The 2015 PEN Literary Awards have been announced! Congratulations go out to Saeed Jones for winning the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry ($5,000) for Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press)! The winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is Eliza Griswold, for I Am the Beggar of the World, a book of landays–“anonymous couplets by Afghani women shared sometimes at the price of their lives,” as judge Ana Božičević has put it–translated from the Pashto (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). More.
See: Poetry Foundation
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