Four Way Review

The latest issue of Four Way Review includes work by faculty member Megan Staffel and alumna Mary Lou Buschi (poetry, ’04).

from Megan Staffel’s short story “Saturdays at the Philharmonic”:

Patsy Smith left Rochester, New York on a sunny Saturday morning intending to drive all the way to California. But after three and a half hours, crossing through an Indian reservation, she got lost. On a long, straight road, where there hadn’t been a route number for many miles, there was a sudden break in the forest and she saw a small building with cars and trucks parked in front. She turned in to ask directions.

Pulling the door open, she smelled beer. She saw men with their backs to her sitting at the end of a room on bar stools, and close by, a few small tables and chairs that were mostly empty. The door snapped shut behind her and in the sudden darkness all she could make out were the neon beer signs. She stood still, waiting until her eyes adjusted. It was nineteen sixty-eight. Patsy was sixteen. She had an old car, a hundred dollars, a pillow, a blanket, a pair of broken-in lace-up boots; that was the total of her possessions. But it was all she needed...[Keep Reading]…

from Mary Lou Buschi’s poem “Spell I”:

After Louise Glück

1.

Somewhere, my brother is traveling—
The right side of his head
a red-clawed tulip
swallowing the cold. …[Keep Reading]…

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Faculty and Alumni in NER

New work by faculty member Jennifer Grotz and alumni Brendan Grady (poetry, ’12) and Margaree Little (poetry, ’12) appears in the latest issue of New England Review.

Listening
Jennifer Grotz

Water turns everything into a jewel
then puts a metal taste in the mouth
slowly replaced by dust. Which is why standing
in the rainy street you feel much richer than you are.
Or, aware that everything will dry, much poorer...[Keep Reading]…

Moths
Brendan Grady

We know the moths circling the porch light,
the dolt among them breaking orbit,
dusty Icarus drawn to his demise.

This isn’t new, but seventeen others
stuck on the wall have turned their wings
against it, like stoics, as if the light isn’t light, …[Keep Reading]…

from The Heron
Margaree Little

An Egyptian king buried with a boat to travel in:

wasn’t he like that in a way,
the man we found,

the dust like balm if balm were dry?

And like the king’s boat, made to go down the river
to another world,

wasn’t he left with what he’d need to travel more,
since what he had was after all

all he’d had to travel that far with? …[Keep Reading]…

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Faculty and Alumni Named NY Times Notables

Work by faculty member Victor LaValle and alumni Natalie Serber (fiction, ’05) and Tatjana Soli (fiction, ’06) appears on the New York Times’ 2012 list of Notable Books.

THE DEVIL IN SILVER. By Victor LaValle. (Spiegel & Grau, $27.) LaValle’s culturally observant third novel is set in a shabby urban mental hospital.

SHOUT HER LOVELY NAME. By Natalie Serber. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24.) The stories in Serber’s first collection are smart and nuanced.

THE FORGETTING TREE. By Tatjana Soli. (St. Martin’s, $25.99.) In Soli’s haunting second novel, a mysterious Caribbean woman cares for a cancer patient on an isolated California ranch.

 

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Reading Announcement

Faculty member Eleanor Wilner will read tomorrow, November 2nd, at 7:30 PM at the A.P.E Ltd. Gallery in Northampton, MA.  The event, sponsored by Perugia Press, will also include alumna Maya Janson (poetry, ’06) and poet Amanda Auchter.
The A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery is located at 126 Main Street, Northampton, MA.  Visit perugiapress.com for more information.
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Warren Wilson Poets in Best American Poetry 2012

The Best American Poetry 2012, edited by Mark Doty, contains poems by several Warren Wilson Faculty and alumni:

Faculty

David Baker, ‘Outside”

Rick Barot, “Child Holding Potato”

Steve Orlen, “Where do We Go After We Die”

Daniel Tobin, “The Turnpike”

Dean Young, “Restoration Ode”


Alumni

Reginald Dwayne Betts,”At the End of Life, A Secret”

Jenny Johnson, “Aria”

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Faculty and Alumnae in The American Poetry Review

The current issue of The American Poetry Review includes work by faculty members Daisy Fried and Tony Hoagland, as well as alumnae Margaree Little (poetry, ’12) and Laura Van Prooyen (poetry, ’10).

From Laura Van Prooyen’s “As Always, Thirty Years Between Us”
My father wants me to cut his hair
in the laundry room, where the rotary phone
still hangs on the wall. Here, I took
and made so many calls to boys
he disapproved of. This is an old story.
A father, daughter, half-regrets. I fold over
his ear the way he tells me to and trim...[Keep Reading]…

To read the rest of the issue, purchase a copy on the magazine’s website.

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Readings

A number of Warren Wilson faculty and alumni will read in Rochester, VT at BigTown Gallery’s annual literary arts series, which takes place on Sunday evenings, July 15-Sep­tember 2.

July 29 — Faculty Michael Collier (with Cynthia Huntington)

August 5 — Faculty Martha Rhodes (with Gary Margolis)

August 12 — Alumna Elaine Terranova

August 19 — Alumni Patrick Donnelly and Margaree (Molly) Little

September 2 — Alumna Tracy Winn (with Joan Landis, Rebecca Goodwin, and R.C. Williams

All of this year’s readings will take place in the Main Gallery from 5:30-6:30 p.m.

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Poetry Daily’s 2012 Poets’ Picks

The Poetry Daily 2012 Poets’ Picks include contributions from MFA faculty members Debra Allbery, Jennifer Grotz and Mary Szybist, as well as alumna Adrian Blevins (poetry, ’02).  Click the links below to read each poet’s commentary on the poem of their choice:

Debra Allbery:
To Seem the Stranger Lies My Lot, My Life by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Adrian Blevins:
Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry] by Christopher Smart

Jennifer Grotz:
The Book by Henry Vaughan

Mary Szybist:
I heard a noise … by Anonymous

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