Norma Farber First Book Award
The Norma Farber First Book Award has been presented annually by the Poetry Society of America (PSA) since 1994 "for a first book of original poetry written by an American and published in either a hard or soft cover in a standard edition during the calendar year" .
The poetry prize was donated by the family and friends of the poet Norma Farber . A copy of the books awarded the prize will be sent to the PSA sponsoring members. The award is endowed with 500 dollars in prize money.
Award winners
- 2018 - Eve L. Ewing , Electric Arches (Juror: Elizabeth Macklin)
- 2017 - Vincent Toro , Stereo. Iceland. Mosaic. (Juror: Natalie Diaz)
- 2016 - Magdalena Zurawski , Companion Animal (Juror: Jennifer Moxley)
- 2015 - Cathy Linh Che , Split (Juror: Adrian Matejka)
- 2014 - R. Erica Doyle , proxy (Juror: Maggie Nelson )
- 2013 - Nick Twemlow , Palm Trees (Juror: Timothy Liu)
- 2012 - Emily Kendal Frey , The Grief Performance (Juror: Dana Levin)
- 2011 - John Beer , The Waste Land and Other Poems (Juror: Bin Ramke)
- 2010 - Scott Coffel , Toucans in the Arctic (Juror: Edward Hirsch)
- 2009 - Richard Deming , Let's Not Call It Consequence (Juror: Martha Ronk)
- 2008 - Catherine Imbriglio , Parts of the Mass (Juror: Thylias Moss)
- 2007 - Kate Colby , Fruitlands (Juror: Rosemarie Waldrop)
- 2005 - Karen An-hwei Lee , In Medias Res (Juror: Cole Swensen)
- 2004 - Brenda Coultas , A Handmade Museum (Juror: Lyn Hejinian)
- 2003 - Sean Singer , Discography (Juror: Allen Grossman)
- 2002 - Jennifer Michael Hecht , The Next Ancient World (Juror: David Leham)
- 2001 - V. Penelope Pelizzon , Nostos (Juror: August Kleinzahler)
- 2000 - Lisa Lubasch , How Many More of Them Are You? (Juror: John Yau )
- 1999 - Hettie Jones , Drive: Poems (Juror: Naomi Shihab Nye)
- 1998 - Rebecca Reynolds , Daughter of the Hangnail (Juror: Ann Lauterbach )
- 1997 - Susan Yuzna , Her Slender Dress (Juror: Michael Weaver)
- 1995 - Barbara Hamby , delirium
- 1994 - Sophie Cabot Black , The Misunderstanding of Nature
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b PSA Annual Awards Guidelines
- ↑ Harvard University Gazette, April 4, 2003: Daylong literary fete to feature award-winning poets
Web links
- Poetry Society of America Awards (Engl.)