December 10, 2012 at 12:34 PM
This month, our Rebecca Kaiser Gibson (Poetry 1996) is running the equivalent of a “poetry marathon.” Rebecca will write 30 new poems in 30 days (!) as part of The 30/30 Project, a fundraiser for Tupelo Press, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) literary press. You can “sponsor” and encourage her by donating on her behalf to Tupelo Press.
To read Rebecca’s poems and visit the 30/30 Project, click here.
Rebecca Kaiser Gibson’s poetry has been been published in Agni, Antigonish, The Boston Phoenix, Field, The Greensboro Review, The Harvard Review, MARGIE, Mothering, Northwest Review, Pleiades, Salamander, Slate, The Adroit Journal, 236 Magazine, reprinted in an anthology called Cadence of Hooves, and featured in Verse Daily. She’s published two chapbooks, Admit the Peacock and Inside the Exhibition. In 2008, she received an Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She has been awarded residencies from the MacDowell Colony and The Heinrich Böll Cottage on Achill Island, Ireland – and recently, with a Fulbright Scholarship, taught poetry writing in Hyderabad, India.
Best of luck, Rebecca!
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December 6, 2012 at 6:23 PM
We're pleased to announce that "Overcharged Calls," a poem by one of our current poetry MFA students, Luisa Caycedo-Kimura, has just been published in PALABRA 8. She will also have three poems published in Vol. 29.2, the next issue, of Louisiana Literature: "1951 Dawn in the Colombian Andes," "Assumption," and "Tale of Colombian Earth."
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura was born in Colombia and grew up in New York City. A former attorney, she left the legal profession to pursue her passion for writing. Luisa has received awards for her poetry and was nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Prize. Her poems appear in various publications, including San Pedro River Review, Connecticut Review, Connecticut River Review, Ellipsis... Literature and Art, and Sunken Garden Poetry 1992-2011. Her poems have also been included in the writing curricula at colleges and universities.
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December 4, 2012 at 2:37 PM
We're pleased to share an updated publication list for Megan Fernandes (Poetry 2012), who was also a Robert Pinsky Global Fellow in Poetry in Portugal.
Her poem "The Antihero" was commended by Don Paterson in the annual Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition.
"The Flight to Sacramento" was recently published in the Winter issue of Rattle Magazine.
"The Afrikander" is now online at Guernica magazine.
An interview with the poet Eleni Sikelianos is online at the California Journal of Poetics about Scientific Materialism and poetic idiom.
And finally, "The Metallurgist" is forthcoming in Memorious in their Winter Issue 19.
Megan is a PhD candidate and the founder of the Poetry/Poetics Hub at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published two chapbooks: Organ Speech (Corrupt Press) and Some Citrus Makes me Blue (Dancing Girl Press).
Congratulations on your new publications, Meg!
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December 3, 2012 at 1:01 PM
Tomorrow evening, December 4th, Megan Fernandes's advanced poetry class will have an end of the year reading at Gallery 263 in Cambridgeport, MA at 5:30pm. The event includes cheese and refreshments and four BU undergraduate poets who would love to share their poetry with an audience. Gallery 263 is 15 minutes away from campus, across the BU bridge, so come one, come all!
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December 3, 2012 at 12:55 PM
A few months ago we reported that a poem by Lisa Hiton (Poetry 2011), “The Senator,” had been published in the DMQ Review. We are excited to report that this poem has been nominated by the magazine for a Pushcart Prize. Congratulations and good luck, Lisa!
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November 7, 2012 at 2:29 PM
A story by our alumna Kimberly Elkins (Fiction 2010) has been published in the Iowa Review, which you can buy here.
Kimberly's novel, WHAT IS VISIBLE, which she worked on while at BU, has recently been sold to Grand Central Publishing, a division of Little, Brown, for publication in Spring 2014. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Best New American Voices, and the Chicago Tribune; she was also a finalist for the National Magazine Award and received a fellowship from the Houghton Library at Harvard.
Congrats, Kim!
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November 1, 2012 at 1:27 PM
We are proud to announce that Tara Skurtu, one of our poetry students, has just had a poem published in the Fall 2012 issue of the Los Angeles Review. The poem is called "Coming and Going." Tara also has two poems forthcoming in Hanging Loose ("Dreamt Dad Died" and "Trenches").
Tara Skurtu is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her poems appear in Poetry Review, Hanging Loose, Salamander, Poet Lore, The Los Angeles Review, Hiram Poetry Review, The Southeast Review, The Comstock Review, and elsewhere.
Congratulations, Tara!
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October 24, 2012 at 5:31 PM
This Friday, October 26, visit the Brookline Booksmith to see Luisa Caycedo-Kimura (Poetry) and Lucy Teitler (Fiction) read their work as part of the Breakwater Reading Series.
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura was born in Colombia and grew up in New York City. A former attorney, she left the legal profession to study creative writing at Southern Connecticut State University. Luisa has received awards for her poetry and was nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Prize. Her poems appear in various national publications and have been included in the writing curricula at colleges and universities.
Lucy Teitler is currently the Saul Bellow Fellow in Creative Writing at BU. She is a member of the Obie-winning playwrights group Youngblood at the Ensemble Studio Theater in New York. She was a writer for the NBC television series "Quarterlife." She has a B.A. in English Literature from Yale University, where she was the recipient of the English Department prize for fiction her junior and senior years.
You can find information on this Friday's reading here. Hope to see you there!
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October 15, 2012 at 10:30 PM
The class met at Boston University on Tuesdays from two to four in a dismal room the shape of a shoe box. It was a bleak spot, as if it had been forgotten for years, like the spinning room in Sleeping Beauty’s castle. We were not allowed to smoke, but everyone smoked anyhow, using their shoes as ashtrays. Unused to classes of any kind, it seemed slow and uninspired to me. But I had come in through the back door and was no real judge. […]
In November I gave him a manuscript to see if he thought “it was a book.” He was enthusiastic on the whole, but suggested that I throw out half of it and write another fifteen or so poems that were better. He pointed out the weak ones and I nodded and I took them out. It sounds simple to say that I merely, as he once said, jumped the hurdles that he had put up. But it makes a difference who puts up those hurdles. He defined the goal and acted as though, good race horse that I was, I’d just naturally run the course.
[…] The last time I saw Mr. Lowell was over a year ago before he left for New York. I miss him as all apprentices miss their first real master. He is a modest man and an incisive critic. He helped me to distrust the easy musical phrase and to look for the frankness of ordinary speech. If you have enough natural energy he can show you how to chain it in. He didn’t teach me what to put into a poem, but what to leave out. What he taught me was taste. Perhaps that’s the only thing a poet can be taught.
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from the recollection of Anne Sexton, published under the title "Classroom at Boston University" in Robert Lowell: Interviews and Memoirs, edited by Jeffrey Meyers (University of Michigan Press, 1988)
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October 9, 2012 at 12:12 PM
Since we last checked in with Sasenarine Persaud (Fiction 2006), there have been a few additional reviews/notices of his recent book of poems, Lantana Strangling Ixora, in publications such as Asiatic, Bostonia, Muse India, the Halifax Chronicle Herald, and the Guyana Times.
Sase has just published another book, Unclosed Entrances: Selected Poems, with Guyana Classics Library. The launch was covered by the press in Guyana. He also had 4 poems ("Orchids", "Home", "Hickson Park: Tampa on the River", and "The Tenth Love") published in the Autumn/Winter issue (Vol 3 # 4/Vol 4 # 1) of South Asian Ensemble (Toronto).
You can read a short interview on his writing and yoga and Yogic Realism, which appeared in small axe, an on-line literary magazine: http://smallaxe.net/wordpress3/interviews/2012/08/31/we-chant-the-hymn-of-ages/
Congratulations, Sase!
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