{"id":2198,"date":"2017-02-17T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developmenttwo.marymount.edu\/blog\/holly-karapetkova-to-read-feb-27-at-kramerbooks\/"},"modified":"2017-02-17T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T09:12:00","slug":"holly-karapetkova-to-read-feb-27-at-kramerbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/blog\/holly-karapetkova-to-read-feb-27-at-kramerbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Holly Karapetkova to Read Feb. 27 at Kramerbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poet Holly Karapetkova<\/a>, chair of Marymount University\u0092s Literature & Languages Department, will give a preview reading of her second collection,\u00a0Towline<\/i>, at 6:30 p.m on Monday, Feb. 27. at Kramerbooks in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

The book won the 2016 Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize from Cloudbank Books. This is the first year the prize, named after a beloved Oregon poet who died in 2014, has been awarded.\u00a0Towline\u00a0<\/i>will formally launch with a reception and reading at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon on March 12.<\/p>\n

\u0093The event will also be a celebration of Vern\u0092s last book, which was never really formally launched,\u0094 Karaptekova said. \u0093It\u0092s an honor to win this award and be part of this event in memory of such a beautiful poet and human being.\u0094<\/p>\n

Many of the poems in Karapetkova\u0092s collection grapple with the untimely death to cancer of a close childhood friend.<\/p>\n

\u0093When you\u0092re constructing things in words and language there\u0092s a sense that you can somehow bring some of the complication and messiness into focus, which allows you to feel like you can grow and learn from them, and potentially be helpful to others,\u0094 she said.<\/p>\n

Another section of the book deals with themes of immigration, exile and displacement.<\/p>\n

\u0093My husband is a Bulgarian immigrant,\u0094 she said. \u0093I\u0092ve adopted that culture, speak the language, and spend a lot of time there. When you live between two places, you have the sense of never being able to feel truly at home anywhere.\u0094<\/p>\n

Dr. Karapetkova\u0092s poems and translations from Bulgarian have appeared in\u00a0Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, North American Review,<\/i>\u00a0Huffington Post<\/i>,\u00a0Poetry Northwest\u00a0<\/i>and many other publications.\u00a0<\/i>Her first book,\u00a0Words We Might One Day Say<\/i>\u00a0(WWPH Press),\u00a0<\/i>won the Washington Writers\u0092 Publishing House Prize for Poetry. She has been nominated for six Pushcart Prizes and is the author of more than 20 books and graphic stories for children and young adults.<\/p>\n

She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Rice University, an MFA in Poetry from Georgia State University and a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from the University of Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

At the upcoming preview reading, David Ebenbach will also read from his collection of short stories, \u0093The Guy We Didn\u0092t Invite to the Orgy.\u0094 Kramerbooks is located at 1517 Connecticut Ave NW.<\/p>\n

David Algergotti, author of\u00a0Millennial Teeth,\u00a0<\/i>praised Karapetkova\u0092s new collection.<\/p>\n

\u0093The poems are expansive, ranging in structure from the freest verse to the elegantly formal, in theme from the broadly universal to the most intensely personal,\u0094 he said. \u0093They all return, though, to that same inexorable human conundrum: how to carry grief, to carry on. They give no easy answer, but they help the traveler along the way.\u0094<\/p>\n

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Holly Karapetkova<\/p>\n

The cover of Holly Karapetkova\u0092s new collection of poetry,\u00a0Towline<\/i>, which won the 2016 Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poet Holly Karapetkova, chair of Marymount University\u0092s Literature & Languages Department, will give a preview reading of her second collection,\u00a0Towline, at 6:30 p.m on Monday, Feb. 27. at Kramerbooks in Washington, D.C. The book won the 2016 Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize from Cloudbank Books. This is the first year the prize, named after a beloved […]<\/p>\n

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