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The Destitute
The / ceiling hovers like a heavy mist, / dark and putrid, thick and barbed, / chocking any head held high. More
Chessman’s Lunch
I poke at my salad, / sip water from a plastic cup / my corner fiefdom overrun now by strangers / a compromised rook / removed from the board More
2007 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
WinnerPeter Covino, author of the poetry collection, Cut Off the Ears of Winter (2005), published by New Issues, and a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn AwardThe PEN/Joyce… More
2010 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowships for Writers
WinnerThe 2010 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers went to Paul Harding for his novel Tinkers.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
2007 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writers Fellowship
WinnerDiane Les Becquets, author of the forthcoming novel Genesis, to be published by Bloomsbury USAThe PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, established in 2001, provides a writer with a measure… More
2007 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
WinnerDavid Hinton for his translation from the Chinese of The Selected Poems of Wang Wei (New Directions) by Wang WeiThe PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes book-length translations… More
2007 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
WinnerSandra Smith for her translation from the French of Suite Française (Knopf) by Irène NémirovskyThe PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize is awarded to book-length translations from any language into English.… More
2007 PEN Translation Fund
WinnersSusan Bernofsky, for her translation from the German of Robert Walser’s 1908 novel The Assistant, the melancholy and mischievously ironic story of a penniless young man who works for… More
2007 PEN/Nora Magid Award
WinnerBradford Morrow, editor of ConjunctionsThe PEN/Nora Magid Award, established in 1993, honors a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have, throughout his or her career, contributed significantly… More
Tell Me the Story Again About the Frogs, and the Seeds
Yes, yes all the plants are dead. / And all the animals bigger than scarab beetles; / but the seeds have been waiting in the ground. / When the… More
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