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SUMMARY:HYBRID: 2022 Massachusetts Book Awards: A Reading by Local Honorees
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of readings from local honorees of this 
 year's Mass Book Awards\, presented by Forbes Library and the Center for 
 the Book:  Gary Metras\, Rebecca Olander\, Lesléa Newman\, Ruth Ozeki\, 
 and Martín Espada.\n\n \n\nBe there in person or watch the livestream via 
 YouTube. \n\n\nMartín Espada has published more than twenty books as a 
 poet\, editor\, essayist and translator. His latest book of poems is called 
 Floaters\, winner of the 2021 National Book Award and a Massachusetts Book 
 Award. In addition to his several volumes of poetry\, he is the editor of 
 What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (2019). He 
 has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\, the Shelley Memorial Award\, the 
 Robert Creeley Award\, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship\, the 
 PEN/Revson Fellowship\, a Letras Boricuas Fellowship and a Guggenheim 
 Fellowship. The Republic of Poetry was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. 
 \n\n\nGary Metras was appointed Easthampton’s inaugural Poet Laureate in 
 2018. He is a retired educator\, having taught high school and college. His 
 poems have appeared in such periodicals as America\, The Common\, and 
 Poetry. He edited Adastra Press for 40 years\, specializing in hand-crafted 
 limited editions. He is a fly fishing enthusiast and has worked on several 
 area river restoration projects with Pioneer Valley Chapter of Trout 
 Unlimited\, of which he is past president. His newest of eight books of 
 poems is Vanishing Points (2021)\, a Must Read Poetry Book in the 2022 
 Mass. Book Awards.\n\n\nLesléa Newman has created 80 books for readers of 
 all ages including the dual memoir-in-verse\, “I Carry My Mother” and 
 “I Wish My Father\,” the novel-in-verse\, “October Mourning: A Song 
 for Matthew Shepard\,” and the picture  books\, “Gittel’s Journey: An 
 Ellis Island Story\,” “Sparkle Boy\,” and “Heather Has Two 
 Mommies.” Her literary awards include poetry fellowships from the 
 National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation\, 
 two National Jewish Book Awards\, two American Library Association 
 Stonewall Honors\, and the Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor 
 Body-of-Work Award. From 2008 - 2010\, she was the poet laureate of 
 Northampton.\n\n\nRebecca Hart Olander’s poetry has appeared recently in 
 Hayden’s Ferry Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, Tinderbox Poetry 
 Journal\, and elsewhere\, and her collaborative visual and written work has 
 been published in multiple venues online and in They Said: A Multi-Genre 
 Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (2018). Her books include 
 Dressing the Wounds (2019) and Uncertain Acrobats (2021). Rebecca teaches 
 writing at Westfield State University and Amherst College and works with 
 poets in the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes 
 University. She is the editor/director of Perugia Press.\n\n\nRuth Ozeki is 
 a novelist\, filmmaker\, and Zen Buddhist priest\, whose books have 
 garnered international acclaim for their ability to integrate issues of 
 science\, technology\, religion\, environmental politics\, and global pop 
 culture into unique\, hybrid\, narrative forms.\nHer new novel\, The Book 
 of Form and Emptiness tells the story of a young boy who\, after the death 
 of his father\, starts to hear voices and finds solace in the companionship 
 of his very own book.\nHer novels\, My Year of Meats (1998)\, All Over 
 Creation (2003)\, A Tale for the Time Being (2013) and The Book of Form and 
 Emptiness (2022) have been translated and published in over thirty 
 countries. Her third novel\, A Tale for the Time Being\, won the LA Times 
 Book Prize\, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National 
 Book Critics Circle Award. The Book of Form and Emptiness is the winner of 
 the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction as well as the 22nd Annual 
 Massachusetts Book Award\, the BC Yukon Book Prize\, and the Julia Ward 
 Howe Prize for Fiction.\n \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Meeting: 
 https://youtube.com/live/wMQFIPsxEoU?feature=share
LOCATION:Coolidge Museum
ORGANIZER;CN="Forbes Library":MAILTO:info@forbeslibrary.org
CATEGORIES:Adult Events, Author Events, One-Time Events, Poetry
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