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SUMMARY:2023 Golden Rose Award with Afaa M. Weaver
DESCRIPTION:Afaa M. Weaver (formerly Michael S.Weaver) is the author of sixteen collections of poetry\, several plays\, and some short fiction. As a journalist in Baltimore\, where he was born in 1951\, Afaa wrote for the Baltimore Sun\, the Baltimore Afro-American\, and other papers. His awards include a Fulbright appointment\, a Guggenheim fellowship\, multiple Pushcarts\, the PDI Award in playwriting\, the Kingsley Tufts\, and the 2019 St. Botolph Distinguished Artist Award. His collaborative translation and cultural communication projects with Chinese poets in the U.S. and abroad has earned him national recognition in China\, and in Taiwan. He has taught at several colleges and universities in the U.S. and in Taiwan. At Simmons University he held the Alumnae Chair in English for twenty years. Afaa’s newest collection of poetry is A Fire in the Hills (Red Hen Press). He lives in upstate New York with his wife Kristen Skedgell Weaver. \nphoto by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
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LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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