Judge Deborah Bogen’s comments: “This poem breaks a lot of rules and it knows what it’s doing when it does. That’s a good thing because you’d better be on your game when you decide to dispense with capitalization and periods, and when you write in lines so short that one is ‘the’ and another is ‘down-.’ But as soon as you start reading ‘fulton street hustlers’ you understand that you are on a fast train meant to knock you off your reading feet, that the poem’s rhythm is as purposefully offbeat as the lifestyle of the hustlers it describes with its marvelous eye for the right detail and its fluid command of the line.’”