The Poetry Society of Virginia is pleased to announce the Winner of the 2026 PSV North American Poetry Book Award
Dining on Salt by Wayne Lee
(Cornerstone Press).
Wayne Lee, winner of the 2026 PSV North American Poetry Book Award for his book, Dining on Salt: Four Seasons of Septets, is a Santa Fe, New Mexico, writer, editor and teacher. His poems have appeared in Tupelo Press, Slipstream, The New Guard, Writer’s Digest, and other journals and anthologies. Lee also received the 2012 Fischer Prize, and he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and four Best of the Net Awards. His collection The Underside of Light was a finalist for the 2014 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award, and his collection The Beautiful Foolishness was published by Casa Urraca Press in March, 2026. Lee is the host of the online Tuesday Poetry Practice community.
More details about Wayne’s work and this year’s complete results may be found on the NAPBA page.
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