Two Poems by Brown in Tar River Poetry

Alum Joshua Camp Brown (2013) has two poems in the latest issue of Tar River Poetry: "My Father Explained Sex" and "Inheritance Fiddle." You can pick up your copy in bookstores now.

Honum on Poetry Daily

The May 30 edition of Poetry Daily features a villanelle by alum Chloe Honum (2010). You can read "The Tulip-Flame," the title poem from her new collection, here.

Takacs in Sink Review

Congratulations to second-year student Eszter Takacs, whose work appears in the current issue of Sink Review. In addition, Eszter was recently named a finalist in Cutbank's 2014 Patricia Goedicke Prize for poetry. You can read more about the contest here.

Verse Daily Features Honum

The May 28 edition of Verse Daily features a haunting villanelle, "Come Back," by alum Chloe Honum (2010). The poem is from Chloe's collection The Tulip-Flame, now available in bookstores.

Greeott in Journal of Italian Translation

The Spring 2014 issue of the Journal of Italian Translation features work by second-year student Anne Greeott. Pick up a copy to read her translations of "This Happiness," "Birds," "Interior," "Nature," and "Such peace where you were not, the birds ..." by Mario Luzi.

Anne's work with Luzi's poetry won her a Fulbright Fellowship! She'll spend the next academic year in Italy, collaborating with the Fondazione Mario Luzi in Rome.

Washington Post Celebrates "Acts of God"

Acts of God, the latest collection by Ellen Gilchrist, professor of fiction, has been garnering great reviews. Jonathan Yardley recently declared in The Washington Post, "the best of the stories in Acts of God rank with the best in her first collection and in her second, Victory Over Japan, for which she was awarded a richly deserved National Book Award in 1984." You can read the full review here.

The New York Times Sunday Book Review also recently featured a rave review by Daniel Handler.

Pelegrin Poems in West Branch

Pick up issue 75 of West Branch for two new poems by alum Alison Pelegrin (2000): "Dispatch from the Dirty South" and "On the Beginner's Side of the Bogue Falaya"--fecund poems filled with all manner of beast and leaf and bone.

Miro Penkov to Work with Michael Ondaatje

The Rolex Mentors & Proteges program has selected alum Miroslav Penkov (2009) as its 2014-15 protege in literature. He'll spend a year working closely with celebrated author Michael Ondaatje. 

The Rolex Mentors & Proteges program pairs promising young artists in architecture, dance, film, literature, music, theater, and visual arts with an esteemed professional in their field. Proteges must be nominated for the program and are selected through a rigorous application and interview process.

Miro is the author of the critically acclaimed story collection East of the West and is currently at work on a novel. He's an assistant professor in the creative writing program at the University of North Texas.

Brown's Latest Poem in RHINO

Alum Joshua Camp Brown (2013) has a poem, "Then the Everlasting," in the latest issue of RHINO. Josh is finishing up a year-long term as the George Bennett Writer in Residence at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. 

Otto in East Coast Literary Review, Hawai'i Review

Two poems by third-year student Alice Otto appear in current journals. You can find "Snakes in Winter" in the Spring 2014 issue of the East Coast Literary Review. And "Flight 23 from Cincinnati" appears in issue 79 of the Hawai'i Review. Way to go, Alice!

Boston in Blue Mesa Review & More

Second-year poet Melissa Boston ends the semester with a slew of new publications. You can read “A Muse” in issue 29 of Blue Mesa Review. In addition, "Soutine, Your Carcass" appears in Moon City Review 2014, and the Spring 2014 issue of Fourth River features "What you once called 'little mercies.'" Congratulations, Melissa!

Thomas Essay in Trop

A new essay by alum Randolph Thomas (1993) appears in the journal Trop. You can read the full text of "A Family of Acrobats," about a mother and son and the way we flex, bend, and contort to confront love, online. 

Thomas' story collection, Dispensations, won the MVP Award from New Rivers Press and will be released in October 2014. 

Honum in "Best Emerging Poets" & More

The anthology Best Emerging Poets of 2013 features alum Chloe Honum (2010), whose collection, The Tulip-Flame, just received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. 

If you're interested in reading more about Chloe and her work, check out the Poetry Society of America page, where she discusses her poem "Ballerina, Released."

NYT Reviews Gilchrist's "Acts of God"

The New York Times Sunday Book Review features a terrific review of Ellen Gilchrist's latest collection, Acts of God. Reviewer Daniel Handler writes: "As always happens when I finish a book by Gilchrist, I walked around town, and each selfish thought, every beautiful sight, felt lit by her brash honesty."