Tracy K. Smith Wins Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (and defeats all fiction everywhere)

Huzzah! I know this development is a few days old, but I just found out this morning (been busy with a few things--here's one). Here's an article I penned last year about seeing Smith on the PBS Newshour.

Here's the NY Daily News's take on the situation. And this is information provided by the lovely folks who award the prizes (the book, the jury, etc.). Again, wonderful, wonderful news.

And, without a Pulitzer for fiction this year, I think it's clear that poetry has finally defeated fiction as the superior genre.