Clemonce Heard's debut collection Tragic City, investigating the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, is the winner of the 2020 Anhinga-Robert Dana Poetry Prize and a finalist for the 2022 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation’s Legacy Award for Poetry. Heard was the recipient of a 2021-2022 Sala Diaz Residency in San Antonio, the 2019-2020 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a 2018-2019 Tulsa Artist Fellowship. His work appears in AGNI, The Missouri Review, World Literature Today, and elsewhere.
Copies of Tragic City will be available for purchase at Beausoleil Books.
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