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Gabriel Bump (MFA '17) Awarded the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
Gabriel Bump (MFA '17) has been awarded the 2020 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. This prestigious award honors Louisiana’s revered storyteller, Ernest J. Gaines, and serves to inspire and recognize rising African-American fiction writers of excellence at a national level.
Interview with Edie Meidav featured in "Juncture Notes"
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
An interview with EDIE MEIDAV, is featured in Juncture Notes about a collection of essays, Strange Attractors: Lives Changed by Chance, that's coming out from the UMass Press in March, 2019. ...
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
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/
Kevin Goodan (MFA'04) new book ANAPHORA reviewed on Plougshares
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Read review of Anaphora here on Ploughshares blog called "The Language of Trauma in Kevin Goodan's Anaphora" by Colleen Abel: http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/the-language-of-trauma-in-kevin...
