Lunar Landing, 1966 by Laboni Islam
CBC Books | CBC | Posted: November 8, 2017 12:57 PM | Last Updated: November 22, 2017
2017 CBC Poetry Prize shortlist
Laboni Islam made the 2017 CBC Poetry Prize shortlist for Lunar Landing, 1966.
She will receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and will have her story published on CBC Books.
If you're interested in the CBC Literary Prizes, the CBC Nonfiction Prize opens on Jan. 1, 2018.
You can read Lunar Landing, 1966 by Laboni Islam below.
Read the other finalists:
- Tourists Stroll a Victoria Waterway by Cornelia Hoogland
- Carry by Sarah Kabamba
- Postcards for my Sister by Alessandra Naccarato
- Saying the Names Shanty by Harold Rhenisch
About Laboni Islam:
Laboni Islam's poetry has appeared in canthius, echolocation, FreeFall, (parenthetical), Popshot Magazine, Spiral Orb, wildness and anthologized in The Unpublished City. She is an alumna of the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies creative writing program, through which she was honoured to receive the Janice Colbert Poetry Award (2014) and Marina Nemat Award (2016). Laboni teaches at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Aga Khan Museum, animating the gap between art and young audiences. Born in Canada to Bangladeshi parents, she lives in Toronto.