Miller Aud-cast #54: Landa wo

Hello and welcome to Miller Aud-cast, the Missouri Review podcast where we listen to and discuss the finalists for the 2021 Miller Audio Prize. I’m Marc McKee, TMR’s managing editor. Thank you for being here, wherever you are, for episode 54, featuring the latest finalist for the 2021 Miller Audio Prize in Poetry, Land wo’s “Poet in exile / Poète en exil.” Landa wo’s fiction and poetry has appeared in a variety of publications and several anthologies . With roots in Angola and Cabinda, Landa wo is an Afro-French poet member of Société des Poètes Français. Politically engaged his work deals with prominent issues of social justice, discrimination and cultural strife. “Poet in exile”, Landing Places, Immigrant Poets in Ireland, Dedalus Press 2010 “Poet in exile”, 2007 Winner Metro Eireann Writing Competition judged by Roddy Doyle ‘‘Poète en exil’’, 2005 féile filíochta, International Poetry Competition Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Learn more here: Twitter: @wo_landa Instagram : landa.wo https://linktr.ee/Landa_wo Episode 55 will be here for you before you know it, so keep a watchful ear and listening eye about you. Thanks as always to the outgoing Missouri Review contest editor, Bailey Boyd, and to Patricia Miller, for her generous support for the Miller Audio Prize. BE ADVISED: Entries are now open for the second annual Perkoff Prize, the new opportunity from the Missouri Review which awards $3000 + publication in prizes to the poet, fiction writer, and essayist with the best work engaging the fields of health and medicine in provocative ways. Learn more on our website, or subscribe to our newsletter for weekly updates. As ever, TMR is open for submissions year-round, and we remain dedicated to discovering and publishing the best contemporary writing in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Be heard. Give us the opportunity to discover you: submit your work today! In addition, we have tons of marvelous (and free!) creative content to read, listen to, and even watch on our website. Learn more at missourireview.com.