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2026 CWCS Winner Cortney Lamar Charleston
The editors of the Beloit Poetry Journal are delighted to announce that they have selected Cortney Lamar Charleston's A Republic, If for this year's title in the Chad Walsh Chapbook Series.
Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of three full-length poetry collections, including Telepathologies (Saturnalia Books, 2017), selected by D. A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; Doppelgangbanger (Haymarket Books, 2021), named a best book of 2021 by the New York Public Library and the Boston Globe; and It's Important I Remember (Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press, 2026). He was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and he has also received fellowships from Cave Canem and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, his poems have appeared in POETRY, the Nation, the Atlantic, the American Poetry Review, the Kenyon Review, and many other periodicals and anthologies. Charleston currently serves on the Haymarket Books Poetry Advisory Board.
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