Montreal International Poetry Prize: Fluid Vessels 6
Fluid Vessels Reading Series 2023: Event 1
March 27th, 4 pm Montreal, 9 pm London, UK, Online
Fluid Vessels, the annual reading series of the Montreal International Poetry Prize, returns in winter/spring 2023 to build international connections around the art of the poem. Over the course of two online events, six finalists for the 2022 prize will present their work to a live audience. Join us for free to celebrate their achievement and enjoy an illuminating evening of poetry! Each session will include time for responses and questions from the audience, giving you the opportunity to join the conversation about the creation, form and impact of poetry in the world today.
Readings by
Danielle Legros Georges
Elena Croitoru
Redd Ryder
Hosted by Martin Breul
Elena Croitoru is a British-Romanian writer. Her first poetry chapbook, ‘The Country With No Playgrounds’, won the Live Canon Chapbook prize. Her first novel was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Prize - Best Unpublished Novel. Her second poetry pamphlet was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Greek Bicentennial Poetry Pamphlet Prizes. She can be found on Twitter: @elenacroitoru. Photo by James Reed.
Danielle Legros Georges works in the areas of contemporary U.S. poetry, Black and African-diasporic literature, and Caribbean/Latin-American and Haitian studies; with recent fellowships from American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund. She is the former poet laureate of Boston, and a professor of creative writing at Lesley University. Her most recent book is Island Heart, translations of the poems of early-20th-century Haitian-French writer Ida Faubert. www.daniellelegrosgeorges.com. Photo by Jennifer Waddell.
Redd Ryder abandoned his law practice in 2016 to write full-time. He has won Writer's Digest Writing Competition poetry prize awards in 2015, 2017, 2018, and in 2019 a First Prize in Poetry, with three WD Honorable Mentions this year. In 2017 Redd co-founded, and has since co-curated, the Artful Dodgers Poetry Series at the historic Montauk Club, established in 1891 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, still boasting many of its original Victorian design elements.