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Martín Espada Awarded Emily Clark Balch Prize from the Virginia Quarterly Review
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Martín Espada recently received the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry from the Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR) for the following poems:...

Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, MFA ‘23, Publishes Book: Drinking from Graveyard Wells
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, MFA '23, is a Zimbabwean sarungano (storyteller), and her debut short story collection, Drinking from Graveyard Wells was released today by University Press of Kentucky....

Jimmy Worthy II Publishes Book: After a Thousand Tears
Friday, March 3, 2023
Jimmy Worthy II has just published his first book, After a Thousand Tears, an edition of poems by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877–1966), the most prolific female writer of the Harlem Renaissance....

Peter Gizzi Publishes in New York Times Magazine
Friday, March 3, 2023
Peter Gizzi's poem "In Defense of Nothing" was recently featured, with an appreciation, in the Sunday February 26 New York Times Magazine.
For more on Gizzi’s work, see his faculty profile.