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Spacks Prize Reading!
April 25, 2021 • 5:00-6:15 PDT

April 3, 2021

Portrait of Barry Spacks by Jack Smith
Portrait of Barry Spacks by Jack Smith

Save the date! Thanks to the post-geography wonder of Zoom, we will be celebrating our most recent Spacks Prize winner, Meghan Dunn for her manuscript Curriculum (2020 winner, selected by Jessica Jacobs), with ALL PREVIOUS SPACKS PRIZE WINNERS, including:

  • Catherine Abbey Hodges for Instead of Sadness (2015 winner, selected by Dan Gerber)
  • Kurt Olsson for Burning Down Disneyland (2016 winner, selected by Thomas Lux)
  • Aaron Baker for Posthumous Noon (2017 winner, selected by Jane Hirshfield)
  • Michelle Bonczek Evory for The Ghosts of Lost Animals (2018 winner, selected by Lee Herrick)
  • Glenn Freeman for Drinking with O’Hara (2019 winner, selected by Stephen Dunn)

Register in advance here:
https://sbcc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErcO-qpzorHd3DMWk6YFuk5SiklM3-xceZ

Program with readers’ bios here.

  • Burning Down Disneyland
  • Instead of Sadness

Reminder that the 2021 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize will be judged by the newly-appointed Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, Lynne Thompson! Submit your manuscript before the end of April.

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