Anna Rabinowitz Award | 2027

The Anna Rabinowitz Prize is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work completed in the previous year that combines poetry with another 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 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 materials documenting their projects. 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 2026, but can involve or be based in part on work from any era. All are welcome to apply singly if the work involving more than one discipline has been accomplished alone.

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

Judge
Kate Colby is the author of Paradoxx and Unbecoming Behavior, among other books of poetry and prose. Fruitlands won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2007, and she has received other awards and support from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard, and the T.S. Eliot Foundation. She lives in Providence, where she teaches poetry at UPenn and is a member of Red Nun Collective.

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

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