35. Lost Lagoon Poems w/ Betsy Warland
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Betsy Warland discusses her new book of prose poems, Lost Lagoon / lost in thought. Andrew asks Betsy about how to find inspiration for a poem. It\'s a great time all around!
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\\nBetsy Warland has published 12 books of poetry, creative nonfiction and lyric prose including her best-selling 2010 book of personal essays, Breathing the Page\\u2014 Reading the Act of Writing. In April of 2016, Oscar of Between\\u2014A Memoir of Identity and Ideas was launched by Caitlin Press\\u2019 new imprint, Dagger Editions. Reviews have called it \\u201can achievement,\\u201d \\u201ctruly luminous,\\u201d and a \\u201ctour de force.\\u201d In 2013, Warland created a new publishing template called Oscar\\u2019s Salon. An interactive salon that features excerpts from her manuscript Oscar of Between, Guest Writers and Artist\\u2019s work, the salon also includes a Featured Reader each month as well as readers\\u2019 comments.
\\nWarland co-founded with Myrna Kostash the Creative Writers Nonfiction Collective in 2004 that holds an annual conference for cnf writers creativenonfictioncollective.ca. She also founded and is a mentor in the one-on-one six-month International Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Program.
\\nWarland received the Mayor\\u2019s Arts Award for Literary in Vancouver in 2016. In 2017, she will be the Lyric Prose and Poetry Mentor for The Writer\\u2019s Studio at S.F.U. A professional manuscript consultant/editor for the past 30 years, Warland works with writers from across Canada and abroad.
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\\nAndrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University, and is pursuing an MA in English at UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.
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