Valzhyna Mort reading at Fokus Lyrik 2019 in Frankfurt, Germany. Photo: Kritzolina, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Good international poetry news!
In the UK, The Poetry Society and the University of Liverpool are offering a free Zoom event: a lecture by the extraordinary Belarusian poet and translator Valzhyna Mort. (Lecture details here.) Her third collection, Music for the Dead and Resurrected, bowled me over when I read it last month; you can read a short review of it here, but it can’t do justice to Mort’s powerful, complex work.
Two other notes: (1) You’ll have an opportunity to make a donation if you have a Paypal account; the “small donation” is for £2.50 ($3.65 US) but, of course, feel free to give more. (2) Mort’s lecture happens from 7:00-8:30 p.m. UK Time on Tuesday, March 2nd, which according to this time/date converter will be Noon-1:30 p.m. the same day here in Colorado.
What better way to spend a lunch hour?
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
