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Parkland Poets Reading Series

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Welcome to Parkland Poets! We are a non-profit poetry society with a mission to bring more poetry into our community and to the world. Whether you are interested in Traditional Forms, Cowboy Poetry, Free Verse, Experimental Forms, Spoken Word, or any other kind of poetry, we hope that you will …

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In Conversation: Terrance Hayes and Roger Reeves

Austin Central Library 710 West Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX

The Library Foundation and Texas Book Festival continue the author series In Conversation with MacArthur Foundation Fellow Terrance Hayes and 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize winner Roger Reeves. In Conversation pairs writers for intimate, unmoderated discussions of their work. Both Hayes and Reeves have new essay collections. Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets …

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Book Launch: Erín Moure

Parc Drolet 4274 Drolet St, Montreal, Quebec

Poet, translator, and three-time Griffin finalist and judge Erín Moure launches her new collection, Theophylline: A Poetic Migration via the modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké, (House of Anansi Press) on August 3rd at 7:00pm ET in Montreal at Parc Drolet. Klara du Plessis joins her, reading from her new book …

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Translation Talks: Manolis Aligizakis & Sharon Dolin

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Join us on Saturday, November 18th at 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm GMT on Zoom for our fifth Translation Talks, featuring Manolis Aligizakis in conversation with Sharon Dolin. Manolis Aligizakis is a Cretan poet and author. He has published more than 20 books of poetry, three novels, and eleven major translation works. His translation Tasos Livaditis – Poems, Volume II was longlisted for the …

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Ani Gjika — An Unruled Body, with Jung Hae Chae

Politics & Prose Bookstore 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington

Ani Gjika was born in Albania and came of age just after the fall of Communism, a time in which everyone had a secret to keep and young women were afraid to walk down the street alone. When her family immigrates to America, Gjika finds herself far from the grandmother …

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