LA SPOTLIGHT SERIES AT BOSTON COURT:
William Archila, Lory Bedikian, and Fady Joudah
with Charif Shanahan
William Archila is the author of The Art of Exile (Bilingual Review Press, 2009), which won an International Latino Book Award in 2010 and was honored with an Emerging Writer Fellowship Award by The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. He has been published in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Notre Dame Review, Crab Orchard Review, and The Georgia Review, among others. His second book, The Gravedigger's Archaeology (Red Hen Press, forthcoming), recently won the 2015 Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize.
Lory Bedikian is the author of The Book of Lamenting, winner of the the 2010 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry and finalist in both the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition and the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award Competition. She has received grants from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial fund as well as from AFFMA: Arpa Film Foundation for Music & Art. Her poems have been published in the Connecticut Review, Poetry International, Poet Lore, Heliotrope, and The Portland Review, among other journals, and have been included in Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets. She currently teaches poetry workshops in Los Angeles.
Fady Joudah's poetry collections and translations have earned him a Yale Series prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Griffin International Prize, among others. His latest translation is Petra: the Concealed Rose. His most recent poetry collections from Copper Canyon Press are Alight and Textu. Textu is a palm-size book-long sequence of short poems composed originally on cell phone and are governed by a meter of character count. Each poem or section of poem in Textu is exactly 160 characters long. He is a practicing physician and lives in Houston, Texas.
Co-sponsored by Boston Court and Red Hen Press.