必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 ######### student Iryna Klishch '18, an English writing major from Chicago, has been recognized with the Edna Meudt Memorial Award for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (NFSPS). Klishch will receive $500, and her poetry will be published as a perfect-bound 6”x9” chapbook, titled “A Monster the Size of the Sun,” that will be marketed through Amazon.com. In addition, Klishch has an invitation to read from her work at the 2018 NFSPS Convention in Denver.
Klishch writes about an array of things, challenging conventional thought through themes of war, violence, pain. “I write with hints of magical realism, about worlds that are slightly different from the one we know, and yet that feel similar in the most haunting of ways.”
“Words are, in many ways, the only thing I know,” she adds. “Moving from a small town of Nadvirna, Ukraine, to the outskirts of Chicago, I have often found myself torn between two worlds. But poetry — it is language that I often mistake for home. Poetry is urgent, all fists. It is both loud and quiet, clinging to syllables, to sound, to rhythm: getting stuck in teeth, burning, always. Poetry is the light in everything that is dark.”
“I’m so proud of Iryna for her latest achievement, this nation-wide award from the NSFPS. It’s a fitting honor for her incredible gift and achievement,” said David Baker, author and professor of English. “I’ve been teaching and working with 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 ######### student poets for more than thirty years, and she’s without doubt one of the two or three most promising poets I’ve ever seen here – and not just promising but, already, richly developed as a lyric poet with such wide formal aptitude and curiosity and such authentic narrative flair. Her work blends old-world magic and story-telling with very new-world circumstance and attitude. I can’t wait to hold ‘A Monster the Size of the Sun’ in my hands.”
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