The Griffin Poetry Prize Revamped
"Scott Griffin thinks that Canadian poetry can stand on its own, competing with the best poetry in the world. And he’s putting his money where his belief is to create one big prize for a single book of poetry, with international and Canadian poets competing for a $130,000 award, making it the richest such prize in the world."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Susan Tichy on Czesław Miłosz's The Collected Poems
"His quarrels and debates with California—and with everything else, from the Catholic Church to the slippery and duplicitous powers of language itself—I met in the poems, and as poems. His dialectical movement through image and statement, history and lyric, was a revelation, a poetic practice that, in itself, opposed authoritarian thinking—literally a form of resistance." |
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