BU Creative Writing

Tara Skurtu (Poetry ’13) has had two poems published in Paper Darts: “Operating System” and “Feeding Time.”  Both are single-sentence gems full of energy!  Be sure to also browse Paper Darts, which is a publishing press and creative agency as well as a literary magazine.

In addition, Tara’s poem “Indian River at Dusk” was featured in a Romanian magazine, Zona Nouă (New Zone).  The publication includes audio, the original English, and a Romanian translation by poet and scholar Radu Vancu. Tara traveled to Romania on her Global Fellowship and returns often to teach, write, and read at various venues, so it’s especially exciting to see her work translated into Romanian.

Congratulations, Tara!

Tara Skurtu teaches at Boston University, where she received a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Wales, Poetry Review, Plume, Memorious, DMQ Review, The Dalhousie Review, and the minnesota review. Her poems have been translated into Romanian and Hungarian.

We're excited to begin 2015 by announcing that Luisa Caycedo-Kimura (Poetry '13) has been published in a special issue of the Mid-American Review.  Her poem "Un Jardín en Tolima" is in issue 35.1, the first of two 35th anniversary issues of MAR.  

Congratulations, Luisa!

Luisa Caycedo-Kimura was the 2014 John K. Walsh Residency Fellow at the Anderson Center at Tower View, the 2014 Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellow at Ragdale, and a 2013 Robert Pinsky Global Fellow in Poetry. Born in Colombia and raised in New York City, a former attorney, Luisa left the legal profession to pursue her passion for writing. She has received various awards for her poetry and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Nashville Review, Jelly Bucket, Connecticut Review, PALABRA, Sunken Garden Poetry 1992-2011, and elsewhere.

Kelly Morse's poetry has been receiving all manner of publicity on the internet!  Her poem 'Nobody Leaves Anybody in Winter' was nominated for the Best of the Net  2014 Anthology by apt magazine, and she was interviewed for The Writer's Job, a website featuring writers who work in non-traditional writing jobs.

Kelly also published a book review and a guest post about Vietnamese poetry in the translation journal M-DASH, a translation project she started in Rosanna Warren's translation seminar at BU. Two of her translations are forthcoming in Asymptote Journal in January of 2015.  In addition, Kelly recently received a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, where she is headed in February.
Congratulations, Kelly!

Kelly Morse is a poet, creative nonfiction writer, and translator. Her creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in Brevity, Alimentum, Quarter After Eight and elsewhere, while her translations are forthcoming in Asymptote. A graduate of Boston University's MFA program, she has had work nominated for Best of the Net, and she is a Vermont Studio Center fellowship recipient.

Hurrah!  Lisa Hiton has published a poem, "Vigil," in Thrush.  From the poem:

Coming toward me, a prologue, a flying orchestra

of spring birds gathering on the banks of the creek.
To what are they praying?  To what do they give such praise?

Read "Vigil" here.

Congratulations, Lisa!

Lisa Hiton holds an MFA in poetry from Boston University and an MEd in Arts in Education from Harvard University. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Literary Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Linebreak, and The Cortland Review among others. She has received the Esther B. Kahn Scholarship from 24Pearl Street at the Fine Arts Work Center and a nomination for the Pushcart Prize.