Joshua Brown, 2013 George Bennett Writer in Residence

Recent graduate Joshua Camp Brown (2013) has taken up his position as the George Bennett Writer in Residence at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. One of the nation's most prestigious post-graduate awards, the Bennett Fellowship provides a stipend as well as housing and meals for a writer just establishing his or her career, with a manuscript under way. No teaching duties or other formal responsibilities are required.

Josh is using his time at Exeter to complete a poetry manuscript on the origins of American roots music. We're thrilled that he has this opportunity!

More info on Josh and the fellowship here and there.

Notter in Crab Orchard Review

Grab a copy of Crab Orchard Review for a new poem by alum William Notter (2002). "Driving Nevada," a work of desert dark, glinted by light, appears in the spring/fall 2013 issue. Bill is the author of Holding Everything Down: Poems. He teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Two of Our Own in The New Criterion

The October issue of The New Criterion features poems by recent graduate Ashley Anna McHugh (2011) and Geoff Brock, professor of poetry and translation. You can read their poems, "Getting On" and "Drive," online now!

Honum Wins First Book Prize for "The Tulip-Flame"

Graduate Chloe Honum (2010) has won the 2013 First Book Prize from the Cleveland State University Poetry Center for her collection The Tulip-Flame. Chloe's work beat out more than 700 other manuscripts for top prize; in 2012 it made Chloe a finalist for the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Look for the book in spring 2014. Congratulations, Chloe!

New Cavalli Anthology Features Brock Translations

A new collection by acclaimed Italian poet Patrizia Cavalli, My Poems Won't Change the World, includes several works translated by our own Geoff Brock, professor of poetry and translation. Geoff joins an elite cadre of practicing poets & translators, including Mark Strand, Jorie Graham, Jonathan Galassi, Rosanna Warren, J. D. McClatchy, and David Shapiro, to bring Cavalli's work to English-language readers.

Honum in Plume

Read "January in West Texas" by alumna Chloe Honum (2010) in the latest issue of Plume, a poem of knotted days and separations.

Brock Featured in The Best American Poetry Blog

The Best American Poetry blog offers a two-part post about contemporary verse translation in which fifteen practitioners of the craft offer insight and advice.  We're proud to find our own Professor Geoff Brock among the literary translators featured. In part 1, Geoff tells readers what qualities to seek in poetry translations. In part 2, he'll offer a list of translations he admires and discuss a work of his own.