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Valzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus, and has won several literary awards for her poetry.
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Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort will present her poetry during the Central Lakes College Verse Like Water program Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Submitted Photo
The Central Lakes College Verse Like Water program will host poet Valzhyna Mort for a free virtual reading at noon Tuesday, April 27.
Born in Minsk, Belarus, Mort made her American debut in 2008 with the poetry collection “Factory of Tears,” co-translated by the husband and wife team of Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright.
Mort is also the author of ”Collected Body” and her most recent collection ”Music for the Dead and Resurrected.”
20 titles to guide you through National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month. And, as we celebrate an art form which gives shape and language to our experience of the world, it s worth noting that many readers still struggle to find the door, the access point to poetry.
With this in mind, accept these 20 titles most of them quite recent as a peace offering and a starting point. Not all will resonate with every reader; but there should be something here for each mood and manner of engaging.
Poems of devotion
Jericho Brown, The New Testament (2014) Following in the footsteps of James Baldwin and others, Brown s blend spiritual and sexual desire, eros and agape, until the lines are practically imperceptible. Brown s 2019 title, The Tradition, earned him a Pulitzer Prize, but don t overlook the power of this earlier work. Brown will appear in conversation with Tracy K. Smith April 23 as the culminating event of this year s Unbound Book Festival.
Brandon Hobson, thes 2020-21 Walton Visiting Writer in Fiction, will give a virtual reading at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 25, in collaboration with the program and the Fayetteville Public Library.
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