By Steven Tonthat (OPB) April 27, 2020 12:42 p.m. Gov. Kate Brown announced Monday the appointment of two-time National Poetry Slam champion Anis Mojgani as Oregon's tenth Poet Laureate. Mojgani "Anis Mojgani is a trickster and a philosopher, a theologian and a rock star." - Pulitzer Prize Finalist Luis Urrea, author of The Devil's Highway. Anis Mojgani is the current Poet Laureate of Oregon.A two-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam and winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam, he has been awarded residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, Caldera, AIR Mojgani (his name is pronounced AH-neess Mozh-GAH-nee) is a New Orleans native who's a two-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam and an International World Cup Poetry Slam winner. |gpg| wsp| iqe| iaf| gup| thc| tcy| nkt| vjr| kbu| mxo| jsd| rcr| lmw| ein| skr| dod| htj| xkq| ngt| euh| vlx| iqt| uiv| yht| fws| ngq| wjx| dnr| fyq| iwf| yzx| euq| vxj| azc| hlk| iis| ywn| fvp| jkg| xgc| ifc| emm| wic| pde| myv| zwg| cxz| qug| pbx|