On April 17th, the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center will continue its centennial celebration of famed novelist, essayist, and orator James Baldwin with The Symposium: Why Baldwin Matters. The day-long event will feature lecture and conversation "Looking for Jimmy" with David Leeming, Baldwin’...
Poet Susan Tichy (MA, Univ. of Colorado, 1979) is the author of four volumes of poetry and, most recently, Trafficke, a mixed-genre book of poetry and historical narrative focused on her family's 200 years of slave-holding. Her poetry books include A Smell of Burning Starts the Day (Wesleyan); The Ha...
George Mason University’s Creative Writing Program joins Mason’s University Libraries and Watershed Lit in presenting the Fall 2022 Visiting Writers Series, which will feature two writers each in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Writers will meet for virtual afternoon workshops with students from Ma...
Mark Craver Poetry Award | Judge: George Abraham Winner: “Mother, Forgive My Insolence" by Arpita Roy Of the many things I loved here, I was particularly moved by the use of visual form to shape the breath of this poem, on a moment-to-moment level. Although this haunting address to the speaker’s...
