February 22, 2013 at 18:27
More lovely poems from Katherine Hollander (Poetry 2006)–three of which you can read online! We’re proud to report that some of the work that she did as part of BU Creative Writing’s annual painter/poet project has been published in The Common Online. The project pairs BU poets with BU painters so that they may create [...]
February 22, 2013 at 16:56
Abriana Jette (Poetry 2012) has had a very successful February! Since the month began, her poetry has been accepted by Empirical Magazine, Perceptions Literary Magazine, and Every Day Poets. Her personal essays are forthcoming in The Boiler Journal, dirtCakes, and Elsewhere. Abriana Jette is a poet, essayist, and educator from Brooklyn, New York. Her work is [...]
February 21, 2013 at 18:36
Patricia Park (Fiction 2009) has just had an op-ed published in The Guardian–on the front page! Her article addresses some of the themes she’s exploring in her novel-in-progress: white collar vs blue collar work, and the stigmas attached to the latter. Click here to read “The case for blue-collar work: College no longer guarantees success.” [...]
February 21, 2013 at 17:12
Our spring 2013 Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture is at 7:30 tonight at The Castle, 225 Bay State Road, featuring Terrance Hayes and Ani Gjika (Poetry 2010)!
February 20, 2013 at 18:05
Jim Gavin (Fiction 2011)’s collection of short stories, Middle Men, was released yesterday by Simon & Schuster. On Friday, Jim gave an interview to the Los Angeles Times about the mix of fact and fiction in Middle Men. To read the interview, click here. Jim Gavin’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris [...]
February 20, 2013 at 17:28
Tara Skurtu, one of our current poetry students, has two poems that have just been released in Hanging Loose (“Dreamt Dad Died” and “Trenches”). Congratulations, Tara! Tara Skurtu is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her poems have also appeared in the Los Angeles Review, Poetry Review, Salamander, Poet Lore, The Los [...]
February 20, 2013 at 16:31
Emma Duffy-Comparone (Fiction 2012)’s short story “The Zen Thing” is featured in the current issue of One Story. You can read an excerpt from the story and a Q&A with the author here and subscribe to the magazine (“one great short story in the mail every three weeks”) here. Emma also has stories forthcoming in [...]
February 20, 2013 at 16:08
More wonderful news: Shubha Sunder (Fiction 2012) has received third place in Narrative’s 30Below contest, and her story “The Western Tailor” has just been published online. (Follow the link to read her story.) Congratulations, Shubha! Shubha Sunder grew up in Bangalore, India. At BU, she won the Robert Fitzgerald Prize and the Shmuel Traum Prize [...]
February 20, 2013 at 12:37
Ani Gjika (Poetry 2010)’s first book of poems, BREAD ON RUNNING WATERS, has just been released by Fenway Press. You can order your copy of her remarkable debut here. In her wonderful introduction to the collection, Rosanna Warren lauds the way that “Gjika has turned English, her adopted language, into a subtle instrument, a beautifully [...]
February 19, 2013 at 17:52
Tony Wallace (Fiction 1999), now a senior lecturer in the Boston University College of Arts & Sciences Writing Program, has been awarded the 2013 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for a collection of short stories, THE OLD PRIEST. As part of the prize, the University of Pittsburgh Press will publish THE OLD PRIEST later this year. [...]
