Category: Grad Students

Dammy Aderibigbe’s poem in RATTLE

November 30, 2015 at 2:00 PM

We’re pleased to announce that Michael “Dammy” Aderibigbe’s poem “The Origin of Kindness” is forthcoming in RATTLE issue 50!  Dammy is currently in the MFA program for poetry at Boston University, where he studies with Robert Pinsky and Karl Kirchwey. Congrats, Dammy! D.M. Aderibigbe is from Nigeria. His chapbook, In Praise of Our Absent Father, is an […]

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Tara Skurtu’s Latest Publications

June 24, 2015 at 11:37 AM

Tara Skurtu (poetry ’13) continues to be one of our most prolific alumni. In addition to a Fulbright and a poem recently published on the T, Tara’s poem “Night Communion” will appear in the July issue of Plume online, “Long Poem, Bucharest” is in the spring issue of Poetry Wales, and her poems “Desire” and “Limit” appear in […]

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Jillian Jackson Awarded SBCF Emerging Artist Grant

June 19, 2015 at 11:16 AM

We’re so proud to announce that current MFA candidate Jillian Jackson has received a prestigious St. Botolph’s Club Foundation (SBCF) Emerging Artist Grant!  SBCF is dedicated to promoting artistic and cultural enterprises of New Englanders through generous grants for artists “to whom it can make a difference through the combination of financial support, recognition, and endorsement.”  Some of the Creative […]

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The MFA in Creative Writing: For Those Who Need to Write

February 18, 2015 at 3:30 PM

This is a guest post by Michael Samuels (fiction 2015), who interviewed CW Program Director Karl Kirchwey for his take on the Creative Writing MFA. For Karl Kirchwey, prize-winning poet, translator, and director of creative writing at BU, existential questions surround the school’s prestigious Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. The top-ranked program, […]

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Erin Belieu’s latest reviewed in the NY Times, and Literary Links

December 12, 2014 at 3:01 PM

                    We were delighted to see that the latest poetry collection by Erin Belieu, Slant Six (Copper Canyon Press), was reviewed on the first page of the Arts section of the New York Times!  Times critic Dwight Gardner was largely favorable in his review, saying, “It’s […]

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Literary Links

October 24, 2014 at 4:28 PM

BU Creative Writing wishes you a happy Friday!  And here are some literary links to start off your weekend. Dan Chiasson reviews Claudia Rankine’s latest. Whoa.  A Jane Austen video game, in which one plays to win the sympathy of Elizabeth Bennett. What Mark Twain’s mother taught him about compassion. Novelist Don DeLillo reviews a Taylor […]

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Creative Writing Program Director Karl Kirchwey featured in BU Today

October 20, 2014 at 4:56 PM

We’re excited to see this article about Karl Kirchwey in BU Today!  In addition to being the director of the Creative Writing Program, Karl is an award-winning poet, scholar, translator, arts curator, and teacher of poetry.  His work inquires deeply into a vast array of disparate subjects, including physics, biology, Roman history, religion, and mythology–to […]

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Mai Wang Receives Emerging Artists Award

June 9, 2014 at 3:07 PM

Hearty congratulations to Mai Wang! A current MFA candidate in fiction, Mai recently received an Emerging Artists Award from the St. Botolph Club Foundation.  The St. Botolph club gives grants to exceptional writers, visual artists, and musicians who are beginning their careers. We’re so proud of you, Mai! Mai Wang graduated from Yale University, where […]

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May 15th MFA reading at the Playwright’s Theater

May 9, 2012 at 2:53 PM

At 7 PM on May 15, 2012, come to the Boston Playwright’s Theater at 949 Commonwealth Avenue, for the final session in the BU MFA poetry reading series, featuring Susan Barba, Mike Brokos, Bryan Coller, Megan Fernandes, L. E. Goldstein, Abriana Jette, Natasha Hakimi, and Kelly Morse. Wine and cheese reception to follow. Susan Barba […]

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UPDATE: Some Useful Thesis Related Information

July 16, 2009 at 10:28 AM

Supplement to the Graduate School’s Guide for the Thesis Writer: Formatting the Thesis: The Graduate School has provided a detailed and specific guide to assist you in formatting your thesis. Go pick one up at room 112 and study it. You will need to meet with Martha Khan to have your formatting checked and corrected. […]

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