Tag: Essay
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Off to Tuscany for Thanksgiving
And I’m heading back to the homeland — it’s time to go to Italy again! Over Thanksgiving week, I’m co-leading a writing residency with…
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Going to the Winter Wheat Festival
I’m taking the Ashland Poetry Press to Bowling Green State for the Mid-American Review’s Winter Wheat Literary Festival. We went in 2024 and had…
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Broadside contest closes down
Finalists will go off to the judge, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Winners will be passed to designer Lindsay Lusby. And then broadsides will be available…
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Visiting Writer Series: Ian Stansel
I got to host short story writer and novelist Ian Stansel this week. He’s a walking text-book for fiction writers, and my only regret…
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Release event for Valerie Perreault’s Neon Pastoral (in Key West)
So I flew to Key West for a few days, to celebrate the release of 2024 Snyder Prize winner, Valerie Perreault’s Neon Pastoral. It…
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Three more Early Promise Grants
I’ll be sponsoring three more students to take to Baltimore for AWP this spring, via the AU Early Promise Grants. This is always one…
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Broadside Contest Launches, pt. 3
Ashland Poetry Broadside Contest, year 3. This year’s judge: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
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New Poem (in anthology)
“Now You Are Here” in the anthology The Roads at Night Looked Like Our Futures: A 40 over 40 Anthology Not sure I love being…
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Ashland MFA Summer Residency
I’m the Interim Director for the Ashland MFA Program, and set up this year’s two-week Summer Residency. I couldn’t be prouder of how it’s…