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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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Carolyn Forché Comes to Loveland
For Immediate Release Kathleen Willard 970-481-3864 kathleen.d.willard@gmail.com March 26, 2024 Award-Winning Poet & Human Rights Advocate Carolyn Forché Reads at the Rialto Theatre to Celebrate National Poetry Month “It is my feeling that the twentieth-century human condition demands a poetry of witness.” asserts poet Carolyn Forché. The Loveland Poet Laureate Committee is hosting three events with award-winning poet and dedicated human rights activist. In addition to her five books of poetry, she has written non-fiction and translated poetry. Her memoir What You Have Heard is True was a finalist for the National Book Award.Read More
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Two New Shorties in Abandoned Mine
Thanks to Abandoned Mine for offering up a couple of my short poems in their November issue. See here and here. But don’t miss reading around in the issue and in the Abandoned Mine archive. In the November selection I’d point especially to Thomas R.Read More
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Colorado Poets in the New Issue of PRATIK
Pratik is an international magazine of contemporary writing edited by Nepalese poet Yuyutsu Sharma. This issue—Number 3 of Volume 18—includes a dozen Colorado poets: Dan Beachy-Quick Raza Ali Hasan Linda Hogan Joseph Hutchison Mark Irwin David Mason Juan J. Morales Veronica Patterson Pattiann Rogers Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Wendy Videlock Lisa Zimmerman This capacious issue—170 pages—is available online here.Read More
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New Poem in a New Journal
I’m very excited to have one of my Mexico poems, a prose poem, in the inaugural issue of The Berlin Review. If I ever get to do an expanded version of Eyes of the Cuervo/Ojos del Crow, I’ll be sure to include this poem.Read More
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Join Me on April 4th for a Free Reading and Conversation with Pattiann Rogers
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Two New Poems in Heimat Review
See https://heimatreview.weebly.com/issue-2-winter.html Heimat Review is a well-curated, beautifully designed new online journal.Read More
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New Poem in Pedestal Magazine
Check out “Mindfulness” in Pedestal 90, just released.Read More
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Exciting News about Under Sleep’s New Moon
Thanks to the judges at the Colorado Authors League for choosing Under Sleep’s New Moon for the 2022 Book Award for poetry. Very exciting! And more than a little surprising, given the puzzlement some folks have registered upon reading the title. More than one person has asked me a simple question: “What does it mean?”—my somewhat mysterious title. I get it.Read More
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The April Edition of Bristlecone Is Available Now
Read the April Bristlecone online or download it as a PDF here.Read More