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SUMMARY:Disrupted Space (move over!) - Jackie Wong in the Massy Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Join us May 2nd for the opening of Jackie Wong’s Disrupted Space (move over!) in the Massy Gallery. \nOpening Reception: May 2nd 7pm-10pm\nOn display through June 2nd. \nDisrupted Space (move over!) \nThis body of work focusses on the notion of disrupted space. A variety of orb forms and shapes address the condition of place and how these extractions influence movement around them and how we perceive the path they disrupt. Orbs are often referred to as spiritual spirals\, shapes formed by one thing orbiting another. Perhaps one can look at the BC First Nation Ovoid shape\, it is the center of many designs in which other forms and shapes evolve/revolve around them. The orb is often the starting point to a sophisticated design\, it is the grounding and pivotal point of departure. This body of work includes not only includes the obvious orb forms that disrupt a given path\, but it includes the orb that one can transform a surface or place. \nThe exhibition includes clay works\, collagraph prints\, photographs\, oil and wax paintings\, and water colours. \nJackie Wong is a teacher during the day. At the side of her desk she curates exhibitions\, orchestrates projects with artist and students\, and finds time for her personal art practices. \nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/disrupted-space-move-over-jackie-wong-in-the-massy-gallery-2/
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SUMMARY:Offsite Book Sales: Drag Camp for Kids at the Havana Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Come check out Vancouver’s first Drag Camp for All Ages presented by the Storytelling with Drag Queens Foundation and hosted by Candie. Learn about the educational and performative aspects of drag through our fun family event. Mini-Workshops include: Costume Design\, Makeup\, Performance\, Drag History and Culture / Storytelling over a series of 4 weeks! \nWeek 2 (May 5th) – Makeup with Tommi\, Dank Sinatra and Tara Beladi! \nHands-on activities\, prizes and a chance to perform on stage! Plus earn your Drag Camp Certificate for attending all 4 sessions. \nFeaturing amazing readings and performances by our wonderful Storytelling with Drag cast too! \nTickets $12 Adult / $7 Drag Kid \nTicket sales benefit the Storytelling with Drag Queens Foundation\, a non-profit organization with a mandate to promote diversity and inclusion in literature. \n 
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/offsite-book-sales-drag-camp-for-kids-at-the-havana-theatre/
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SUMMARY:Dynamite - Poetry and Philosophy by Maceo Paisley
DESCRIPTION:Dynamite is a performance based experience\, that is both an extension of the artists movement work\, and context for the recently published Tao Of Maceo book (Correspondence Print 2019).\n•\nThere will be elements of poetry and other uses of language\, as well as some opportunities for us to interact with the ideas expressed in the work. Expect it to be an exhibition of emotive physicality used as caveat to deep cerebral inquiry\, undergirded by an attempt at reaching a spiritual quality that is as equally messy and divine as the human experience.\n•\nBooks will be available for purchase and signing after the exhibition. \nArtist Bio:\nMaceo Paisley is a Los Angeles based dancer\, thinker\, and optimist who uses art as a means to investigate the human condition\, make critical interrogation of social structures\, and find personal healing. \nFor the past 10 years his work has ranged from behavioral economics\, to cultural ethnography and performance art in Los Angeles. for more information visit maceopaisley.com
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/dynamite-poetry-and-philosophy-by-maceo-paisley/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190515T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190515T190000
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SUMMARY:Poet's Corner
DESCRIPTION:Details TBA
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/poets-corner-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190515T190000
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SUMMARY:Offsite Book Sales - Vivek Shraya Heller Lecture
DESCRIPTION:At the ANNEX Theatre\, 823 Seymour Street. \nJoin artist\, writer and musician Vivek Shraya for the annual Heller Lecture\, where she will delve into how personal narrative relates to image-making\, visibility\, gender identity and cultural tradition. During her lecture\, Shraya will move in and out of autobiography\, song and storytelling as she shares recent bodies of work that provide a glimpse into her multi-faceted practice. \nShraya’s work centres around an expansive conceptualization of “gender\,” cultural belonging and tradition. It also serves as an offering to anyone who has been misgendered\, made to feel not feminine enough\, or struggles to find home in a language that resists complexity. \nThe 2019 Heller Lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Moving Still: Performative Photography in India\, which features artists who participate in their own photo-narratives\, positioning themselves at the centre of social and political inquiry. \nPlease note\, this is a ticketed event only. \nTo purchase tickets go here: https://etickets.vanartgallery.bc.ca/Info.aspx?EventID=12
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/offsite-book-sales-vivek-shraya-heller-lecture/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190516T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190516T190000
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SUMMARY:Offsite Book Sales: War/Torn by Hasan Namir
DESCRIPTION:VPL and Book*hug present the Vancouver Launch of War/Torn by Hasan Namir\n\nMay 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm\nFree\n\n\n\nBook*hug and VPL are pleased to present the Vancouver launch of War/Torn by Hasan Namir. \nNamir will be joined by Dina Del Bucchia\, David Ly\, Shazia Hafiz Ramji and Jordan Scott. \nBook sales at the event by Massy Books.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/offsite-book-sales-wartorn-by-hasan-namir/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190516T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190516T210000
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SUMMARY:Launch: Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being - Amy Fung with Kim Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being” is the debut collection of creative nonfiction essays by Amy Fung. In it\, Fung takes a closer examination at Canada’s mythologies of multiculturalism\, settler colonialism\, and identity through the lens of a national art critic. \nFollowing the tangents of a foreign-born perspective and the complexities and complicities in participating in ongoing acts of colonial violence\, the book as a whole takes the form of a very long land acknowledgement. Taken individually\, each piece roots itself in the learning and unlearning process of a first generation settler immigrant as she unfurls each region’s sense of place and identity. \nCo-published by Artspeak and Book*hug.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/launch-before-i-was-a-critic-i-was-a-human-being-amy-fung/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190520T183000
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SUMMARY:Christian Howse at Massy Books
DESCRIPTION:An intimate evening with Christian Howse at Massy Books in Vancouver\, BC \nHosted by Massy Books\, and booked by Side Door. \nDetails:\nMonday May 20\, 2019\nTickets: $15 (tax included)\nDoors: 6:30 PM\nShow: 7:30 PM \nIf you have any questions\, concerns\, or comments about ticketing\, event details\, show safety or anything else regarding your Side Door experience\, please do not hesitate to contact us! \n*No refunds will be issued unless the show is cancelled. Transfers are permitted\, but please inform us of the new guest(s) name & email address* \nMore about the event: \nChristian Howse is a young multi-award-nominated artist from central Newfoundland\, who is making strides into the East Coast music scene with his creative and thought provoking music.\nChristian’s second album\, We Were\, a full length album of originals\, earned him a nomination for 2018 Canadian Folk Music Award- Young Performer of the Year.\nChristian brings a powerful performance to the stage. Drawing from the genres of punk\, folk\, and math-rock\, he has developed a unique brand of percussive finger style guitar which holds his audiences captive.\nWith a passion for storytelling\, and a love for telling it how it is\, Christian illustrates a very raw and real depiction of the greatest fears\, darkest feelings\, and most beautiful revelations that we all come to feel\, to some extent\, throughout our lives. His songs are sure to leave you looking inward\, seeing a bit of your hidden self in every word.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/christian-howse-at-massy-books/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190522T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190522T220000
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SUMMARY:How She Read - Chantal Gibson at Massy Books
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books and Caitlin Press for an evening with artist and educator Chantal Gibson and How She Read\, a collection of genre-blurring poems about the representation of Black women\, their hearts\, minds and bodies\, across the Canadian cultural imagination. \nMay 22nd\, 7pm\nFree Entry \nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations. \nMassy Books’ downstairs event space is accessible! You can view the floorplan here: http://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/\nPlease feel free to reach out with any inquiries.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/how-she-read-chantal-gibson-at-massy-books/
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SUMMARY:Offsite Book Sales - Emily Davidson with Catherine J. Stewart at the Beaumont Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a poetry party! \nWe’ll be launching Emily Davidson’s debut poetry collection\, “Lift”\, new this spring with Thistledown Press. Set both in Emily’s hometown of Saint John and her adopted home of Vancouver\, it’s a book about “how to be alive without being adrift” – and we all could use more of that in our lives\, am I right? \nWe will also be celebrating the release of Catherine J. Stewart’s “Snow Melts First in the Middle of the Slough.” Catherine’s work recalls her childhood spent outdoors in Spillimacheen\, B.C.\, and we’re thrilled she can be with us for the evening. \nKicking things off will be wonderful Vancouver poet Ben Rawluk\, whose work has appeared in PRISM international\, Plentitude Magazine\, and Maisonneuve\, among others. \nThere will be: a cash bar\, books for sale\, and a cool\, arty vibe\, courtesy of The Beaumont Gallery. Three readers\, (hopefully) snacks\, and no stress\, only friendship. \nVenue: The Beaumont Studios Gallery\, 2109 Alberta Street\nDoors open: 7:30pm \nThe venue is accessible\, with washrooms next door. We will add accessibility details to this space as we have them\, please stay tuned. \nBooks will be available for purchase via cash or card\, many thanks to Massy Books.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/offsite-book-sales-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190524T190000
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Brilliance!
DESCRIPTION:Details TBA.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/indigenous-brilliance/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190526T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190526T170000
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SUMMARY:Launch: Shirley Camia's "Mercy"
DESCRIPTION:Poet and author Shirley Camia will be launching her new poetry collection\, Mercy\, in the Massy Gallery at 3pm on May 26th\, with guest Tania De Rozario. \nShirley Camia is a Filipina-Canadian poet. \nShe is the author of four collections of poetry: Mercy (Turnstone Press\, 2019); Children Shouldn’t Use Knives (At Bay Press\, 2017)\, 2018 winner of The Manuela Dias Book Design and Illustration Award (Book Design) at the Manitoba Book Awards and an Honourable Mention in Poetry at The Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada; The Significance of Moths (Turnstone Press\, 2015); and Calliope (Libros Libertad\, 2011). \nHer work has been featured in publications such as The New Quarterly\, CV2\, TAYO and the Winnipeg Free Press\, as well as the anthologies\, Endlessly Rocking (Unbound Content\, 2019) and My Lot is a Sky (Math Paper Press\, 2018). \nBorn in Winnipeg\, Shirley has lived across Canada\, the Philippines\, Japan and Kenya. She is currently based in Copenhagen\, Denmark.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/launch-shirley-camias-mercy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190528T190000
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SUMMARY:Cecily Nicholson + Michael Nardone at Massy Books
DESCRIPTION:Join Cecily Nicholson and Michael Nardone May 28th for a special double reading! \nMay 28th\, 7pm\nFree Entry \nCECILY NICHOLSON is a part of the Joint Effort prison abolitionist group and works as the Interpretive Programmer for the Surrey Art Gallery. She is the author of Triage\, From the Poplars\, winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize\, and Wayside Sang\, which won the 2018 Governor General’s award for poetry. \nMICHAEL NARDONE is a poet and editor based in Montréal. He is the author of The Ritualites (2018) and Transaction Record (2014). His writings\, dialogues\, and editorial projects have been published widely and are archived at http://soundobject.net. \nAbout Cecily Nicholson’s Wayside Sang:\n“In this hypnotic suite of long poems\, Cecily Nicholson makes room\, offering glimpses and echoes of the Canadian landscape as she explores ideas of borders\, identity\, industry and travel. She offers a catalogue of impressions\, a collage of the ephemeral\, held together by image and the pulsing phrase that stays with you long after the journey’s over\,” said the jury\, Garry Gottfriedson\, Sachiko Murakami and Patrick Warner\, in a press release. \nPraise for Michael Nardone’s The Ritualites:\n“Nardone’s poetry unsettles territories as it roves through the continent\, documenting the neon signs and the billboards\, the dinner table conversations\, and the overheard terrors of everyday Americana. The book orchestrates unlikely and compelling movements between abstracted\, parodic narrative and lyric elegy\, which Nardone writes as modulated\, cerebral laments for an era’s failure to reach utopia. The poems map what we drive towards\, driven mad\, driving round the bends in form and through the American landscape— from Pennsylvania to South Dakota to Nevada. Witnessing geographic movement as a kind of living trespass\, The Ritualites impressed upon me the need for re-tuning poetry’s ethnographic ear\, for transposing attention away from calcified ‘identity’ and toward living\, throbbing practices of civilian life across the United States. \n“Nardone’s verses seem to take their cue from Muriel Rukeyser’s citational\, attentive documentation of the embodied devastations of corporatized and industrialized belts. In his parodic\, aloof prose\, the critical lathe seems poised to spin Lisa Robertson’s claim in her succinct poem “Envoy”: “analysis too is a style of affect.” Episodic and variegated\, the book’s many voices are by turns ventriloquial and verisimilitudinous— sometimes welcoming a careful and attuned ear\, sometimes shunning it; sometimes asking for sympathetic leaning\, sometimes ironic distance. This is a book that wants the reader to be many-splendored and nimble. My hope has always been for poets to subscribe not to movements or schools of aesthetics\, but to be the bearers of urgent form— form as a thing to be broken and held close\, at once. Nardone’s collection seems to carry that urgency\, seems to know artifice for what it is—a holding pattern for thought’s flight\, so it can land in a stranger place\, further\, always\, from the comforts of habit and home.”\n–Divya Victor\, author of Kith \n“Transcription precedes essence. Michael Nardone’s The Ritualites explores writing as an interface for the found’s sounds\, made new by his ingenious and generative ear\, novel forms\, and wry sense of humours.”\n–Charles Bernstein\, author of Near/Miss \n“The Ritualites is a spellbinding collection of North America’s sonic architecture and Nardone is a poet of its topologies\, listening to the air when the body stops. The Ritualites is the jukebox of place; embodied leakages of the night\, the shout\, the cry and the laughter. A poetics of what language lays bare: little panic breaths\, sound permitted in a cell. In The Ritualites\, Nardone reminds us that language is wielded and listening is a verb.”\n–Jordan Scott\, author of Night & Ox \n  \nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations. \nMassy Books’ downstairs event space is accessible! You can view the floorplan here: http://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/\nPlease feel free to reach out with any inquiries.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/book-launch-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190529T190000
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SUMMARY:Sh:lam (The Doctor) - Joseph A Dandurand at Massy Books
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books and Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd. for the launch of SH:LAM (The Doctor)\, a new collection of poems by Joseph A Dandurand. \nMay 29th//7pm\nFree Entry \nThis powerful collection\, all too relevant today\, tells a story that needs to be told. The author writes\, “This is the truth of what has happened to my people. The Kwantlen people used to number in the thousands but like all river tribes\, eighty percent of our people were wiped out by smallpox and now there are only 200 of us. As a Kwantlen man\, father\, fisherman\, poet and playwright I believe the gift of words was given to me so I can retell our stories…” \nThese poems tell the story of a Kwantlen man who has been given the gift of healing but is also is a heroin addict. \nJoseph A Dandurand is a member of Kwantlen First Nation located on the Fraser River\, east of Vancouver\, where he resides with his three children. He received a Diploma in Performing Arts from Algonquin College and studied theatre and direction at the University of Ottawa. He is the Director of the Kwantlen Cultural Center. He is the author of three other poetry collections\, I Want\, Hear and Foretell\, and The Rumour. \nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations. \nMassy Books’ downstairs event space is accessible! You can view the floorplan here: http://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/\nPlease feel free to reach out with any inquiries
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/book-launch-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190530T190000
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SUMMARY:Cosmic Dispersal: Three Poets on Rupture
DESCRIPTION:Cosmic Dispersal: Three Poets on Rupture\n\n\n \n\n\nCome hear three distinct voices share work touching on themes of rupture\, home\, belonging\, violence\, and love. Coming to us from Seattle (Shankar Narayan\, author of Postcards from the New World)\, Toronto (Doyali Islam\, author of heft)\, and here in Vancouver (Hasan Namir\, author of War/Torn)\, each of these poets crosses literal and figurative borders through their work\, examining the impact of politics\, war\, technology\, and more on individual lives and communities. The poets will have their books/chapbooks for sale.\n\n\n \n\n\nMay 30th//7pm\n\n\nFree Entry\n\n\n \n\n\nAbout Doyali Islam and heft:\n\n\nDOYALI ISLAM second poetry book is heft (McClelland & Stewart\, 2019). Her poems have been published in Kenyon Review Online\, The Fiddlehead\, and The Best Canadian Poetry in English\, and they have won several national contests and prizes. Doyali serves as the poetry editor of Arc Poetry Magazine. In 2017\, she was a guest on CBC Radio’s The Sunday Edition and was a poetry finalist for the National Magazine Awards. She lives in Toronto\, Ontario. \n\n\n \n\n\n“heft deftly encompasses both personal and political through [Doyali Islam’s] innovative use of a bifurcated poem. Is it two wings built around a white silence? The scales of the balance of justice? The border between self and other? We enter each poem as if into an unknown world\, already populated\, but ready to welcome us. Come and sit inside these wings.” – Philip Metres\n\n\n \n\n\nAbout Shankar Narayan:\n\n\nShankar Narayan explores identity\, power\, mythology\, and technology in a world where the body is flung across borders yet possesses unrivaled power to transcend them. Shankar is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee\, winner of the 2017 Flyway Sweet Corn Poetry Prize\, and has been a fellow at Kundiman and at Hugo House. He is a 4Culture grant recipient for Claiming Space\, a project to lift the voices of writers of color\, and his chapbook\, Postcards From the New World\, won the Paper Nautilus Debut Series chapbook prize. Shankar draws strength from his global upbringing and from his work as a civil rights attorney for the ACLU. In Seattle\, he awakens to the wonders of Cascadia every day\, but his heart yearns east to his other hometown\, Delhi. Connect with him at shankarnarayan.net.\n\n\n \n\n\nAbout Hasan Namir and War/Torn:\n\n\nHasan Namir was born in Iraq in 1987 and came to Canada at a young age. He graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BA in English. His debut novel God in Pink won the Lambda Literary Award for gay fiction in 2016. He lives in Vancouver.\n\n\nNamir’s debut collection of poetry\, War / Torn\, is a brazen and lyrical interrogation of religion and masculinity—the performance and sense of belonging they delineate and draw together. Namir summons prayer\, violence\, and the sensuality of love\, revisiting tenets of Islam and dictates of war to break the barriers between the profane and the sacred.\n\n\n \n\n\nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations.\n\n\n \n\n\nMassy Books’ downstairs event space is accessible! You can view the floorplan here: http://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/\n\n\nPlease feel free to reach out with any inquiries.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/book-launch-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190531T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190531T210000
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SUMMARY:Muriel's Journey Poetry Prize Award Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Muriel Marjorie was an Indigenous social justice activist\, poet\, and spoken word artist. A vivacious\, generous woman\, what she had to say would often literally wake you up. Her enthusiastic encouragement of innovative creative endeavours was infectious. \nMuriel died in November of 2018. To celebrate her legacy\, a group of Vancouver poets created Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize to encourage poets to keep writing – particularly poetry with the lively\, outspoken attitude that Muriel brought to the world.  \nHosted by Cecily Nicholson\, recipient of the 2018 Governor General’s Award for English-language poetry\, this poetry reading will include a number of poets who participated in the Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize. \nJudges for the prize were Diane Wood\, host of the monthly Poetry Cabaret at the Carnegie Center\, the poet Kevin Spenst\, a Pushcart nominee\, and Kyle Hawke\, writer\, poet and editor at Three Ocean Press. \nA video of Muriel reciting some of her poetry can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2L6aBz-6Qg&app=desktop.  \n  \nInquiries at murielsjourney@gmail.com   \n 
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/muriels-journey-poetry-prize/
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