tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28306626002750530162024-02-19T08:04:01.954-07:00Creative Writing at NMSUabout the events, successes, and people studying creative writing in Clara Belle Williams Hall at New Mexico State University.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830662600275053016.post-13512462300256855982018-04-17T00:55:00.002-06:002018-04-17T00:55:30.199-06:00Blog Update: We Have Moved!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This blog serves as an archive of the people and events of the NMSU MFA program from 2010-2013. We now post updates about our program at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NMSUMFA/">https://www.facebook.com/NMSUMFA/</a>. Please follow our page!</div>
Richard Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17479141149061216650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830662600275053016.post-31939774589761590212013-02-19T19:57:00.003-07:002013-02-19T19:58:28.540-07:00Some Photos From Carrie Murphy/Patrick Clark's Reading<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Recent MFA graduate Carrie Murphy reading from her book, "Pretty Tilt."<br />
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She read hard and had the crowd eating out of her hand...<br />
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Patrick Clark, about to graduate with an MFA in poetry, thanks the crowd for their support.<br />
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To mix things up a bit, he played an original composition based on one of his poems.<br />
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Don't forget the MC, Robert Houghton, also soon to graduate. (Photos thanks to Yvette Lopez)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830662600275053016.post-63971614629395962572013-01-14T21:59:00.000-07:002013-01-14T21:59:00.395-07:00Book Alert!As you may or may not know, our reading series this year features all NMSU writers--faculty or former students who recently have published books. This book is by Rus Bradburd, a person who is both.<br />
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Here's a link to an <a href="http://www.slamonline.com/online/college-hs/college/2013/01/make-it-take-it-rus-bradburd/">excerpt</a> of the novel.</div>
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del Norte: Stories on the Border, both published by the University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">of Nevada Press. Named a
2012 Top Ten “New Latino Author” by Latino Stories, both books<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">were cited as “Notable
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">for the Steven Turner Book
Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, and Cross Over Water<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">is a finalist for a ForeWord
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">His stories and
essays are anthologized in Mirrors Beneath The Earth: Short Fiction by Chicano
Writers, Our Working Lives: Stories of People and Work, Hecho en Tejas: An
Anthology of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Texas Mexican Literature,
Literary El Paso, U.S. Latino Literature Today, and New Border.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Gary Soto selected his
story, “Sacred Heart,” for the Chicano Chapbook Series.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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editor for Puerto del Sol, Colorado Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Press, and the Writer’s Chronicle. His service work includes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">contributions to the Border
Book Festival, Con Tinta: A Chicano/Latino Writers’ Collective, El<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Paso Literary Fiesta, and
RIPPLES Literary/Cultural Series.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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New Mexico State University and Arizona State University, he earned a Riley<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Colorado College and a Center for InterCultural Leadership Fellowship<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">from Saint Mary’s College
(IN). Currently, he is an associate professor of English at El Paso<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Community College, where he
received the Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award and a state<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">teaching award from The
National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">He lives in El
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Donnelley is a native New Mexican and the author of <i>The Charge</i> (Ausable
Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press) and <i>Nocturnes of the
Brothel of Ruin</i> (Four Way Books, 2012). Donnelly is director of the
Advanced Seminar, one of three summer programs at The Frost Place, a
poetry conference center at Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia, NH. He
is an associate editor of <i>Poetry International</i>, a contributing editor of
<i>Trans-Portal </i>(</span><a href="http://www.transtudies.org/"><span style="color: #0b53cf; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">www.transtudies.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">), has taught writing
at Colby College, the Lesley University MFA Program, and the Bread
Loaf Writers' Conference. In the 2012-2013 academic year he will teach a
semester each at Smith College and George Washington University. He was
Thornton writer-in-residence at Lynchburg College in 2006, is a 2008 recipient
of an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, is a member of
the Massachusetts Poetry Outreach Project Advisory Board. His poetry has
appeared in many journals, including <i>American Poetry Review, Ploughshares,
The Yale Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, </i>and <i>Hayden’s Ferry
Review,</i> and has been anthologized in the <i>Four Way Reader #2</i>, <i>The
Book of Irish American Poetry from the 18th Century to the Present</i>, and
elsewhere. From the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, he received a scholarship
in 2003 and a fellowship in 2004, and grants from the PEN Fund for Writers in
2000 and 2001. With Stephen D. Miller, Donnelly is co-translator of the
Japanese poems in<i> The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese
</i>Waka<i> in the Heian Period</i>, a scholarly history and analysis
forthcoming from Cornell East Asia Series in fall 2012. Donnelly and
Miller’s translations have appeared or are forthcoming in <i>Bateau, Cha: An
Asian Literary Journal</i>, <i>Circumference</i>, </span><a href="http://thedrunkenboat.com/"><i><span style="color: #0b53cf; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">thedrunkenboat.com</span></i></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">,
<i>eXchanges, Inquiring Mind, Kyoto Journal,</i> <i>Mead, Metamorphoses</i>, <i>New
Plains Review</i>, <i>Noon: The Journal of the Short Poem</i>, <i>Poetry
International </i>and <i>Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of Nō
Plays of the Genpei War</i>. Donnelly, in previous years, has performed as an
actor and opera singer, worked as a professional chef and food writer, helped
to coordinate a meal program for people with AIDS, cancer and heart disease,
and taught health-supportive cooking and eating to senior citizens and people
recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. His spiritual curiosity has led
him, at different times, to study for the Roman Catholic priesthood and to live
as a Buddhist and a Muslim.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Website: </span><a href="http://web.me.com/patricksdonnelly"><span style="color: #0b53cf; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">http://web.me.com/patricksdonnelly</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Catastrophists</i> (BlazeVox, 2011), the poems of which began as her MFA
thesis at New Mexico State University. Her poems have appeared in <i>Barn Owl
Review, DIAGRAM, esque</i> and elsewhere, and her reviews and interviews have
been published online at <i>NewPages </i>and <i>Coldfront</i>. Founder of the
feminist literary journal <i>Bone Bouquet</i>, she is part of the Belladonna
Collaborative in Brooklyn and teaches writing at the Borough of Manhattan
Community College and Pratt Institute. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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collection, and the editor of a forthcoming anthology, <i>24 Bar Blues:
Two Dozen Tales of Bars, Booze, and the Blues</i>. He holds writing degrees
from Purdue University and New Mexico State University, where he was twice
awarded a Frank Waters Fiction Fellowship. His fiction and nonfiction have
appeared in<i> Esquire</i>, <i>Ninth Letter</i>, <i>The
Cincinnati Review</i>, <i>Mid-American Review</i>, <i>Glimmer Train
Stories</i>, <i>The</i> <i>Writer’s Chronicle</i>, and other
publications, and have been awarded grants from the state of Indiana and Ball
State University, where he teaches. With his wife, writer Victoria Barrett, he
edits <i>Freight Stories</i>, an online fiction journal. He lives in
Indianapolis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Murphy is the author of a full-length collection of poetry, PRETTY TILT
(Keyhole Press, 2012) and a chapbook, MEET THE LAVENDERS (Birds of Lace, 2011).
She received her MFA from New Mexico State University and her BA from the
University of Maryland. Her work has appeared in <i>Columbia Poetry Review,
JMWW, PANK</i>, and other journals and has also been nominated for a Pushcart
Prize. An essay was chosen as an Editor's Choice for <i>Best of the Net 2011</i>. Murphy
also leads workshops at Washington D.C. area conferences on post-confessional
poetry. She is also an active food writer on the web.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are grouped around an extended Italian-American family sharing one apartment
building in Brooklyn as their neighborhood experiences a swift and financially
devastating deindustrialization. The collection examines the consequences the
loss of factory jobs has on individual, family, and community life. The stories
move forward in time and across generations as the neighborhood rapidly
deteriorates, languishes for a generation, then gentrifies.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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forthcoming from BkMk Press (University of Missouri-Kansas City) in October
2012. <i>Garbage Night at the Opera</i> was also a two-time finalist for the
Flannery O’Connor Award. Stories from the collection have received four Pushcart
Prize and one Million Writers Award nominations. These stories have appeared in
<i>North American Review</i>, <i>Cimarron Review</i>, <i>Hunger Mountain,</i> <i>Night
Train, </i>and other literary journals<i>. </i>The title story, “Garbage
Night at the Opera,” was awarded Special Mention in <i>Pushcart Prize
XXVIII, </i>and has been anthologized twice more. A first-generation college
student, Valerie received a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy to work on her
novel-in-progress, <i>Bel Casino</i>, and won both the Fiction & Poetry
Prizes as an MFA candidate at New Mexico State University.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Letter Ghost,” received a Pushcart Prize nomination. Her essays and poems have
appeared in <i>Eclectica</i>, <i>Silk Road</i>, <i>Jelly Bucket</i>, and other
literary journals. Valerie teaches for the UCLA Writers Program online and
lives in Sacramento, where she promotes the work of other writers via the
Stories on Stage reading series.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chávez grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and spent a significant amount of
time in southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico, the inspiration for his
early poetry. He received his bachelors degree in Creative Writing from
Colorado State University, and later received his Master of Arts at Central
Michigan University and Master of Fine Arts at New Mexico State. He completed
his Doctorate degree in Poetry under the supervision of Hilda Raz. At the
University of Nebraska Lincoln, Chávez served as an editorial assistant for Ted
Kooser's "American Life in Poetry," a syndicated newspaper column
publishing contemporary poetry nationwide, and as one of two Senior Poetry
Readers for <i>Prairie Schooner</i>. Awarded a month-long residency at the
Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota, Chávez was the <i>Letras Latinas
Residency Fellow, </i>cosponsored by the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary
Studies and the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in <i>Conduit</i>, <i>Portland
Review,</i> <i>Puerto del Sol</i>, <i>Grist: The Journal for Writers</i>, <i>The
Laurel Review, Palabra, Great River Review, Diode </i>and <i>Copper Nickel </i>among
others. He is the author of the chapbook <i>Heterotopia</i>, published by Noemi
Press in 2004, and co-author of the chapbook <i>I,NE: Iterations of the Junco,</i>
published by Small Fires Press in 2009. His first full-length poetry collection,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">City of Slow Dissolve</i>, will be
released fall 2012 by University of New Mexico Press.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of three poetry collections: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Borrowed
Dust, Earthquake Weather</i> (NightBallet Press, 2012), and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cannoli Gangster</i>, which was selected as
a finalist for the Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize by Denise Duhamel (Word Tech,
September 2012). His poems, reviews, and nonfiction essays have appeared in
many magazines and anthologies, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Italian
Americana, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Waccamaw, Aethlon, Gradiva: International
Journal of Italian Poetry, Tulane Review, PIF, Green Hills Literary Lantern,
The Bitter Oleander, Stymie Magazine</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The City of Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry</i>. A short
film, "Blue Train,” based on his poem of the same name, will be screened
with five other short films inspired by poems from the new anthology <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Token Entry: Poems of the New York City
Subway</i> later this year as part of Jack Feldstein’s Subway Series. A
graduate of the Sarah Lawrence College MFA program, the University of Iowa, and
New Mexico State University, he is a former poetry editor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Puerto del Sol</i> and currently teaches
creative writing and English literature at Niagara University.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">David Shields is the author of thirteen
books, the most recent being </span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">How
Literature Saved My Life,</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> forthcoming in February
2013 by Knopf</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">. His other books include <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jeff, One Lonely Guy</span></i>, which was
co-written by Jeff Ragsdale and Michael Logan (forthcoming from Amazon
Publishing NYC on March 20, 2012); <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Reality
Hunger: A Manifesto</span></i> (Knopf, 2010), named one of the best books of
the year by more than thirty publications; <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead</span></i> (Knopf,
2008), a <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">New York Times</span></i>
bestseller; <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Black Planet: Facing
Race during an NBA Season</span></i>, a finalist for the National Book Critics
Circle Award; <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Remote: Reflections on
Life in the Shadow of Celebrity</span></i>, winner of the PEN/Revson Award; and
<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dead Languages: A Novel</span></i>,
winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. His </span><a href="http://www.davidshields.com/essays.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">essays and stories</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
have appeared in the <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">New York Times
Magazine</span></i>, <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Harper’s</span></i>,
<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Esquire</span></i>,<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Yale Review</span></i>, <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Village Voice</span></i>, <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Salon</span></i>, <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Slate</span></i>, <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">McSweeney’s</span></i>,
and <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Utne Reader</span></i>; he’s
written reviews for the <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">New York
Times Book Review</span></i>, <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Los
Angeles Times Book Review</span></i>, <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Boston Globe</span></i>, and <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Philadelphia
Inquirer</span></i>. His work has been translated into fifteen languages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /><br />WINNERS 2012<br /><br />The Frank Waters Award in Fiction was judged by writer Darlin’ Neal, who read here earlier this semester.<br /><br />
<b>First Prize: Emily Haymans, "Tagalongs" </b><br /><br /><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: small;">Judge’s Citation: This story is so felt. There is so much longing. I feel with the narrator and her beautiful observations. This writer made such lovely intuitive movements from scene to scene. I will remember this character and the place she lives. I will remember her missing Gimby because I shared that longing as I read along. <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Second Prize: Barry Pearce, "Accidents" </b><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: small;">Judge’s Citation: What a marvel this writer has created: a character who is willing the action of the story even as he feigns unconsciousness on a hospital bed. I thought the story's movement came full circle. I was so very touched by Izzy's plight. I felt bonded with him somehow. I wanted, with him, for his father to reach out. I like this story. I also think the writer should write this novel. I'd read it. <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Third Prize: Paul French, "Nod" </b><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Judge’s Citation: Such fine dialogue and sense of place in this piece. This writer has a fine gut for action indeed. Travis isn't someone I'd think I'd care about but the keen attention to his visceral experience, the keen attention and immersion in his sadness and the way he himself is trapped by his own wayward path, well, all of those things made me care. Oh, and then the hard, hard decisions of what not to choose for final three! But here is a list of honorable mentions and I'm happy to give feedback if the students would like it. </span><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Honorable Mention</b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Dinesh In Switzerland" – Gautam Emani <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Black Mirror" – Sessily Watt <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: small;">"A Homecoming" – Philip Johnson <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Parallel Parking" – Christopher Rosenbluth <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">The Keith Wilson/Joe Somoza Poetry Prize was judged by poet John Chavez, who will read at NMSU in the spring semester of 2013.<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">First Place – Jacqueline Wang<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Willow Sisters,” et al.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Judge’s Citation: </span>Attuned to the evocations of sight and sound, it is in “St. Anthony’s Fire” we readers feel addressed: “For you, I floated my glowing foot down the river to where you stood.” It’s into this space, the physical and psychic landscapes of this collection of poems, that we’re invited and asked to embrace the persona’s honesty. With this in mind, we witness the “unwritten book” being intensely imagined and written, and as we do we become aware of the engagingly distinctive character of this poet’s craft.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Second Place – Laura Terry<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Alligator Alley,” et al.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Judge’s Citation: </span>With the kind of tone that would make any southern musician proud, this collection of poems is an occasion for movement to happen, to Everglades City to the Micosukee Reservation and elsewhere, but in our travels were let into the stories that populate this persona(e)’s life and lives. And what jumps, though very different in location and point of view, is what the “ocotillo” and “yucca” tell us: this is a poet engaged with the world, neither separate from the world, nor recluse, simply in it and taking measure of every note.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Third Place – Robert Houghton<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“for the impossible. Latent voyeurism on the peek. A ghost,” et al.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Judge’s Citation: </span>This collection of poetry dares to make a world contingent upon the disjunctive for its oddness, and yet cohesiveness for its familiarity, and it does so to allow the reader to enter, to feel decentered but centered enough to live among the details. How then to square the seeming disparity? Experience the poems as they are meant, as Lowell reminds, to be experienced. Bring oneself to the language and let go.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Ruth Scott Academy of American Poets Prize was also judged by John Chavez.</b><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Winner – Nathan Taylor<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Judge’s Citation: </span>I found myself with my ear close to these poems, listening to their music, engaging with their meditations, and in so doing I sat “deep as I” could “in the soul’s deep valley” as well. As each accumulating detailed unfolded I felt pulled into the poems and understood this is a poet who wants readers to feel “a small voice that licks / around the moon of / the ear” but only because the intimacy of poetry can set one on a path, as these poems are indicative, of personal inquiry.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In these extraordinary pages from a linked book of stories,
the author utterly transports the reader into the protagonist’s
processes of
conscience. Fiction only
rarely
goes this distance in portraying how far inward a person must travel
to truly
feel the very ground of her heart, how far outward to recognize the
figure of
another’s ways of being. These
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short stories but they have novelistic scale, and it is particularly
exciting
to know that they are part of a large project reaching deeply into
the
mysteries of forgiveness and self-forgiveness, of losing trust and
regaining
it, of deliberately holding back the secret self and of offering it
with
impulsive loving compassion. The reader cannot hold back from
rereading the wise
and evocative passages of the two stories, “Earth to Nashville” and
“People We
Will Let in the Fortress.” Here
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masterful storyteller
invites the reader to intimately experience the clear and
confounding
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If there was anything she knew with certainty in this world,
it was that the bad things never came on when you expected them, but
rather
when you couldn’t possibly have prepared. They felt deeply personal,
yet at the
same time reminded you of your irrelevance, how utterly random your
brushes
with loss and pain. Unlike her, she knew Oliver believed everything
happened to
him. Nothing felt irrelevant. In some ways, this perspective could
make things
easier; you could always wind your way back to some choice, some
slip that set
everything else in motion, and bypass the why-me questioning that
plagued others.
But it also made the world quite lonely, even cruel. If everything
originated
in some personal action or desire, then there was no escaping
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There is no doubt: <i>People We Will Let in the Fortress</i> will
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<i><b>Empire
Mind </b></i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>by Adam Crittenden</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /><br />
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distance they toll warning; from a dreamlike condition, they toll
nightmare;
from a creepy sense of the comic, they toll pain. They call to mind Stephen Dunn’s “Loves” in which
the
‘loving’ speaker of the poem invokes “church bells ringing stasis,
stasis.”
There is an out-of-body voice in these disturbing contemplations of
this
“garbage island,” of this ‘machine kingdom’ that is our violated
planet. The testament of
the poems is of
individuals and groups who have been shocked past responsiveness and
reaction,
have been buried alive and must speak to themselves from within the
festering
heap, from within the crusher (“Recycle, Reuse, Reduce, and Close
the Lid”). Reading
“Temporal,” one feels the despair
of the speaker who has been made mute by the torpor of the earth’s
human
population and has also become addicted to it: “If we study the
past, then / we
can better destroy each other / in the present.” In the terrifying poem “The Machine Machine” the
reader is
given the facts by a speaker calculating the absurd “position” one
might
acquire in this doomed kingdom: “The Machine Machine is a machine /
that eats
maggots like me for lunch, / not breakfast. Breakfast maggots are
different. //
Those maggots are maggots / that wish they could trade in their
animal cells /
for a few good circuits.”
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Poet <span style="text-align: left;">Jon Davis read on April 13, 2012. He is the author of three chapbooks and three full-length collections of poetry. The Bloomsbury Reviewsaid of his collection <i>Preliminary Report</i>: "This is one of the best books of poetry to appear this year." He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including a Lannan Literary Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and the I.B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of America Poets. For the past twenty years, he has been a professor of Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kit McIlroy read on April 20, 2012. He is the author of a short story collection <i>All My Relations</i>, winner of the 1994 Flannery O'Connor Award, and his stories have been anthologized widely, including in the Best American Short Stories series. He has served on the Arizona Commission on the Arts since 1979, and in 1986, he co-founded ArtsReach, which brings writing programs to Native American communities in southern Arizona. He is also the author of <i>Here I Am A Writer</i>, a book that grew out of that experience, featuring ten of his former students, their writings, and life stories based on interviews. He conducted a training session with students in NMSU's school outreach program the following day, Saturday, April 21, 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Blake Butler is the author of the novel <i>There Is No Year</i>, the novella <i>Ever</i>, and the novel-in-stories <i>Scorch Atlas</i>. He edits “the internet literature magazine blog of the future” HTMLGiant, as well as two journals of innovative text, <i>Lamination Colony</i> and <i>No Colony</i>. He lives in Atlanta. He read on April 27, 2012. </span></div>
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its marriage of fairy tale tropes with American mundanities.
Conspiratorial, <i>Goodbye</i>, <i>Flicker</i> describes the interior
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We're thrilled to announce Carrie Murphy, MFA '11, has published her first full-length book, <i>Pretty Tilt, </i>with Keyhole Press<i>. </i>We couldn't be more proud of her. For more information about purchasing the book, go <a href="http://keyholepress.com/authors/carrie-murphy/books/pretty-tilt/" target="_blank">here</a>. <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Her chapbook, <i>Meet the Lavenders</i>, appeared in 2011 from </span><a href="http://birdsoflace.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Birds of Lace</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">. She currently works as a teacher and </span><a href="http://pinterest.com/carriemurph/resume/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">freelance writer</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">. She will be doing a number of readings in support of <i>Pretty Tilt</i>:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Carrie Murphy writes the ambiguous and ambivalent viscera beneath the surface of the pretty girl in her “tragic dresses,” quoting the canon of girlhood - Clueless and Tori Amos and Dirty Dancing and Disney and My Little Pony. "The tools I used/to write myself a girl." Her girls are gooshy and oozey and bleeding and bothered and wanting and horny as hell, like craven and craving Molly Blooms. Like if the Lisbon sisters grew up in the nineties and were not projections but desirous, desiring of the icky, beautiful boys, writing of crusted panties and the phenomenology of the blow job or wanting to fuck a 15-year-old Prince William at his mother’s funeral. “All we have in common is our colossal boredom.” These poems are hilarious, joyful, dirty, deeply felt, fucked, totally inappropriate, gorgeous. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">--Kate Zambreno, author of <i>Green Girl</i> and <i>Heroines</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In Carrie Murphy’s dazzling poem “Mirrorball,” there is the realized tautology that “<i>To be luminous is to acquiesce, to acquiesce is to be luminous</i>.” It would be tempting to classify the spinning surface delights of this book into the categories of the girlish, the sex kitten, the raunchy, or the princess, but then the rigorous self-awareness of these poems would be ignored. Unappeasable, disastrous carnal appetite loudly proclaims itself from behind a myriad of masks, but when the tender self finally “unbraids,” it blinds everyone who sees it. <i>Pretty Tilt</i> is a radiant debut. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">--Richard Greenfield, author of</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A Carnage in the Lovetrees</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tracer</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Pretty Tilt</i> is an utterly engaging love letter to the incandescent moments that, when threaded together, represent girlhood--young women on the cusp of something just beyond themselves, reaching, fumbling, falling, in sometimes glorious, sometimes garish, but always beautifully rendered, unflinching ways.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">--Roxane Gay, author of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ayiti</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Carrie Murphy’s <i>Pretty Tilt</i> aches my body like the Sweetarts she invokes in the first devastating poem of the book. Every girl inside its pages is full to bursting like an ulcer waiting to wreak its havoc, your stomach made a tender, loving carapace for them despite their reckless living. Each bong hit, backseat fuck and curious touch splits me open with a desire to reach inside the page and stroke each girl’s dirty, sweaty head. <i>Pretty Tilt</i> is full of a love, ferocity and skill of creation that will stun you like an accidental football to the face in gym class.--</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gina Abelkop, author of</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Darling Beastlettes</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Besmilr Moore Brigham was an award-winning poet and
short-story writer who lived in Arkansas for decades. She came to
prominence
during the women’s movement of the 1960s, and her work is noted
for its
innovative structure, sound, and rhythm. Her writing was
experimental, often seeming to migrate across the page in
the same way Brigham and her husband liked to migrate in life. She
employed
erratic, though purposeful, punctuation, which produced a rhythm
instead of
following the rules of grammar. In the 1950s she studied with poet
Robert Duncan and at the New School for Social Research.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In 1970,
Brigham received a Discovery Award from the National Endowment for
the Arts
(NEA). The accompanying NEA grant led to a collection of her
work, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Heaved
from the Earth</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, which was published by Knopf in 1971.
Brigham’s poems had been published in </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">New Directions, Harper’s
Bazaar, The Atlantic Monthly, </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The New York Times</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.
She also published short stories, including, “The Lottery
Drawing,” in
the anthology </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and
Youth</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.
After a flurry of publishing in the 1960s and 1970s, Brigham
dropped from the eyes of the publishing world and lived in
relative obscurity</span><a href="http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=6134" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.
In 1993, Brigham was rediscovered by
C. D. Wright for Wright’s Lost Roads Project and was included in
the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting documentary </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">United States
of Poetry</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">,
which included Brigham and her son-in-law, poet Keith
Wilson. Wright
described Brigham and her husband as “the last free people. They
hadn’t been broken
by the life they had chosen, which was itinerant and subsistent.
They treated
their life like an adventure and her work like a staple, like
beans.” A posthumous compilation
of her work, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Run through Rock</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, was selected and edited by
Wright, </span><a href="http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=1057" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">
who published it through her imprint, Lost Roads Press. (Source:
</span><a href="http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=1026" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><http: encyclopedia="" encyclopediaofarkansas.net="" entry-detail.aspx?entryid="1026"></http:></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">)</span><br />
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For his presentation, Robert Snyderman, a poet completing graduate studies at Brown University, has put together
17 poems published in journals and magazines in the 60s, 70s, and
80s. Students from the MFA program at NMSU will read these poems
aloud and will participate in an open discussion of the work.
Heloise Wilson, daughter of Besmilr Brigham and a resident of Las
Cruces, will also participate. If you are interested in reading
poems aloud, please contact Megan Wong at <a href="mailto:mmwhite@nmsu.edu" target="_blank">mmwhite@nmsu.edu</a>. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>On February 15, Dot Devota, Brandon Shimoda, and Zachary Schomburg read in the HSS Annex Auditorium.</b></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><b>DOT DEVOTA</b> is from a family of ranchers and rodeo stars. She is the author of <i>The Eternal Wall </i>(Cannibal Books), <i>MW: A Midwest Field Guide</i> (Editions
19\), and <i>Scenes From My Massacre </i>(Urgent
Series). Her poems can also be found in <i>Action
Yes, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Muthafucka, VOLT</i> and in Old
Franklin, Missouri. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>ZACHARY
SCHOMBURG</b><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is the
author of <i>Fjords Volume 1 </i>(Black
Ocean, 2012)<i>, Scary, No Scary </i>(Black
Ocean 2009), and <i>The Man Suit</i> (Black
Ocean 2007), as well as several small press chapbooks. His <i>The Book of Joshua </i>will be published by McSweeney's in 2013. With
Mathias Svalina, he co-edits <i>Octopus
Magazine </i>and Books. </span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span class="hoenzb"><b>BRANDON SHIMODA</b></span><span class="hoenzb"><b> </b></span></span><span class="hoenzb"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">is the author of <i>O Bon</i> (Litmus Press, 2011), <i>The
Girl Without Arms</i> (Black Ocean, 2011), and <i>The Alps</i> (Flim Forum, 2008)—among other solo and collaborative
works of various sizes and shapes. He was born in California, has lived most
recently in Missouri, Maine and Taiwan, though currently lives in Arizona.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>Richard Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17479141149061216650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830662600275053016.post-56550768373911955372012-01-02T06:59:00.002-07:002012-01-02T07:04:05.791-07:00From the New Pages BlogJoe Vastano graduated with a BA from NMSU 3 years ago and is finishing up the MFA program at Texas State-a HUGE congrats to Joe!<br /><br /><br />Here's the press:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.glimmertrain.com/">Glimmer Train</a> has just chosen the winning stories for their October Family Matters competition. This competition is held twice a year and is open to all writers for stories about family.<br /><br />First place: Joseph Vastano of Austin, TX, wins $1500 for “Twinning.” His story will be published in the Spring 2013 issue of Glimmer Train Stories.<br /><br />Can't wait to read "Twinning!"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830662600275053016.post-36983378896292371502011-11-28T22:36:00.000-07:002011-11-28T22:37:09.205-07:00Graduate Writing Awards--Dig It!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; border-collapse: collapse; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b>Congrats to everyone--the judges all complained about how hard this was!</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b>The FRANK WATERS FICTION AWARD was judged this year by </b><b><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 8); ">José</span></b><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 8); "> <b>de Piérola, </b></span>the author of <i>Sur y Norte</i> (2008), a short story collection about immigrants at both sides of the border; <i>El camino de regreso</i> (2007), a novel that explores the years of political violence in Peru during the 1980s and 1990s; <i>Shatranj: El juego de los reyes</i> (2005), a novel published simultaneously in Colombia and Peru; and <i>Un beso de invierno</i> (2001), winner of the Short Novel Prize awarded by the Reserve Bank of Peru. He teaches at the University of Texas at El Paso.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b>For the Frank Waters Fiction Award, the winner is</b> <b>Phillip Hurst with “I Want You Back” from the novel <i>The Castaways.</i></b><i></i><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 8); ">José</span><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 8); "> de Piérola states: “</span>Written in a mature, precise voice, the opening chapter of this novel keeps a steady pace which increasingly reveals Ralph Harrison, the intriguing newspaperman born ‘too late for his own good.’ Towards the end of the chapter, we begin to understand why this Emerson-quoting newspaperman feels like an ‘exile.’ Hurst makes us want to keep reading, having already planted important questions about human relationships and personal identity in our mind.”<br /><b><i><br /></i></b><b>Melanie Sweeney Bowen</b> <b>was awarded Second Prize with “Old Habits.”</b> The judge, <span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 8); ">José</span><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 8); "> de Piérola comments, “</span>This story, the precise rendering of a young man’s inability to cope with the loss of his best friend, unravels with a deft storyteller’s skill. Bowen carefully shows us that Tim’s mourning, even though he might not be completely aware of it, is also a process of growing up and entering adulthood. Bowen’s prose faces each moment with honesty, but selects only details that reveal her characters and explores her themes without forgetting her readers.”<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b>Joshua Bowen was awarded Third Prize with “If I Should Cast Off This Tattered Coat.” </b><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 8); ">José</span><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 8); "> de Piérola observes that “</span>With a title that evokes Gogol’s ‘The Overcoat,’ considered one of the foundational short-stories of the nineteenth century, this experimental short story challenges the reader to be an engaged, active participant that gradually ‘assembles’ the pieces of the puzzle, reaching to more than one possible interpretation. Bowen invites us to be part of the process in which, as Barthes would have put it, the work becomes text.”<b><u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b>Honorable Mention went to the following:<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></p><ul style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; "><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><b>Christopher Rosenbluth, “The Time Before This”</b></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><b>Robert Mills, “The Youth and Beauty Brigade”</b></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><b>Camille Acker, “Who We Are”</b></li></ul><u></u><u></u><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><u></u>______________________________<wbr>___________ <u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase; "><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase; "><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase; ">THE KEITH WILSON/JOSEPH SAMOZA POETRY PRIZE</span></b><span style="text-transform: uppercase; "> </span><b>was judged this year by poet Joni Wallace, </b>author of<span style="text-transform: uppercase; "> </span><i>Blinking Ephemeral Valentine,<b> </b></i><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">winner of the 2009</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b>The winner of the Keith Wilson/Joseph Samoza Poetry Prize is </b><b>Nathan Taylor.</b> Joni Wallace comments that “Taylor’s poems feel like private conversations, rich in language and obsession, a speaker whispering behind a door only slightly ajar. I cannot help but lean in to the keyhole or to put my ear against the drywall to hear it. And it’s worth the effort. Indeed, as Taylor himself says, these poems work as ‘wind in a silent shoebox.’ At others times, they seem ‘desire which chases desire’s tale.’ Filled with things and voices Americana (chocolate malts, cafeterias, road trips; ‘Godamnit do not lose that chicken’), endlessly questioning (‘They said Preston is dead, and did I, I did. /Yes, I think it was me. I.’), echoing and imitating their own beautiful sounds (‘heart of a horse’ immediately becoming it’s sound combination ‘hearse’), Taylor’s work addresses that state of being and not being simultaneously. Listen: ‘I can see myself leave myself/blue flux of desire going forward’ or ‘My trip across the country was fueled/ by the idea that when we arrived we would stuff/ our mouths with cigarettes and pour gin /into the empty sockets of our eyes. And gasoline /We would so happy burning on the inside.’ Taylor writes ‘just north of erasure,’ and I find his voice filled with elegance and assured grittiness. ‘I will print my next book on the pages of hotel stationery,’ he promises. I, for one, will be waiting for this.” <b><u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b>Jennifer Eldridge was awarded Second Prize.</b> The judge’s citation states: “I’m struck by Eldridge’s ability to deconstruct her poems even as she is constructing them. Autumnal in nature, her poetics seem indirectly related to those of imagist and objectivist poetry. It’s a poetry where ‘Everything is thinning away/ anxious to encounter its plain self.’ And she makes good on that promise, whether she is both making and taking apart a moth (‘The capsule of the head crunches under/my fingertips,’ ‘I’ve seen all/ of you/honest’) or raising ax to the sky, herself the ax, ultimately sky itself the ax and the axed (‘sky sky sky sky sky /could the ax frac-ture sky sky/diminished body’). Eldridge works carefully with silence and sound. There’s an echolocation here, a modality understood but not rationally so. I love her brief lines and the frequencies she inhabits.” <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b>Third Prize was awarded to Michael Floydd Elliott.</b> Joni Wallace observes, “I appreciate this poet’s use of story and place and his appropriation of form in service of both. In a short series of ‘Desert(ed) Sonnets’ Elliott warns us to ‘forget this place of tumbling moon-/light districts distinct to no one’ while at the same time engaging in an archaeological dig of place and self. Elliott works the subterranean levels, creating lists of necessaries in the form of emergency supply kits. While his loose sonnets engage such things as ‘grandmas/pregnant with aspirin,’ ‘sun-leached warm asphalt’ and ‘mastodon bone with a spear head embedded in it,’ the accompanying (footnoted) supply kits serve as anti-sonnets, equally delightful and surprising, but moments of anti-lyric moving between such things as ‘Spear Guns’ to ‘Draw String from Steve’s Shorts’ to ‘Superglue’ to ‘Tylenol 500 mg’ to ‘Duck Ta[pe]’ to ‘You, Me, & a Water Ski.’ I admire Elliott’s off-kilter sensibility, his experimentation and willingness to live there, all the while close to home.”<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b>Honorable Mentions for the </b><b>Keith Wilson/Joseph Samoza Poetry Prize are the following:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></p><ul style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; "><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><b>Jeff Pickell, </b>whose poems Joni Wallace finds to “show, yes, a small world, but also one made large with gems of thingness: ice cream trucks, poodles, piers and cats named Dinky. Here’s a poet who believes, and shows us again, and shows us slant: <i>no ideas but in things</i>. Beautifully compressed, sparkling, these poems are places to inhabit.”</li></ul><ul style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; "><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Wallace states that “<b>Megan Wong</b>’s ‘On the Dynamisms of Growing Up Young’ feels just like a synthesis of bubbles – ‘the ones that pop each time I ride shotgun/in the red Grand Am.’ I am captivated by her buoyance and reflection."</li></ul><ul style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; "><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><b>Jeanine Deibel</b>, Wallace observes, writes poems with “short lines— encompassing a ‘dog/that flew into a bun,’ the ‘fishes/in your head’ and a speaker who swallows ‘all the eggs/feeling guilty about the birds’— that are odd delights, like flashes of light in a darkened hallway.” </li></ul><u></u><u></u><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase; ">THE RUTH SCOTT ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS PRIZE</span></b><span style="text-transform: uppercase; "><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b>The winner of the Ruth Scott Academy of American Poets Prize, also judged by poet Joni Wallace, is </b><b>Adam Crittenden. </b>Wallace states, “Ambitious and polished, wearing their syntax and diction and allusions like favorite shirts, Crittenden addresses myth and modern culture, moving deftly into the territory meaning-making itself. Nature says ‘see or shut your eyes,’ he tells us. He then makes us see and therefore become the trees, leaves, shadows, and children who will come after us. Ultimately I trust this voice as it projects the mind in movement, stasis, death and empire, creating for each state the successive shadows of the individual as ‘green boisterous cloud,’ ‘purple veil,’ ‘green mist.’ Crittenden’s voice is clear and confident, at ease with the<a name="133eccd1218a9a5e__GoBack" style="color: rgb(148, 46, 6); "></a> greatest complexities.” <b><u></u><u></u></b></p><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br /></span></b></pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">EVERYONE is invited to an awards event is scheduled for Friday, December 2, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">11:30-1:00, </span></b></pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">in the Emerson Room. </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">It’s also a chance to celebrate the end of the semester. </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">And of course, </span></b></pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">there will be ample </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">amounts of food!</span></b></pre><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><u></u> </p></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830662600275053016.post-11256045840782897342011-11-22T16:44:00.003-07:002011-11-22T16:54:21.787-07:00Reading December 2nd: Bin Ramke and Adam Crittenden<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_m0W499bm1ZqFyh_pIKpjzHLZY1qXKexLludH9mGmtwhO2XYr_s9p1Q_TBoZQnQQwUS7zgFI5zTcv-FKR_g7WirHizI7-HgVvk0NfPFbtvIdW-2DhyphenhyphenKiFSden7zmysmnEbUQgyGjSgaIa/s1600/images.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 116px; height: 78px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_m0W499bm1ZqFyh_pIKpjzHLZY1qXKexLludH9mGmtwhO2XYr_s9p1Q_TBoZQnQQwUS7zgFI5zTcv-FKR_g7WirHizI7-HgVvk0NfPFbtvIdW-2DhyphenhyphenKiFSden7zmysmnEbUQgyGjSgaIa/s400/images.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677970334300309634" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:15px;"><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><b>Bin Ramke</b> edits the Denver Quarterly and teaches literature and creative writing in the English Department at University of Denver. During his childhood in the south he intended to become a mathematician, and then a sculptor, but ended up at LSU a literature major instead. Later he received a Ph.D. from Ohio University then taught in Georgia prior to arriving at the University of Denver. He teaches part of the year at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His first book won the Yale Younger Poets Award, and he has since published ten other books of poems.</span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><b>Adam Crittenden</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> is working on an MFA at New Mexico State University and editing for Puerto Del Sol. He teaches freshman composition and creative writing. </span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Friday, December 2nd, 7:30 pm at Hardman Hall 106.</span></span></span></p></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830662600275053016.post-79052452256154265962011-11-01T20:44:00.003-06:002011-11-01T21:09:00.782-06:00Darlin Neal Radio Chat<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWCZvAfu2FNuPBfJnF0rW8qulDjbuOEosCVt73hyphenhyphenzUqDZS6UbZXxM2DFk0ysdw3bWlGjtgSDBniHSN-R505vArTgvqax1F0sy6A_f5XMrGjFN1LdDez6JS0AWoq0F2m-69lyo952Nh0v2y/s1600/Darlin_Nean_Photo_final.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 326px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWCZvAfu2FNuPBfJnF0rW8qulDjbuOEosCVt73hyphenhyphenzUqDZS6UbZXxM2DFk0ysdw3bWlGjtgSDBniHSN-R505vArTgvqax1F0sy6A_f5XMrGjFN1LdDez6JS0AWoq0F2m-69lyo952Nh0v2y/s400/Darlin_Nean_Photo_final.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670225456853111586" /></a><br />NMSU Alum and faculty member at University of Central Florida, <a href="http://www.fictionaut.com/users/darlin-neal">Darlin Neal</a> was in town visiting and spoke with Carrie Hamblen for her <a href="http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/krwg/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1866159/news/Interview.with.author.Darlin.Neal.">"Images" program</a> on the local NPR station, KRWG. On the show, she talks about her early years as a single mother and writer. She remembers her beginnings as a writer, how she learned the craft and how she inspires her students to do the same...click the link above to listen in. <div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830662600275053016.post-53371703821616035742011-11-01T20:38:00.005-06:002011-11-03T08:41:19.514-06:00More, More, More<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjic62uG1TCkFpnxax8C33nS0ElvW0L3vlIctJ1S0XITOrVo_1FHCQlTcy_mevgcqe8eQ1fiSE1Usjl-YfBrhCUwlpRql9yrjU1Upkso9oxSXTgwQ81kUCiQUSsv2Va6MmOIhStW-ITZlWl/s1600/tumblr_lpbq7tCBm41qhn45lo1_500.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 166px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjic62uG1TCkFpnxax8C33nS0ElvW0L3vlIctJ1S0XITOrVo_1FHCQlTcy_mevgcqe8eQ1fiSE1Usjl-YfBrhCUwlpRql9yrjU1Upkso9oxSXTgwQ81kUCiQUSsv2Va6MmOIhStW-ITZlWl/s400/tumblr_lpbq7tCBm41qhn45lo1_500.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670222759664599170" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>This is another lovely publication by one of NMSU's MFA grads. It's a limited edition chapbook by Travis Brown, our favorite farmer.</div><div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.greyingghost.tumblr.com/">Greying Ghost</a> is the press and they make lovely books. Check it!<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>If you need one, here is a little taste of his work at the lovely magazine <a href="http://www.prickofthespindle.com/pages/vol.5.3/poetry.htm">Prick of the Spindle</a>. </div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830662600275053016.post-60156090450826148592011-10-25T10:07:00.004-06:002011-11-01T21:06:31.867-06:00MFA Alum Books Galore!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6tiApZY_5RziufPxd3L9hFeZjGnfX1D08ZzljRxfQ9EJiVZAjeGQvcd4T7rWxA3JWuNu3CFxtXGjRCzizdT4GI5eqUcwW-BtcX0f4sc70zHs9g87pB8qq6SbWYoadkrRL1yP15GX-SBmC/s1600/NakedSummerCover.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6tiApZY_5RziufPxd3L9hFeZjGnfX1D08ZzljRxfQ9EJiVZAjeGQvcd4T7rWxA3JWuNu3CFxtXGjRCzizdT4GI5eqUcwW-BtcX0f4sc70zHs9g87pB8qq6SbWYoadkrRL1yP15GX-SBmC/s320/NakedSummerCover.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667462430313107202" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Check it: new short story collection by NMSU MFA grad Andrew Scott is out for us all to enjoy. Kudos to Andrew! <a href="http://enginebooks.org/about.html">Engine Books</a> is his wife Victoria Barrett's press (she's also an alum), and Andrew runs an online book club called <a href="http://andrewsbookclub.com/">Andrew's Book Club</a>.</span></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;font-size:100%;">In <i>Naked Summer</i>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#222222;">Andrew </span>Scott brilliantly conjures up my home state of Indiana, that in-between, mixed-up blend of farmland, suburbia, isolated towns and would-be cities stuck in the flyover, but he accomplishes much more than this. His stunning collection of stories also deftly captures those in-between states that everyone finds themselves in at some point—those times of limbo when we’re between jobs or relationships, or, most memorably, that last “naked summer” when childhood lingers and adulthood has not yet arrived. This is a heart-wrenching collection, at once hilarious and wise. I <span>couldn</span>’t put it down.</span></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;font-size:100%;">—Elizabeth <span>Stuckey</span>-French, author of <i>The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady</i> and <i>Mermaids on the Moon</i></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><span style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">n</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">d</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;font-size:100%;">Scott’s stories are streamlined, intense, and unsettling. His characters don’t quite know themselves, but the author knows them well. They teeter in the margins of safety, in a way that many Americans have been pushed off the path to the dream. I recommend these stories highly.</span></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;font-size:100%;">—<span>Alice Elliott Dark</span>, author of <i><span>In the Gloaming</span></i> and <i>Think of England</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830662600275053016.post-83705478439181598212011-10-21T14:17:00.003-06:002011-10-21T14:20:27.643-06:00GRAD BOOK ALERT!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVhxf76uoJMswdvueGDZ7BKgHwAgVFrhBWf9HvkqP_Sf6Kkftj0CoUYKQiGz_VZE_zn40apLr2qIP4iiAg4cWfVFTTSL1nxqur0LrG1qyxdHhvXDm2jlDDCDdl8uwvDrwFP71TKfpT-VGl/s1600/Head+Shot_Author+Photo.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 120px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVhxf76uoJMswdvueGDZ7BKgHwAgVFrhBWf9HvkqP_Sf6Kkftj0CoUYKQiGz_VZE_zn40apLr2qIP4iiAg4cWfVFTTSL1nxqur0LrG1qyxdHhvXDm2jlDDCDdl8uwvDrwFP71TKfpT-VGl/s320/Head+Shot_Author+Photo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666042669735705682" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Y</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">ES! Joey Nicoletti is making good. </span></span><!--StartFragment--><span style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">He is the author of the poetry collections </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Borrowed Dust </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">(Finishing Line Press, 2011), and </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Cannoli Gangster, </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">which</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">was selected as a finalist for the Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize by Denise Duhamel (Turning Point Books, September 2012). </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><span class="bodycopy"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Feel free to contact him and read some of his other work at </span></span></span><a href="http://www.joeynicoletti.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">www.joeynicoletti.com</span></span></a><span class="bodycopy"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">.</span></span></span></span><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span class="bodycopy"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></span><!--EndFragment--><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', -webkit-fantasy; line-height: 24px; ">"In his first full-length collection, <i>Cannoli Gangster,</i> Joey Nicoletti deftly weaves cultural, familial, and personal memory into poems that are funny, profound, and moving at once. Exploring the truth and the strangeness of being Italian, American, and Italian-American, he reflects the subtle nuances of experiencing America’s cultural melting pot and the challenges of assimilation at a depth only poetry can reach. These are wry, wise, and deeply humane poems filled with images that are memorable and undeniably true."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 24px;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">—Dan Albergotti, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Boatloads, </i>winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize</span></o:p></span></i></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830662600275053016.post-76214780414843674742011-10-21T13:59:00.004-06:002011-10-21T14:12:15.074-06:00MFA BOOK ALERT!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL3aznrB8jA9OMmCR-iiqklNTOLcO7LOdHF8I2dOYyUa2EwMyoBQVDfMSIE9Yw-dWCIUQWSFXOJ0pLzAfUy5Pdp9Mk-SCoseZP2AvA7gR6qtttDTwNULYyS2TyTLGoHa5xNx90hkCxejXp/s1600/mail.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 111px; height: 166px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL3aznrB8jA9OMmCR-iiqklNTOLcO7LOdHF8I2dOYyUa2EwMyoBQVDfMSIE9Yw-dWCIUQWSFXOJ0pLzAfUy5Pdp9Mk-SCoseZP2AvA7gR6qtttDTwNULYyS2TyTLGoHa5xNx90hkCxejXp/s320/mail.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666037989797966050" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">NMSU MFA graduate Krystal Languell is now available in print! </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Call the Catastrophists</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> can be purchased from <a href="http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/Poetry/call-the-catastrophists-by-krystal-languell-252/">Blazevox</a> or any of your favorite retailers. (</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Photo credit: Pieter van Hattem--from a recent article in <a href="http://www.pw.org/content/krystal_languell_new_mexico_state_university?cmnt_all=1">Poets and Writers Magazine</a> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">where she discusses our MFA.) </span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When we discuss Krystal, it's along these lines...</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Krystal Languell traverses memory and desire with a tough-minded concern for language’s (in)ability to mean. Place and language collide, collude, and collapse everywhere, producing subversions of the order/system of all things: catastrophe pervades. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Call the Catastrophists</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> interrogates—colloquially, effortlessly—the damage done to us by language. There is perhaps no greater challenge for the poet, and perhaps no better poet to engage it than Languell." —Carmen Giménez Smith</span></span></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830662600275053016.post-28275181130522231122011-10-20T00:24:00.000-06:002011-10-20T00:28:23.547-06:00José de Piérola Reading (with Megan Wong, MFA Candidate), Friday October 21<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thanks to all who participated in this year's Hunger Benefit. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px;">All proceeds from the event benefited Casa de Peregrinos, a local emergency food program. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">According to Casa de Peregrinos Executive Director Lorenzo Alba, the program fed near ten thousand families in 2009 and distributes between 15 and 21 tons of food a week. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The benefit has raised close to $65,000 for the charity over the years. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">This year's event featured poet Juliana Spahr. Other featured readings included editor and local poet Sheila Black, author Jim Ferris and Lisa Gill. Below are pictures from the event. </span></span></div>
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