We are proud to report that Luisa Caycedo-Kimura (Poetry 2013)’s poem “Cartagena Sunrise – April, 2009” has been accepted by San Pedro River Review for their Harbors and Harbor Towns-themed issue, which will be going to publication early next month. To see a list of contributors and the cover of the Harbors and Harbor Towns [...]
We are very proud to announce that Rafael Campo (Poetry 1991), a professor at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess, and Lesley University, has won the Hippocrates Open International Prize for Poetry and Medicine. The prize has been awarded in the United Kingdom since 2009 and has quickly become one of the most important international [...]
Great news! Three of our poetry alumni have been published in the spring issue of Redivider. Lisa Hiton, Daniel Kraines (both Poetry 2011), and Megan Fernandes (Poetry 2012) all have poems appearing in Redivider 10.2, which is available for purchase here. Lisa Hiton is a Chicago native. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in [...]
Mark your calendars for an evening of art and poetry at the Gallery Benoit, this Friday, May 17! Three of our current students, Sara Rivera, Sarah Huener, and Patrick Connolly (all Poetry 2013) will read their work alongside artist Craig Stockwell’s minimalism and not. What: GALLERY BENOIT PRESENTS Art and Poetry at Gallery Benoit When: [...]
We’re excited to announce that a new novel by Daphne Kalotay (Fiction 1994), will be released by Harper on May 21, 2013. Sight Reading “chronicles the collateral damage three classical musicians inflict on the people who love them” (Kirkus). In a starred review for Booklist, Michele Leber writes that “Kalotay celebrates art in general, even [...]
We’re excited to announce the publication of 1996 (House of Anansi Press, 2013) by Sara Peters (Poetry 2008). Her publisher describes the collection as “a book about obsessions — about desire, violence, sex, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed.” Robert Pinsky has called the book “deeper than mere [...]
We are pleased to share a recently published poem in Alimentum Journal by Kelly Morse (Poetry 2012). Her poem “Phở bò Hà Nội” was inspired by a pho shop in Hanoi, Vietnam named Phở Thìn 13 Lò Đúc. Kelly lived in Hanoi, Vietnam for two years, and recently returned there on a Robert Pinsky Global [...]
Please visit the site below to read a brave piece by Tara Skurtu (Poetry 2013), about her experience being near the finish line at the Boston Marathon this year. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tara-skurtu/after-the-marathon-bombin_b_3189644.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=4854126,b=facebook Tara also has two new poems up at B O D Y, an international online magazine based in Prague. She is the recipient of an [...]
Patricia Park has written another thoughtful piece for The Guardian, this time focusing on second and third generation Americans and the assumption that, for them, somewhere else is “home.” You can read the article online here. Patricia Park (Fiction 2009) teaches writing at Boston University and is at work on a modern day rewrite of [...]
Lloyd Schwartz, a poet and professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and a a regular commentator for NPR’s “Fresh Air,” has just named six of his favorite new poets. We are proud to report that one of the six is our own Tara Skurtu, who is currently studying with Robert Pinsky and [...]
