Cameron Awkward-Rich is a poet and academic. He is the author of the full-length poetry collection Sympathetic Little Monster, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and Dispatch, which won the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award. [1] [2] In addition, he has published the chapbook Transit. Awkward-Rich earned a PhD from Stanford University's program in Modern Thought and Literature and teaches women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [3] Awkward-Rich was a Keynote Speaker for the 2020 Thinking Trans/Trans Thinking Conference, organized by the Trans Philosophy Project.[ citation needed ] He was also a Featured Poet during the 2020 Split This Rock Poetry Festival, a gathering in Washington, DC, organized biennially around social justice themes. [4] He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
The Terrible We: Thinking With Trans Maladjustment. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2022.
Dispatch: poems. New York: Persea Books, 2019.
Sympathetic Little Monster. Los Angeles: Richocet Editions, 2016.
Subject to Change: Trans Poetry & Conversation (with Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Christopher Soto, Beyza Ozer, Kay Ulanday Barrett). Little Rock: Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017.
Transit. Gardena: Button Poetry, 2017.
"Craft Capsule: Revising the Archive." [5]
Gow, Robin. "Trying to Feel A Part of Some Kind of 'We': A Conversation With Cameron Awkward-Rich." [6]
Marshell, Kyla. "The Pen Ten with Cameron Awkward-Rich." [7]
"The Fiction of Ethnography in Charlotte Perkin Gilman's Herland." Science Fiction Studies, v43 n2 (2016): 331–350.
Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse". Rich criticized rigid forms of feminist identities, and valorized what she coined the "lesbian continuum", which is a female continuum of solidarity and creativity that impacts and fills women's lives.
The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin.
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The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry is given biennially to an American poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to date represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature.
The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is given by PEN America to honor a poetry translation published in the preceding year. The award should not be confused with the PEN Translation Prize. The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN in over 145 PEN centers around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes. The award was called one of "the most prominent translation awards."
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Claudia Keelan is an American poet, writer, and professor. She received the Regents’ Creative Activities Award, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Gary Eugene Young is an American poet, printer and book artist. In 2010, he was named the first ever Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County.
Truong Tran is a Vietnamese-American poet, visual artist, and teacher. He is an author of five collections of poetry and a children's book. As a visual artist Tran is best known for mixed media pieces though he has worked in multiple mediums. His work is in private collections, and he has been honored with solo shows and an exhibition catalog "I Meant to Say Please Pass the Sugar: Mixed Media Works 2009- Present" (2014).
Heathen is an American poet. Their fourth book, Thrust, won the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award and was published by Persea Books in 2017. Derr's fifth book, Outskirts is forthcoming from University of Akron Press in March 2022.
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CAConrad is an American poet, professor, and the author of seven books. They were based in Philadelphia and later Asheville, North Carolina and Athens, Georgia.
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Major poetry related events taking place worldwide during 2020 are outlined below under different sections. This includes poetry books released during the year in different languages, major literary awards, poetry festivals and events, besides anniversaries and deaths of renowned poets etc. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Yuliya Musakovska is a Ukrainian poet and translator. She is the author of poetry collections such as “Exhaling, Inhaling” (2010), “Masks” (2011), “Hunting for Silence” (2014), “Men, Women and Children,” and “The God of Freedom” (2021) as well as two poetry chapbooks released in Poland and Sweden. Her poems have been translated into over thirty languages and widely published across the globe. A full length English translation of Musakovska's poetry, The God of Freedom, was published by Arrowsmith Press in 2024.