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Nixon & JK

2 & 1/2 Hours Alone with Nixon, the Anti-Trump | Jerelle Kraus

Contributors, Essays, Interviews, Literary Awards, News, Nonfiction

59th NMW Award for Nonfiction.
Jerelle Kraus, of New York City & San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, for “2 & 1/2 Hours Alone with Nixon, the Aniti-Trump

Set against the backdrop of her long-ago meeting with former president Richard Nixon, Kraus offers this blistering and poignant comparison of two disgraced U.S. presidents—one who resigned the office to “put the interests of America first,” and one who threatens to never leave it.

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Why I Never Get Anywhere, or, A List of Mostly Failed Poetry Ideas Scribbled at the back of Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude | Kim Farrar

Contributors, Literary Awards, Poetry

57th NMW Award for Nonfiction
Kim Farrar of Astoria, New York

An honest and joy-soaked accounting, Farrar’s essay is an ode to those magical, maddening moments that make up a life, and the brilliant, unfinished poems tucked away in nearly every writer’s mind.

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