PALM BEACH POETRY FESTIVAL Returns to South Florida, January 20-25, 2020

 
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - July 31, 2019 - PRLog -- (Delray Beach, FL – July 30, 2019) Susan R. Williamson, Director of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival (PBPF), today announced that the 16th annual festival is returning to Old School Square for six days of literary workshops and public events, including readings, talks, interviews, panel discussions and more, January 20-25, 2020.

Special Guest Poet 2020: Joy Harjo

Recently selected as United States Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo is an award-winning Native American poet and musician from Oklahoma, who has also been named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poet. Her books of poetry include Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses.


+ Laure-Anne Bosselaar  /  Wait… Let Me Rephrase This

The most recent poetry collection by Laure-Anne Bosselaar is These Many Rooms. She also is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf and Small Gods of Grief, which was awarded the Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry.

+ Nickole Brown & Jessica Jacobs / Poetry as Practice of Awareness

After receiving her MFA from Vermont College, Nickole Brown studied literature at Oxford University, and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. She worked at Sarabande Books for 10 years, and is the author of Sister, first published in 2007 with a new edition reissued in 2018.

+ Reginald Gibbons / Digging with the Pen

Born and raised in Houston, Reginald Gibbons earned his BA in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University, and both his MA in English and creative writing and his PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.

+ Ilya Kaminsky / Craft & Voice

A Russian-American poet, critic, translator and professor, Ilya Kaminsky began to write poetry seriously as a teenager in Odessa, publishing a chapbook in Russian entitled The Blessed City. His first published poetry collection in English was a chapbook, Musica Humana , followed by Dancing in Odessa, which earned him a 2005 Whiting Writers' Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Metcalf Award, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and the Dorset Prize, and was named the 2005 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year in Poetry.


+ Adrian Matejka / The Masks We Want: Persona & Poetry & Possibility

Born in Germany and raised in Indiana, Adrian Matejka is the author of The Devil's Garden, which won the New York / New England Award, and Mixology, a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature.

Available for Interview:

Susan Williamson

srw@palmbeachpoetryfestival.org

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