The Nation announces the winners of Discovery/The Nation, the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize of the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y. Now in its twenty-ninth year, it is an annual contest for poets whose work has not been published previously in book form. The new winners are Patrick Phillips, Robert Sawyer, Kary Wayson and Joel Whitney. This year's judges are April Bernard, Lucie Brock-Broido and James Lasdun. As in the past, manuscripts were judged anonymously. Distinguished former winners of Discovery/The Nation include Susan Mitchell, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Salter, Sherod Santos, Arthur Smith, Emily Heistand, Debora Greger, Roseanna Warren and David St. John. This year's Discovery/The Nation event, featuring readings by the four winners, is scheduled for 8:15 pm on Monday, May 5, at the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue (92nd and Lexington Avenue) in New York City. --Grace Schulman, poetry editor

In the Museum of Your Last Day

There is a coat on a coat-hook in a hall. Work-gloves
in the pockets: pliers and bent nails.

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