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Annual Awards

The PSA's Annual Awards are among the most prestigious honors available to poets. They offer emerging and established poets recognition at all stages of their careers, including our student poetry award and book awards for publishers.

Individual Awards Anna Rabinowitz Prize Student Poetry Award Book Awards for Publisher

2019 Anna Rabinowitz Prize

The Anna Rabinowitz Prize is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work made in the previous year and combining poetry and any other art or discipline. Work that qualifies includes but is not limited to books that blend visual art and poetry, original performances of dance and poetry (or dance based on poetry ) and of music and poetry (including libretti based on poetry) as well as more eclectic collaborations involving poetry and technology, the sciences or math.

Candidates are required to provide material documenting their projects. (See submissions guidelines for complete instructions.) These will be key to the judging process. Panels, discussions, and programs focused on dialogue between disciplines rather than the creation of a new work are not eligible.

The finished work should have been produced or published in 2018 but can involve or be based in part on work from any era. And all are welcome to apply singly if the work involving more than one discipline has been accomplished alone.

Honorarium: $1,000 to be divided equally between or among the principals if not awarded to a single artist.

The prize is established by the children of Anna Rabinowitz to honor her boundless curiosity, creativity, and artistic accomplishments.

Judges

Matthea Harvey

Deadline: Postmarked between October 1 –December 22, 2018

If you are submitting a book or chapbook or printed materials please include:

  • Each entry should have one cover sheet with the following: Name, Address, Email, Phone, and Name of the Award.
  • An Artist Statement describing the aims of the work submitted (up to 500 words)
  • A Biographical Note (up to 500 words)
  • Two copies of the work submitted.


If you are submitting documentation of a performance or artwork please include a thumb drive with:

  • Documentation of your work in the following formats: jpeg, pdf, mp3, or mpeg (as applicable).
  • A PDF cover sheet which includes: Name, Address, Email, Phone, and Name of the Award.
  • A PDF of your Artist Statement describing the aims of the work submitted (up to 500 words
  • A PDF of your Biographical Note (up to 500 words)
  • Place ALL files in a folder named: YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME_Anna Rabinowitz Prize

Submissions from PSA employees, officers, or advisory board committee members are ineligible.

Notification


For an acknowledgment of receipt of submissions, please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard. Unfortunately we cannot acknowledge receipt over the phone or email. The winners will be announced on our website by early April. No entries will be returned.

Due to the volume of submissions we receive, we cannot inform entrants of incorrectly submitted or disqualified material, nor can we accept any corrections or revisions to submissions.

You may withdraw submissions by emailing brett@poetrysociety.org.

Entry Fees

The entry fee for Members and Non-members is $10.
Checks should be made payable to the Poetry Society of America.

Mailing Address

Poetry Society of America
Anna Rabinowtiz Prize
15 Gramercy Park
New York, NY 10003

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