Winner of the Library of Congress 2016 Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship, awarded by US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera
Winner of the 2015 NWCA Lifetime Achievement Award
Winner of the 2015 Wordcrafter of the Year Award
Winner of the 2015 PEN Southwest Award for Poetry
Bronze Medalist for the 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards for Poetry
Finalist for the 2015 Eric Hoffer Award
Finalist for the 2015 Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal
Longlisted for the 2015 PEN Open Book Award
“By uniting the poems through imagery, language, and movement, Allison Adele Hedge Coke creates more than a collection of poems. Streaming is a continuous trail of light, a steady flow music from the heart of the motherland.”
—Green Mountains Review
“The poems come toward us from a museum of abundance; but museums are filled with relics and this poetry is purely fluid. Everything is moving, changing, and growing, disintegrating and rejuvenating for its own purposes.”
—The Washington Independent Review of Books
“A poet with feet in the river, even as her head rests on a mountain top.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
“Erudite and complex. . . . Reading it, you can feel the rhythmic propulsion of each image as surely as you can feel your own pulse.”
—The Rumpus
“[Streaming] reveals to us a mature poet of imagery whose sonics have shifted toward a be-bop poetics, in which rich, complex sound-patterns are essential to the collection’s meaning-making and emotional impact.”
—World Literature Today
“A brilliant and brave new collection of poems that irrevocably alters our conventional notion of what constitutes narrative space.”
—The Journal (West Virginia)
“Hedge Coke is a poet with a remarkable voice.”
—Volta
“This is an old voice rooted beneath a brutal American landscape, full of drought, burning, violence, migrant workers, diaspora.”
—GMR
“Song is an essential part of [Hedge Coke’s] collection.”
—The Kansas City Star
“Streaming, is an elegant collaboration between poetry and music.”
—The Hawaii Review
“Each poem has its own rhythm that meshes into that of the collection overall, a body greater than the sum of its parts, an organism alive with language.”
—AskMen
“Her poems beg to be read aloud, a jumble of hard sounds that wind their way into an effortless melody. . . . Streaming is truly an accomplishment.”
—Summerset Review
“We should be grateful to Allison Hedge Coke for compiling, with her poetry, notes about a world that will be unfamiliar to a generation living one hundred years from now.”
—Ishmael Reed
“If the history of the Americas is a body of stories, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s Streaming is most definitely its life-blood. ”
—Rigoberto González
