The Kenyon Review's
Poetry Editor David Baker, who awards the prize annually, selected
Mann's Complaint in the Garden
as the 2003 winner. As part of the award, Complaint
will be published by Zoo Press in 2004, and Mann will receive
$3,500 as an advance against royalties. In addition, selections
from the book will appear in the
Spring 2004
issue of KR.
Mann was born in Provo, Utah, and grew up in
Kentucky and Florida. He attended the University of Florida. Mann
lives in San Francisco, where he works as an administrative analyst
at the University of California. His poems and reviews have appeared
in The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry,
Pleiades, Salmagundi, and Verse.