PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
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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.[citation needed] The award was one of many PEN awards sponsored by PEN International affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world. It was replaced with an annual PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection.[5]
Award winners
| Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Nick Flynn | Some Ether | [7][8] |
| 2001 | Richard Matthews | The Mill Is Burning | |
| 2003 | Dana Levin | In the Surgical Theatre | [8] |
| 2005 | Yerra Sugarman | Forms of Gone | [9] |
| 2007 | Peter Covino | Cut Off the Ears of Winter | |
| 2009 | Jeffrey Yang | An Aquarium | [8] |
| 2011 | Ishion Hutchinson | Far District | |
| 2013 | Rowan Ricardo Phillips | The Ground: Poems | [8][10] |
| 2015 | Saeed Jones | Prelude to Bruise | [11][12][8][13] |
| 2017 | Natalie Scenters-Zapico | The Verging Cities | [14][15][8][16] |
| 2019 | Jonah Mixon-Webster | stereo(TYPE) | [17][18][8][19] |