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The Poetry prize was awarded to Dionne Brand for “Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems

  The Poetry prize was awarded to Dionne Brand for “Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems In Science and Technology, Sabrina Imbler was honored for “How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures,” which explores themes of survival and sexuality , community and care, while weaving the extraordinary world of marine biology with the author's personal account of family and relationships. "Writing this book helped me come out as trans, which I can’t recommend enough," Imbler joked, before adding that we're living in a time when the trans and queer community is under siege. "The ocean proves that changing sex is the most natural thing in the world. If you don’t believe me ask a clown fish." “Spear,” Nicola Griffith's "queer Arthurian masterpiece for the modern era," earned The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, while he Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction prize went to Aamina Ahmad's “The Return...

SOUTH KOREA CONSIDERS NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT FOR FIRST TIME IN FACE OF GROWING NORTH KOREA SECURITY THREAT

  B-52 bomber, C-17 and South Korean Air Force F-35 fighter jets fly over the Korean Peninsula during a joint air drill in South Korea, Dec. 20, 2022. South Korean Defense Ministry via AP "In case the U.S. And South Korea carry into practice their already announced plan for military drills that [North Korea] – with just apprehension and reason – regards as preparations for an aggression war, they will face unprecedentedly persistent and strong counteractions ," the ministry wrote. North Korea has long accused the U.S. And South Korea of using joint military drills as a pretext for rehearsing an invasion of the isolated communist country.