Premio Casa de América de Poesía Americana (Casa de América Prize for American Poetry) is a literary prize awarded by the public consortium, "in order to stimulate new poetic writing in the Americas, with special attention to poems that open up or explore new perspectives and renovate themes". The prize, which awards unpublished works, has among its list of winners several important contemporary

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poets such as Yolanda Pantin, Piedad Bonnett,

Carmen Boullosa Carmen Boullosa (born September 4, 1954 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican poet, novelist and playwright. Her work focuses on the issues of feminism and gender roles within a Latin American context. It has been praised by a number of writers, i ...

Eduardo Chirinos Eduardo Alejandro Chirinos Arrieta (4 April 1960 – 17 February 2016) was a Peruvian professor of literature at the University of Montana, and a poet. He received the Premio Casa de América de Poesía Americana in 2001. Career Eduardo Chirino ...

, and Rafael Courtoisie.

Award winners

References

{{reflist Poetry awards Latin American literary awards