Category: Alumni

Ryan Wilson’s translations published in Able Muse

July 9, 2014 at 10:27 AM

Ryan Wilson (Poetry, ’08) has translations of two sonnets—one by Charles Baudelaire and the other by Lope de Vega—appearing in the new issue of Able Muse. The issue, devoted to poetry in translation, was guest-edited by Charles Martin, and includes translations by Willis Barnstone, Rachel Hadas, X.J. Kennedy, A.E. Stallings, and more. Here’s a link […]

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Megan Collins published in Rattle and 3Elements Review

July 7, 2014 at 5:01 PM

Wonderful news for Megan Collins (Poetry ’08)!  Megan’s stirring poem, “After the Memorial,” recently appeared in Rattle.  The poem was published as part of the Poets Respond project, in which poets respond to current events. Megan says: “I wrote this poem in response to a local tragedy in which a teenager, Austin Tautkus of Ellington, Connecticut, was killed in an ATV […]

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Abriana Jetté featured in Stay Thirsty magazine

June 25, 2014 at 5:09 PM

Check out this fantastic interview in Stay Thirsty magazine featuring BU poetry alum Abriana Jetté, where she talks about the BU Creative Writing Program, what it means to be an emerging poet, and how music and poetry influence each other. Abriana Jetté is an internationally published poet, essayist, and educator from Brooklyn, New York. Her work […]

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Sarah Huener a finalist in Pocataligo Poetry Contest

June 11, 2014 at 12:02 PM

More great news from Creative Writing program alumni!  Sarah Huener’s poem, “Zagreb, October,” was named a finalist in the Pocataligo Poetry Contest, which is held annually by Yemassee.  Sarah says she wrote the poem while on her Global Fellowship travels in Croatia. Hurrah!  Way to go, Sarah! Sarah Huener is a poet and musician from […]

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Ryan Wilson’s latest publications

June 10, 2014 at 4:23 PM

Publications abound for Ryan Wilson, whose poems have recently been published or are forthcoming in a slew of journals! His poem, “After the Sonogram,” appears in the new issue of Iron Horse Literary Review, and “Goths” was published in the most recent issue of 32 Poems. In addition, Ryan wrote this essay review for their ‘Marginalia’ […]

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Tara Skurtu published in Memorious

June 3, 2014 at 1:50 PM

Tara Skurtu has published two poems in issue 22 of Memorious, which went live yesterday!  View the issue here, and read Tara’s poems: “Şoricel” and “Discovery: Negative Return.” Congrats, Tara! Tara Skurtu teaches Creative Writing at Boston University, where she received a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship and an Academy of American Poets Prize. She was named one of Lloyd […]

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Daphne Kalotay to read at Newtonville Books tomorrow!

May 28, 2014 at 11:06 AM

Daphne Kalotay’s newest novel, Sight Reading, has won the 2014 New England Society Book Award for Fiction and has been selected as a Highly Recommended book by the Boston Authors Club.  Congratulations, Daphne! Daphne will be reading from Sight Reading at Newtonville Books on Thursday, May 29, at 7 and at the Brookline Booksmith on Thursday […]

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Happy birthday, Adrienne Rich! and literary links

May 16, 2014 at 2:12 PM

                            “A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of […]

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Renee Emerson publishes debut book of poetry

May 15, 2014 at 4:59 PM

Wonderful news for Renee Emerson, whose beautiful book of poems, Keeping Me Still, has just been published! You can buy a copy and read more about the book here. From the publisher:  “…a collection of poems like keepsakes of what is lost and gained as we move on, grow, and reach for something bigger–always with hope.” […]

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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura receives Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellowship

May 15, 2014 at 3:58 PM

 Poet Luisa Caycedo-Kimura has been nominated for another writing residency!  She’ll spend a week in Ragsdale, a non-profit artists’ community in Lake Forest, 30 miles outside of Chicago, located on architect Howard Van Doren Shaw’s country estate. It looks like a gorgeous, quiet place to write. Way to go, Luisa! and we hope you have a […]

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