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OCEAN VUONG's forthcoming novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, was reviewed in and selected as a Staff Pick by The Paris Review.

Monday, January 28, 2019

 The novel was also selected as a Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, Vulture, Publishers Weekly, BBC, BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, LA Times, and The...

Heather Christle's (MFA'09) new poem The Tooth published in Poetry Magazine

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Heather Christle's poem The Tooth was published in November 2018's Poetry Magazine.     Read the poem here:   https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/148087/the-tooth
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Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard collection of poems available as sound recording by Alliance Theatre

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Based on Natasha Trethewey’s collection of poems, The Alliance Theatre’s production of Native Guard is both an elegy to her mother and a journey into Mississippi’s Civil War history. In poetry and...

Dorothea Lasky's (MFA'04) new book MILK is reviewed for HYPERALLERGIC

Thursday, January 3, 2019

Dorothea Lasky's provocative poems about motherhood in her new book MILK are reviewed in HYPERALLERGIC.     https://hyperallergic.com/465479/milk-dorothea-lasky-2018-wave-books/