Three poems by alum Dilruba Ahmed (poetry, ’09) appear at The Collagist:
Tale
We have
always wanted
a way home—
a way home
to that house
in the forest
a house by turns
loving and cruel
if only because
to love
is to suffer
inconsolably.
To be eaten
alive by it.
Continue reading Tale and Dilruba’s second and third poems, Resolution and Ghazal, online…
A story by alum Tracy Winn (fiction, ’02) appear at Waxwing Literary:
“Floodwaters washed out sections of Route 100 — the main road through town — and rolled through the cemetery…”
— Huffington Post, August 31, 2011
Black Hawk helicopters touch down in the horse pasture behind Gram’s house, thwap-thwap-thwap, whipping the grass flat. Normal is just what we get used to, right? Like half of West Hill Bridge lying busted in the river. Who knows where the other half sailed off to. No one’s gotten in or out of this place by car for two days, and people are sheltering in the high school.
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Two poems by alum Martha Zweig (poetry, ’98) appear at Waxwing Literary:
Fever Blessing
maggot: archaic, a whimsical fancy
Short work a day’s malaise
has made of me! Thus far I body forth
what you see before you: crank
of sickbed arts, toilet articles, nighttable
tumbler of ice, a black cracker, white-hot bulb
peeping from under its ruched shade, irritable
minority of which? (or another?) one
bookish hallucination I might pick.
Continue reading Fever Blessing and Martha’s second poem, Minna, online….
Two poems by alum Nathan McClain (poetry, ’13) appear at Waxwing Literary:
How to Build a Lighthouse
The story begins with a beacon
in a tower of brick.
Or it begins with a man,
you’d call him the keeper,
who mostly refuses
sleep to listen
Continue reading How to Build a Lighthouse and Nathan’s second poem, Power Outage Elegy, online….
A poem by alum Rose Auslander (poetry, '15) appears at Tupelo Quarterly: Dear wild-water child who does not wish to have a name, Last night, I had another of those dreams: your many limbs were juggling your removed breasts on the high wire. No fanfare, no applause, only a sharp snap, frayed rope ends flying, only lights out, after nothing broke your fall.
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A poem by alum Jamaal May (poetry, ’11) appears at See Spot Run:
Ask Where I’ve Been
Let fingers roam
the busy angles
of my shoulders.
Ask why skin dries
in rime-white patches, cracks
like a puddle stepped on. Ask
about the scars that interrupt
blacktop, a keloid on my bicep:
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A number of Warren Wilson faculty, alums and current students will be participating in more than 30 readings, panels and craft lectures at the 2016 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Los Angeles, March 30 – April 2.
Programming will include a WWC MFA Program 40th Anniverary Reading featuring Debra Allbery, program director, and faculty members Pablo Medina, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Charles Baxter and A. Van Jordan. WWC faculty members and alums will also host a panel titled, “Diversifying MFA Programs: A Case Study,” about the WWC MFA program’s efforts to promote diversity and inclusiveness within the faculty and student body.
You can find the full schedule of WWC MFA programming at AWP here: WWCMFA at AWP 2016.
A story by alum Amelie Prusik (fiction, ’12) appears at The Copenhagen Review:
Lighted Rooms
The moment Louise sees the Dutch Colonial she knows it will give her trouble. The brass number 29 on the front of the building looks askew and the left shutter hangs cockeye, giving the house a skeptical look, one Louise returns as she punches in the code and elbows the front door open. She works for a company called Spotless that cleans houses repossessed by banks—houses seized from their owners under stressful circumstances. Louise’s crew removes whatever furniture or garbage is left behind and sanitizes the house completely so it can be resold. They mop floors, wash walls, banish smells.
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Alum Patrick Donnelly (poetry, ’03), current poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts, is a long-time advocate for poetry, not only as an “on-the-page” experience, but as a spoken-out-loud, communal, theatrical art. In the fall of 2015 Donnelly called together a group of Northampton-area residents to perform an excerpt of Albert Goldbarth’s epic poem “Library.” The poem was performed live at Donnelly’s inaugural reading on November 1, 2015 at Smith College, and earlier that same day filmmaker Melissa McClung also made this film of the performance.
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A poem by alum Matt Hart (poetry, ’02) appears at the Kenyon Review:
"I love poetry because it makes me love / and presents me life”
—Gregory Corso
It’s out of my hands, or
it’s all in my hands
Grace, Faith, Beauty
O hell
I’m catching light,
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