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“Thread of the Real” — Celebrating George McWhirter’s Griffin Prize
I wanted to celebrate my friend and mentor, George McWhirter, with a post on the Griffin Prize Facebook page. But the site limits the number of line returns to 100, and my tribute poem has too many to post there. SO … I’m posting it here and linking to it from the Griffin Prize Facebook page. I should say that this is the title poem of my collection Thread of the Real, but it is, above all, a tribute to George.Read More
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McWhirter Wins the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize
In the wake of my earlier post regarding my mentor George McWhirter’s arrival on the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize short list, there is this extraordinarily wonderful news from last night’s event in Toronto: George McWhirter wins $78,000 for the international prize for his translation of Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, written in Spanish by Mexican poet Homero Aridjis (New Directions Publishing).Read More