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 [...]
Boston alumni and friends, please join us this Tuesday night for the year’s first installment of Writers at the Black Box, our student-run reading series. Readers will include Stephanie Brownell (Playwriting 2013), Danyele Brickner (Playwriting 2013), Margot Miller (Fiction 2013), Sara Rivera (Poet 2013), and the alumna Lisa Hiton (Poetry 2011). The reading is open [...]
In case you missed it live…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm2A9RLrmlA&feature=youtu.be
Today we’re happy to share a lovely Pif Magazine article in which our alumna Ani Gjika (Poetry 2010) is interviewed by Derek Alger. In the interview, Ani says the following about her experience at BU: “For the first time in my life I was workshopping poems in a group of highly talented people. I felt [...]
We are pleased to report that Janet Ruth Young (Fiction 1987) published two young adult novels with Atheneum Books for Young Readers, a division of Simon & Schuster, in November of 2012. My Beautiful Failure tells the story of a teen boy who volunteers at a suicide hotline and falls in love with a troubled [...]
Please join us Thursday, April 4 at 6:00PM in the Metcalf Ballroom of the George Sherman Union at BU for a reading hosted by Robert Pinksy in celebration of the 25th anniversary of The Best of the Best American Poetry, edited by David Lehman and with a foreword by Pinsky. The George Sherman Union is [...]
Congratulations to Micah Nathan (Fiction 2010), whose short story QUARRY (written in Leslie Epstein’s class) has been selected for the 2013 Best American Mystery Stories. The collection will be released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this fall. Micah Nathan has written several novels, some ignored, most well-received. His short stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, [...]
