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Entries from April 28th, 2009
Announcing: Vernacular Spring Gala!!
April 28th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: emerson alums · Gentlemen Hall · grub street · kim · networking · parties · support Vernacular
Reclaiming Poe
April 27th, 2009 No Comments
Breaking literary news right in our own backyard: the Globe today published this article about how the city of Boston will rename a square at the south end of the Common for Edgar Allen Poe to celebrate his bicentennial. Apparently some Boston College students have begun a crusade to reclaim Poe for Boston, though while [...]
Tags: Boston · Tanya · This Week in Publishing
Vocab Curmudgeon Strikes Again
April 27th, 2009 3 Comments
I’d like to talk for a moment about a pesky (and, of course, UNFORGIVABLE) mistake that I have observed multiple times in all of my classes in this semester — both the freshman writing class I teach, and the venerable grad student writing workshops I’m enrolled in.
Or perhaps I should say, I’d like to talk [...]
Tags: Andrew · getting published · language usage · writing
Top 10 Writer Stalks of Summer
April 25th, 2009 No Comments
Down south where I come from, literary tourism often involves large amounts of driving–from Flannery O’Connor’s house in Milledgeville, Ga. to William Faulkner’s in Oxford, Miss. (little known fact–Ole Miss’s original mascot was actually the Yoknapatawpha Paw-paw until students lost their minds and changed it to this. A decided mistake!)
Fortunately, New England is a [...]
“Science and technology multiply around us.”
April 24th, 2009 No Comments
This is a bit late, but “cult” novelist and short story writer J.G. Ballard died last weekend at age 78.
Tags: Brooks · J. G. Ballard · writers
Guest Blogger of the Week: A Curator Speaks
April 24th, 2009 No Comments
As you may have seen, tonight is the last Graduate Reading Series (GRS) of the year. The GRS, founded by Rob Arnold about a millenium ago, offers WLP Grad students in Creative Writing and Publishing opportunities to share their work aloud– usually for the first time of hopefully many career appearances. But like all things, [...]
Tags: author readings · emerson MA · emerson MFA · graduate reading series · Guest Blogger of the Week
Last Graduate Reading Series of the Year!
April 23rd, 2009 1 Comment
This just in from the legendary GRS Co-Curators, Ron & Claire, who WILL be reading this Friday at Emerson–what a treat! Here’s what they had to say:
Tags: emerson MFA · graduate reading series · kim · The Tam
One For the Poets
April 21st, 2009 No Comments
Photo of magnetic poetry courtesy of Brendan Adkin on Flickr using Creative Commons licensing.
This one is for the poets out there looking to get published. Octopus Books is currently accepting full-length manuscripts for the month of April. But the month is almost over (and hopefully so is the rain) so get your manuscripts in ASAP!
Tags: getting published · Octopus Books · poetry
Networking -or- Trying Not to Yarf on Someone Important
April 21st, 2009 1 Comment
I am not a networker. I am the opposite of a networker…a runawayer, perhaps. So this weekend, when a chance to network with some important people arose without warning, I had to remind myself of these 10 simple rules I concocted to follow in just such a situation.
1. Stop listening to anything your friends are [...]
Tags: Llalan · networking
In conclusion…
April 20th, 2009 1 Comment
With the end of the semester (and a birthday) looming, I’ve been thinking a lot about endings. I can’t decide which is more intimidating – the sight of a cursor blinking at the beginning of an arctic expanse of empty page, or at the end of pages filled with carefully constructed prose. Yes, beginnings are [...]
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