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MFA part of University Collaboration on Climate Crisis and Collective Action
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Amherst, MA - The University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center (FAC) in partnership with the Master of Fine Arts for Poets and Writers (MFA), and the School of Earth & Sustainability (SES) is...

MFA Hosts Juniper Literary Festival The World and the Word: Literature of the Ecological Crisis
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Amherst, MA - The University of Massachusetts MFA for Poets and Writers announces the 2021 Juniper Literary Festival. This year’s program, The World and The Word: Literature of the Ecological...

Ashley Canter, PhD Student, Publishes Book Review in Literacy in Composition Studies
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Ashley Canter, a PhD student in the Composition and Rhetoric program, recently published a book review of Kate Vieira's book Writing for Love and Money: How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in...

Ron Welburn Publishes New Poetry in Multiple Venues
Friday, February 12, 2021
Ron Welburn has recently published poetry in multiple venues. In Winter 2020 (25.1), he published "Epistrophy,” “Kiss Me Right,” “Hello, Young Lovers,” and “The Ethos of Sonny Rollins" in Brilliant...

John Hennessy Longlisted for PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Friday, February 12, 2021
John Hennessy and Ostap Kin translated A New Orthography: Selected Poems by Serhiy Zhadan, and it has been longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. ...

Nick Bromell's Most Recent Book Published with Duke University Press
Friday, February 12, 2021
Nick Bromell's book, The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass, has recently been published with Duke University Press....