What? School? 1. If you’re looking for the WLP department’s website, look here instead. While you’re there, watch Steve Yarbrough in a short interview. He’s the acting department chair. 2. Orientation schedule! (You’ll get a more detailed one tomorrow.) 3. Those of you interested in applying for a Fulbright, contact GradStudies@emerson.edu and attend the workshop [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Emerson Connect'
KIM LIAO
August 19th, 2010 No Comments
Kim Liao has a Fulbright. Kim Liao leaves for Taiwan next Tuesday. Kim Liao will be researching her book in Taiwan. Kim Liao has started a blog. Kim Liao has named it Girl Meets Formosa. Read Kim Liao’s blog. We wish Kim Liao the very best. An excerpt from Kim Liao’s first post: With her [...]
Tags: Fulbright · Girl Meets Formosa · Kim Liao · Taiwan
“…and the space of the dash remains over the final ashes.”
July 15th, 2010 No Comments
In 2008, Pablo Medina and Mark Statman published a new translation of Poet in New York by Frederico Garcia Lorca. Ashbery called it “the definitive version…alive and molten”– In the introduction, Medina/Statman write, “Seventy years [after Lorca arrived in New York], those of us who had seen the twin towers of the World Trade Center [...]
Tags: frederico garcia lorca · mark statman · Pablo Medina · translation
Recently…
July 12th, 2010 No Comments
…Brooks Sterritt appeared in Gigantic. …PANK opened pre-orders for Our Island of Epidemics by Matt Salesses. …Katherine Meehan and Graham Trail began a lit mag, The Ear Hustler, and are ravenous for fruits of your labor. …Meeting House published “Neyon” by David Snyder.
Tags: brooks sterritt · david snyder · ear hustler · graham trail · katherine meehan · matt salesses
Hard Rock Redivider 7.2 Launch Party on 30 May
May 26th, 2010 No Comments
Sunday, 30 May 7-11pm Hard Rock Cafe 22-24 Clinton St (Faneuil Hall) To celebrate the launch of issue 7.2, Redivider will be hosting readings by past contributors Steve Almond and Ben Stein and the Hard Rock Cafe in Boston. The Ross Livermore Band will play after the readings, and we will have crazy fun things [...]
Tags: ben stein · redivider · ross livermore band · Steve Almond
Coffee Monday Coffee-Morning Coffee
May 10th, 2010 No Comments
For those of you who have jobs, here are reasons to use Incognito this morning beyond “planning surprises like gifts or birthdays.” Levi Asher takes a bite out of Harold Bloom, among others, and finds plenty to chew: Harold Bloom, once a fierce and self-critical thinker, is now suggesting that the world must support Israel [...]
Tags: Alums · Cam Terwillinger · Francis Fukuyama · Gigantic Sequins · Harold Bloom · Kimberly Ann Southwick · Levi Asher · literary journals · New York Times · Nietzsche · submissions · summer courses
Redivider announces the winners of its AWP Quickie Contest
May 3rd, 2010 No Comments
If you came to Redivider‘s double-table (the result of a heavily-contested annex that turned bloody Friday morning during an uneasy predawn), whoever was working likely suggested that you fill one side of a rather large postcard, which we provided, with your poetry or prose. Entries in the Quickie Contest–pause for nervous laughter, “But no, seriously”–were [...]
Tags: AWP · Pablo Medina · quickie · redivider · Robert Olen Butler
Ploughshares and Emerson Host Guest Editor Elizabeth Strout Reading,
Thursday 15 April
April 12th, 2010 No Comments
2009 Pulitzer-winner (for Olive Kitteridge) Elizabeth Strout has guest edited the Spring 2010 issue (No.111) of Ploughshares, choosing Richard Bausch, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Collier, and Linda Pastan, among many others. If you didn’t pick up a copy in Denver, then buy one online, or come to the reading. (Do that last one regardless.)
Tags: Elizabeth Strout · Paramount Theatre · ploughshares
City Hangover School Day
April 12th, 2010 1 Comment
—If you’re here because you bought/received a copy of Redivider at the AWP Bookfair and found therein an unevenly-scissored Vernacular card, or were handed one by a rambling, seventh-day-stubbled (bearded?) apparition in a cheap flannel shirt who seemed to have forgotten he still had his aviators on, or picked one up from a stack/Go-Fish pile [...]
Tags: Almond · altitude sickness · AWP · Denver · excessive tagging · Mizell · Peter · ploughshares · redivider
Saturday is Emerson’s Graduate Open House! by Claire Blechman
March 26th, 2010 No Comments
Welcome to all the incoming Prospective Students! When I came to open house as a prospective (back in 2006), I fell asleep on the floor behind a radiator somewhere in the Tufte building. I’d made the mistake of taking an overnight bus from NYC (4 am – 8 am) to save on hotel expenses. Please, [...]
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