Calling all Goddard College Faculty and Alums who will be attending AWP this year! As members of this elite squad, you are invited to our reception, to be held at the Conference. This is a great way to catch up with old friends, meet some new ones and generally feel more at home while browsing the… Continue reading Goddard Alum/Faculty Reception at AWP
Category: Faculty News
The Graphic Novel with Susan Kim and Rachel Pollack
An Interview by Beatrix Gates Vermont Graphic Novel faculty Rachel Pollack and Susan Kim attended the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) Fest with MFA Graphic Novel grads Anne Bean and Ryan Wynns, ’13, see pix below. Bea Gates: How would you describe what the… Continue reading The Graphic Novel with Susan Kim and Rachel Pollack
Susan Kim’s latest YA novel out today
GUARDIANS, the third and final book in the WASTELAND trilogy written by Susan Kim and her husband/occasional writing partner, Laurence Klavan, is out today from HarperTeen. (And two weeks ago, the second book, WANDERERS, came out in paperback) Blog tour is just beginning! Read an interview with Susan and Laurence on YA Series Insiders: Inside Secrets… Continue reading Susan Kim’s latest YA novel out today
Toklas, Stein and a literary Seance
I’m having some friends over tonight to plan a seance. Except it’s not really a seance; it’s just called it that to be silly and because it started with a ghost. The ghost of Alice B Toklas is rumored to haunt the Sorrento hotel in Seattle so the folks from APRIL (Authors, Publishers and Readers… Continue reading Toklas, Stein and a literary Seance
Some of What A Faculty Advisor Does on Leave . . .
…well, at least some of what this Faculty Advisor does on leave. This past week Professor David Mitchell, George Washington University, brought his “Disabled People and the Holocaust” class to Berlin. The class is especially interested in how what happened to those with disabilities in Germany under the Third Reich still affects people today, something… Continue reading Some of What A Faculty Advisor Does on Leave . . .
Know Thy Characters – An LA workshop!
Attention LA writers! Goddard faculty member Aimee Liu is offering one of her most popular workshops at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA on Sunday, April 26. All are welcome — especially those who might be interested in Goddard’s Writing Programs. Please spread the word! Here’s the scoop: Know Thy Characters – From the Inside-Out Analyzing Characters’… Continue reading Know Thy Characters – An LA workshop!
Narrative Permission Slip
First week of March, still frigid in New York, where it feels like someone in the sky kitchen said, “There’s hardly any winter left in the pot–you finish it,” and dumped a double helping on our plate. Still the same ice ridges and filthy snow heaps, still the pedestrian sidewalk rage at being trapped behind… Continue reading Narrative Permission Slip
CLOSING NIGHT
I’m on a train on my way into the city. I’m leaving behind my daughter who is five months old and has a respiratory virus. My wife will be alone tonight to take care of her. What is about to happen will never happen again, so I leave them behind because I have little choice.… Continue reading CLOSING NIGHT
Deborah Brevoort’s “The Blue-Sky Boys” at the Bickford Theatre
There will be a reading of Deborah Brevoort’s play The Blue-Sky Boys at the Bickford Theatre in Morristown, NJ on Monday March 2nd at 7 pm. The Blue-Sky Boys dramatizes the imaginative and unorthodox creative process used by the group of maverick NASA engineers to land a man on the moon. There are extended sequences… Continue reading Deborah Brevoort’s “The Blue-Sky Boys” at the Bickford Theatre
Deborah Brevoort to visit Oxford College
Deborah Brevoort (Faculty MFAW-VT) will be a visiting guest artist this weekend (February 27-28) at at Emory University’s Oxford College in Atlanta, Georgia, where they are producing her play “The Women of Lockerbie.” Deborah will give a lecture about the play and lead a post show discussion with the audience following Friday’s performance.
AAAAAA- Aimeeliu At Awp And Aroho in April
Goddard Port Townsend faculty member Aimee Liu will be at AWP with Acting Program Director Elena Georgiou in Minneapolis, April 8-11. Come say hello at Goddard’s Booth — #720. Aimee will also be reading at AROHO’s Night of “Glittering, Vocal Expansiveness” with Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, and Joy Castro, at the Bryant Lake Bowl on Wednesday,… Continue reading AAAAAA- Aimeeliu At Awp And Aroho in April
Seam, Pen, Needle: Jill Magi on “A Textile Poetics”
from Jan Clausen Over at Jacket2, that slightly obscure but thoroughly indispensable resource for thinking poetry, MFAW alum Jill Magi (most recent book: Labor) is pursuing a multi-month reflection on connections between textile production and the making of poetry. I love her description of the thread she’ll be following: not the easy equivalence of text = textile,… Continue reading Seam, Pen, Needle: Jill Magi on “A Textile Poetics”
We Are Believers: Reading Bhanu Kapil
In honor of the publication of Bhanu Kapil’s newest book Ban en Banlieue, published by Nightboat Books, the writers Amina Cain, Jenny Zhang, Sofia Samatar, and our own Douglas A. Martin, gathered together in a conversation for The Believer to talk about the work of the British-Punjabi writer, who teaches in the Department of Writing and Poetics… Continue reading We Are Believers: Reading Bhanu Kapil
Welcome Laleh Khadivi
Novelist and documentary filmmaker Laleh Khadivi is joining the faculty in Port Townsend this semester. Introducing herself in her own words, Laleh writes: “I came to literature through film. My documentary work has focused on the criminal justice system and immigration and I have directed pieces for A&E and produced work for HBO and Sundance.… Continue reading Welcome Laleh Khadivi
Life without Plans: World premiere of “In bed together”
One thing I’ve learned about writing, which, in turn, has reinforced what I’ve learned about life, is that you never know what might lead to what, what might happen next. In 2002, when I was introduced by a mutual friend to composer Marty Regan in Tokyo, I had not an inkling that a decade… Continue reading Life without Plans: World premiere of “In bed together”
How To Write A Poem
By Bhanu Kapil (Originally published on The Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog, for national Poetry month, April 2012. Which means, for the entire poem, you have to go there. But to begin…) How to Write a Poem 1. Eat the raw heart of a horse. This will distinguish you from a cast of thousands. 2. Are you… Continue reading How To Write A Poem
A new libretto for a Mozart masterpiece
Deborah Brevoort (Faculty MFAW-VT) was commissioned to write new libretto for Mozart’s comic masterpiece THE IMPRESARIO for the Anchorage Opera in Anchorage, Alaska, where it opens on February 20. Deborah’s adaptation places Mozart himself at the center of the story as he struggles to bring a new opera to the stage. Pitted between two dueling… Continue reading A new libretto for a Mozart masterpiece
Future Anxiety and Young Adult Fiction
I was doing some research (i.e. “avoiding work/killing time online”) when I found an old piece on Quora, a content partner with Slate. It posits the hypothetical question, “what would happen if oxygen were to disappear for five seconds?” The respondent, a self-described science junkie named Andrew Cote, describes a series of truly eye-popping events… Continue reading Future Anxiety and Young Adult Fiction
Attention lovers of Serial, the podcast!
Los Angeles Review of Books has just published an essay by Faculty member Aimee Liu comparing Sarah Koenig’s brainchild to Sebastian Junger’s A Death in Belmont — with shouts out to Anthony Doerr and Alan Dershowitz in the bargain. This essay was written with the theme of the upcoming MFA residency in Port Townsend —… Continue reading Attention lovers of Serial, the podcast!
Resistance and Change: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Radical Imagination
Post State of the Union, the speech that is still sounding in my mind is one that was given back in November: Ursula Le Guin’s address at the National Book Award ceremony. Yes, she chided us for selling books “like deodorant,” but these are the words that are resonating in me: “Hard times are coming,… Continue reading Resistance and Change: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Radical Imagination