October 17, 2011 at 3:45 PM
If you’re on campus, the ASLCW invites you to claim at seat in the Editorial Institute library tomorrow at 5:15 for a talk with novelist and translator Tim Parks.
Born in Manchester in 1954, Tim Parks studied at Cambridge and Harvard before moving permanently to Italy in 1981. Author of three bestselling books on Italy, plus a dozen novels, including the Booker short-listed Europa, he has translated works by Moravia, Calvino, Calasso and, most recently, Machiavelli. While running a post-graduate degree course in translation at IULM University, Milan, he writes regularly for the LRB and the NYRB. His non-fiction works include Translating Style, a literary approach to translation problems; Medici Money, an account of the relation between banking, the Church and art in the 15th century; and, most recently, Teach Us to Sit Still.
5:15 p.m., The Editorial Institute, 143 Bay State Road, Boston University
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September 19, 2011 at 11:50 AM
Birds strung on high-tension wires,
my tongue heavy in its thick hot nest,
I slip out.
-- the opening lines of "City Aubade" by Vanesha Pravin (MFA '09), appearing at Slate as this week's Tuesday Poem pick. There is an interesting appendage following the text of the poem proper, a discussion where Pravin dove into the comments section to engage regular forum contributors and other readers in an exchange of interpretations and insights. Pravin has poems forthcoming in Callaloo and Many Mountains Moving, and teaches at the University of California-Merced.
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March 30, 2011 at 10:57 PM
Robert Pinsky, faculty member in BU's Creative Writing program and this year's winner of the John Holmes Memorial Poetry Award, will be reading from his own work next Thursday, April 7th, from 3:30 - 5 PM in the Hirsh Reading Room at Tufts University's Tisch Library. An exhibit celebrating his literary accomplishments will be on display in the lobby through May 24th. This event is free and open to the general public. Address: 35 Professors Row, Medford, 02155.
Among other work, he will be reading from his forthcoming book, Selected Poems (FSG, April 2011).
Visit BU Today to read an interview of Pinsky by John O'Rourke, on the question of why poetry should be spoken.
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November 18, 2010 at 3:22 PM
Ashley Anna McHugh has just been awarded the tenth annual New Criterion Poetry Prize for her new book, Into These Knots (Ivan R. Dee, October 2010). Ashley is a 2007 graduate of the Boston University Creative Writing MFA program in Poetry.
For news and information about the New Criterion Poetry Prize, visit their website at http://www.newcriterion.com/
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November 16, 2010 at 12:52 PM
Photo credit: Elena Seibert
On Monday, November 15, 2010, The Breukelein Institute conferred its Gaudium Award upon four outstanding men and women: Stephen Colbert, Rick Curry, S.J., Carmen Dell'Orefice, and Jhumpa Lahiri, a graduate of the Boston University Creative Writing program in Fiction and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for her debut collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies. Ms. Lahiri is also the author of The Namesake, a novel, and Unaccustomed Earth, her second short story collection.
The Institute's annual fund raising dinner was held at the Yale Club in New York City.
www.breukelein.org/gaudium2010.htm
www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/jhumpalahiri/
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November 8, 2010 at 4:02 PM
Happy November and welcome back to the blog! We're happy to share the latest items in alumni news.
-Congratulations to Kevin Shushtari (Fiction '09), recipient of the Forugh Farrokhzad Fellowship Award: http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org/vsc-announces-new-forugh-farrokhzad-fellowship/
Janee J. Baugher (Poetry '92)'s debut collection of poems, Coordinates of Yes (Alahada Books), was released in March 2010. Visit Janee's website for more information on her wonderful new book: http://janeejbaugher.wordpress.com/
-Micah Nathan (Fiction '10)'s novel, Losing Graceland (Broadway 2011), will be released on January 4, 2011. Micah also will have a story coming out in Gettysburg Review next year.
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October 21, 2010 at 3:44 PM
Yesterday's Boston Globe featured a short piece on John Irving's Tuesday, October 19, 2010 lecture, sponsored by the Boston University Creative Writing Department. John Irving read from a work-in-progress, his thirteenth novel, and answered questions from the audience. The event was hosted by Leslie Epstein, Director of Creative Writing at BU.
http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2010/10/21/novelist_irving_takes_twisted_path_to_bu/
Boston University's own Daily Free Press also covered the event. The photos here were taken by Connor Reidy of that newspaper.
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October 20, 2010 at 3:35 PM
Congratulations to Carla Panciera, who graduated from Boston University's MA in Creative Writing program in Poetry in 1987. Carla's second collection of poetry, No Day, No Dusk, No Love, will be released in November 2010 (Bordighera Press)
. It received the Bordighera Prize and will appear as a bilingual (English/Italian) volume.
Carla Panciera’s work has appeared in The New England Review, Nimrod, The Chattahoochee Review, and The Sycamore Review. Her collection of poetry One of the Cimalores, published in 2005, received the Cider Press Book Award.
Photo credit: Amy-Jo Conant
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October 4, 2010 at 12:14 PM
Congratulations to J. Kevin Shushtari, a May 2009 graduate of the MFA program in Fiction here at BU. Kevin has just won the July 2010 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award for his story, "The Vast Garden of Strangers." He will also contribute an essay to Glimmer Train’s next edition of the Glimmer Train Bulletin, their print resource for writers, which consists of tips and techniques from their award-winning contributors.
Glimmer Train's
Very Short Fiction Award -- July 2010
Top 3 Winners And Finalists
1st-place winner:
J. Kevin Shushtari for "The Vast Garden of Strangers"
2nd-place winner:
Graham Arnold for "The Story Is in The Reflection"
3rd-place winner:
Nahal Suzanne Jamir for "In Perfect English"
http://www.glimmertrainpress.com/writer/html/index2.asp?action=finalists
http://www.glimmertrain.com/writersask.html
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November 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM
Alumnus H.M. Naqvi's debut novel, Home Boy, has garnered a glowing review in the Times; Joseph Salvatore calls it "smart and sorrowful... a remarkably engaging novel that delights as it disturbs." You can read the full review here, visit Naqvi's homepage, or read a little of the book by clicking below.
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