Akron – Chuck Carlise

Ohio Arts Council Grant Awarded

One of the first things I had to do as Director of the Ashland MFA was apply for an Ohio Arts Council grant. As…

…and it’s into the manuscripts. Richard Snyder Prize gets 447 entries! This kind of number is getting normal. I like it.

Ashland Poetry Press is co-hosting a reading at LA County Library. . Ashland Poetry Press, Black Fork Review, Chestnut Review, Muleskinner Review. …

* Off to Los Angeles for AWP again!. Bringing the Poetry Press, the MFA, and three undergrads on Early Promise Grants Come say hi!

New Distribution for Ashland Poetry Press: Itasca (a subsidiary of Bookmobile). We’re really excited. It’s been a long time of doing our own…

Hosted Toronto novelist and friend, Thea Lim, reading from her book, An Ocean of Minutes.

“Waking in Nebraska to the Sound of Stifled Weeping” in Grub Street Review (This is a part of a sonnet series I’ve been tinkering…

The Press has wanted a managing editor for years. Deja is an MFA candidate at Ashland, and is going to help with design, editing,…

Three poems appear in Modern Literature, a journal published out of India . “Fragments from the Living Room, Springfield” . “The Absence…

How about an Advanced Fiction Workshop, and a bunch of senior capstone sections, along with running the Press and directing the MFA. This sounds…