At this past residency in Vermont, a few faculty members were sitting around before a meeting, talking about nothing in particular, and then one of us, for whatever reason that made sense in the moment, was describing a scene in a Martin Scorsese movie. Maybe Casino; maybe Goodfellas. Doesn’t matter. What matters is what happens… Continue reading You Talking to Me in Annotations?
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MFAW-VT Faculty Member Deborah Brevoort Met Museum Commission
MFAW-VT faculty member Deborah Brevoort has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, On-Site Opera and American Lyric Theater to write the libretto for an opera about Lady Murasaki, who wrote THE TALE OF GENJI, the world’s first published novel. The opera will be performed in the Astor Pavilion at the Met… Continue reading MFAW-VT Faculty Member Deborah Brevoort Met Museum Commission
August 2018 Community News and Events
Image left: Stefanie Batten Bland. Photo by JC Dhien. Image right: Company SBB// Stefanie Batten Bland in Bienvenue欢迎WelcomeBienvenidoأهلا بك. Photo: Sally Cohn CompanySBB at Spoleto & Lecce Festivals, Italy Current MFAIA-VT student Stefanie Batten Bland’s project Bienvenue欢迎WelcomeBienvenidoأهلا بك, an interdisciplinary piece in collaboration with visual artist Benjamin Heller and composer Paul Damian Hogan, examines our… Continue reading August 2018 Community News and Events
Congratulations to the Newest MFAW Alumni
On behalf of the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference Board of Stewards and the alumni community of the Goddard College MFAW program, we want to extend our congratulations and warmest welcome to those who graduated during the recent Port Townsend residency: Pam Dionne Kimi Hardesty Sean Hart Mitch Inclan Tina Ontiveros Erik Rodgers We wish… Continue reading Congratulations to the Newest MFAW Alumni
WGDR Radio Hosts MFAW Vermont students during fall residency
Emma Arlington, Stephen Dunn and Sassafras Lowery (three MFAW-VT students) stopped by Ethereal to discuss the program, writing, the process, the teaching practicum and social responsibility on Goddard radio (WGDR) during our Vermont residency, 2018.
MFAW-VT Faculty Member Kenny Fries and Another Grant!
MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries has received a grant from the Canada Council of the Arts to work on a book of essays on legacy. The working title of the book is Frida Kahlo’s Leg: Personal Essays on Disability, Role Models, and Representation.
The Sugar Balloon
Whenever you bump up against a writing situation that feels impossible, remember the Sugar Balloon, and all the experimentation, tenacity, innovation, determination, and risk that it took to arrive at this floating answer to a once-thought-impossible question.
It’s Here — CLOCKHOUSE Volume Six!
CLOCKHOUSE, the national literary journal published by the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference in partnership with Goddard College, is extremely pleased to announce the publication of Volume Six. Please visit the CLOCKHOUSE website for a glimpse of its contents, to place orders, and to find information about submitting work for next year’s Volume Seven!
MFAW-VT Student Sam Rebelein’s Short Story Publication
MFAW-VT student Sam Rebelein’s short story “What Are We Going to Do to You: An Oral Essay to My Newborn Daughter Through the Window of the Maternity Ward at 3 AM” has been published in Every Day Fiction. A preview: Your mom actually likes her family. I was just thinking about that. It was thee first thing… Continue reading MFAW-VT Student Sam Rebelein’s Short Story Publication
MFAW-WA Alum Cara Lang Reviews Bhanu Kapil’s “Schizophrene” and More
MFAW-WA alumna Cara Lang turned one of her annotations on Bhanu Kapil’s Schizophrene into a review and it’s been published by a Canadian journal carte blanche. Cara has also had two poems appear in the May issue of Chaleur. And finally, Cara is also reviewing books for a quarterly magazine, subTerrain.
Congratulating 2018 Recipients of Goddard/PEN North American Scholarships
An additional $20,000 in Creative Writing Scholarships Awarded The Goddard College MFA in Creative Writing Program congratulates Steven Dunn, recipient of the $10,000 2018 Goddard/PEN North American Scholarship, and second-place $5,000 awardee Masha Sukovic. Ten additional scholarship candidates received Engaged Artist Awards of $2,000 each: PEN America members Amy Barnes, Lisa Chambers, Will Duprey, Ron… Continue reading Congratulating 2018 Recipients of Goddard/PEN North American Scholarships
MFAW Faculty Member Rogelio Martinez’s Play “Born in East Berlin”
MFAW-VT faculty member Rogelio Martinez’s play, BORN IN EAST BERLIN, will be workshopped this coming summer at Theaterworks in Palo Alto. The play has also just been translated into Romanian. About the Play: In 1988 Bruce Springsteen played a legendary concert in East Germany and 300,000 people showed up. In Born in East Berlin, Martinez explores a great… Continue reading MFAW Faculty Member Rogelio Martinez’s Play “Born in East Berlin”
Notebook
The paragraph or so of writing in preparation for this post I began on an empty page of an old, located notebook, one that flips vertically like a police ticket or meter maid book, but unlike law enforcement trappings
MFAW-WA Faculty Member Keenan Norris’s Article on Micheline Aharonian Marcom
MFAW-WA faculty member Keenan Norris has interviewed another MFAW-WA faculty member Micheline Aharonian Marcom about her work as Creative Director of the New American Story Project (NASP). The NASP is a collaboration of artists presenting oral histories and stories of immigrants and refugees in order to bear witness, raise awareness, and provoke transformative conversation. Here’s the… Continue reading MFAW-WA Faculty Member Keenan Norris’s Article on Micheline Aharonian Marcom
MFAW-VT Student Steven Dunn’s New Book “Water & Power”
MFAW-WA student Steven Dunn’s new book water & power is ready for pre-order at Tarpaulin Sky Press. See description and blurb below. This is one for the hybrid lovers. Navy veteran Steven Dunn’s second novel, water & power, plunges into military culture and engages with perceptions of heroism and terrorism. In this shifting landscape, deployments are feared, absurd bureaucracy… Continue reading MFAW-VT Student Steven Dunn’s New Book “Water & Power”
Claribel Alegría: A Poetry Pendant
By chance or design, I held the words of the Salvadoran poet Claribel Alegría, later translated by poet Carolyn Forche and published by Pittsburgh in Flowers from the Volcano.
Canada Council of the Arts Grant to MFAW-VT Faculty Member Kenny Fries
MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries has received a grant from the Canada Council of the Arts to work on a book of essays on legacy. The working title of the book is Frida Kahlo’s Leg: Personal Essays on Disability, Role Models, and Representation.
Highlights from the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat
The 2018 Clockhouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat took place last week–here are a few snapshots! If you missed this year’s Clockhouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat, we hope you’ll think about joining… Continue reading Highlights from the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat
Michael Klein, Goddard College 2018
But beauty is still important, isn’t it? It seems to me and other fairly intelligent people in America, that we are living in a time when the failure to describe the time we are living in is truly mystifying. So, please bear with me—I will get to today’s reason for all of us being here, but I don’t know what to say to you today that somehow hasn’t come out of outrage and disbelief—outrage and disbelief at the fact that one of the last bastions of seemingly liberal thought—the fourth estate—has normalized an aberration.
Writing By the Seat of Your Pants
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about thrillers. About why recently I’ve been reading them compulsively at all hours of the day and night. Maybe the subject for a new book? I’m thinking about that. In the meantime I devour them at a great rate.