2023-2024 PJI Prize Winners Are Published!

The Poetic Justice Institute is excited to announce the publication of the 2023-2024 PJI Prize-winning volumes by Fordham University Press! We extend our congratulations to the two authors whose books are available for purchase online and in bookstores.

Marcella Durand's A Winter Triangle won the 2023-2024 PJI Prize.

Srikanth Reddy, who selected the book, writes in the forward: "A Winter Triangle is a self-portrait as human asterism. Arriving at this wondrous book’s unfinished final sentence, we come to see what one can be.”

Adedayo Agarau's The Years of Blood won the 2023-2024 PJI Editor’s Prize. It also was selected by Isele Magazine for their Editor's Choice: 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025, The Modaculture's 10 Anticipated Books of 2025, and Open Country Magazine's Anticipated Books of 2025 list.

Niyi Osundare, author of Songs from the Marketplace, writes that “In the haunting horrorscape of these poems, crying bones usurp the streets; 'days of vanishing' darken into nights of wrenching anguish. 'Everywhere weed grows is a wide mouth eating children.’”

Here is an excerpt from Adedayo’s new book!

We are thrilled that their books are now in print, and cannot wait to see what they accomplish next!