PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
The PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry was awarded by PEN America in odd-numbered years in recognition of a book of poetry with "high literary character"[1] by a new and emerging American poet of any age with "the promise of further literary achievement."[1][2][3]
Description
The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.[4] From 1999 to June 1, 2020,[5] the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry was awarded by PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) in odd-numbered years in recognition of a book of poetry with "high literary character"[1] by a new and emerging American poet of any age with "the promise of further literary achievement."[1][2] The winner received $5,000. The award was one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world. It was replaced with an annual PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection.[5]
Award winners
- 1999 Nick Flynn, Some Ether[6]
- 2001 Richard Matthews, The Mill is Burning
- 2003 Dana Levin, In the Surgical Theatre
- 2005 Yerra Sugarman, Forms of Gone
- 2007 Peter Covino, Cut Off the Ears of Winter
- 2009 Jeffrey Yang, An Aquarium
- 2011 Ishion Hutchinson, Far District
- 2013 Rowan Ricardo Phillips, The Ground: Poems
- 2015 Saeed Jones, Prelude to Bruise[7][8]
- 2017 Natalie Scenters-Zapico, The Verging Cities[9]
- 2019 Jonah Mixon-Webster, stereo(TYPE)[10]
References
- "PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry". Archived from the original on June 19, 2012.
- Robert Lee Brewer (2011). 2012 Writer's Market Deluxe Edition. Writer's Digest Books. p. 964. ISBN 9781599632278. Retrieved August 11, 2012.
- "PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry Winners". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
- Alfred Bendixen (2005). "Literary Prizes and Awards". The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 689. ISBN 9780826417770. Archived from the original on 2014-01-01. Retrieved 2016-10-23.
- "PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry". PEN America. 2019-02-05. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
- "Interview with Nick Flynn". Library of Congress. April 5, 2001. Archived from the original on September 7, 2012. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
- Carolyn Kellogg (May 13, 2015). "PEN announces award-winners and shortlists". LA Times. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
- "2015 PEN Literary Award Winners". pen.org. 2015-05-11. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
- "2017 PEN America Literary Awards Winners - PEN America". PEN America. 2017-03-27. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
- "The 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Winners". PEN America. 2019-02-26. Retrieved 2019-02-27.