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Tin House; she has been awarded the Barbara Bradley Award, the Yeats Poetry Prize, the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award, the Betty Gabehart Prize, and the 49th Parallel Award. She is currently a faculty member in the MFA program at New England College. Today she takes a moment to talk with us about her new book, which challenges existing notions about the love poem, for “but what are poems for if not to express extremity? If not to both rage about and celebrate obsessions?”
Rosebud Ben-Oni: I
really felt what you had to say about love in your opening poem “Agape Feast,” especially the last lines: “Its mercy is electric, it is storied, it is rank./ Its mercy is a tablet dissolved in a glass,/more invisible the more you drink.” Can you tell us how this breathtaking poem (which is a gift to read aloud!) sets the stage, so to say, for the rest of the poems in
The early ’90s might not seem that long ago to some of us, but it’s been thirty years since America launched the Hubble telescope,
Terminator 2 topped the box office, and C&C Music Factory was insisting it was “Gonna Make You Sweat,” much to the delight of every cardio class since. And it was in this fertile ground that the seeds for the Colorado Book Awards were planted.
In the years since, Coloradans have been invited to partake in an annual celebration of local literature, whether that means a book set in our state or one written by a writer who calls Colorado home.
Mass Poetry announces the 2021 Massachusetts Poetry Festival
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Mass Poetry announced the 2021 Massachusetts Poetry Festival will be held from May 13 to 16 with some preview events earlier in May.
Readings, performances and workshops will take place virtually at https://festival.masspoetry.org with select, limited exhibitions occurring in person in Salem. The event is open to the public, with tickets available by suggested donation and free to students. The 2021 festival, now a biennial event, showcases a roster of poets from across the commonwealth and the country. More than 50 events in total feature over 100 poets including Guggenheim Foundation Award recipient Naomi Shihab Nye; Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess; international bestselling author Lang Leav; and American Book Award winner Martín Espada; as well as Victoria Chang, Jos Charles, Khadijah Queen, Patricia Spears Jones, Ariana Reines and Dara Wier.
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