Arts
Roger Nash named city's official poet
Spring 2010 |
Sudbury poet Roger Nash has been appointed by city council as Greater Sudbury’s first poet laureate. (Read Nash's original short story in the Fall 2009 issue of Sudbury Living. Click on PDFs.)
The appointment was recommended to council by community representatives serving on a local selection committee. Nash will receive an honorarium of $1,000 for a two- year term ending Dec. 31, 2011.
Nash’s most recent work of fiction, The Camera and the Cobra, appears in The PEN / O. Henry Prize Stories, an annual collection of the year’s 20 best stories published in American and Canadian literary magazines. He has won a number of literary awards for poetry, including the Canadian Jewish Book Award in 1997 for In the Kosher Chow Mein Restaurant.
Additional awards include first prize in PRISM International’s poetry and fiction contest (1985-86) and in the poetry category of the Fiddlehead’s annual literary contest (1993-94). He is a past president
of the League of Canadian Poets and was instrumental during his tenure in founding the position of Canadian Poet Laureate.
POETRY COMPETITION
Spring is here, and Sudbury is looking for poetry to be considered for publication in the new Sudbury literary e-zine, to be published from the office of Sudbury’s Poet Laureate, Roger Nash. Submit up to six previously unpublished poems, in either English or French (no more than 180 lines total) on the theme "My Sudbury." Email submissions only, deadline Friday May 21, to roger_nash@hotmail.com. Along with your submission, include one suggestion for a title you’d like for the e-zine. Celebrate your city, both in poetry and in a possible e-zine title. Poems will be selected for publication by a panel of judges. If your title is chosen, you will be acknowledged in every edition of the e-zine. Our ideal title would be the same, or similar, in both English and French. First edition of the e-zine will be on-line by early fall 2010. For up-to-date information on the e-zine, visit the Poet Laureate web-page at www.Sudbury.library.on.ca
