Tag Archives: Katie Farris

Katie Farris Makes the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize (for Poetry) Shortlist for her Poetry Collection “Standing in the Forest of Being Alive”

October 9, 2023 – 9:45 pm

A Week before Surgery I Practice my Body like Giotto’s angels, skecthed from his studies of sheep, I open the jaws of my back to the sky eating my body […]

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Our Burning World – Poems and Other Writing by W.S. Merwin, Barry Lopez, Kim Stafford and Katie Farris

June 30, 2023 – 8:56 pm

In this trembling moment, with light armor under several flags rolling across northern Syria, with civilians beaten to death in the streets of occupied Palestine, with fires roaring across the […]

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Writing Poems for Wholeness and Self-Discovery – A Richard Osler On-Line Session with Huge Thanks to Micheline Maylor and Mount Royal University – February 16th, 6:30 Pm Mountain Time

February 15, 2022 – 10:21 pm

ON THE TABLE IN THE ROOM IN THE DARK house lies the book you didn’t know you were looking for, opened to the page with the poem about solace you […]

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We Must Write Love Poems in a Burning World – The Inspiring Poetry and Prose of American Poet Katie Farris

December 8, 2020 – 7:15 pm

  Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World To train myself to find, in the midst of hell what isn’t hell. The body, bald, cancerous, but still beautiful enough […]

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