MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN CREATIVE WRITING [PRIZES • GLOBAL VOICES READING SERIES • BREAKWATER READING SERIES]
Announcing the University of Massachusetts-Boston Academy of American Poets Student Poetry Prize 2008 Winners. Selected by Visiting Poet Elizabeth Alexander.
First Place:
Barbara Perez *
"Eggshells"
Honorable Mention:
Tara Skurtu
"Visiting Amber at the Lowell Correctional Institution"
Click here to read the winning poems.
* MFA Poetry Student Barbara Perez also recieved an honorable mention in The 2008 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Intro Journals Award for her poem "Epilepsy."
MFA faculty member Lloyd Schwartz reads from the newly released Library of America's Bishop: Poems, Prose and Letters alongside MFA Program Director Joyce Peseroff and visiting writers Frank Bidart, Gail Mazur and Robert Pinsky.
Hear Lloyd Schwartz discuss Elizabeth Bishop and read her poem "One Art" on NPR's Fresh Air.
GLOBAL VOICES READING SERIES SPRING 2008
- Tuesday, February 19, 5:30 pm : Everybody Reads / Everybody Writes: UMB English faculty and MFA students read poetry and prose related to The Big Read, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird at the Healey Library.
- Wednesday, Feb. 27, 12:30 pm : Creative Writing Faculty Reading with Joyce Peseroff and Joe Torra at the UMB Bookstore
- Monday, March 10, 4:00 pm : Celebrating the Library of America's Bishop: Poems, Prose & Letters edited by Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz with Frank Bidart, Gail Mazur, Joyce Peseroff, Robert Pinsky, Lloyd Schwartz in Wheatley 6-47
- Thursday, March 27, 5:30 pm : Irish poets Mary O'Donoghue and Aidan Rooney at the UMB Bookstore
- Friday, March 28, 12:30 pm : The William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences presents Sam Cornish and Afaa Michael Weaver at the UMB Bookstore. Co-sponsored by Africana Studies and The William Trotter Monroe Institute for the Study of Black Culture
- Monday, March 31, 4:00 pm : Novelist, essayist and editor Nicholas Delbanco at the UMB Bookstore
- Monday, April 7, 2:30 pm : Academy of American Poets Prize Reading with Poet and children's book author Elizabeth Alexander at the UMB Bookstore. Co-sponsored by the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture
BREAKWATER READING SERIES: PRESENTING UMASS-BOSTON AND EMERSON COLLEGE MFA GRADUATE STUDENTS
- Friday, April 4, 7 pm: UMass-Boston Poets Barbara Perez and Jeffrey Taylor; Emerson Non-Fiction Writer Kara Brown and Fiction Writer Anni Shamim at Porter Square Books READ MORE
- Friday, April 18, 7 pm: UMass-Boston Poets Gregory Stenta and Joleen Westerdale; Emerson Non-Fiction Writer Anne Wheeler and Fiction Writer Annie Cardi at Porter Square Books READ MORE
- Friday, May 2, 7 pm: TBA
OTHER CAMPUS READINGS 2008
- Date and time TBA: Faculty laureates and UMB professors emerita Monica McAlpine, Rosamund Rosenmeier, and Connie Veenendaal