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NEWS & Events

Fall, 2009


New poem, “November Philosophers,” is forthcoming in The New Yorker.


Colosseum awarded the 2009 Larry Levis Reading

Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Reading: VCU, Sept. 24, 8pm.





Interview with NPR’s “Speaking of Faith”:

“Reposessing Virtue: Katie Ford on Poetry, Katrina, and Wasting One’s Life”

listen here


Readings and Conference with the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa:

“Souk Ukaz”: Writing In and Beyond the City

Tunisia and Morocco,

April 24-May 5, 2009.


Colosseum was named one of the “Best Books of 2008” by Publishers Weekly.


Colosseum named one of the “Top 10 Books of Poetry of 2008” by

Virginia Quarterly Review


Ford receives a 2008 Lannan Literary Award [details at www.lannan.org]