PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
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The The PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry is awarded by the 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 receives $5,000.
The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.[3]
Award winners
- 1999 Nick Flynn, Some Ether [4]
- 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[5][6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
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