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(digital) Fiona Sze-Lorrain + Dan Beachy-Quick

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Digital LOGOS Gathering, co-sponsored by EcoTheo Review. LOGOS Collective Collective Gatherings are 'liturgically-inflected' reading events, which engage audience participation. To participate in the ZOOM call, please RSVP through Eventbrite via this Facebook Event. A confirmation email will be sent with ZOOM link and PW for access.

You can also tune-in and watch the event on the LOGOS page via FacebookLIVE (@logospoetrycollective).

Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a poet, literary translator, editor, and zheng harpist who writes and translates in English, French, Chinese, and occasionally Spanish. She is the author of four books of poetry: Water the Moon (2010), My Funeral Gondola (2013), The Ruined Elegance (2016), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and one of Library Journal’s Best Poetry Books, and most recently, the much anticipated Rain in Plural (2020), from Princeton Univ. Press. She has translated several volumes of contemporary Chinese-language, French, and American poets, and guest/coedited three anthologies of international literature.

Sze-Lorrain's work was shortlisted for the 2016 Best Translated Book Award and longlisted for the 2014 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. In 2018, she was the inaugural writer-in-residence at Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires. She serves as an editor at Vif Éditions, a small independent press based in Paris. As a zheng musician, she has performed worldwide.

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Dan Beachy-Quick is the author of eight collections of poems – including, most recently, Arrows (2020, Tupelo Press) – a novel, six chapbooks (two in collaboration with Srikanth Reddy), and other projects. His 2019 collection, Variations on Dawn and Dusk was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award. His poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including The Boston Review, The New Republic, Poetry, Chicago Review, Paris Review, and New American Writing. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Southern Review, The Poker, Rain Taxi, The Denver Quarterly, Interim, and other venues.

The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University, Beachy-Quick has also received the Colorado Book Award and has been a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Prize and the PEN/USA Literary Award in Poetry. He is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation residency, and has taught at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University, where he serves as assistant chair of the English Department and teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

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