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Laina Mullin Pruett in The Gettysburg Review

February 7, 2012 at 3:38 PM

Laina Mullin Pruett (Fiction 2011)’s story “The Last Con” has just been published in the Spring 2012 issue of The Gettysburg Review. You can purchase the issue here: http://www.gettysburgreview.com/dotCMS/listProducts?categoryInode=1054407. Laina was awarded a 2011 Leslie Epstein Global Fellowship to travel to Ireland in August 2011. This is her first published story. Congratulations, Laina!

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“An Evening of POEMJAZZ” with Robert Pinsky and Laurence Hobgood: February 24

January 31, 2012 at 6:09 PM

Boston area poetry and jazz fans–Robert Pinsky, BU Creative Writing Professor and former U.S. Poet Laureate, will be performing with Grammy-winning jazz pianist Laurence Hobgood on Friday, February 24 at the Regattabar, the Charles Hotel, Cambridge. POEMJAZZ is “a conversation between the sounds of poetry and music.”  Reserved seat tickets can be purchased online at www.regattabarjazz.com or […]

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Alessandra Gelmi update

January 30, 2012 at 5:51 PM

Alessandra Gelmi (Poetry 1999) recently interviewed the new Foreign Minister of Italy, Guilio Terzi di Sant’ Agata, for The Epoch Times. Concomitantly she was invited to speak at the home of the President of the Dartmouth Club of Washington, DC for Dartmouth Alumni. Alessandra’s fiction has been published in “Amazing Graces–An Anthology of Washington Women […]

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Rosanna Warren in the New Yorker

January 23, 2012 at 1:40 PM

Rosanna Warren, one of our MFA in Poetry faculty members and the Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities, a University Professor and Professor of English and Romance Studies, was published in the January 9, 2012 issue of the New Yorker. Her poem, “Glaucoma,” is available for subscribers to read online. Rosanna’s latest book of poetry, Ghost […]

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New publications and grants for Caitlin Doyle

January 19, 2012 at 4:31 PM

The wonderful Caitlin Doyle (Poetry 2008) was the featured alumna reader at the November 2011 Writers at the Black Box, a reading series hosted by our MFA in Creative Writing students, and she’s starting 2012 off with a bang. Caitlin has been awarded two recent grants through national fellowship competitions in the literary arts: a […]

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A wealth of alumni news!

January 13, 2012 at 1:43 PM

Happy new year! We’re starting 2012 off right, with a long list of good news from our alumni. Micah Nathan (Fiction 2010)’s collection of short stories (and a novella) will be released by One Peace Books in June 2012. The short stories are from the MFA year, and the novella was pre-existing. The title is Jack […]

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Sanctions Against Iran?

December 1, 2011 at 12:16 PM

New, timely, and thoughtful article by Kevin Shushtari (Fiction 2010), an Aslan Media Contributor: http://www.aslanmedia.com/news-a-politics/301-world/4587-sanctions-against-iran-the-same-old-story-a-history-lesson-we-should-not-forget Kevin’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train Stories, Meridian, The Iowa Review, and Glimmer Train Bulletin. His recent honors and awards include the 2010 Very Short Fiction Award from Glimmer Train, the 2011 Editor’s Prize in Fiction […]

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Alumni News: Sasenarine Persaud

November 28, 2011 at 6:43 PM

A new book of poems by Sasenarine Persaud (Fiction 2006), Lantana Strangling Ixora (Tsar Books 2011), launched at the University of Toronto on October 2, 2011. The launch was part of the Festival of South Asian Literature. The author gave two readings during the festival and participated on a panel discussing Indo-Caribbean Literature. Sase was the recipient of the Leslie Epstein […]

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Jhumpa Lahiri on growing up literary

June 7, 2011 at 4:36 PM

Jhumpa Lahiri, a 1993 graduate of our Fiction program in Creative Writing and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her debut collection Interpreter of Maladies, has an article in The New Yorker about her literary childhood, “Trading Stories: Notes from a Literary Apprenticeship” : What I really sought was a better-marked trail of my parents’ […]

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Maya Sloan’s recap of the April 12 Annual Faculty Reading

May 5, 2011 at 11:02 AM

What can we say about Maya Sloan? She’s talented, funny, unstoppable. She was our featured alumna reader at this year’s Annual Faculty Reading — and had what could have been the intimidating privilege of reading LAST in alphabetical order — and she pulled it off beautifully and brought our evening to an exciting close. Maya […]

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