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The Free Sonnet – with Indran Amirthanayagam

  • 06 Apr 2023
  • 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Zoom

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In this workshop we will write sonnets, both traditional ones that follow the Petrarchan or Shakespearean format — or we will play with the form and write our own variations. Let us have fun with this most traditional form while writing out what is jostling inside our minds and hearts.
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INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM produced a “world record” in 2020 publishing three poetry collections written in three different languages. He writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole. He has published twenty two poetry books, including Isleño (R.I.L. Editores), Blue Window (translated by Jennifer Rathbun) (Diálogos Books), Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant (BroadstoneBooks.com), The Migrant States, Coconuts on Mars, The Elephants of Reckoning (winner 1994 Paterson Poetry Prize), Uncivil War and.The Splintered Face: Tsunami Poems. In music, he recorded Rankont Dout. He edits the Beltway Poetry Quarterly; writes https://indranamirthanayagam.blogspot.com; writes a weekly poem for Haiti en Marche and El Acento; has received fellowships from the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The US/Mexico Fund for Culture and the Macdowell Colony. He is the IFLAC Word Poeta Mundial 2022. In 2021 he won an Emergent Seed grant. His poem “ Free Bird” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.  Hosts The Poetry Channel. New books include Powèt nan po la (Poet of the Port ) (to be published in 2023), Origami:Selected Poems of Manuel Ulacia(Dialogos Books, January 2023), and Kont Anlèvman (Edisyon Freda, May, 2023). Indran publishes poetry books with Sara Cahill Marron at Beltway Editions.


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