Author: MFA Writing

Ruth Ozeki to Goddard in January

We are thrilled that our Visiting Writer at the upcoming winter residency in Vermont will be novelist and filmmaker Ruth Ozeki. Ruth’s first two novels, My Year of Meats (1998) and All Over Creation (2003), have been translated into eleven languages and published in fourteen countries. Her most recent work, A Tale for the Time… Continue reading Ruth Ozeki to Goddard in January

Jan Clausen’s poem in Drunken Boat

Jan Clausen’s poem “The Wave That Is the Motion of the World” appears in Drunken Boat 20, just launched. Both print and a sound recording are available at: http://issues.drunkenboat.com/db20/poetry/jan-clausen

Wendy Goldberg on The O’Neill Development Process

Wendy Goldberg, Artistic Director National Playwright’s Conference, will be joining us at the next Vermont residency, on January 6th (1:15pm to 3:00pm) for a discussion on The O’Neill Development Process at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre center, one of the nation’s premiere new play development programs.  She will cover all facets of the program, from submissions to play selection,… Continue reading Wendy Goldberg on The O’Neill Development Process

Alum Charlie Bondhus returns in January

Poet and Goddard College alumnus Charlie Bondhus (MFAW ’05) reads from his work on Friday, January 9th at 7 pm.  Free and open to the public.  Presented by the MFA in Creative Writing Program’s Alumni Reader Series. Charlie Bondhus’s second book, All the Heat We Could Carry,  won the 2013 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award and… Continue reading Alum Charlie Bondhus returns in January

Poems by Michael Klein in Ploughshares

Michael Klein’s poem, “It’s Derby Day” has been accepted for publication by Oxford American, and an essay, “Overture Without Music,” was accepted by Slice.  Both will appear in spring 2015.  He’s also had three poems, “Harmonium,” “What Happened After it Happened,” and “A Life in the Theater (2)” accepted for publication by Ploughshares for two… Continue reading Poems by Michael Klein in Ploughshares

Silence

With November recently behind us, writers across America are slumped over their keyboards, having endured another NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, in which the name of the game is cranking out as many pages of one’s novel as possible in thirty days. Years ago when I first heard about this month of extreme page… Continue reading Silence

Toronto Arts Council grant to Kenny Fries

Kenny Fries received a Toronto Arts Council grant for his new Germany-based book, Stumbling Over History.  He also had a poem, “An Opening,” up at Good Men Project.  He also presented “Different Bodies,” at the University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany on November 4, 2014 and was invited to speak by Dr. Theresia Degener, Professor of… Continue reading Toronto Arts Council grant to Kenny Fries

Three book deal for Paul Selig

Paul Selig has just been offered a 3-book deal from Tarcher/Penguin for a new series on spiritual growth.  He was also recently filmed for the new documentary film Widowsville. He also lead a 5-Part tele-seminar for Evolver Learning Labs in October.  The seminar discussed the practical, theoretical, religious implications of mediumship and he was joined by… Continue reading Three book deal for Paul Selig

Essays from Darcey Steinke

Darcey Steinke’s essay on southern high school boy fights is up at the website Killing the Buddha and she has an essay about her friend Barry Hannah up on The Millions.

Jan Clausen reading in New York and Philadelphia

Jan Clausen read from her new poetry title, Veiled Spill: A Sequence, in October in New York City at Bureau of General Studies Queer Division at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center and in Philadelphia at the Wooden Shoe Books and Records Store.  Inside Higher Ed published Jan Clausen’s opinion piece on positive dimensions of Goddard’s… Continue reading Jan Clausen reading in New York and Philadelphia

Jane Wohl reading at Ucross

Jane Wohl participated in a reading in Ucross, Wyoming, on September 20, sponsored by the Wyoming Outdoor Council, the UW MFA program and the Haub school of natural resources at the University of Wyoming

The Radical Power of Art

Lewis Hyde, in a terrific book called The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World, compares the radical power of art to gift giving.  All over the world, gift-giving rituals work in invisible ways to create community, strengthen bonds between people, and create obligations.   In Southeast Alaskan native cultures, for example, anyone who… Continue reading The Radical Power of Art

Essay in The Stranger from Rebecca Brown

Rebecca Brown had a new essay published in The Stranger.  She also recently read at the Shunpike fundraiser in Seattle and, with girls who had attended her workshop at the Whidbey Institute Young Women Empowered Creative Writing camp, at the Seattle Rep Theater.

Cornell University invites Deborah Brevoort as visiting guest artist

Deborah Brevoort will be a visiting guest artist at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan in conjunction with their productions of her play The Women of Lockerbie. In other news, Deborah was elected to the Board of the National Theatre Conference at their annual meeting in NYC.

New essays and interviews from Douglas A. Martin

Douglas A. Martin did a conversation with Darcey Steinke for The Believer.  An essay on his poetics (addressing the issue of the avant-garde and the issue of accessibility, by way of a provocation by Marjorie Perloff) appears alongside many others in the newest and special issue of Evening Will Come, at the Volta. He was… Continue reading New essays and interviews from Douglas A. Martin

Beatrix Gates: A collaboration of poetry and masks

Beatrix Gates exhibited poems in a collaboration of poetry and masks with textile artist Ron King in the Farm/Arts Exchange Exhibit at Reversing Falls Sanctuary in Brooksvile, Maine (8/24-9/7/14). She was interviewed and read poetry on The Writer’s Forum, WERU, Orland, Maine. She will teach Creative Writing at Maine Maritime Academy in fall 2014. And, finally,… Continue reading Beatrix Gates: A collaboration of poetry and masks

Faculty, Student and Alumni Achievements, July-August 2014

FACULTY Ryan Boudinot‘s story “Readers and Writers,” originally published in Post Road and nominated for a Pushcart Prize, is a story of the month on the Committee Room. An interview with Ryan appears in the inaugural issue of online magazine Moss. Deborah Brevoort’s backstage farce The Velvet Weapon was produced at the Trustus Theatre in… Continue reading Faculty, Student and Alumni Achievements, July-August 2014

News and Publications Jan-Feb 2014

FACULTY Kyle Bass has been commissioned by the Onondaga Historical Association to write a play based on events of 1839 involving a fugitive enslaved woman, abolitionist Gerrit Smith, and a young Elizabeth Cady (Stanton). Deborah Brevoort was invited in February to teach three playwriting workshops at the San Miguel Writer’s Conference in San Miguel de… Continue reading News and Publications Jan-Feb 2014