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Emma Duffy-Comparone in The Mississippi Review and more

July 9, 2013 at 2:43 PM

We’re proud to report that Emma Duffy-Comparone (Fiction 2012) has been invited to the MacDowell Colony and will be a scholar at the Sewanee and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences.  Emma also has a story out in the current issue of The Mississippi Review. To buy a copy of MR 41/1&2, please click here. Emma has […]

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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura in Crack the Spine

July 3, 2013 at 11:52 AM

More good poetry news to catch up on! Luisa Caycedo-Kimura (Poetry 2013) has just had a poem, “Lemons and Peppers,” published in issue 69 of Crack the Spine. Congratulations, Luisa! Luisa Caycedo-Kimura is a 2013 Robert Pinsky Global Fellow in Poetry and will travel to Spain this fall. Luisa was born in Colombia and grew […]

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Tara Skurtu: three new poems and a prize

July 2, 2013 at 11:17 AM

Congratulations to Tara Skurtu, who has continued her publishing blitz with three more poems! Two of her poems (“Catechism” and “Skurtu, Romania”) have been published in the 20th anniversary issue (Part 2) of Salamander. And “Kazoo” is in the newly released issue of The Dalhousie Review. Tara has also recently been awarded the BU Class […]

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Lisa Hiton’s poem selected as Raynes Poetry Competition finalist

July 2, 2013 at 10:59 AM

Happy July, everyone! Lots of good news to share. First up: Lisa Hiton (Poetry 2011)’s poem “The Hive,” about what happened in Newtown, CT, was selected by Gerald Stern as a finalist for The Raynes Poetry Competition.  It has been published in the anthology The American Dream, put out by Blue Thread/Jewish Currents. Congratulations, Lisa! […]

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Rebekah Stout in Slate

June 7, 2013 at 4:46 PM

We’re excited to report that Rebekah Stout (Poetry 2010)’s poem “This Horse” has been published on Slate’s website! You can read the poem and listen to Rebekah read it here. Rebekah Stout is the assistant poetry editor at Slate and a lecturer in poetry at Boston University. She is the winner of the 2009 Poetry […]

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A full-length poetry collection for Renee Emerson

May 29, 2013 at 3:32 PM

Wonderful news for Renee Emerson (Poetry 2009): her first full-length poetry collection, Keeping Me Still, is forthcoming from Winter Goose Publishing in March 2014. Congratulations, Renee! Her publisher writes that she is “an intensely moving writer whose work is not only immersed in human emotion, but also draws power from hope found in the midst […]

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New literary honors for Caitlin Doyle

May 29, 2013 at 3:18 PM

We’re thrilled to report that Caitlin Doyle (Poetry 2008) has received a series of exciting literary honors this spring. She has been awarded a 2013 Literary Grant through the John Anson Kittredge Fund. Kittredge Fund grants are awarded to “individuals at an early stage of a promising professional career in the arts, humane letters, and […]

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Eleanor Goodman has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship

May 29, 2013 at 3:08 PM

We are proud to report that Eleanor Goodman (Poetry 2003) has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to spend this coming year in Beijing as a Visiting Scholar at Beijing University. The grant will support her newest book-length translation of Chinese poetry. Eleanor Goodman is a writer and a translator from Chinese. Her work appears in […]

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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura published in the San Pedro River Review

May 21, 2013 at 1:35 PM

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 […]

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Rafael Campo has won the Hippocrates Open International Prize for Poetry and Medicine

May 20, 2013 at 4:36 PM

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 […]

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