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2015 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
WinnerJoshua Horwitz, War of the Whales: A True Story (Simon & Schuster)The PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award celebrates writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical… More
2015 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
WinnerIan Buruma for Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War (New York Review Books)The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay aims to preserve the dignity… More
2015 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
WinnerStephanie Keuhn for The Pragmatist (Forthcoming from Dutton/ Penguin Books)The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, established in 2001, provides a writer with a measure of financial sustenance in order to make… More
2015 PEN/ Fusion Emerging Writers Prize
WinnerAdriana E. Ramírez for her manuscript Dead Boys The PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize is an annual award that recognizes a promising young writer of an unpublished work of nonfiction that… More
2015 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
WinnerJack Livings for The Dog (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished literary achievement… More
Dear Monster: The Naked Poetry of Gozo Yoshimasu
Gozo Yoshimasu, an aurally and visually stunning poet known for his Talmudic density, struggles to respond to the 3.11 nuclear disaster in Japan. In her deft, polyvalent translation, Okamoto… More
Counterpointed Sonic Progressions: On Translating Gozo Yoshimasu
"The poems are incredibly powerful and, in performance, even magisterial; the difficulties fade away and the force of the poems—chanted, sung, whispered—transcends many linguistic and cultural barriers." More
from Alt Vices
When I feel a human-sized void, is it instinctual that I fill it with a human? More
Two Poems by Forrest Gander
the woodpecker’s / long tongue, forked / at the base of its throat and / wrapped over the top of its head / and around the eye socket, /… More
The PEN Ten with Jynne Martin
"I live in a time and place where poetry is rarely read, much less taken as a provocation. I will reserve the term "daring" for writers in other parts… More
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