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Elisabeth Blair [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Montréal, QC
Canada
Quebec CA
Email: 
ecblair@gmail.com
Bio: 

Elisabeth Blair is a poet, editor, and workshop leader with an extensive background in music and the visual arts. Her publications include full-length poetry memoir because God loves the wasp (Unsolicited Press 2022), two chapbooks—We He She/It (Dancing Girl Press 2016) and without saying (Ethel Press 2020)—and poems in a variety of journals, including Harpur Palate, Feminist Studies, cream city review, and Juked. She has been artist-in-residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Wildacres, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and ACRE. She writes a monthly subscription newsletter, lullabies & alarms, about the craft of poetry. From 2018–21 she was honored to be a poetry workshop leader for the Burlington Writers Workshop. In 2022 she received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to complete her second book, a poetry novel.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Gwendolyn Brooks, Cherie Dimaline, Ocean Vuong, Warsan Shire, Juanita Casey, Annemarie Ni Churreain, Alice Oswald, Rita Dove, Tyehimba Jess, Morgan Parker, Heather McHugh, Tommy Pico, Alice Notley, Friederike Mayröcker, Virginia Woolf, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ursula K. LeGuin, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson
Twitter/X: 
@elisabethblair
Born in: 
MI
Michigan
Raised in: 
Website: 
https://www.elisabethblair.net [2]
Prizes won: 
  • Research & Creation Grant Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts, August 2022. Funding for five months to complete my second book, a poetry novel
     
  • Finalist, Harbor Mountain Press Annual Manuscript Prize, March 2019, for my first book, because God loves the wasp
What I'm reading now: 
Eternity Smith and Other Poems by Juanita Casey
Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Selected Poems by Colette Bryce
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
Identifies as: 
American
Canadian
Feminist
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Immigration
Incarcerated Individuals
Seniors
Veterans
Women

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[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/elisabeth_blair [2] https://www.elisabethblair.net