According to the Washington Post, poets Haki Madhubuti and Rita Dove shared the Hurston/Wright Foundation’s award for best poetry book. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Hurston/Wright Foundation’s creation, and this is also the first time the poetry award has been shared.

Madhubuti and Dove won for their books, Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 1966-2009 and Sonata Mulattica, respectively. Other winners, in the categories of nonfiction and fiction, were Robin D.G. Kelly (Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, nonfiction) and Percival Everett (I am Not Sidney Poitier, fiction).