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Yemeni-American poet Threa Almontaser wins Whitman award

| March 30, 2020 5:03 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — The Yemeni-American poet Threa Almontaser has won the Walt Whitman Award for best first book. Almontaser's “The Wild Fox of Yemen” comes out in April 2021.

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