BU Creative Writing

Each year the Massachusetts Book Awards recognize the best writers in this vibrant literary state by naming winners and a list of “Recommended Readings” in four genres — fiction, nonfiction, poetry & children’s/young adult literature. This year, The Unpredictability of Light (Word Press), a collection of poems by Boston University Creative Writing alumna Marguerite Bouvard […]

Robert Pinsky, BU poetry professor and former U.S. Poet Laureate, will give three performances in LA next week with the great Bobby Bradford and his Mo’tet: Wednesday 2/9 at the Oakwood School, Thursday 2/10 at the Armand Hammer Museum, Friday noon at The Century in Century City.

Ani Gjika’s poem “First Memory,” which she worked on in Rosanna Warren’s workshop in our Poetry program, has been published on Linebreak.org. You can also listen to Jason Gray read “First Memory” on their website: http://linebreak.org/poems/first-memory/ Ani is a recent graduate of our program and was also a 2010 Robert Pinsky Global Fellow who traveled […]

Joe Fazio’s wonderful story, “A Temporary Fix,” has been published on The Kenyon Review online. Joe is a recent graduate of the Fiction program at Boston University. He is currently working on a collection of stories and a novel and lives in Boston with his wife, Shivani.

In the Autumn 2010 edition of The Hudson Review, Volume LXIII, Number 3, Lorna Knowles Blake reviews Thomas Yuill’s book of poetry, Medicine Show (University of Chicago Press, 2010). Yuill is a graduate of the Boston University Creative Writing program in Poetry. In her review, Blake writes that Yuill’s poems are “antic, inventive and formally […]