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Samthology Campaign

A book to honor Sam Hamill will be launched at the Cascadia Poetry Festival in Anacortes, May 9-12, 2019. Ian Boyden christened it the Samthology and an IndieGoGo campaign has begun to raise the funds to produce the book and support the festival. You can contribute...

Make It True meets Medusario Anthology

Make It True meets Medusario is a bilingual anthology was spawned by two previous anthologies and combined into one to initiate a dialog between Spanish language poets of the neo-barroco school, as organized by José Kozer and poets from the Cascadia bioregion, as...

Jose Kozer wins Neruda Award ($60K!)

Former SPLAB Visiting Poet, Jose Kozer, perhaps the pre-eminent living Cuban poet, won the Neruda Award from the Chilean government this past week. Details: Santiago de Chile, July 3 (Reuters). – The Cuban author José Kozer was awarded today with American Award...

Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival Report

On August 5 Meredith and I left for Beijing and after a one-night stop there, we were dropped in to an international “City of Poets” to use C.A. Conrad’s phrase. This was in Xining at the Qinghai Hotel. All my expenses were covered and Meredith only...

Jose Kozer in Portland, Nov 22

From David Abel: Reed College Spanish Department presents a bilingual poetry reading by José Kozer reading poems from Anima Monday, Nov. 22 5:00 pm Psychology Auditorim (PSY 105) Reed College José Kozer (Havana, 1940) is the son of parents who migrated to Cuba from...