The Language of Paradise by alum Barbara Klein Moss (fiction, ’96) was  published by Norton in April, 2015.

The Writer’s Almanac published the poem “Detroit Pheasant” from the collection Trumbull Ave. by alum Michael Lauchlan, (poetry, ’91).

“Homesteaders,” a story by alum Elisabeth Hamilton, was published in the Summer 2015 issue of The Colorado Review.

Alums Lucy Anderton (poetry, ’05) and Laura-Gray Street (poetry, ’97) each have two poems published in the same Summer 2015 issue of The Colorado Review.

Alum Lynette D’Amico’s (fiction, ’13) novella Road Trip has been published by Twelve Winters Press. Additionally, her nonfiction piece “In the Split” appears in the 2015 issue of The Ocean State Review.

Alum Mark Solomon (poetry, ’93) has published the chapbook Her Whom I Summoned. Contact [email protected] to order copies.

Faculty member Lauren Groff edited the Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares Literary Journal. Her new novel, Fates and Furies, will published by Riverhead Books in mid-September.

You can download the full lecture from the MFA STORE.

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, 7:00 PM, Wednesday, 11/19/2014. Patrick Donnelly, Rosalynde Vas Dias, Lenore Myka, Susan Sterling, and Cammy Thomas will read to benefit scholarship funds for the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. Cambridge Boat Club (2 Gerry’s Landing Road, Cambridge, MA). Snacks and socializing begin at 6:00 PM. This reading series is organized by WWC MFA alums to benefit the program; suggested donation for alums is $20.

“American Apology,” a poem by alumnus Michael Collins (poetry, ’03) appears at Cider Press Review:

Why did I think                                          it was such a big deal?
So she was lying                                       there dripping

gorgeousness, before                               me, supine, naked,
offering with a beckoning                          gesture, a smile,

her body for what seemed                         a reasonable fee.
But I was too prudish                                 to do it.

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An interview with alumnus Gary Hawkins (poetry, ’95) appears at The Collagist:

Gary Hawkins is a poet, teacher, and scholar. A letterpress chapbook, Who Do We Know Who Works? is forthcoming in 2014 from Trade Union Press. His poetry, pedagogy, and criticism have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Teaching Creative Writing in Higher Education, Emily Dickinson Journal, and other venues. He teaches and serves as associate dean at Warren Wilson College, and he thrills at having one of poetry’s most enviable addresses in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

His poem, “Five (Occupational) Love Poems,” appeared in Issue Fifty-Five of The Collagist.

Here, he talks with interviewer Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes about Walt Whitman’s workers, stolen poems, and poems that build “in” instead of “out.”

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