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
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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
Dear MFAW,
Dear MFAW people,
I’m guessing that, for the majority of you, your first desire to write was a way to express an emotion that you were having difficulty feeling or understanding.
Goddard MFA Faculty Member Susan Kim Head Writer For Amazon’s Creative Galaxy
Goddard MFA faculty member Susan Kim has been hired as head writer for the third season of Amazon‘s children series, Creative Galaxy. Creative Galaxy follows the adventures of Arty and his sidekick Galaxy as they travel around the galaxy to solve problems using art and creativity. Samantha Bee, Cloris Leachman, Lisa Loeb, and Donovan Patton, have been… Continue reading Goddard MFA Faculty Member Susan Kim Head Writer For Amazon’s Creative Galaxy
Goddard MFA Alum Alexis M. Smith Wins Lambda Literary Award
Goddard MFA Alum Alexis M. Smith wins a Lambda Literary Award for Marrow Island, a novel published by Houghton Miflin Harcourt. Alexis won in the Bisexual Fiction category. O, the Oprah Magazine, describes Marrow Island‘s story as “A faltering journalist returns to an island abandoned after an earthquake released a toxic spill. That’s the beautifully wrought setting of… Continue reading Goddard MFA Alum Alexis M. Smith Wins Lambda Literary Award
Goddard MFA Alum Kevin Rabas Named Kansas Poet Laureate
Goddard MFA alum Kevin Rabas has been named Kansas Poet Laureate. He will serve in this position for two years. Kevin Rabas teaches at Emporia State University, where he leads the poetry and playwriting tracks and chairs the Department of English, Modern Languages, and Journalism. He has seven books, including Lisa’s Flying Electric Piano, a Kansas… Continue reading Goddard MFA Alum Kevin Rabas Named Kansas Poet Laureate
Goddard MFA Faculty Member Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s Novel to be Filmed
Goddard MFA faculty member Micheline Aharonian Marcom‘s novel Three Apples Fell from Heaven will be adapted by Motorcycle Diaries writer José Rivera and directed by Shekhar Kapur. This will be the first film from Disruptive Narrative, a new social justice storytelling production which launched at Cannes as part of the Refugee Voices in Film day. Marcom says, “A… Continue reading Goddard MFA Faculty Member Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s Novel to be Filmed
Goddard MFA Alumna Julia Bouwsma Wins Poets Out Loud Prize
Goddard MFA alumna Julia Bouwsma‘s Midden, her second book of poems, was selected by Afaa Michael Weaver, for the Poets Out Loud Prize. Midden will be published by Fordham University Press in Fall 2018. In Midden, Bouwsma writes about the forcible eviction of an interracial community that until 1912 live on a small island off the coast… Continue reading Goddard MFA Alumna Julia Bouwsma Wins Poets Out Loud Prize
Goddard MFA Faculty Member Richard Panek wins Polish Wise Award for Popular Science Writing
Goddard MFA faculty member Richard Panek‘s collaboration with Temple Grandin, The Autistic Brain, has received a Wise Award for popular science writing published in Poland in 2016. Originally published in the U.S. by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2013, The Autistic Brain was published by Copernicus Center Press in Poland. The book was described as weaving Grandin’s own… Continue reading Goddard MFA Faculty Member Richard Panek wins Polish Wise Award for Popular Science Writing
Rogelio Martinez, Goddard MFA Faculty Member, Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
Rogelio Martinez, Goddard MFA Faculty Member, received a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship. Rogelio was born in Sancti-Spiritus, Cuba and arrived in the United States on the Mariel boatlift in 1980. As a Guggenheim Fellow, Martinez plans to return to Cuba for the first time since 1980 to research his newest play. Directly affected by the Cold… Continue reading Rogelio Martinez, Goddard MFA Faculty Member, Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
Goddard MFA Alumna Cara Hoffman’s New Novel in the New York Times
Goddard MFA alumna Cara Hoffman‘s latest novel, Running, is reviewed in the New York Times Book Review. In the review, Justin Torres writes, “”Hoffman impressively evokes the combination of nihilism, idealism, rootlessness, psychic and economic necessity, lust and love that might set a young person adrift. Unlike the runaway heroes of many queer narratives these characters are… Continue reading Goddard MFA Alumna Cara Hoffman’s New Novel in the New York Times
A Darrah Cloud, MFA Faculty, Premiere
Darrah Cloud, Goddard MFA Faculty member, premieres Prairie Diary on February 14, 2017, at 7pm at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space in NYC. Soprano Allison Charney, cellist Kajsa William-Olsson and pianist Reiko Uchida (aka the Ark Trio) will be presenting Love Resounding, six world premieres of compositions written for them by American composers, including Kim D. Sherman and… Continue reading A Darrah Cloud, MFA Faculty, Premiere
Goddard MFA Faculty Michael Klein’s Poem “Beginners”
Goddard MFA in Creative Writing Program faculty member Michael Klein’s poem “Beginners” was chosen for the Poem-a-Day project of the American Academy of Poets. The poem appeared online yesterday (January 29) and can be read here. Poem-a-Day is the original and only daily digital poetry series featuring over 200 new, previously unpublished poems by today’s talented poets each… Continue reading Goddard MFA Faculty Michael Klein’s Poem “Beginners”