Poet receives PEN award

Afsha Bawany

Friday, Sept. 19, 2003 | 9:35 a.m.

Donald Revell, a Southern Nevada resident, has been named a winner in PEN Center USA 2003 Literary Awards competition, which honors works published in 2002 by writers living in the Western United States.

Revell won in the poetry category for his collection called "Arcady."

Revell is the author of eight collections of poetry including "The Gaza of Winter," "My Mojave" and "New Dark Ages," which won him his first Pen Center USA Literary Award in 1991. He also translated two collections of the French poet Guillaume Appollinaire.

Revell has also received the Shestack Prize, a Pushcart Prize and the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American poetry.

Each winner receives a $1,000 cash prize and is honored at the awards ceremony to be held in Los Angeles at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel on Oct. 20.

PEN is an international association of professional writers created in 1921 to connect men and women in the writing profession and to protect their rights. PEN USA was founded in 1943 and has more than 1,300 professional writers.

For more information contact PEN USA at (213) 365-8500.