for writers at Boston University and beyond
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!
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 by calling 617-395-7757.
"In jazz, as in poetry," Robert Pinsky has told The Paris Review in an interview, "there is always that play between what's regular and what's wild. That has always appealed to me."
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 Fiction Writers," published by Paycock Press. The book's launch party was held at Politics and Prose, a bookstore in Washington, DC.
Her work was also recently included in Gargoyle 57, an international literary review.
Congratulations, Alessandra!
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 in a Red Hat, was released by Norton in March 2011.
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 2012 Individual Artist Grant through the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and a Literary Grant in Poetry from the Elizabeth George Foundation.
In 2012 thus far, she also has poems forthcoming in two magazines, The Atlantic Monthly and The Threepenny Review. We will provide links to Caitlin’s poems when they are published.
She has also won the Amy Award through Poets & Writers, a prize given annually to three poets under thirty, and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Poetry for the 2011 Sewanee Writers’ Conference in Sewanee, TN. She has held residency fellowships at the MacDowell Colony and the Ucross Foundation, served as the Writer-In-Residence at St. Albans School in Washington, DC, and held the Kerouac Writer-In-Residence position at the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, FL. Her work has previously appeared in the Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, and the Best New Poets series, among other publications.
Congratulations, Caitlin!
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 the Bastard and Other Stories.
Renee Emerson (Poetry 2009) has joined the full-time English faculty at Shorter University in Rome, GA. She will teach poetry, creative writing, and American Literature.
Sheela Chari (Fiction 1997)'s first novel, Vanished, was published by Disney Hyperion, July 2011. Vanished is a children's novel for ages 9 and up, set in the Boston area, and is available in stores. It has received some lovely coverage and reviews, including Kirkus, who writes: "Chari, in her debut novel, strikes the right note with this engaging, intricate story that spans generations and two countries."
Kimberly Elkins has a forthcoming story in The Iowa Review, titled "Je Ne Sais Quoi." She began her story in Leslie Epstein's workshop. We will repost when the issue is released.
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 at Meridian, and the 2011 Forugh Farrokhzad Fellowship Award from the Vermont Studio Center. He is a practicing physician and is presently at work on his first novel, Secrets From Back Home.
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 Fellowship for 2005-2006.
Sase's last book, In a Boston Night (2008) was shortlisted earlier this year for the Guyana Prize for Literature. This book of Boston (and BU) poems is a direct result of his participation in the graduate writing program. His Selected Poems: Unclosed Entrances, has just been published in the UK and Guyana as part of the Guyana Classics Library, which is a collaboration between the University of Warwick and the Government of Guyana.
Sase will be reading from Lantana Strangling Ixora on April 20, 2012, as part of the University of South Florida Reading Series.
His publisher writes that the book "is as much about love and people in and out of relationships as it is about origins and the process of estrangement . . .a collection that displays mastery over nuances of language."
You can read one of his poems, "Love within Love," here.
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
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.
