For those of you who don’t know what FYWP means (cuz I sure didn’t when I read this flyer), it’s the First Year Writing Program at Emerson College, which is hosting a series…of…speakers… Anywho, this week’s speaker is Bruce Horner, who will be talking about language diversity, transnationalism, and the politics of English. So if [...]
Entries from March 31st, 2009
The FYWP Speaker Series
March 31st, 2009 No Comments
Tags: Bruce Horner · Emerson College WLP Department · FYWP Speaker Series
“Getting” It: A Poet Gone Stale
March 31st, 2009 1 Comment
I am not a poet. As an undergraduate I had many fooled into thinking I was, including myself. Nearly wrote my thesis in poetry, but switched at the last moment to nonfiction where I have remained ever since. I haven’t written a poem in probably six or seven years. I have to imagine I’m a [...]
Tags: literary taste · Llalan · poetry · reading
News from Emerson Alums!
March 30th, 2009 No Comments
Matthew Aaron Goodman
An Emerson MFA Alum (2000) whose debut novel, Hold Love Strong, will be published by Simon and Schuster and in stores April 14th, 2009. His message to students: ”some of you all have recently had babies, others lost their jobs or found jobs, and some have had a little bit of heartbreak or are deeply [...]
Tags: emerson alums · emerson MFA · fiction · Laurie Edwards · Matthew Goodman · nonfiction
WLP Reading Series: Mark Jarman and Terri Witek
March 30th, 2009 No Comments
The Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing
at Emerson College invites you to a reading by poets
Mark Jarman (Epistles; To the Green Man)
and
Terri Witek (The Shipwreck Dress; Carnal World)
at the Barnes & Noble @ Emerson College
114 Boylston Street, on Thursday, April 2, at 6 p.m.
Emerson College is located at the intersection of Boylston and Tremont Streets [...]
Coming Soon: Vernacular the book?
March 30th, 2009 1 Comment
These days, it seems like nothing is pure when it comes to media. Books turn into movies, which spawn video games and TV series. Magazines and newspapers direct readers of the print edition to exclusive online content (and vice versa). Authors of books take advantage of free publicity opportunities by becoming bloggers. And now, the [...]
Tags: blogs · books · publishing industry · Tanya
Learning Without Reading
March 27th, 2009 No Comments
To get published in literary journals, it apparently helps to read them. Most people (myself included) rarely do either of these things. I read one cover to cover a long time ago–I think it was Conjunctions. I usually just read parts of lit journals in bookstores even though I know it’s crucial to support “new [...]
Tags: Brooks · getting published · literary magazines · reading habits
Tonight: Emersonians at the Breakwater Reading Series!
March 27th, 2009 No Comments
Thank goodness it’s Friday! I don’t know about you, but this has seemed like one of the longer weeks ever… perhaps it’s the classic Bostonian affliction, the “I Can’t Believe It’s March and Not Spring Yet” syndrome. (although today is gorgeous, so get some sunshine if you can!)
Anyway, if you’re feeling the spring literary fever, [...]
Tags: Andrew Ladd · author readings · Claire Blechman · Porter Square Books
Vive le Passive Voice
March 26th, 2009 No Comments
This week Jan Freeman’s article in the Sunday Globe, “Active Resistance”, blasted its way through English language enthusiasts’ long-held belief that “[passive voice is] shifty and craven, weak and flabby.”
Maybe we should give ole p.v. a break, Freeman suggests (”Do we have any idea what we’re talking about?”), noting that we all succumb to passive’s [...]
Tags: Alexis · Boston Globe · grammar · revolution · writing habits
Wanna know more about women writers in America?
March 26th, 2009 No Comments
For those lucky individuals who have Tuesday nights free, there’s an event at the Harvard Book Store coming up next week. And best of all, it’s free!
Tuesday, March 31 / 7:00pm
ELAINE SHOWALTER
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
@ Harvard Book Store | 1256 Mass. Ave.
This event is free. No [...]
Tags: author readings · Independent bookstores · nonfiction · writers
Upcoming Grub Street Events!
March 24th, 2009 No Comments
Here are a few events coming up courtesy of Grub Street, just in time for wonderful, warm spring-like weather…if it ever gets here:
OPEN MIC NIGHT: Thursday March 26th, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Winter Season Showcase
Join Grub students from the winter term, plus two of our award-winning instructors, KL Pereira and Ethan Gilsdorf, as they read [...]
Tags: Boston · grub street