If you'd like to read some excerpts from past issues of the journal, check out the archive.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Winter 2010 Puerto Del Sol
Pre-order the Winter 2010 issue of Puerto Del Sol here. Puerto is edited by Carmen Gimenez Smith and Evan Lavender-Smith, and has several NMSU creative writing students on staff.
If you'd like to read some excerpts from past issues of the journal, check out the archive.
If you'd like to read some excerpts from past issues of the journal, check out the archive.
Friday, October 8, 2010
La Sociedad Para Las Artes
La Sociedad Para Las Artes is the creative writing graduate student organization here at NMSU. We coordinate WITS (Writers In The Schools), the Nelson/Boswell reading series (visiting writers reading on campus, for free) and the annual Hunger Benefit, a reading event that raises money for Casa de Los Peregrinos, a food bank here in Las Cruces.
We're currently gearing up for this year's Hunger Benefit, scheduled for November 12th. The featured reader will be nonfiction writer Charles Bowden, who most recently published a book about Cuidad Juarez, Murder City. NMSU librarian Molly Molloy was instrumental in the research for the book, which details the growing crisis in Juarez, which borders El Paso (about 50 minutes away from Las Cruces). Both Bowden and Molloy visited Rus Bradburd's Monday night nonfiction workshop this semester to discuss the book. The Hunger Benefit should be a great event: a great reader and a good cause. We'll also have carnival games, a chili cook-off, live music, and a silent auction.
If you'd like more information (not to mention pictures!) about the Hunger Benefit or La Sociedad, please visit our Facebook page.
We're currently gearing up for this year's Hunger Benefit, scheduled for November 12th. The featured reader will be nonfiction writer Charles Bowden, who most recently published a book about Cuidad Juarez, Murder City. NMSU librarian Molly Molloy was instrumental in the research for the book, which details the growing crisis in Juarez, which borders El Paso (about 50 minutes away from Las Cruces). Both Bowden and Molloy visited Rus Bradburd's Monday night nonfiction workshop this semester to discuss the book. The Hunger Benefit should be a great event: a great reader and a good cause. We'll also have carnival games, a chili cook-off, live music, and a silent auction.
If you'd like more information (not to mention pictures!) about the Hunger Benefit or La Sociedad, please visit our Facebook page.
Monday, October 4, 2010
NMSU MFA Alumni Projects
Check out just a few of the fascinating creative projects spearheaded by NMSU MFA program alumni:
MFA Fiction 04' Albert Martinez has an awesome website, Lively Words, where he features video footage of writers reading their work. Several people associated with the MFA program at New Mexico State have participated in his project, including former professors Antonya Nelson and Robert Boswell, current professor Connie Voisine and graduates Tim Staley and Dorine Jennette.
MFA Fiction 05' graduate Jacquie Fuller also has a website project, How I Found You. How I Found You "wants to know how you found someone, or something, significant in your life. How you found them for the first time, how you found them again. How they changed you forever." (from the website) Like Lively Words, you can find several submissions from people associated with the program, including former professors Kevin McIlvoy and Sheila Black.
Voices Behind Walls is a creative writing workshop program started by MFA Poetry 08' alum Lee Rhyanes. The program takes place in juvenile detention centers in the Southwest and encourages juvenile offenders to express themselves through poetry. Read the interesting story of how the workshop developed on the website and sign up for the newsletter. Lee, along with NMSU Literature graduate Justin DeSenso, was also instrumental in helping to create "Hip-Hop Stacks," a catalog of hip-hop literature, music, art and scholarship now located at the Branson Library on the New Mexico State University campus.
MFA Fiction 04' Albert Martinez has an awesome website, Lively Words, where he features video footage of writers reading their work. Several people associated with the MFA program at New Mexico State have participated in his project, including former professors Antonya Nelson and Robert Boswell, current professor Connie Voisine and graduates Tim Staley and Dorine Jennette.
MFA Fiction 05' graduate Jacquie Fuller also has a website project, How I Found You. How I Found You "wants to know how you found someone, or something, significant in your life. How you found them for the first time, how you found them again. How they changed you forever." (from the website) Like Lively Words, you can find several submissions from people associated with the program, including former professors Kevin McIlvoy and Sheila Black.
Voices Behind Walls is a creative writing workshop program started by MFA Poetry 08' alum Lee Rhyanes. The program takes place in juvenile detention centers in the Southwest and encourages juvenile offenders to express themselves through poetry. Read the interesting story of how the workshop developed on the website and sign up for the newsletter. Lee, along with NMSU Literature graduate Justin DeSenso, was also instrumental in helping to create "Hip-Hop Stacks," a catalog of hip-hop literature, music, art and scholarship now located at the Branson Library on the New Mexico State University campus.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Alumnus Kevin Honold's Book, Men As Trees Walking
Click on over to Amazon.com and pre-order MFA Fiction 10' alumni Kevin Honold's first book! Kevin's book of poems, Men As Trees Walking, won the 2010 Ohio State University Press/The Journal Prize Award. He also holds an MFA in Poetry from Purdue.
“In Men as Trees Walking Kevin Honold takes a hard look at cityscapes, work, and the lives of soldiers from ancient Greece to the contemporary Persian Gulf. Few poets are as comfortable dealing with history or as clear-eyed about the present. This is work of precision, maturity, and insight. Kevin Honold takes on things that matter, and what he has to say is articulate and compelling.”
—Don Bogen
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Student & Alumni Publications!
Third-year poet Robert Alan Wendeborn has five poems coming out in this month's M Review. Check out his poem "I Would Hang A Spider From Your Bones" in the latest issue of Strange Machine.
Josh Wheeler, MFA Poetry '10, has a piece, Diagnosable, in the Fall 2010 issue of Brevity Magazine.
Krystal Languell, MFA Poetry '10, has poems forthcoming at La Petite Zine and horse less review. She was also a semifinalist for the 2010 Akron Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, The Mean Particle, is in production at Tilt Press.
Mike Meginnis, third-year fiction writer, has a story in the Australian magazine The Lifted Brow.
Carrie Murphy's (third year poet) poem "The Seven Strongest Men In Town" was nominated by PANK magazine for Sundress' Publications Best of the Net 2010.
Josh Wheeler, MFA Poetry '10, has a piece, Diagnosable, in the Fall 2010 issue of Brevity Magazine.
Krystal Languell, MFA Poetry '10, has poems forthcoming at La Petite Zine and horse less review. She was also a semifinalist for the 2010 Akron Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, The Mean Particle, is in production at Tilt Press.
Mike Meginnis, third-year fiction writer, has a story in the Australian magazine The Lifted Brow.
Carrie Murphy's (third year poet) poem "The Seven Strongest Men In Town" was nominated by PANK magazine for Sundress' Publications Best of the Net 2010.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Fall Readings
Check out some pictures from the La Sociedad Para Las Artes Nelson/Boswell Reading Series. All photos courtesy of Josh Bowen.
Our first reading of the year was on August 27th at the Black Box Theatre in downtown Las Cruces. First and second year MFA students read their work.
On September 10th, Carmen Gimenez Smith read with graduating poet Robert Alan Wendeborn. Doesn't he look happy?
The reading was featured in an article by NMSU's campus newspaper, The Round-Up. Read it here.
Our next reading is this coming Friday, September 24th. We're hosting poet Rodrigo Toscano, who will read with our own Robert Rome.
Our first reading of the year was on August 27th at the Black Box Theatre in downtown Las Cruces. First and second year MFA students read their work.
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| Lisa Nohner, fiction |
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| Floydd Elliot, poetry |
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| Chris Schacht, fiction |
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| Jeanine Deibel, poetry |
On September 10th, Carmen Gimenez Smith read with graduating poet Robert Alan Wendeborn. Doesn't he look happy?
The reading was featured in an article by NMSU's campus newspaper, The Round-Up. Read it here.
Our next reading is this coming Friday, September 24th. We're hosting poet Rodrigo Toscano, who will read with our own Robert Rome.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Faculty News
Carmen Gimenez Smith's new memoir, Bring Down The Little Birds, has just come out from the University of Arizona Press.
Connie Voisine will be a visiting writer at the University of Connecticut in October. She will also be visiting writer at California State University Long Beach in April. She'll be faculty at Arizona State University's Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writing Conference in March 2011. Check out an interview and reading with Connie on poetry MFA alumni Tim Staley's Lively Words.
Rus Bradburd's book, Forty Minutes Of Hell, is now out in paperback. Read an interview with Rus here.
Connie Voisine will be a visiting writer at the University of Connecticut in October. She will also be visiting writer at California State University Long Beach in April. She'll be faculty at Arizona State University's Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writing Conference in March 2011. Check out an interview and reading with Connie on poetry MFA alumni Tim Staley's Lively Words.
Rus Bradburd's book, Forty Minutes Of Hell, is now out in paperback. Read an interview with Rus here.
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