English

Fall 2024
Illustration of a small child standing on a wood floor
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Sixty years of great reads from the UMass MFA for Poets and Writers

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An illustration of a person sitting between a collage of speakers and roaring lions
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Jeremy Geragotelis ’28PhD on teaching students to question sound and silence.

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Performers and elephants in the ring at the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus

Bill Meissner ’72MFA celebrates spectacle in his latest novel

Spring 2024
A collection of four baseball-style trading cards
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Kevin Graber ’09MEd shares his unconventional path to the big leagues

Fall 2023
Natalie Lewis seated in front of a white brick wall looking to her left.

Class Notes and more

Spring 2023
Books wrapped in black and yellow caution tape.

Artress Bethany White ’86 explains how diverse narratives can forge connections

Fall 2022
Tall woven vessels in copper and gold hues by Jacalyn Abrams from her show “Standing in Strength”

Remembering a whistleblower, an artisan who elevated her craft, and more

Fall 2022
Collage of ripped paper images including Chinese script, images of army tanks, and a mother and child.

Wendy Xu ’14MFA embraces the ‘fragmented experience of remembering’

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Landscape photo of mountains over a lake

Sarah Ghazal Ali ’21 claims her namesake form

Spring 2022
Detail from black and white photo portrait shows the eyes and part of the face of Jules Chametzky.

Remembering a generous co-worker, a trailblazing pathologist, and more

Spring 2022
Two students in a classroom collaborate with each other while looking at a laptop
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New names, new possibilities

Innovation station

Homage to humanity

Fall 2018
Martín Espada
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Professor Martín Espada wins the Poetry Foundation’s prestigious 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.