A Celebration of the Life and Poetry of Anya Krugovoy Silver

Join us for a reading of Anya Krugovoy Silver’s poetry by family, friends, and fellow poets. Anya Krugovoy Silver published four poetry collections, most recently Second Bloom (Cascade Books, 2017), and her poems appeared in dozens of publications, including The Southern Poetry Review, Anglican Theological Review, New Ohio Review, Witness, and Bellevue Literary Magazine. She was awarded the Georgia Author of the Year for Poetry in 2015, was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2018, and given the Posthumous Lifetime Achievement award for her poetry by the Georgia Writers Association. In her obituary appearing in The New York Times on August 10, 2018, Richard Sandomir wrote that Anya “wrote lyrical verse that gave readers an exquisite, intimate and sometimes angry account of her illness,” exploring “religion, love, womanhood, spirituality, the body, and other subjects.” “I have a tremendous amount of joy in my life, and my joy exists with pain,” she told an interviewer from Georgia Public Radio, “All of life is woven together, and separating the strands is impossible.”

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https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/anyasilver/