V. Penelope Pelizzon

V. Penelope Pelizzon
V. Penelope Pelizzon’s first poetry collection, Nostos (Ohio University Press, 2000) won the Hollis Summers Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s 2001 Norma Farber First Book Award. Other honors include a Discovery/The Nation Award, The Kenneth Rexroth Translation Award (for Umberto Saba’s poems from Italian), the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize, and a Lannan Writing Residency Fellowship. Her new poems and essays have appeared recently in Poetry, The Hudson Review, 32 Poems, The Kenyon Review, Field, the New England Review, and Fourth Genre.

Posted on October 25, 2005 5:13 AM