MFAW-VT alumni Kyle Tijerina’s poem “para mi mujer pequeño,” was published in the online PRIDE edition of Cliterature Journal. Writer and performer for over three decades, queer poet and political theorist A Kyle (a pseudonym) began her writing career as a scriptwriter, writing teatro guerrillero defending the rights of Mexican farmworkers. An Odawa/Potawatomi and Mejicana native,… Continue reading MFAW-VT Kyle Tijerina Publishes in PRIDE Edition of Online Journal
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MFAW-WA Alum James Gapinski Releases Two Chapbooks
MFAW-WA alumnus James Gapinksi has had two chapbooks published this year, Messiah Tortoise and Edge of the Known Bus Line. Here are the press releases for each: In Edge of the Known Bus Line, a woman’s daily commute takes an abrupt turn when she’s dropped off in a grotesque shantytown. The townsfolk live in… Continue reading MFAW-WA Alum James Gapinski Releases Two Chapbooks
MFAW-WA Alumna Liz Kellebrew’s Anthology Contribution
MFAW-WA alumna Liz Kellebrew’s prose poem, “Flood, Fire, Mountain,” will appear in Writers Resist: The Anthology 2018, coming this October from Running Wild Press. There are also plans for a reading at AWP ’19 in Portland, OR. And here, from the publisher’s website, is how the anthology came into being: It began November 9, 2016, in a… Continue reading MFAW-WA Alumna Liz Kellebrew’s Anthology Contribution
Between Yearning and Dread
Because Yearning and Dread is the theme of our upcoming Goddard residency, I’ve been thinking lately about the role these emotions play in my own writing, and as I look back over my fiction, particularly my novels, it seems pretty clear that the yearning and dread that fuel my work revolve around my parents.
MFAW-VT Faculty Kenny Fries Posts a Piece on Disability and Diversity Online at MEDIUM
MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries has published a response to Lionel Shriver’s recent attack on Penguin/Random House UK’s push for diversity online at Medium. The piece is called “The Exclusivity of Inclusion: On Disability and Diversity” In the article he quotes fellow faculty member Reiko Rizzuto. Fries’ article is a response to Lionel Shriver’s screed… Continue reading MFAW-VT Faculty Kenny Fries Posts a Piece on Disability and Diversity Online at MEDIUM
MFAW-VT Faculty Member Reiko Rizzuto Pens Article for SALON Online
MFAW-VT faculty member Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s article on the Supreme Court decision travel ban, which is expected this month, and Hawaii’s history in resisting the US government’s racist exclusionary policies during World War II has been published on Salon. Here’s a sneak peek including headline: Hawaii’s fight against Trump’s Muslim travel ban has long roots… Continue reading MFAW-VT Faculty Member Reiko Rizzuto Pens Article for SALON Online
What’s Happening at the CWC&R and One More Chance to Sign Up!
For those of you already registered to attend the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat, here’s what awaits! And if you’re not signed up but would like to make a last-minute reservation to join us, there are still spaces available–please see the CWC website for information and registration materials. Monday, July 2 11:00 –… Continue reading What’s Happening at the CWC&R and One More Chance to Sign Up!
Why I Give to Goddard
Goddard College is home to more than 20,000 alumni globally. Our alumni tell us that their unique experience here is central to their approach to their work and has had a transformative effect on their life. Patricia Shepherd (IBA ’08, MFAW ’10) is a two-time graduate and Boston Chapter Co-Chair. Here is a statement on… Continue reading Why I Give to Goddard
In the Contemplative Realms
Here in the contemplative realms of the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, I’ve lost track of time. I wander among timepieces and pendulums, spheres that chart the stars, and Earth globes with halos of hours at their poles, each artifact a survivor from its Renaissance birth through the firebombing of Dresden in World War II. Having lain undisturbed during the Iron Curtain years, these relics have arrived intact at the Age of Digitalia…
Electric Literature Posts Essay by MFAW Faculty Member Reiko Rizzuto
MFAW-VT faculty member Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s essay on the shape of trauma in our writing is featured on Electric Literature from the essay: “I started writing my second novel in the aftermath of violence. In a more-common-than-you-think incident — one that is often used for titillation or as the opening scene of some revenge movie involving… Continue reading Electric Literature Posts Essay by MFAW Faculty Member Reiko Rizzuto
Sneak Preview: CLOCKHOUSE Volume Six!
Clockhouse‘s sixth volume is still in its final production stages, but we’re able to give you an idea of what to expect with Sarah Cedeño’s “Note from the Editorial Director.” As always, there will be a special Preview Reading of the new Clockhouse volume during the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat, and every CWC&R participant… Continue reading Sneak Preview: CLOCKHOUSE Volume Six!
Julia Bouwsma Wins Maine Literary Award in Poetry
MFAW-VT alum and former Visiting Alumni Writer Julia Bouwsma’s Work by Bloodlight won the Maine Literary Award for poetry. Work by Bloodlight, which began as Julia’s MFA creative thesis, was chosen by Linda Pastan for the Cider Press Review Prize and published by Cider Press Review. And, if that weren’t enough excitement, Midden, Julia’s second book of poems, was… Continue reading Julia Bouwsma Wins Maine Literary Award in Poetry
On Mastery
2018 marks two milestones in my life.
This past March, I turned 40, which everyone assures me is the new 30. (It’s also, unsurprisingly, the old 60, but no one wants to talk about that.) To celebrate my fortieth birthday, my husband attempted to coerce me into having a celebration worthy of the occasion, a lavish gathering of family and friends and colleagues, crammed into a modestly priced rental hall to eat finger foods we didn’t cook set to music we only vaguely remembered selecting. I refused. Does anybody really need to see me drunk and dancing awkwardly to another Macklemore song about inclusion? I don’t think so.
New Social Innovation and Sustainability Grant for Students of Color
The Impact Project is an initiative intended to increase enrollment of students of color from underserved and / or marginalized communities in the Goddard Graduate Institute’s MA in Social Innovation and Sustainability, who are working on social innovation and sustainability projects that will benefit their communities. With faculty, staff, and peer guidance and instruction, students… Continue reading New Social Innovation and Sustainability Grant for Students of Color
Victoria Nelson’s Best Reviewed Book of the Week
MFAW-WA faculty member Victoria Nelson’s New York Review Books edition of Robert Aickman’s story collection, Compulsory Games, with reviews in the New Yorker, Washington Post, and elsewhere, made the Lit Hub/Bookmarks “Best Reviewed Books of the Week” list. Robert Aickman (1914–1981) wrote eight collections of self-described “strange stories,” as well as the novel The Late Breakfasters and the posthumously published novella The Model.… Continue reading Victoria Nelson’s Best Reviewed Book of the Week
A Farewell to Rebecca Brown–From Rebecca Brown
After almost twenty years of teaching in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Goddard, I am going to retire. When I first started working at Goddard, there was one campus only, in Vermont. I went to Plainfield, where I’d never been, and started to work with a bunch of people I’d never met before. … Continue reading A Farewell to Rebecca Brown–From Rebecca Brown
MFAW-WA Faculty Member Bhanu Kapil to Spend Early Summer at ART BASEL!
MFAW-WA faculty member Bhanu Kapil’s work–Ban/blog/banners–is to be featured in Art Basel. Constituting the final in a series of five exhibitions organized by New York-based curator Harry Burke for The Printed Room since 2015, each of which survey different pressures put upon the conventions of print and literature following the digitization of everyday life, Bhanu Kapil:… Continue reading MFAW-WA Faculty Member Bhanu Kapil to Spend Early Summer at ART BASEL!
June 2018 Community News and Events
Image top left: Devora Neumark with S17 MFAIA-WA Residency Guest Artist Cease Wyss. Image top right: from 2014, Faire bon ménage; independent performance in Basel, Switzerland, in front of the Refugee Reception and Registration Centre. Image below left: from 2011, Home Beautiful – Inviting in the Ancestors, at Matralab, Concordia University, Montreal in collaboration with Rana Alrabi, Rula Odeh, Sonia Zylberberg and… Continue reading June 2018 Community News and Events
New Sexuality Studies Concentration in Undergraduate Programs
Goddard College has launched a new Sexuality Studies Concentration within the Undergraduate Studies Program. Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field ranging from gender studies to biology, ethnic studies to public policy, and theology to economics. Founded by Drs. H. “Herukhuti” Sharif Williams and Zelaika Hepworth Clarke, we are the only sexological program specifically designed to… Continue reading New Sexuality Studies Concentration in Undergraduate Programs
Indigenous & Decolonial Art and Performance Creation: New Concentrations in MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Program has developed two innovative concentrations for artists, performers, and culture-keepers. The Indigenous and Decolonial Art Concentration, offered on our Port Townsend, WA campus, is one of the first academic initiatives in the United States to emphasize the arts in the decolonization process, bringing together Indigenous, settler, and… Continue reading Indigenous & Decolonial Art and Performance Creation: New Concentrations in MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts