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词条 Javier Zamora
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Education

  3. Career

  4. Honors

  5. Activism

  6. Books

  7. References

  8. External links

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}}Javier Zamora is an award-winning Salvadoran-American poet and activist.[1]

Early life

Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador[2] and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine, joining his parents in California.[3][1]

Education

He earned a BA at the University of California-Berkeley and an MFA at New York University and is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.[4][1]

Career

Zamora's chapbook Nueve Años Inmigrantes/Nine Immigrant Years won the 2011 Organic Weapon Arts Contest, and his first poetry collection, Unaccompanied,[5] was published in 2017 by Copper Canyon Press. His poetry can be found in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2013, Kenyon Review, Narrative Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Times, Ploughshares, and Poetry.

Honors

Zamora's honors include Barnes & Noble Writer for Writer's Award (2016), Meridian Editors’ Prize, and the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Zamora has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, CantoMundo, Colgate University, The Frost Place,[6] MacDowell Colony, The Macondo Writers Workshop, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing, and Yaddo.[7][4] In 2017, Zamora was awarded the Narrative Prize for "Sonoran Song," "To the President-Elect," and "Thoughts on the Anniversary of My Crossing the Sonoran Desert".[8][9]

Activism

Zamora was a founder, with poets Marcelo Hernandez Castillo and Christopher Soto (AKA Loma), of the Undocupoets campaign which eliminated citizenship requirements from major first poetry book prizes in the United States.[2][10]

Books

  • Nueve Años Inmigrantes/Nine Immigrant Years Organic Weapon Arts, 2012. {{ISBN|9780982710616}}, {{OCLC|824739031}} - chapbook
  • Unaccompanied, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2017. {{ISBN|9781556595110}}, {{OCLC|972237998}}
In Anthology
  • Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, University of Georgia Press, 2018. {{ISBN|9780820353159}}, {{OCLC|1004957170}}

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/javier-zamora|title=Javier Zamora|date=5 June 2018|website=Poetry Foundation|accessdate=5 June 2018}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.pw.org/content/rethinking_poetic_citizenship|title=Rethinking Poetic Citizenship|date=17 June 2015|website=Pw.org|accessdate=5 June 2018}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/javier-zamora|title=Javier Zamora - Narrative Magazine|date=17 April 2014|website=Narrativemagazine.com|accessdate=5 June 2018}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.arts.gov/art-works/2014/art-talk-poet-javier-zamora|title=Art Talk with Poet Javier Zamora|date=16 December 2014|website=Arts.gov|accessdate=5 June 2018}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7BCF124287-3066-46E5-B6A1-5751E2717475%7D|title=Copper Canyon Press: Unaccompanied, Poetry by Javier Zamora|website=Coppercanyonpress.org|accessdate=5 June 2018}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://goodtimes.sc/uncategorized/the-poems-of-javier-zamora/|title=The Poems of Javier Zamora - Good Times Santa Cruz|website=Goodtimes.sc|accessdate=5 June 2018}}
7. ^{{Cite web |url=https://pen.org/user/javier-zamora/# |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418081820/https://pen.org/user/javier-zamora/# |archive-date=2017-04-18 |dead-url=yes |df= }}
8. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.javierzamora.net/bio |website=javierzamora.net |title=Biography |accessdate=15 February 2019}}
9. ^{{cite web |title=Narrative Prize |url=https://www.narrativemagazine.com/great-stories/narrative-prize |website=Narrative Magazine |accessdate=15 February 2019}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2015/02/undocupoets-organizers-are-making-headway/|title=Undocupoets Organizers Are Making Headway by Harriet Staff|date=5 June 2018|website=Poetry Foundation|accessdate=5 June 2018}}

External links

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  • Poetry and Profile at Poetry Foundation website
  • [https://www.pw.org/content/rethinking_poetic_citizenship Profile at Poets & Writers magazine]
  • [https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/winter-2017/n30b-winners/sonoran-song-and-other-poems-javier-zamora "Sonoran Song and Other Poems"] at Narrative Magazine.
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