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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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,
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.
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 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
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
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
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
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
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,
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