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The PEN Open Book Award (known as the Beyond Margins Award through 2009) is an award intended to foster racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities, and works to establish access for diverse literary groups to the publishing industry. [1]
Blanco's books include Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems, How to Love a Country; City of a Hundred Fires, which received the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press; Directions to The Beach of the Dead, recipient of the Beyond Margins Award from the PEN American Center; and Looking for The Gulf Motel ...
Other books of poems include The Dangerous Shirt, [6] along with The Theater of Night, [7] winner of the 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body, [8] finalist for the National Book Award, Teodoro Luna's Two Kisses, The Lime Orchard Woman, The Warrington Poems, Five Indiscretions, and Whispering to Fool the Wind ...
He received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. [5] Baraka's plays, poetry, and essays have been described by scholars as constituting defining texts for African-American culture. [6] Baraka's career spanned nearly 52 years, and his themes range from Black liberation to White racism. His notable poems include ...
In 2002, Harjo received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award for A Map to the Next World: Poetry and Tales [19]. In 2008, she served as a founding member of the board of directors for the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, [20] for which she serves as a member of its National Advisory Council. [21]
Americas Award; 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for Half the World in Light; 2009 PEN/Beyond Margins Award [12] 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship [13] Breadloaf Fellowship in Poetry; California Arts Council grants (awarded four times) Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choice; Focal Award; Ezra Jack Keats Award, for Calling the Doves
Her poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary (2002), was a finalist for a National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She received a PEN/Beyond Margins Award for her Recyclopedia (2006). [6] She is also credited for rediscovering the novel Oreo, published in 1974 by Fran Ross.
PEN/Beyond Margins Award: Finalist [39] Sanctificum: Pushcart Prize for Poetry Nominee [40] 2008 Song For Night: PEN/Beyond Margins Award: Winner [41] The Virgin of Flames: Lamada Award Nominee [42] 2009 Song For Night: St. Francis College Literary Prize: Shortlist [43] 2015 The Secret History of Las Vegas: Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best ...