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MFA part of University Collaboration on Climate Crisis and Collective Action
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 hosting a semester-long series, Transforming Crisis, devoted to illuminating ecological crises and addressing climate injustice.
Noy Holland to read at University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
NOY HOLLAND will be giving a reading at the University of Notre Dame as part of the Department of English's Creative Writing Reading Series on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019.
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/