Norma Farber First Book Award

The Norma Farber First Book Award is given by the Poetry Society of America "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".^[1]

The award was established by the family and friends of the poet and children's book author Norma Farber. The award comes with a $500 prize.^[1]

Winners

Year	Winner	Title	Judge
2023	Paul Hlava Ceballos	banana [ ]	Chase Berggrun
2022	Amanda Larson	Gut (Omnidawn)	Mark Bibbins
2021	Taylor Johnson	Inheritance	Francine J. Harris
2020	Zaina Alsous	A Theory of Birds	Matthew Shenoda
2019	Anna Maria Hong	Age of Glass	Geoffrey G. O'Brien
2018	Eve L. Ewing	Electric Arches	Elizabeth Macklin
2017	Vincent Toro	Stereo. Island. Mosaic.	Natalie Diaz
2016	Magdalena Zurawski	[Companion Animal]	Jennifer Moxley
2015	Cathy Linh Che	Split	Adrian Matejka
2014	r. erica doyle	proxy	Maggie Nelson
2013	Nick Twemlow	Palm Tree	Timothy Liu
2012	Emily Kendal Frey	The Grief Performance	Dana Levin
2011	John Beer	The Wasteland and Other Poems	Bin Ramke
2010	Scott Coffel	Toucans in the Arctic	Edward Hirsch
2009	Richard Deming	Let’s Not Call It Consequence	Martha Ronk
2008	Catherine Imbriglio	Parts of the Mass	Thylias Moss
2007	Kate Colby	Fruitlands	Rosmarie Waldrop
2006	Cammy Thomas	Cathedral of Wish	Medbh McGuckian
2005	Karen An-hwei Lee	In Medias Res	Cole Swensen[2]
2004	Brenda Coultas	A Handmade Museum	Lyn Hejinian
2003	Sean Singer	Discography	Allen Grossman
2002	Jennifer Michael Hecht	The Next Ancient World	David Lehman
2001	V. Penelope Pelizzon	Nostos	August Kleinzahler
2000	Lisa Lubasch	How Many More of Them Are You?	John Yau
1999	Hettie Jones	Drive: Poems	Naomi Shihab Nye
1998	Rebecca Reynolds	Daughter of the Hangnail	Ann Lauterbach
1997	Susan Yuzna	Her Slender Dress	Michael Weaver
1995	Barbara Hamby	Delirium[3]
1994	Sophie Cabot Black	The Misunderstanding of Nature	[4]
1993	Susan Wheeler	Bag O' Diamonds	James Tate
1992	Timothy Liu	Vox Angelica	Carolyn Forche
1991	Karl Kirchwey	A Wandering Island

See also

• American poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of literary awards
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

Notes

1. "Poetry Society of America Awards Guidelines". Archived from the original on 2008-05-02. Retrieved 2008-05-02. Poetry Society of America Web site, Web page titled "PSA Annual Awards Guidelines", accessed October 28, 2006
2. "Sarabande Books Web site > News and Announcements: Recent Honors for Sarabande Titles > accessed October 28, 2006".
3. Web page titled "University of North Texas Press: Award winning titles", accessed October 28, 2006
4. "Harvard Gazette: Daylong literary fete to feature award-winning poets". Archived from the original on 2006-09-04. Retrieved 2006-10-28."Daylong literary fete to feature award-winning poets" article in the Harvard University Gazette, April 4, 2003

External links

• Poetry Society of America Awards Guidelines page