Mark Doty talks with Elena Georgiou on WGDR

Praised by the New York Times for his “dazzling, tactile grasp of the world,” award-winning poet, Goddard alumnus (MFA ’80) and former faculty member Mark Doty read from his work in the Haybarn Theater on January 6, 2016.  (Presented by Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing Program’s Visiting Writers Series).  The next morning, he spoke with Program Director… Continue reading Mark Doty talks with Elena Georgiou on WGDR

Ruth Ozeki’s reading at Goddard

As in, she DID read, and if you weren’t there but wish you were, here’s a video:   Novelist and filmmaker Ruth Ozeki was our visiting writer at the MFA in Creative Writing Program’s spring 2015 residency in Vermont. Ozeki’s first two novels, My Year of Meats (1998) and All Over Creation (2003), have been translated… Continue reading Ruth Ozeki’s reading at Goddard

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