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Poetisa Visitará Pensacola el 27 de diciembre
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Poet to Visit Pensacola December 27 On Friday, December 27, Open Books Bookstore in Pensacola will visiting poet Laura Juliet Wood. An accomplished poet and graduate of Booker T. Washington High School (Pensacola), Laura Wood currently resides in Mexico where she teaches English and writes, edits, and translates poetry. Wood will be reading in English and Spanish, mostly from most recent book "All Hands Lost." Reception begins at 5:30. Reading starts promptly at 6 p.m. Light refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public. Open Books is located at 1040 Guillemard St. Laura Juliet Wood, originally from Pensacola, holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from Hollins University and an M.F.A. in Fiction from Columbia University. She has lived in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico for 15 years where she teaches English and writing to young people, and is an associate editor at SOL Magazine: English Writing in Mexico. Her translations of prose and poetry in Spanish have appeared in Mexico City’s The Ofi Press and the anthology Solamente en San Miguel, Volumes I and II. In just the last year her poems were published or accepted by SOL magazine, Haibun Today, Crab Creek Review, The Hollins Critic, The Los Angeles Review, The Atlanta Review and Minerva Rising. In March, 2012 she was named one of two finalists in AROHO’s Orlando Poetry prize. Conferences and workshops include Under the Volcano, Hedgebrook, San Miguel Poetry Week and Sewanee Writers' Conference. She read this spring at KGB in New York City where she was invited as one of a select group to represent alumnae of Columbia University’s Writing Program. “All Hands Lost,” available from Finishing Line Press, is her first book of poems. |