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Valzhyna Mort and Michael Prior

January 25, 2022, 7:00 PM EST

On Tuesday, January 25th at 7:00PM ET, join us for a virtual reading featuring poets Valzhyna Mort and Michael Prior. Moderated by Carolyn Forché.

About Valzhyna Mort
Valzhyna Mort is a poet and translator born in Minsk, Belarus. She is the author of three poetry collections, Factory of Tears (Copper Canyon Press 2008), Collected Body (Copper Canyon Press 2011) and, mostly recently, Music for the Dead and Resurrected (FSG, 2020), which won the Griffin Poetry Prize. Mort is a recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Amy Clampitt residency, and the Civitella Raineri residency. Her work has been honored with the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry and the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. Her work has appeared in Best American PoetryNew YorkerPoetryPoetry ReviewPoetry InternationalPrairie SchoonerGrantaGulf CoastWhite Review, and many more. With Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, Mort co-edited Gossip and Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Poems and Prose. Mort teaches at Cornell University and writes in English and Belarusian.

About Michael Prior
Michael Prior is a writer and teacher born in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of two books of poems: Burning Province (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House, 2020), which won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and the BC & Yukon Book Prizes’ Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and Model Disciple (Véhicule Press, 2016). Prior is the recent recipient of fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, the Jerome Foundation, and Hawthornden Literary Retreat. His poems have appeared in PoetryThe New RepublicNarrative Magazine, the Sewanee ReviewPN Review, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, and elsewhere. He is an Assistant Professor of English and an ACM Mellon Faculty Fellow at Macalester College.

Details

Date:
January 25, 2022
Time:
7:00 PM EST
Website:
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/Valzhyna-Mort-Michael-Prior/register