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The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins would like to wish everyone a happy holiday, and good luck to this year's applicants in the graduate programs of poetry and fiction. Stay tuned for details on our spring reading series, including John Irwin reading from his new, groundbreaking monograph on Hart Crane.
Stephen Kampa, M.F.A. '08, is the 2011 winner of the River Styx International Poetry Contest, for his poem "Small Change." Congratulations, Stephen. Stephen Kampa's first book, Cracks in the Invisible, received the 2010 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize.
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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