Rowan Ricardo Phillips Wins 2013 Osterweil Award

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Many congratulations go out to our frequent contributor and sometimes outfielder Rowan Ricardo Phillips, whose book The Groundhas just won the 2013 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. The Osterweil “recognizes the high literary character of the published work to date of a new and emerging American poet of any age and the promise of further literary achievement.” Judges cited his work’s “vivid images and rhythms, its fully present, personal voice, its lightning-bolt sincerity.” We heartily concur.