On Thursday, May 20th, US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo? reads at the Origins Festival?. She will also discuss her new anthology, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through (W.W. Norton, 2020), which "gathers more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first …
Literary Journalism Online is a two-week online residency that encourages the exploration of new ideas in journalism and experimentation in writing. Designed to challenge and stimulate, the program aims to inspire creative pieces of non-fiction and to assist the writers in their completion. A preeminent space for long-form journalism, this …
Past Griffin shortlisted poet and judge Hoa Nguyen will present her new collection, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave Books, 2021). Register for this free Zoom event here: https://cambridgepl.libcal.com/event/7699918 A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave Books, 2021) is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and …
Over the six weeks this program will create a relaxing and intriguing online group workspace to discuss poems that participants want to translate. (Poems, or mixed-genre texts, or any text that you wish to workshop alongside poems!) The program will privilege curiosity, helpfulness, a bit of risk-taking to carry us …
2014 Griffin shortlisted poet Rachael Boast launches her new collection, Hotel Raphael, on May 27th with an event that's also a fundraiser for the Ichthyosis Support Group. You can register for the launch here: https://bit.ly/3uY8fzT or donate to the fundraiser anytime in May, which is Ichthyosis Awareness Month: https://bit.ly/3yhvnLU. "Hotel …