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MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries Named 2019 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Literary Arts Fellow

A Bellagio Center residency is considered one of the world’s most prestigious. The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, through a combination of conferences and residency programs, supports the work of scholars, artists, thought leaders, policymakers, and practitioners who share in the Foundation’s pioneering mission to “promote the well-being of humanity around the world.” The Center supports individuals… Continue reading MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries Named 2019 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Literary Arts Fellow

MFAW-VT Faculty Member Douglas A. Martin’s Book “Acker” and The Glowing Review!!

MFAW-VT faculty member Douglas A. Martin’s book, Acker, is reviewed in this week’s New York Times Book Review. “Whether the reader is an Acker novice or an aficionado, seeing that insistently transgressive artist through Martin’s eyes offers new insights into her brilliance and bombast….She wanted, Martin writes, “to dispense with bindings, their conventions, of gender, of genre,… Continue reading MFAW-VT Faculty Member Douglas A. Martin’s Book “Acker” and The Glowing Review!!

Kenny Fries and Douglas A. Martin’s Firecracker Nods!!

  The Firecracker Awards are given each year to celebrate the best of independent and self-published literature.  This year, faculty members Kenny Fries and Douglas A. Martin are both nominated in the non-fiction category for their books, Acker a critical study of writer Kathy Acker by Douglas and In the Province of the Gods, a journey through Japan, by Kenny.  

Jan Clausen’s Summer Publication

MFAW-VT faculty member Jan Clausen’s essay “By the Light of Distant Fires,” derived from her keynote on the theme “origins” from last January’s residency, will be published in the summer issue of Camas: The Nature of the West, a literary journal run by graduate students in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana.

Alchemy of the Word

You asked for them: Those moving, inspiring, thought-provoking keynote and graduation lectures that you couldn’t stop thinking about.  At the residencies for the Goddard MFA in Creative Writing program, “Can I get a copy of that?” is an even more common refrain than “Trust the process!” And now, they can be yours. Goddard College is… Continue reading Alchemy of the Word

Beatrix Gates Will Be Guest Poet

MFAW-WA faculty member Beatrix Gates will be the guest poet at Opera House Arts Voice2Voice Poetry Declamation Contest which is partnering with schools in Blue Hill, Sedgwick, Brooklin and Deer Isle/ Stonington on April 12th for the purpose of exposing middle school students to the spoken word of poetry as a means of developing their voices and expressing themselves.

Kenny Fries’s “In The Province of the Gods” is a LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST!!

“Kenny Fries embarks on a journey of profound self-discovery as a disabled foreigner in Japan, a society historically hostile to difference. As he visits gardens, experiences Noh and butoh, and meets artists and scholars, he also discovers disabled gods, one-eyed samurai, blind chanting priests, and A-bomb survivors. When he is diagnosed as HIV positive, all… Continue reading Kenny Fries’s “In The Province of the Gods” is a LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST!!

Queering the MFA

“Are you thinking about applying to an MFA program? Concerned about queer writing being taken seriously? My biggest advice is to figure out what is most important to you in your graduate studies.”…

Ten in Ten: MFA reading at Elliott Bay

What is Ten in Ten? This year, TEN members of the MFA in Creative Writing faculty are bringing books, plays, and productions into the world. You can catch three of them at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, Washington, along with moderator and Goddard MFA graduate Isla McKetta.  From the Elliot Bay website: Two of… Continue reading Ten in Ten: MFA reading at Elliott Bay

NYC Book Launch for Douglas A. Martin’s ACKER

The NYC book launch for Goddard MFA faculty member Douglas A. Martin‘s new book Acker, will be held on Monday, November 20, 7pm, at Callicoon Fine Arts, 49 Delancey Street. The event will include readings by Wayne Koestenbaum, Dorothea Lasky, Douglas A. Martin, and Darcey Steinke. Acker, published by Nightboat, is a lyric cover of Kathy Acker’s career and a… Continue reading NYC Book Launch for Douglas A. Martin’s ACKER

In The New York Times, Goddard Faculty Member, Kenny Fries asks: “What Kind of Society Do We Want to Be?

Online today at The New York Times, Goddard MFA faculty member Kenny Fries asks:  “What kind of society do we want to be?” In “The Nazis’ First Victims Were the Disabled,” Kenny Fries writes about the echoes of the extermination of the “unfit” carried out by the Third Reich, the importance of disability history and its relationship to… Continue reading In The New York Times, Goddard Faculty Member, Kenny Fries asks: “What Kind of Society Do We Want to Be?

Goddard MFA Faculty Bhanu Kapil’s Poem in The Guardian

Goddard MFA faculty member Bhanu Kapil‘s “Poem Dictated to Eric Trump at 3.46am After a Marathon Video Binge of Twilight and its Two Sequels” was included in the The Guardian‘s 21 poems that Donald Trump might like to see at the base of the Statue of Liberty. From The Guardian article, “Huddled Masses?  Losers!  Trump v the… Continue reading Goddard MFA Faculty Bhanu Kapil’s Poem in The Guardian

Goddard MFA Faculty Deborah Brevoort’s Plays Published

Goddard MFA faculty member Deborah Brevoort‘s  two comedies, The Poetry of Pizza and The Velvet Weapon, have been published by No Passport Press. In both plays, Deborah Brevoort shows her keen eye for comedy.  The Poetry of Pizza is a trans-cultural romantic comedy portraying the affectionate relationship that arise among Middle Eastern pizza chefs, Danish agoraphobics and Anglo-Americans… Continue reading Goddard MFA Faculty Deborah Brevoort’s Plays Published

Goddard MFA Faculty Kenny Fries Remembers Hiroshima

The Progressive has published Goddard MFA faculty member Kenny Fries‘s “A Healing Tree: Remembering Hiroshima” to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the atomic bombing.   “A Healing Tree” is adapted from an excerpt from his forthcoming book, In the Province of the Gods, which will be published by University Wisconsin Press in September. “This August 6, some of the… Continue reading Goddard MFA Faculty Kenny Fries Remembers Hiroshima

Goddard MFA Alum Simone John Launches Testify

On August 11, Goddard MFA alum Simone John will launch Testify at 7pm at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA. In Testify, published by Octopus Books, Simone’s first full-length book of poems, she experiments with documentary poetics to uplift stories of black people impacted by state-sanctioned violence. The book’s first section weaves Rachel Jeantel’s testimony in the Trayvon Martin trial with Kendrick… Continue reading Goddard MFA Alum Simone John Launches Testify

Goddard MFA Faculty Kenny Fries’s In the Gardens of Japan Published

Goddard MFA faculty member Kenny Fries‘s In the Gardens of Japan was published by Garden Oak Press.  The book includes drawings by Ian Jehle.  In the Gardens of Japan is a companion to In the Province of the Gods, which will be published by University of Wisconsin Press in September. You can buy In the Gardens of Japan… Continue reading Goddard MFA Faculty Kenny Fries’s In the Gardens of Japan Published

Goddard MFA Alum Cheryl Heller Receives Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at Bellagio

Goddard MFA alum Cheryl Heller received a fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. Cheryl, Chair of MFA Design for Social Innovation program at the School of Visual Arts, will complete a month-long residency in Bellagio, Italy, to advance her work on a book to be published in 2018. The Intergalactic Design Guide, a journey thorough… Continue reading Goddard MFA Alum Cheryl Heller Receives Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at Bellagio

Goddard MFA Alumna Laurel Radzieski’s Red Mother to be Published by NYQ Books

Goddard MFA alumna Laurel Radzieski‘s Red Mother will be published by NYQ Books in early 2018. Red Mother, Laurel’s first book of poems, weaves a love story told from the perspective of a parasite. This series of short poems explores the intimacy, desire and devotion we all experience by following the sometimes tender, often distressing relationship… Continue reading Goddard MFA Alumna Laurel Radzieski’s Red Mother to be Published by NYQ Books