Marianne Boruch has won the $100,000 Jackson Poetry Prize.

This week, Poets & Writers awarded their annual Jackson Poetry Prize, which “recognizes an American poet of exceptional talent,” and comes with a purse of $100,000, to Chicago-born poet Marianne Boruch. This year’s judges were Major Jackson, Cole Swensen, and Afaa Michael Weaver.

“In poems rhetorically sinuous and compelling, Marianne Boruch renders luminous the expanse and reach of human thought,” the judges tell us in their citation.

In an age of simulated intelligence, Boruch sets to tremble the whole of our collective knowledge where the soul, as she suggests in several poems, is a vastness of wanting and boundless curiosity. And thus, her poetry possesses an amazing range. Her tone slips adroitly from elegant phrasing to jaunty repartee, and over the course of her work, she has employed every register in between, often with moments of slightly unexpected syntax—not startling but awakening. . . . To read Boruch is to constantly look up with eyes a little more widely open and think, yes!

Read the full citation here.