Category: Uncategorized

Three poetry alumni in Redivider

May 20, 2013 at 4:09 PM

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 […]

By Coordinator | Comments (0)

Three of our poets to read at the Gallery Benoit this Thursday

May 14, 2013 at 1:24 PM

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: […]

By Coordinator | Comments (0)

SIGHT READING and an article in Poets & Writers, both by Daphne Kalotay

May 2, 2013 at 4:01 PM

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 […]

By Coordinator | Comments (0)

1996 by Sara Peters

May 2, 2013 at 3:34 PM

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 […]

By Coordinator | Comments (0)

Kelly Morse in Alimentum

May 2, 2013 at 3:24 PM

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 […]

By Coordinator | Comments (0)

Tara Skurtu in the Huffington Post

May 1, 2013 at 4:45 PM

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 […]

By Coordinator | Comments (0)

Patricia Park in The Guardian–again!

April 26, 2013 at 11:20 AM

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 […]

By Coordinator | Comments (0)

Tara Skurtu is one of Lloyd Schwartz’s 6 Favorite New Poets

April 25, 2013 at 12:09 PM

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 […]

By Coordinator | Comments (0)

Writers at the Black Box, Tuesday April 16

April 12, 2013 at 5:46 PM

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 […]

By Coordinator | Comments (0)

The Annual Faculty Reading is on Youtube!

April 10, 2013 at 4:41 PM

In case you missed it live…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm2A9RLrmlA&feature=youtu.be

By Coordinator | Comments (0)