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Please join us in welcoming Richard Burgin, reading from his fiction Friday, May 4th, at 5:00 P.M. in Mudd Hall. More...
Writing Seminars Duo: Mary Jo Salter, Co-Chair and Professor in the Writing Seminars, and Stephen Kampa, Writing Seminars M.F.A. in Poetry ’08, will engage in a “Poetry and Conversation” evening on Wednesday, May 2 at 6:30PM at the Enoch Pratt Central Library, 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore. Read about it here:
http://www.prattlibrary.org/calendar/atpratt.aspx?id=72389
The Writing Seminars is proud to announce the incoming class of poets and writers for 2012-3. A warm welcome and congratulations to our new M.F.A. students:
In Poetry: Richard Hofmann, Matthew Morton, J.P. Grasser, and Julia Heney
In Fiction: Rahul Kanakia, Nathan McNamara, Daniel Stintzi, Beth Thompson, and Nathaniel Washatka
We'd like to thank Charles Martin for his visit as our Sullivan Elder Poet in Residence for spring 2012. Martin read from his work Tuesday, April 3rd, 6:30pm, in the Mason Hall Auditorium. Read more about the poet here.
James Franco and John Irwin Discuss Hart Crane and The Broken Tower
The actor James Franco attended a screening and discussion of his film, The Broken Tower, about the life and work of the poet Hart Crane, at Shriver Hall on JHU's Homewood campus on Friday, March 9, at 2:00 p.m.
Stephen Kampa's first book, Cracks in the Invisible, has received the Gold Medal for Poetry in the Florida Book awards. Congratulations, Stephen. Cracks in the Invisible had previously received the 2010 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Stephen Kampa, M.F.A. '08, is also the 2011 winner of the River Styx International Poetry Contest, for his poem "Small Change."
We’re happy to announce several recent and forthcoming publications by Writing Seminars faculty:
A Field Guide to Radiation, and Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race, Wayne Biddle
Return Fire, Glenn Blake
The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, Jessica Blau
The Art Student’s War, Brad Leithauser
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