Seay forthcoming in The South Carolina Review

Erika Seay's story "Heatstroke" has been accepted by The South Carolina Review. Seay is a fourth-year student in the program, and a recipient of the Walton Fellowship in Fiction.

De La Garza Awarded Scholarship

Stefan R. De La Garza was awarded a scholarship to attend the Summit for Ambitious Writers last month. The 5-day conference featured writers such as Heidi Julavits and Wells Tower. De La Garza is beginning his second year in the program.

Seay published in New Delta Review

Erika Seay's poem "Apartment" appears in the current issue of the New Delta Review. Seay is a fourth-year student in the program.

Robert Hass to read on April 28th

The University of Arkansas Creative Writing Program is proud to welcome United States Poet Laureate (1995-1997) Robert Hass. He will read on April 28th at 7 p.m. in Giffels Auditorium in Old Main.

Widely read and much honored for his work as a poet, essayist and translator, Robert Hass's distinctions include the Pulitzer Prize (2007), The National Book Award (2008). and a MacArthur "Genuis" Fellowship.

This event is made possible by the University of Arkansas Department of English and the University of Arkansas Fine Arts Activities Fee.

Senior MFA Readings

This year's class of graduating MFA students will read from their work at three separate events this month:

Friday, April 8th: Senior MFA students Ben Nickol, Adam Pearson, and Brett Harrington will read in Giffels in Old Main at 7 p.m.

Friday, April 15th: Senior MFA students Jen Jabaily, Mary Angelino, and Ashley McHugh will read in Giffels in Old Main at 7 p.m.

Friday, April 22nd: Senior MFA students Erin Moss and Lindsey Wannenmacher will read in Giffels in Old Main at 7 p.m.

Heffernan featured on Poetry Daily, Writer's Almanac

Poetry Daily recently featured University of Arkansas poet Michael Heffernan's poem "What Should We Do?". The poem is from his latest collection of poetry At the Bureau of Divine Music.

Heffernan was also recently featured on the National Public Radio show The Writer's Almanac, and his poems "The Art of Self Defense" and "Puttenesca " were read by Garrison Keillor. Listen to the poems here:

• March 10, 2011; "Puttanesca"
• March 15, 2011; "The Art of Self Defense"

Mackowski reading Wednesday

The University of Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing and Translation welcomes Visiting Poet Joanie Mackowski.

Wednesday, March 16th
7:00 p.m.
Giffels Auditorium in Old Main.

Joanie Mackowski is the author of two books of poems, View From A Temporary Window (Pitt Poetry Series 2010) and The Zoo (Pitt Poetry Series 2002). She's been awarded the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, The Emily Dickinson Prize from the Poetry Society of America, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Grant, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in poetry; her poems have recently appeared in Poetry, The Yale Review, New England Review, The American Scholar, and in Best American Poetry. A member of the Creative Writing faculty at Cornell University, she lives in Ithaca, NY.