Three poems by faculty member Monica Youn appear at Lana Turner:
INTERROGATION OF THE HANGED MAN
What is your face?
A house, of sorts.
What is your foot?
A chipped stone blade.
What did you dream?
A rain-washed road.
What did it mean?
It meant nothing.
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Faculty member Jeremy Gavron has been interviewed by both The Guardian and BBC Radio 4 about his new book A Woman on the Edge of Time. You can read the Guardian interview here (as well as read an excerpt from the book here). The BBC Radio 4 interview is streaming here.
A Woman on the Edge of Time is now available in the UK and will be released in the US in September 2016.
A poem by faculty member Gabrielle Calvocoressi appears at American Poetry Review:
The rosemary bush blooming
its unabashed blue. Also dumplings
filled with steam and soup
so my mouth fills and I bubble
over with laughter. Little things.
People kissing on bicycles.
Being able to walk up the stairs
and run back down.
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Factually member Lauren Groff appeared on Seth Meyers to talk about her most recent book Fates & Furies. Watch a clip here.
A piece by faculty member C.J. Hribal appears at Milwaukee Magazine:
Fifteen years ago, I wrote an essay for this magazine called “A Marriage with Milwaukee,” in which I waxed rhapsodical about my love for the city, and used as a metaphor my own marriage – how the mystery of always discovering new things about your city and your partner would keep you with both forever. As with many things about which you seem certain, I was wrong. The marriage was over six years later, and a decade after that, I was moving out of my lovely arts and crafts house of 24 years, relocating from Milwaukee to (shudder) the wilds of Shorewood.
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Program founder, faculty member, and recent MacArthur Fellow Ellen Bryant Voigt has recently been interviewed by both PBS News Hour and WBUR Radio Boston.
You can read the PBS News Hour interview here.
Listen to the Radio Boston interview here.
A poem by faculty member Daisy Fried appears at Partisan:
My housemate of 1989
has short hair, lots
of sex and a nervous
way of smoking; doesn’t seem
smug really when in a clear
carrying voice she says, “I like
the idea of having a drawer
in the kitchen that’s full
of unsorted silverware, just
a drawer where you just throw in
the silver any which way”;
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Friends of Writers congratulates faculty member Maud Casey on winning the 2015 St. Francis College Literary Prize for her novel The Man Who Walked Away.
“The Man Who Walked Away helped Maud Casey walk away with $50,000 as the winner of the 2015 St. Francis College Literary Prize, one of the richest book prizes in the United States. Casey’s win was announced Saturday night at the Irondale Center during the opening gala for the 10th Annual Brooklyn Book Festival.”
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A poem by faculty member Monica Youn appears at New Republic:
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Upworthy has posted a piece on faculty member Heather McHugh and her nonprofit Caregifted:
Imagine you won half a million dollars for being a genius.
Heather did.
Heather McHugh is a poet from Seattle. She is also a genius.
The MacArthur Foundation gave her over $600,000 in unrestricted grant money for her poetry, which the foundation calls “intellectually challenging, yet emotionally engaging verse that balances gravity with humor.”
Winners of this “genius grant” can do whatever they want with the cash.
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