Prize List Kent Johnson

PRIZE LIST

KENT JOHNSON

Prize List Kent Johnson

Kent Johnson (1955-2022) was an American poet, translator, critic, satirist, anthologist, and in the latter years of his life, publisher.  Celebrated and reviled in equal measure for his prose invective and conceptual tactics, which include elaborate hoaxes concerning authorship, he would become America’s foremost literary firebrand, gadfly, enfant terrible, and he leaves behind a rich and influential poetic legacy.  Prize List was originally published in 2015 by eccolinguistics, a freely distributed periodical from Delete Press; subsequent alternate versions were published in Kenneth Warren’s House Organ and Casesura Magazine.  Johnson’s original Prize List, in unaltered form, is presented here.