PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
# 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" by a new and emerging American poet of any age with "the promise of further literary achievement."

## Description

The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes. From 1999 to June 1, 2020, 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" by a new and emerging American poet of any age with "the promise of further literary achievement." 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.

## Award winners

PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry winners :

| Year | Author | Title |
| - | - | - |
| 1999 | Nick Flynn | Some Ether |
| 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 |
| 2017 | Natalie Scenters-Zapico | The Verging Cities |
| 2019 | Jonah Mixon-Webster | stereo(TYPE) |
