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front row left to right: E. Alexander, T. Shelby, J. Dehli, K. Willey, R. Beck, E. Ramshaw, M. Pride, G. Collins; back row left to right: J. Diaz, N. Brown, A. Marqués, J. Daniszewski, K. Boo, E. Robinson, S. Engelberg, S. Hahn, R. Blau (absent: L. Bollinger, S. Coll)

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Randell Beck, Joyce Dehli and Keven Ann Willey, chairs; Mike Pride, administrator

Kate Soper

Publication
Ipsa Dixit
Citation
Premiered on December 9, 2016, at The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, a breakthrough work that plumbs the composer’s fertile musical imagination to explore the relationships between idea and expression, meaning and language.
Tags: 2017
Categories: Music

Ashley Fure

Publication
Bound to the Bow
Citation
Premiered on June 5, 2016 at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City, a mesmerizing orchestral piece, at once rigorous and evocative, by a sure-handed composer who takes her inspiration from Coleridge’s "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
Tags: 2017
Categories: Music

Du Yun

Citation
Premiered on January 6, 2016, at the Prototype Festival, 3LD Arts and Technology Center, New York City, a bold operatic work that integrates vocal and instrumental elements and a wide range of styles into a harrowing allegory for human trafficking in the modern world. Libretto by Royce Vavrek.
Tags: 2017
Categories: Music
Publication
Angel's Bone

Lynn Nottage

Citation
For a nuanced yet powerful drama that reminds audiences of the stacked deck still facing workers searching for the American dream.
Tags: 2017
Categories: Drama
Publication
Sweat

Taylor Mac

Publication
A 24-Decade History of Popular Music
Citation
For an inspired bardic creation that involves the audience in a marathon musical journey that challenges the persistent societal demons of racism, sexism and homophobia.
Tags: 2017
Categories: Drama

Sarah DeLappe

Publication
The Wolves
Citation
For a timely play about a girls’ high school soccer team that illuminates with the unmistakable ping of reality the way young selves are formed when innate character clashes with external challenges.
Tags: 2017
Categories: Drama

the late Adrienne Rich

Publication
Collected Poems: 1950-2012
Citation
For a musically crafted life’s work that remains as boldly relevant today as when it was written.
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Tags: 2017
Categories: Poetry

Campbell McGrath

Publication
XX
Citation
For a poetry collection, dazzling in ambition and sweep, leading readers on a tour of the 20th century that is both objective and personal, private and shared.
Publisher
Ecco/HarperCollins
Tags: 2017
Categories: Poetry

Tyehimba Jess

Citation
For a distinctive work that melds performance art with the deeper art of poetry to explore collective memory and challenge contemporary notions of race and identity.
Tags: 2017
Categories: Poetry
Publisher
Wave Books
Publication
Olio

Micki McElya

Publication
The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery
Citation
For a luminous investigation of how policies and practices at Arlington National Cemetery have mirrored the nation’s fierce battles over race, politics, honor and loyalty.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Tags: 2017
Categories: General Nonfiction