December 18, 2024
Itiola Jones Awarded 2025 Honickman First Book Prize
The American Poetry Review is happy to announce that the 2025 APR/Honickman First Book Prize has been awarded to Itiola Jones for her manuscript Bloodmercy, chosen by our guest judge, Nicole Sealey. The book will be published in September 2025 and will be distributed by Copper Canyon Press through Consortium.
Itiola Jones is an American / Nigerian poet and editor. She is a senior editor for Poetry Northwest where she runs her column, The Legacy Suite, a three-part interview documenting the journey of writers publishing their debut poetry collections. She is the 2024 Artist-In-Resident at Northwestern University with the Black Arts Consortium.
We are very grateful to have read so many excellent poems in this year's entries.
