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]

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References

1. "PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry". Archived from the original on June 19, 2012.
2. Robert Lee Brewer (2011). 2012 Writer's Market Deluxe Edition. Writer's Digest Books. p. 964. ISBN 9781599632278. Retrieved August 11, 2012.
3. "PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry Winners". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
4. 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.
5. "PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry". PEN America. 2019-02-05. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
6. "Interview with Nick Flynn". Library of Congress. April 5, 2001. Archived from the original on September 7, 2012. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
7. Carolyn Kellogg (May 13, 2015). "PEN announces award-winners and shortlists". LA Times. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
8. "2015 PEN Literary Award Winners". pen.org. 2015-05-11. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
9. "2017 PEN America Literary Awards Winners - PEN America". PEN America. 2017-03-27. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
10. "The 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Winners". PEN America. 2019-02-26. Retrieved 2019-02-27.

External links

• PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry