Carolyn Marie Souaid
Carolyn Marie Souaid is a Montreal-based writer, editor and painter. She is the author of nine poetry collections and the novel, Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik, winner of the Silver Medal for Best Regional Fiction at the NYC Independent Publisher Book Awards. She has performed at literary festivals and events in Canada, Europe and the U.S., her work garnering a top prize at the Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin and appearing on shortlists for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Throughout her career, she has worked extensively to build bridges between linguistic and cultural communities in Quebec, including a decades-long involvement with the Inuit. Souaid's work has appeared in print and online journals, nationally and internationally, and has been featured on CBC-Radio. Her literary papers (1967-2022) are housed at Rare Books and Special Collections of the McLennan Library of McGill University.
Upcoming event with Carolyn Marie Souaid
Thursday April 4, 2024 at 7:00 pm EDT
Montreal, QC
Poets for Palestine
Evening One
Librairie Pulp Books and Cafe (3952 Wellington Street)
Join poets, Carolyn Marie Souaid, Fortner Anderson, Misha Colomon, and Meryem Yildiz, as they read from their work as well as from the work of a Palestinian poet to raise consciousness about the role of the poet in the ongoing struggle for peace and justice. The evening will also include a raffle and a passing of a hat for donations to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.
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Their videopoem, Blood is Blood, won in the category “Best Film for Tolerance” a prize worth 3,000 EUR created this year and sponsored by German Federal Foreign Office. The videopoem, which speaks to the ongoing turbulence in the Middle East, beat out El Sakia (The Water Wheel) from Egypt and the Turkish entry, Limewashed House in the Dark.
The ZEBRA festival is the largest and most important poetry film festival, biennially attracting film makers, poets and artists from around the world to Berlin. Of the 870 films submitted from 63 countries this year, the program committee nominated 33 for the various competitions.
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Posted on: Monday, July 23, 2012
Carolyn Marie Souaid and Endre Farkas' video poem Blood is Blood has been selected for this year's programme at the 6th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, taking place in Berlin. Blood is Blood is a collaborative book-length poem for two voices, dealing with the bloodshed in the Middle East, a version of which was commissioned for CBC Radio in 2006. For more information, and to view the trailer, check out the Blood is Blood book page.