Just got news that two of my poems have been accepted for publication in what I think is one of the finest new literary magazines in the world–Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. I am thrilled about my first international publication. Cha is one of the only literary journals in Hong Kong.
It has been my constant goal [...]
Category Archives: MFA
Going Global
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Houghton College Fall Writing Festival
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Please come out to the Fall Writing Festival at Houghton if you can make it! Scott Cairns will be here!
“The Writer’s Journey”: Houghton College Writing Festival, 2009
Wednesday, September 16
10:15-10:55 a.m.
Chapel: Matthew Dickerson, “Lessons on Christian Ecology from the Writings of C.S. Lewis”
Location: Wesley Chapel
8:00-9:00 p.m.
Debra Reinstra, “Body, Soul, and Body: Language and Spirituality in Three [...]
Bearing the Mystery
Sunday, August 16, 2009
We are so proud of our MFA program director, Greg Wolfe, and the amazing accomplishment represented in the new collection Bearing the Mystery. The team at Image has worked hard for many years not just to consume or criticize culture but to create it. This is a gorgeous book that debuted at the Glen Workshop [...]
Sincere but Conflicted
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Man, am I looking forward to Sara Zarr’s latest, Once Was Lost. If you haven’t read Story of a Girl or Sweethearts, check them out. At my recent MFA residency at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, I noticed the young woman scanning our meal cards at the cafeteria reading Story of a Girl, and my heart lifted. [...]
Kimura Nobuko
Friday, May 1, 2009
Last week I discovered Japanese poet Nobuko Kimura, whose collection The Village Beyond happened to be sitting in the delightful mess on Monroe Avenue known as Rick’s Recycled Books. (Incidentally, congrats to Rick on City Newspaper’s 2008 Best of Rochester award in the category of Best Place to Pick Up ’80’s Movies on the Cheap.)
Anyway…The Village [...]
On “the plain style”…
Friday, April 17, 2009
From Brian Henry of Verse (U of Richmond):
“The assumptions inherent in the plain style: of readerly collusion, of frictionlessness. Poetry is a language art; it contains artifice. To pretend otherwise is to pretend. Poetry written in the plain style is as rhetorical in its colloquialisms and accessible diction as stylized poetry is in its involutions and [...]
Literary Miscellany
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Two items of interest to me (and, I hope, to some of you):
1) Shenandoah is calling for submissions for its 60th anniversary issue on Flannery O’Connor: “The editor seeks essays, poems, short stories, reviews, photographs and other artwork about, related to or in honor of the fiction and life of Ms. O’Connor.”
2) I just found [...]
New poems on Piazzolla
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Working on a sequence of poems inspired by the life and music of Astor Piazzolla, the Argentine bandoneón player and composer. Piazzolla’s stormy and stunning nuevo tango music combined classical influences, traditional Argentine tango, Parisian jazz, and the “cool jazz” Piazzolla heard in New York in the ’50’s. Controversial because of his departure from traditional [...]
Greetings from Whidbey Island
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
We are nearing the end of our 10-day residency on Whidbey Island, two hours or so northwest of Seattle. I’m looking out at what I believe are Puget Sound waters, butting against the Strait of Juan de Fuca (and always, the ghost of Carver that reminds us of what matters). And beyond is simply the Pacific [...]
