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.
You can download the full lecture from the MFA STORE.
“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.
Continue reading online…
The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College is delighted to announce its January 2015 faculty:
Debra Allbery (Director)
Dean Bakopoulos
Marianne Boruch
Karen Brennan
Liam Callanan
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Stephen Dobyns
Jeremy Gavron
Jane Hamilton
David Haynes
C.J. Hribal
James Longenbach
Nina McConigley
Antonya Nelson
Michael Parker
Roger Reeves
Martha Rhodes
Robin Romm
Dominic Smith
Megan Staffel
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Connie Voisine
Alan Williamson
Eleanor Wilner
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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Bill Irwin dancing with poets
There’s another star not in these pictures–the Warren Wilson MFA student who gets the first scholarship from the Carol Houck Smith Fund, thanks to the success of Friends of Writers’ 1st Annual Gala in April.
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Meryl Streep adds gloss to the evening
We are pleased to announce the public schedule for the upcoming July 2013 residency. All listed lectures and readings are free and open to public. To download the schedule, please click here. For more information about this schedule or the MFA Program for Writers, please call us at (828) 771-3715.
“Excerpt From Win Winters’ Notebook,” a piece by Tracy Winn (fiction, ’02) appears at Harvard Review Online.
Tropical Storm Irene
White River Valley, Vermont8/1/2011
Hot and humid. Three months ago they shut down the clapboard mill. Three months without a paycheck. Today I fixed the lawnmower Ward and me found at the dump. Going for new sparkplugs, saw a healthy-looking coyote running near the river. Wonder if that’s what took Ashley’s cat. Ashley cleaned and defrosted the fridge all afternoon with the TV on. She said being laid off should be more like a vacation than this.8/2
Thunder and some impressive lightning last night. Checked up in back for any downed wood worth cutting. Our second winter together and we won’t be able to pay for oil heat. Should I ask Harrison Lenk if he wants to come help? Might do him good to know somebody remembers how easy he was with a chainsaw. Ashley’s still moping over that cat. Doesn’t she understand that any tuna-fattened pet is going to light up a coyote’s radar screen? Made her laugh when I acted out her next cat’s revenge.
Tracy is the author of Mrs. Somebody Somebody
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