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My Poetic Mentor Makes the Griffin Prize Shortlist. Huzzah!
Vancouver poet and translator George McWhirter makes shortlist for $130K Griffin Poetry Prize CBC Books · Posted: Apr 17, 2024 8:47 AM MDT | Last Updated: April 18 Canadian translator George McWhirter is on the shortlist for the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize. (Mark Van Mannen) Canadian translator George McWhirter has made the shortlist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. He is recognized for Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, which was translated from Spanish and written by the great Mexican poet Homero Aridjis. The $130,000 prize is the world’s largest prize for a single book of poetry written in or translated into English. Read the full story here.Read More
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And Other Silly Questions…
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Get Lit! in Trinidad … on the Historic Santa Fe Trail
I’m very much looking forward to The Fifth Annual Corazón de Trinidad Literary Festival! I’ll be joining some terrific writers for readings and workshops, including PW Covington, Kate Kingston, Kathryn Winograd, Aaron Abeyta, Ginna Pollack & Senora Banana, Lindy Simmons, SETH, Michele Battiste, and the inimitable Art Goodtimes. Join us for all or part of this 3-day event.Read More
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Rattle Poetry Finalist Wendy Videlock
OF YOU You’ve been the wolf, you’ve been the bear… [and the rest you can read … well, you know where: https://www.rattle.com/of-you-by-wendy-videlock/] Small wonder she’s the current Western Slope Poet Laureate.Read More
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Fran Drescher Tells It Like It Is
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Kwame Dawes on “Voice and Responsibility in Poetry”—FREE
This talk will air live at 12pm ET (9am PT / 5pm BST) on Wednesday, June 21st. You are welcome to sign up to attend live or to get a free copy of the recording. Kwame Dawes has authored 36 books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and essays, including, most recently, Nebraska (UNP, 2019), Bivouac (Akashic Books, 2019), and City of Bones: A Testament (Northwestern, 2017). Speak from Here to There (Peepal Tree Press), co-written with Australian poet John Kinsella, appeared in 2016. He is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of Nebraska.Read More
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Check Out This Podcast Interview and Reading
Last summer an American fiction writer living in the UK, Yvonne Battle-Felton, invited me to her podcast—called Bookable Space—for an interview and reading from Under Sleep’s New Moon. (To read a review of Ms. Battle-Felton’s debut novel, Remembered, click here.) Our conversation was great fun, and I’m happy to share it with you.Read More