UW-Madison Readings

Friday, September 10: Monsters of Poetry

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September 10, 7:30 PM
The Project Lodge, 817 E. Johnson

Tonight at the Project Lodge, Monsters of Poetry presents:

KEETJE KUIPERS earned her B.A. at Swarthmore College and her M.F.A. at the University of Oregon. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Oregon Literary Arts, and Soapstone, as well as awards from Atlanta Review and Nimrod. Her book, Beautiful in the Mouth, which was awarded the 2009 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, was published in March 2010 by BOA Editions. She teaches writing at the University of Montana and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

MATTHEW GUENETTE’s first book Sudden Anthem won the 2007 American Poetry Journal Prize from Dream Horse Press. His second book, American Busboy, an editor’s choice in the 2010 Akron Press Poetry Contest, will be published in 2011. He lives and plays in Madison.

JAMES CREWS is from St. Louis, Missouri and has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His manuscript The Book of What Stays was recently awarded the 2010 Prairie Schooner Book Prize and will be published in 2011 by University of Nebraska Press. He is the author of the chapbook, What Has Not Yet Left, which won the 2009 Copperdome Prize from Southeast Missouri State University Press and two other chapbooks —Bending the Knot (Gertrude Press Chapbook Prize, 2008) and One Hundred Small Yellow Envelopes: A Poem After the Life and Work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Parallel Press, 2009). His poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2006 and 2009, basalt, Columbia, Prairie Schooner, Court Green, Crab Orchard Review and several other journals. In December, he will be a writer-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City. You can find his work at www.jameshcrews.com.

C.E. PERRY graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1992 and Dartmouth Medical School in 1999. She has worked as a waitress, construction worker, nursing assistant, poetry instructor, and a physician for the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. Her work has been published in Southeast Review, Harpur Palate, Margie, Pool, and Ploughshares. Sarabande Books published her first book of poetry, Night Work in 2009. She is a family medicine physician in Madison, Wisconsin where she lives an a 107 year old house with her family.

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Farewell Friends

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Hey Y'all,

It's been an excellent year for readings--sometimes yielding an embarrassment of riches--, but another semester is over so it's time to pack it in. Don't be sad. Remember Wallace Stevens, who says "The world is larger in summer."

In the fall, the readings coordinator job expands, as well. Alyssa Knickerbocker and Vanessa Merina, both UW-Madison MFA candidates in fiction, will dazzle you next year as the Program in Creative Writing's readings coordinators! That's right coordinators, plural!

Have a great summer, and check back periodically to see what the program's up to. You know that once September rolls around, you won't want to miss out on anything. Thanks for visiting this blog, and--more importantly--for coming to our many readings and contributing to the vibrant literary community here in Madison.

Be well,
Ryan

Thursday, May 7: An Evening of Fiction & Poetry

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Emma Straub reads fiction and Traci Brimhall reads poetry. You won't want to miss this.

Thursday, May 7th
7pm - 8pm
Helen C. White Hall
Room 6191

Two Great Readings Next Thursday, April 30

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It's the first annual English 695 fiction and poetry reading, where undergraduate creative writing students read work from their thesis projects. This reading is hosted by the Madison Review.

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Also on April 30: you're invited to join distinguished poet Martin Espada -- a UW-Madison alum known as "the" Latino poet of his generation, and "the" Pablo Neruda of North America --
for a poetry performance you will find at once illuminating, humorous, moving, and interdisciplinary.

The main event takes place at Pyle Center, on Thursday, 30 April at 7pm:
POETRY OF THE POLITICAL IMAGINATION:
A READING BY MARTIN ESPADA

There will also be two brownbag lectures by Espada: "The Redemption of Pablo Neruda," at noon on Thursday the 30th of April, and "Colonialism and the Poetry of Rebellion" in Puerto Rico, at noon on Friday the 1st of May. The brownbags will be in 5233 Mosse Humanities Bldng.

Espada's poetry breaks down conventional knowledge boundaries. It unites powerfully literature and history, political and social analysis, ethnic studies and area studies. It puts forth an "Americas" vision that encompasses New York and Puerto Rico, Wisconsin and Chile. It produces an experience that is at once edgy and humane, funny and dramatic. Espada's thirty honors include two Paterson Awards for Sustained Literary Achievement, citation as Pulitzer Prize Finalist, a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and most recently, the National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award.

These events are co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, the Office of MultiCultural Arts Initiatives, the Department of History, LACIS (Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies), the Harvey Goldberg Center for the Study of Contemporary History, the Comparative US Cultures Cluster, and Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies.

Tonight @ Avol's Bookstore:

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Jennifer Militello & Ryan Walsh
Thursday, April 23, 7:00pm @ Avol's Bookstore

JENNIFER MILITELLO's first collection of poetry, Flinch of Song, was awarded the Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse First Book Prize and will be published in Fall of 2009. She is the author of the chapbook Anchor Chain, Open Sail (Finishing Line Press, 2006) and has had poems published in The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The North American Review, The Paris Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best New Poets 2008, among others. www.jennifermilitello.com

RYAN WALSH is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His poems have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Ecotone, FIELD, Green Mountains Review, and Solo. He co-edits the literary journal Rivendell and is the editor & publisher of Pocket Press.

Two Great Readings Next Thursday, April 30

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It's the first annual English 695 fiction and poetry reading, where undergraduate creative writing students read work from their thesis projects. This reading is hosted by the Madison Review.

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Flinch of Song: a Poetry Reading

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Jennifer Militello & Ryan Walsh
Thursday, April 23, 7:00pm @ Avol's Bookstore

JENNIFER MILITELLO's first collection of poetry, Flinch of Song, was awarded the Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse First Book Prize and will be published in Fall of 2009. She is the author of the chapbook Anchor Chain, Open Sail (Finishing Line Press, 2006) and has had poems published in The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The North American Review, The Paris Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best New Poets 2008, among others. www.jennifermilitello.com

RYAN WALSH is finishing his MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His poems have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Ecotone, FIELD, Green Mountains Review, and Solo. He co-edits the literary journal Rivendell and is the editor & publisher of Pocket Press.

Poetry Tonight!

2009-04-13T06:32:00.000-07:00

Please join us for a reading from two recent Crab Orchard Series in Poetry collections by

Jesse Lee Kercheval (Cinema Muto)
& Alison Townsend (Persephone in America)
Thursday, April 16, 7:00 PM
6191 Helen C. White

“This miraculous work—each poem a transformation of script into story, silent film into loud life—is the one book you MUST read this year.”
— Hilda Raz

Jesse Lee Kercheval is the award-winning author of The Alice Stories and Space: a Memoir. She is the Sally Mead Hands Bascom Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin and director of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.

“Persephone in America is a magnificent book. Alison Townsend poignantly and sometimes shockingly blends reimagined myth with reinvented autobiography. Persephone, the abducted daughter of a goddess, is a would-be Barbie, a wild one, a flirt, an innocent, a rape victim, a cutter, a bulimic, a young poet, a girl who misses her mother, an artist’s model, a girl who loves to dance, a depressive, a married woman who has an abortion, and more. . . . This is what revisionist mythology is all about: the sacred and the demonic still alive in our time.”
—Alicia Ostriker

Alison Townsend is an associate professor of English and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She is the author of And Still the Music, What the Body Knows, and The Blue Dress: Poems and Prose Poems.

The Reversible Dog

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The University of Wisconsin’s MFA Program in Creative Writing presents
The Reversible Dog

Thursday, April 9, 7:00pm
The Project Lodge
817 E. Johnson Street, Madison, WI
$3 at the door

Laurel Bastian
Alyssa Knickerbocker
Lisa Kundrat
Vanessa Merina
Kristen Muir
Jessica Nordell
Barrett Swanson

FICTION by POETS
POETRY by FICTION WRITERS

April is the Poetriest Month

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Our Cosmic Mother & Father of the Verse

We have a flood of poetry readings to report this April:

First, please join us for a reading by Brittingham and Pollak Poetry Prize winning poets, Angela Sorby and Mark Kraushaar tomorrow: April 2 at 7:00pm in 6191 White. Their books-- and Bird Skin Coat and Falling Brick Kills Local Man--are the only poetry titles the UW Press will publish this year. Catch them while they're hot. Dessert reception to follow the reading.

April 9 (Thurs) get down to the Project Lodge (817 E. Johnson St.) to experience The Reversible Dog. There'll be a lot of fiction writers reading their own original poems, a couple poets reading short fiction & memoir. Some food & spirits will be provided. Good times in a great space. $3 cover.

April 16 (Thurs), Jesse Lee Kercheval and Alison Townsend promise to rock the house, reading from their new collections. 7:00pm at 6191 Helen C. White. Jesse Lee will be reading from her latest collection Cinema Muto, and Alison will be reading from Persephone in America. Both are Crab Orchard Open Award Series winners and have just been published in the Crab Orchard Poetry Series by Southern Illinois University Press.

April 23 (Thurs), Jennifer Militello and Ryan Walsh read at 7:00pm at Avol's Bookstore. Jennifer's collection, Flinch of Song, won the 2009 Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse First Book Award and will be out in the fall. Ryan is happy to have a poem in the new issue of FIELD (#80 Spring). A limited run of documentary chapbooks and letter-pressed broadsides will be available from Pocket Press.

THURSDAY: Brittingham & Pollak Poetry Prize Winners

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You're invited to a reading by Brittingham and Pollak Poetry Prize winning poets, Angela Sorby and Mark Kraushaar next Thursday, April 2 at 7:00pm in 6191 White. Angela and Mark are both Wisconsin residents, and were selected in our national competition from among 900 poets by Marilyn Nelson.

“Angela Sorby’s collection blends the comic and the tragic in entirely original ways. These poems gaze inward and outward and travel through the world with a keen eye and an unfailing ear for the miraculous music of ordinary language. She brings to each detail a luminous intensity, made that much more startling by its casual subjects—fender-benders, motherhood, the Midwest. Sorby’s is an important voice, speaking to the most important subjects without fear or pretense. Bird Skin Coat is full of striking imagery and compassionate skepticism—an exciting new contribution to American poetry.”
—Laura Kasischke

“Whether speaking for a maker of military uniforms or a prison guard, a wife writing to Walt Whitman about her husband’s failure or Jill of nursery rhyme fame, Mark Kraushaar has the uncanny ability to understand how precious identity and selfhood are to every one of us. One of his characters observes, ‘Long ago, before there was anything / there was nothing, except that every one was always / on their way. . .’ and it reads like a statement of faith in humanity. And though another speaks of the earth, as seen from a plane, as ‘wonderful, ridiculous, and sad,’ you finish this collection happy to know that Mark Kraushaar lives there.”
—Mark Jarman

There will be an on-site dessert reception immediately after the reading, with the Union's famous cookies and brownie and lemon squares and chocolate-covered strawberries and fruit punch!

TONIGHT: Champions of Poetry!

2009-03-25T06:57:00.000-07:00

Edgewood College presents Adam Fell and Lauren Shapiro in a Poetry Reading!.....plus Battle Royal and Barbed-Wire, Thumbtack, Staple-Gun, Exploding Bomb Death Match for the Title
Tonight @ 7:00pm in P302 Predolin Center.

Adam Fell was born in Burlington, WI. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin and his M.F.A from the University of Iowa, Iowa Writers' Workshop. His poems have been published in Tin House, Forklift, Ohio, Diagram, Crazyhorse, Asheville Poetry Review, Notnostrums, and Fou. He currently teaches at Edgewood College in Madison, WI.

Lauren Shapiro received her B.A. in comparative literature from Brown University and her M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she held the Iowa Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Pool, Passages North, Forklift, Ohio, Drunken Boat, 32 Poems, and Locuspoint, among other publications. She is currently an adjunct assistant professor of general education at Herzing College in Madison, WI.

This Week: Two Can't-Miss Readings

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First, join us in support of our good friends Adam Fell & Lauren Shapiro. They'll be reading their poems at Edgewood College (P302 Predolin) this Wednesday, March 25 @ 7:00pm. Original letterpressed broadsides and a limited run of documentary chapbooks made for the occasion will be available from Pocket Press.

Thursday, we welcome back esteemed fiction writer (and this spring's UW-Madison Writer-in-Residence) Kevin Brockmeier, who will give a Q&A at 4:00pm and a reading at 7:00pm in 6191 Helen C. White. Because we love his stories so much, Kevin has become something of a regular around Madison. Come see why.

"I love Kevin Brockmeier's work, not only for its daring innovation and its boundary-defying marriage of the real and the fantastic, but also because of the deep feeling and compassion he brings to the lives of his various characters. He is one of the best short story writers in America."
--Dan Chaon, author of Among the Missing and You Remind Me of Me

Poetry Reading @ Avol's Bookstore

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Don't miss Lauren Shapiro and Brent Goodman this Saturday @ 7pm at Avol's Bookstore.

I hear there may be large boxing robots in attendance.

Lauren Shapiro received her BA in Comparative Literature from Brown University, and her MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Before moving to Iowa, she worked for four years as an acquisitions editor at the Yale University Press. Her poems have appeared in Pool, Passages North, Forklift, Ohio, Drunken Boat and 32 Poems, among other places. Lauren has translated poetry from Spanish, Italian, Vietnamese and Arabic into English. Currently, she teaches at Herzing University in Madison, WI.

Brent Goodman's debut poetry collection, The Brother Swimming Beneath Me, is just out from Black Lawrence Press. He is also the author of two chapbooks, Trees are the Slowest Rivers (Sarasota Poetry Theater Press), and Wrong Horoscope (Thorngate Road Press), which won the 1999 Frank O'Hara Chapbook Award. His poems appear widely.

Two Poets Read Thursday

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FELIX:

A SERIES OF NEW WRITING

presents:

ACTION POETRY:

JOYELLE McSWEENEY

& JOHANNES GÖRANSSON

Thursday, March 12^th at 4:30 P.M.

Room 126 Memorial Library

Joyelle McSweeney is the author of The Commandrine and Other Poems (Fence 2004) and The Red Bird, which inaugurated the Fence Modern Poets Series in 2002. She is also the author of two hybrid novels: Nylund, the Sarcographer (2007), a baroque noir from Tarpaulin Sky Press; and Flet (2007), a science fiction from Fence. With Johannes Göransson, she is also the co-founder and co-editor of Action Books, a poetry and translation press, and Action, Yes, a web-quarterly for international writing and hybrid forms. She writes regular reviews for the Constant Critic, Rain Taxi, and the Boston Review. She teaches in the MFA Program at Notre Dame.

Johannes Göransson is the co-editor of Action Books and Action, Yes. He is the author of two collections of poetry, A New Quarantine Will Take My Place (Apostrophe Books, 2007) and Pilot (Natträngslighet) (Fairy Tale Review, 2008). He was born and grew up outside of Lund, Sweden, but has lived in the US for the past twenty years. A translator of Swedish poetry, he has translated Remainland: Selected Poems of Aase Berg (Action Books, 2005) and Ideals Clearance by Henry Parland (Ugly Duckling, 2007).

The Felix series is dedicated to providing an audience for new writing, and to highlighting the publication of the independent press. Felix readings are FREE and open to the public.

TUESDAY: Welcome Back Patrick Somerville

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This map of the upper Midwest comes from Pat's stylish website: www.patricksomerville.com

This Tuesday, March 10th, at 7:00pm, Patrick Somerville returns to Madison to read at 6191 Helen C. White. Pat is currently on tour for his second book, (The Cradle, a novel, to be released Monday) which, if it is anything like his collection of stories, will be funny and highly original. Come out and support the home boy!

Patrick Somerville grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, went to college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and later earned his MFA from Cornell University. He has taught creative writing and English at Cornell, Auburn State Correctional Facility, and The Graham School in Chicago. His first book of stories, Trouble, was published in September of 2006 (Vintage) and named 2006's Best Book by a Chicago Author by Time Out Chicago. His writing has appeared in One Story, Epoch, GQ, Esquire, and Best American Nonrequired Reading, and his first novel, The Cradle, is out from Little, Brown. This spring he will also be serving as the Simon Blattner Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Northwestern University.

TONIGHT: Amanda Rea & Stuart Nadler

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This snazzy poster was designed by Michael Fusco & Emma Straub.

Join us tonight @ 7pm when Stuart Nadler & Amanda Rea read as part of our ongoing Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Reading Series.

Stuart Nadler is the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Amanda Rea received her MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Her fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Green Mountains Review, Iowa Review and the Indiana Review. She is the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.

March Madness

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There's a bevy of readings heading our way this spring. Forget the NCAA, hit up all these readings and crown your own Cinderella (of writing). Here's the run-down on what's coming your way in March--with more details coming as each reading arrives:

Thursday, March 5 @ 7pm in 6191 Helen White
UW Fiction fellows Stuart Nadler & Amanda Rea

Tuesday, March 10 @ 7pm in 6191 Helen White
UW Alum & fiction writer Patrick Somerville

Friday, March 14 @ 7pm at Avol's Books
Poets Lauren Shapiro & Brent Goodman

Wednesday, March 25 @ 7pm at Edgewood College
Poets Adam Fell (UW alum) & Lauren Shapiro (cage match)

Thursday, March 26 @ 7pm in 6191 Helen White
UW Visiting Fiction writer Kevin Brockmeier

Home Boy Represents (next Tuesday)

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This map of the upper Midwest comes from Pat's stylish website: www.patricksomerville.com

Next Tuesday, March 10th, at 7:00pm, Patrick Somerville returns to Madison to read at 6191 Helen C. White. Pat is currently on-tour for his second book, (The Cradle, a novel, to be release on March 9th) which, if it is anything like his collection of stories, will be funny and highly original. Come out and support the home boy!

Patrick Somerville grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, went to college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and later earned his MFA from Cornell University. He has taught creative writing and English at Cornell, Auburn State Correctional Facility, and The Graham School in Chicago. His first book of stories, Trouble, was published in September of 2006 (Vintage) and named 2006's Best Book by a Chicago Author by Time Out Chicago. His writing has appeared in One Story, Epoch, GQ, Esquire, and Best American Nonrequired Reading, and his first novel, The Cradle, is out from Little, Brown. This spring he will also be serving as the Simon Blattner Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Northwestern University.

TONIGHT: Jesse Lee Kercheval & Alison Townsend read @ Borders

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What a handsome cover!

Jesse Lee Kercheval will be reading with Alison Townsend at 7:00pm tonight at Borders West, 375o University Ave., Madison.

Jesse Lee will be reading from her poetry collection Cinema Muto, and Alison will be reading from her poetry book Persephone in America. Both are Crab Orchard Open Award Series winners and have just been published in the Crab Orchard Poetry Series by Southern Illinois University Press.

I also hear there'll be cake served afterwards. Yum! In case you can't make it this evening, these two will rock the house Thursday, April 16 at 7:00pm in 6191 Helen C. White.

Jesse Lee Kercheval is the award-winning author of The Alice Stories and Space: a Memoir. She is the Sally Mead Hands Bascom Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin and director of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.

Alison Townsend is an associate professor of English at UW-Whitewater.

Fresh Caught Fiction

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We may not have lobsters fresh from the tank, but we promise a wicked good time when Stuart Nadler & Amanda Rea read next Thursday, March 5 as part of our ongoing Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Reading Series.

Stuart Nadler is the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Amanda Rea received her MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Her fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Green Mountains Review, Iowa Review and the Indiana Review. She is the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.

Reading from First Books

2009-02-23T05:10:00.000-08:00

The Glass Bookcase Reading Series is proud to present an evening of poetry with Kevin A. González and Sean Hill this Thursday, February 26 at 7pm in 6191 Helen C. White Hall.

Kevin A. González was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He holds degrees from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where was also the Carol Houck Smith Fellow in Fiction in 2007-08. He is the author of the chapbook, The Night Tito Trinidad KO’ed Ricardo Mayorga (Mombotombo Press, 2007). His poems have appeared in Poetry, Callaloo, Poetry Northwest, and The Progressive; and his stories have appeared in Playboy, Virginia Quarterly Review, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007, and Best New American Voices 2007 and 2009. Cultural Studies is his first book of poems.

A native of Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill has an M.F.A. from the University of Houston, where he was awarded the 2003 Michener Fellowship for poetry. He has also received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was a Halls Poetry Fellow in 2006-07. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Indiana Review, lyric poetry review, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, and other literary journals, and in the anthologies Blues Poems, Gathering Ground, and The Ringing Ear . He is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Soul Mountain Retreat Residency Awarded

2009-02-21T12:04:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to MFA candidate Kristen Muir (poetry), who has been awarded a residency at Marilyn Nelson's Soul Mountain Retreat in East Haddam, CT. She'll spend spring break as one of one of four writers in residence. To learn more about Soul Mountain, visit their website.

Andrew & Jill read Thursday!

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Please join us!

The University of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing presents a reading by

Andrew Milward (the James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow)
&
Jill Osier (the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow)

Thursday, February 19 at 7:00pm in 6191 Helen C. White.

We love Andrew & Jill.
You will too.

Andrew Milward is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His stories have been a finalist for the National Magazine Award and appeared in magazines such as Zoetrope, The Southern Review, Columbia, and Crazyhorse, and will be included in Best New American Voices 2010.

Jill Osier is from northeast Iowa, lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, and is currently the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at UW-Madison. Her poems appear widely.

Fabulous Fiction: Avery 4

2009-01-28T08:23:00.000-08:00

Wonderful news from Emma Straub:

Dear people who like to read,

I am pleased to announce the arrival of Avery 4, a literary magazine brimming over with delicious stories. Hannah Tinti! Kevin Canty! Samar Fitzgerald! Several more, some of whom you may know personally! The stories are about sex and pets and haircuts and cacti and all the things that you love the most.

Copies and subscriptions can be purchased on the Avery website, found at www.averyanthology.org. Previous issues, featuring stories by Dan Chaon, Ander Monson, Stephen Dixon and others, are also still available! Surely you want a complete set. You can learn more about Avery on our blog, found at www.averyanthology.blogspot.com. It's also a wonderful place to find out what I read on airplanes and to read my erudite thoughts on teenage movie stars. Fun for all!

If you live in Madison, Wisconsin, you can find Avery at Borders West, A Room of One's Own, and Avol's.

Three cheers for stories and those who love them!

Yours editorially,

Emma Straub
co-editor
Avery: An Anthology of New Fiction
www.averyanthology.org
www.averyanthology.blogspot.com