The New Salon: Tyehimba Jess in conversation with Alice Quinn

Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry, "Leadbelly" and "Olio." "Olio" won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author's Award in Poetry, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.  It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN Jean Stein Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.  Leadbelly was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. The Library Journal and Black Issues Book Review both named it one of the Best Poetry Books of 2005.