An interview with alum Rolf Yngve (fiction, ’12) appears at the Kenyon Review:

What was your original impetus for writing “A Prerogative”? Did you begin with the setting? With a character? With a line of dialogue or description?

I think the story grew out of a strange coincidence of all those elements. I was studying under Stephen Dobyns at the Warren Wilson Program for Writers—which means I was also studying Dobyns, reading his poetry—and reading works he assigned in hopes they would help me learn how to write this novel I started after Kevin McIlvoy suggested a short story might go farther.

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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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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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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 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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