, and others, and has been reviewed widely. (Massimilla also did the cover painting.)
And his co-edited anthology, Stronger Than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice, won several recent awards, such as the International Book Award, The ABF Best Book Award, and the IPPY Living Now Award. It includes work by many of today’s most accomplished poets, including alumni of and poets who have taught at the Community of Writers: Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Brenda Hillman, Major Jackson, Patricia Spears Jones, Ada Limón, and several others. More info here.
