Arielle Greenberg includes a meaty, enthusiastic discussion of Jan Clausen’s Veiled Spill: A Sequence in her latest American Poetry Review column under the heading “What to Read Now: Some Vital Books from 2014.” Greenberg’s nuanced appreciation for work that refuses to separate artistry from history is infectious, and lamentably rare in our literary press. Read the… Continue reading My Queer Shoulder and the Veil
Category: Faculty News
John McManus stories everywhere!
Yes, Goddard MFA faculty member John McManus has just returned to us after a year in South Africa on a Fulbright scholar grant, but living and teaching on another continent does not mean that he disappeared from publishing life. John has a new story collection called Fox Tooth Heart that’s forthcoming later this year from… Continue reading John McManus stories everywhere!
At the Residency… The Last Word on Nothing
What happens when the projector doesn’t work? The Haybarn Theater on the Plainfield campus has a beautiful new sound system, concert-worthy; state of the art lighting; a rich red velvet curtain; a podium that adjusts for height at the press of a button…but when the faculty are about to read and there is some kind of… Continue reading At the Residency… The Last Word on Nothing
Toward a Messy and Uncertain Grace
Goddard MFA Faculty member Aimee Liu’s essay, inspired by the author Meredith Hall, has been published by the Los Angeles Review of Books. A version of this essay was Aimee’s commencement address last summer in Port Townsend, Goddard’s West Coast MFA campus. Here’s the beginning of the essay: I’VE BEEN THINKING a lot about… Continue reading Toward a Messy and Uncertain Grace
Writing residencies and retreats
Who’s been where, and which writing retreats do you recommend? Aerogramme’s new list of retreats for 2015 includes Hedgebrook, an oasis for women writers near and dear to my heart: hard to get into (with 1500 applications this year!) but worth reapplying for, since, once you are a Hedgebrook alumna, you have a family for… Continue reading Writing residencies and retreats
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
Interstellar
From The Last Word on Nothing, by Richard Panek: If you haven’t seen the movie Interstellar, you might not recognize the image above. It’s the black hole that figures prominently in the climax. But even if you have seen the movie, chances are excellent you still don’t know what you’re looking at. I didn’t, anyway, at… Continue reading Interstellar
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
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
Alum Mary Johnson talks memoir With Rahna Reiko Rizzuto and Kenny Fries
During our recent residency, alumna Mary Johnson, author of An Unquenchable Thirst: Following Mother Teresa in Search of Love, Service, and an Authentic Life, joined faculty members Kenny Fries and Reiko Rizzuto at Goddard’s Plainfield, Vermont campus on 1/10/12 to discuss approaches and experiences to developing a memoir. Transformation: From Personal Experience to Published Memoir from… Continue reading Alum Mary Johnson talks memoir With Rahna Reiko Rizzuto and Kenny Fries