Fire in the Pasture Recognized by the Association for Mormon Letters

At the Association for Mormon Letters Annual Conference held this past Saturday, I received the organization’s poetry award for 2011 for my work in editing Fire in the Pasture. Huzzah! Validation, right? But seriously, I’m flattered at the recognition. I also acknowledge that the book wouldn’t be what it is without the poets who generously let me sample their work in order to share it with a broader audience in the anthology and, of course, without Peculiar Pages‘ Thmegamind, Eric W Jepson. I have nothing but respect for all of the above…

Here’s what the awards committee had to say:

For a maybe-more-readable copy of the award, click here.
And for a list of all the 2011 AML Award winners, click here.