Anna Rabinowitz Award for Interdisciplinary Poetry

The Anna Rabinowitz Prize is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work that was completed in the previous year and combines poetry with any other art or discipline.

Work that qualifies includes but is not limited to books that blend visual art and poetry, original performances of dance and poetry (or dance based on poetry) and of music and poetry (including libretti based on poetry), as well as more eclectic collaborations involving poetry and technology, the sciences or math.

Candidates are required to provide materials documenting their projects. These will be key to the judging process. Panels, discussions, and programs focused on dialogue between disciplines rather than the creation of a new work are not eligible.

The finished work should have been produced or published in 2024 but can involve or be based in part on work from any era. All are welcome to apply singly if the work involving more than one discipline has been accomplished alone.

Honorarium: $1,000 to be divided equally between or among the principals if not awarded to a single artist.

Judge

JJJJJerome Ellis is a disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American artist, surfer, and person who stutters. Through music, performance, writing, video, and photography, the artist asks what stuttering can teach us about justice. Born in 1989 in Groton, Connecticut, USA the artist lives in Norfolk, Virginia, USA with their wife, poet-ecologist Luísa Black Ellis. JJJJJerome dreams of building a sonic bath house!

The prize is established by the children of Anna Rabinowitz to honor her boundless curiosity, creativity, and artistic accomplishments.

SUBMISSION DETAILS & INSTRUCTIONS

If you are submitting a book or chapbook or printed materials please include:

• One cover sheet for each entry with the following: Name, Address, Email, Phone, and Name of the Award.
• An Artist Statement describing the aims of the work submitted (up to 500 words)
• A Biographical Note (up to 500 words)
• Two copies of the work submitted.
• Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.

If you are submitting documentation of a performance or artwork please include a thumb drive with:

• Documentation of your work in the following formats: jpeg, pdf, mp3, or mpeg (as applicable).
• A PDF cover sheet which includes: Name, Address, Email, Phone, and Name of the Award.
• A PDF of your Artist Statement describing the aims of the work submitted (up to 500 words)
• A PDF of your Biographical Note (up to 500 words)
• Place ALL files in a folder named: YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME_Anna Rabinowitz Prize

Notification

For an acknowledgment of receipt of submissions, please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard. Unfortunately, we cannot acknowledge receipt over the phone or by email.

The winners will be announced on our website in late spring.

No entries will be returned.

Due to the volume of submissions we receive, we cannot inform entrants of incorrectly submitted or disqualified material, nor can we accept any corrections or revisions to submissions.

You may withdraw submissions by emailing brett@poetrysociety.org.

Entry Fees

• The entry fee for members and non-members is $10.
• Checks should be made payable to the Poetry Society of America

Mailing Address:
Poetry Society of America
119 Smith Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201