Category: Events

Women in Literary Arts (WILA) Conference

BU Alumna, Erin Belieu, along with Cate Marvin are planning a Women in Literary Arts Conference, and there is a considerable amount of excitement about the proposed conference, and I think a lot of our grads, and current students may be interested in attending. It’s likely to be in the Boston area, either in late [...]

Notes on a Reading

 

On the twenty-third of June, 2009, we met at Newtonville Books for a reading in celebration of issue 69 of AGNI. Editor Sven Birkerts introduced himself with an apology; he’d just returned from a writers’ retreat, where several times daily he was made to stand behind a lectern introducing fresh new voice after fresh new voice. In [...]

Charles Simic

Here’s a link to the Charles Simic reading at the Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture back in February. Video of the Faculty Reading should be available shortly. [View video]

Rachel DeWoskin

Creative Writing alumna, Rachel DeWoskin (GRS ‘00), will be reading from her new novel Repeat After Me, her fiction debut (her wonderful memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing first appeared in 2005), on June 9th at the BU Barnes & Noble, starting at 7:00 pm, in their 5th floor reading room. 
Congratulations, Rachel, and here’s hoping everyone can make [...]

Commencement, May 2009

Christopher Martin, Michael Towers, and Alexis Kozak, moments before the commencement ceremony began.

After commencement, our three students celebrate with William Fancher.