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SUMMARY:Copper Canyon 50th Anniversary Reading at Poetry Foundation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Chicago celebration of Copper Canyon Press’s 50th Anniversary with readings by Copper Canyon authors Chris Abani\, Tishani Doshi\, Alison C. Rollins\, Arthur Sze\, and Javier Zamora. \nThis is a hybrid event\, which will be offered in-person and via livestream. \nChris Abani is a novelist\, poet\, essayist\, screenwriter and playwright. Born in Nigeria to an Igbo father and English mother\, he grew up in Afikpo\, Nigeria\, received a BA in English from Imo State University\, Nigeria\, an MA in English\, Gender and Culture from Birkbeck College\, University of London\, and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. He has resided in the United States since 2001. \nTishani Doshi publishes poetry\, essays and fiction. Recent books include the poetry collection Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods\, shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award\, and a novel\, Small Days and Nights\, shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and a New York Times Bestsellers Editor’s Choice. For fifteen years Tishani worked as a dancer with the Chandralekha group in Madras\, India. A God at the Door\, her fourth full-length collection\, is published by Copper Canyon Press and was shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Poetry Prize. \nAlison C. Rollins was named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Iowa Review\, The New York Times Magazine\, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow\, she was a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. In 2018\, she was a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award\, and in 2020\, the winner of a Pushcart Prize. Her debut poetry collection\, Library of Small Catastrophes was a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award nominee. \nArthur Sze has published eleven books of poetry\, including The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems; Sight Lines\, which won the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry; and Compass Rose\, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Sze is the recipient of many honors\, including a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation\, a Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America\, the Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers\, a Lannan Literary Award\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts. \nJavier Zamora was born in La Herradura\, El Salvador in 1990. In his debut New York Times bestselling memoir\, Solito\, Javier retells his nine-week odyssey across Guatemala\, Mexico\, and eventually through the Sonoran Desert. Zamora was a 2018-2019 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University (Olive B. O’Connor)\, MacDowell\, Macondo\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, Poetry Foundation (Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg)\, Stanford University (Stegner)\, and Yaddo. He is the recipient of a 2017 Lannan Literary Fellowship\, the 2017 Narrative Prize\, and the 2016 Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award for his work in the Undocupoets Campaign. Javier lives in Tucson\, AZ. \nIn-Person Attendance\nAll guests over the age of two must wear a mask inside the Poetry Foundation building. Guests over the age of five must show proof of vaccination and booster up to the level to which they are eligible for their age group. Guests over the age of 18 must show ID alongside their proof of vaccination. If you cannot meet these requirements\, you will not be granted entry to the event. Please note that some performers may choose to perform without a mask. Guests are encouraged to register in advance. \nLivestream Attendance\nThe livestream link will be shared with registered guests on the day of the event. In order to receive the livestream details\, please register in advance here. \nPoetry Foundation’s events are completely free of charge and open to the public. This event will include CART captioning and ASL interpretation. For more information about accessibility at the Poetry Foundation\, please visit our Accessibility Guide. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/visit/accessibility \nAccessibility: ASL interpreter\, live captions\, \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/copper-canyon-50th-anniversary-reading-tickets-519975008247
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/copper-canyon-50th-anniversary-reading-at-poetry-foundation/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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