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Naomi Shihab Nye’s You & Yours Winner of The Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for 2005
June 1, 2005 Rochester, NY—Naomi Shihab Nye’s forthcoming poetry collection, You & Yours, which will be published by BOA in September 2005, has been selected by BOA Editor Thom Ward as winner of The Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for 2005. This award is given biennially to a poet in mid-career with a new book of exceptional merit. Poet, actress, and associate editor of Poetry magazine, Isabella Gardner (1915-1981) published five celebrated collections of poetry, was three times nominated for the National Book Award, and was the first recipient of the New York State Walt Whitman Citation of Merit for Poetry. She championed the work of young and gifted poets, helping many of them find publication. The award, sponsored by the Gardner Charitable Trust, carries an honorarium of $1000 and book publication in both hardcover and paperback editions.
Naomi Shihab Nye, poet, essayist, anthologist, has been a recipient of writing fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Witter Bynner Foundation/Library of Congress. Author of more than twenty volumes, her recent books include Mint Snowball and 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East which was selected as a National Book Award finalist in 2002. Her books of poems include Fuel (BOA Editions) and Red Suitcase (BOA). Nye’s work has been featured on the PBS poetry specials NOW with Bill Moyers, The Language of Life with Bill Moyers and The United States of Poetry. She has read her work on National Public Radio’s Prairie Home Companion. Poetry editor for The Texas Observer, Nye has worked for as a visiting writer in schools at all educational levels. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.
BOA Editions, Ltd., the Rochester-based Pulitzer-Prize- and National-Book-Award-winning publishing house, received a 2001 New York State Governor’s Arts Award for overall artistic excellence. Now in its 29th year, BOA has published more than 160 books and pamphlets of American poetry and poetry in translation.
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