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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:...
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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....
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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....
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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.