Four poems by alum Nathan McClain appear at Connotation Press:
They’ll say: we’ll find a place for him.
They’ll say: someone will come.
But you already know what will be done:
someone will come and apply light
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Two poems by alum Noah Stetzer (poetry, ’14) appear online at A&U Magazine:
Measure of a Man
Numbers crowd this room: T-cells, viral load,
telephone, clocks, oxygen, and the day.
Longitude and latitude place us here
in the ICU. Chalk on the blackboard
graphs numbers on the axis, show the curve
of my distinction. A barcoded wrist
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A story by alum Aggie Zivaljevic (fiction, ’05) appears at Cosmonauts Avenue:
For ever so long, Iskren Syeveratz had watched over the island’s elders, who without their offspring were like oysters without pearls. The octogenarian grandfathers and grandmothers sat in front of their stone houses looking out at the sea for the return of their children from the foreign lands, until they were petrified and turned into dust.
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An excerpt about Philip Levine from alum Anna Clark’s (fiction, ’07) book Michigan Literary Luminaries: From Elmore Leonard to Robert Hayden appears at Belt Magazine:
Philip Levine’s father came to the United States from Russia, traveling across the ocean all by himself at age eleven. He grew up in New York City with two older sisters and their families. His path to Detroit was an extraordinary one: he enlisted in the English army, was stationed in Palestine and conjured a new identity (including a new passport) in Cairo.
Or at least, those are the stories Levine was told as a child. The poet, who died on February 14, 2015 at age 87, was also told that he had Spanish ancestry. That was not true, but it catalyzed Levine’s lifelong fascination with Spanish politics, culture and literature.
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A poem by alum Alicia Jo Rabins (poetry, ’09) appears at The Collagist:
Not the eye hanging from the window, concentric circles of blue and white.
Not the beer bottle standing at attention.
Not the baby inside you.
Not the midwife with her capable broad ass.
Not your mother your father your husband your first lover.
Not me reader.
Nor god.
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Work by alumni Valerie Bandura (poetry, ’02), Laurie Saurborn Young (poetry, ’08), and Rachel Howard (fiction, ’09) in featured in the Spring 2015 issue of Waxwing Literary Journal. You can read the journal online here.
A poem by alum Dinah Berland (poetry, ’95) appears at One:
Sitting on the tarmac in the dark, waiting
for takeoff, I insert words between the lines,
words you will not find here, no matter how
hard you look, or in the flight paths we take
in opposite directions, jet streams reaching
the vanishing point. I think of you all the time
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A story by alum Amy Minton (fiction, ’09) appears in the fall issue of Phoebe and you can read an excerpt online:
This rickety fishing-boat-turned-dive-charter stinks of fish guts and flowery aerosol. Planks around the wheelhouse are freshly painted—maybe yesterday, maybe last week. Nothing ever dries in this humidity. A glob of grey paint on the baseboard tells me there is a serious lack of attention to detail on this boat. I needle the paint glob with the tip of my nail until the outer skin bursts and hot grey paint oozes out. Underneath, stuck to the weathered baseboard, a dried fish eye stares at me.
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Four poems by alum Rebecca Foust (poetry, ’10) appear at The Hudson Review:
The Notch
after Leon Stokesbury
When my newborn lay gray, silent, and still
I saw a notch in the skin at his collarbone—a petal
puckered by rain or, over an open mouth, a veil
of chiffon sucked in—breath’s first pirouette.
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We are pleased to announce that the 2015 Goddard/Warren Wilson MFA Alumni Conference will be held in Portland, Oregon at Lewis and Clark College, from July 26 to August 1. Watch this space for more information about the conference, scholarship opportunities, and registration forms.
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