Mark your calendars, and plan a trip to UNM’s Student Union Building for Gary Jackson’s reading…
If you don’t know who Gary is, you should:
UNM MFA Grad 2008
Author, Missing You Metropolis, a collection of poetry
Winner 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize
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Annie Proulx at UNM (Feb. 7, 2011)
February 3, 2011
Another cooperative event with Bookworks, one of Albuquerque’s favorite independent bookstores:
Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of “Brokeback Mountain” portrays her flawed paradise in the majestic, hardscrabble West in the vibrant memoirBird Cloud (Scribner, $26.00). This is part of the new ABQ literary lecture series Readings on the Rio Grande, presented by Bookworks and ABC libraries.
Monday, February 7, 7pm
Woodward Hall (on UNM’s main campus)
Free and open to the public
Proulx meshes her story with natural history and the history of Wyoming, a tale of exploitation; horrendous crimes against Native Americans; and the mad massacring of eagles, elks, bison, and wolves. Partenvironmental history, part meditation on the importance of home, and part glimpse into a writer’s process, this is a rare, remarkable foray into nonfiction by an award-winning Western writer.
Annie Proulx is the author of eight books, including the novel The Shipping News and the story collection Close Range.Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and a PEN/Faulkner award. Her story “Brokeback Mountain,” which originally appeared in The New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award-winning film. She now lives in Albuquerque, NM
Louise Gluck Reading
February 3, 2011Prize winning author Louise Gluck will be reading at UNM’s Domenici Auditorium (north campus):
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 12:15 pm
NO CHARGE!!
Gluck is considered by many to be one of America’s most talented poets. Just a few of her accomplishments:
- Library of Congress Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry
- PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction
- Pulitzer Prize
- Bollingen Prize
- Lannan Literary Award for Poetry
- Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize
- MIT Anniversary Medal
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- Wallace Stevens Award
Read more about Louise Gluck over at the Poetry Foundation
With creds like that… and a host of published books of poetry, this should be a stellar reading.
Fall 2010 Best Student Essays Reception
February 3, 2011Join the staff and featured authors and photographers from the Best Student Essays of Fall 2010:
Friday evening, February 4, from 6PM to 8PM
in the Willard Reading Room on the west wing of Zimmerman Library. Refreshments and drinks will be served.
Come celebrate the best writing at UNM! The latest issue of Best Student Essays features topics never before featured in the magazine, including archaeology research on Mayan dental remains, conducted in
Belize, and veteran suicides in New Mexico.
Good News in Creative Nonfiction
October 20, 2010UNM Alumni Paul Bogard’s essay “The Path and the Pull of the Moon,” which appeared in Creative Nonfiction #36, was selected by editor Robert Atwan as one of the Notable Essays of 2009 in the just published Best American Essays 2010.
UNM Alumni Molly Beer was recently selected from over 700 applicants to be one of 10 Correspondents in Fall 2010 for National Geographic’s Glimpse: Your Stories From Abroad. (www.glimpse.org)
UNM Alumni Melody Gee’s essay “Jack’s Kitchen” has just appeared in the October 2010 issue of Copper Nickel. (www.copper-nickel.org)
UNM Alumni Chris Wrenn’s essay “Breaking Line” was published in the most recent North Carolina Literary Review, issue 19, 2010. (www.nclr.ecu.edu)
UNM Alumni Laura Matter’s essay “Franz Schubert Dreamt of Indians” was published in the Spring 2010 issue of The Georgia Review.
(www.uga.edu/garev/)
Congrats Paul, Molly, Melody, Laura & Chris
UNM’s Creative Nonfiction MFA concentration was ranked #14 in the nation for 2011 in the September/October 2010 issue of Poet’s and Writer’s Magazine. (www.pw.org)
Poetry Faculty Lisa Chavez reads with Joanne Dwyer at Collected Works in Santa Fe
October 7, 2010MUSE TIMES TWO presents!
Thursday, Oct. 14, 6pm
Collected Works Bookstore
202 Galisteo Street
505-988-4226
Joanne Dwyer and Lisa Chavez
Joanne D. Dwyer
Joanne Dominique Dwyer has lived in New Mexico since 1980. She attended the College of Santa Fe, studying with Dana Levin, Greg Glazner, Mark Behr and Matt Donovan. She earned a degree there in Creative Writing in 2005. In 2009 Dwyer completed an MFA with the Warren Wilson Program for writers. A recipient of a Rona Jaffe Award for emerging women writers, she has been published in The American Poetry Review, Conduit, FIELD, The Massachusetts Review, The New England Review, Tri-Quarterly and elsewhere.
http://www.santafe.com/articles/sf-poet-recognized
http://www.aprweb.org/poem/may-25
Lisa D. Chavez
is a poet and memoirist. She has published two books of poetry: Destruction Bay and In an Angry Season, and has been included in such anthologies as Floricanto Si! A Collection of Latina Poetry , The Floating Borderlands: 25 Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature, and American Poetry: The Next Generation . Her creative nonfiction has been published in Fourth Genre, The Clackamas Literary Review and other places. She lives in the mountains in New Mexico with her husband and three dogs.
http://www.webdelsol.com/CLR/works/chavez_surrender.htm
Congratulations to Molly Beer
May 10, 2010First off, just a couple weeks ago Molly Beer defended her dissertation, Unstable Ground, a collection of essays (most of which have been published in some form somewhere) — and passed with honors.
Second, Singing Out: an Oral History of America’s Folk Music Revivals was released by Oxford University Press.
From the publisher: ”Culled from more than 150 interviews, this book and the story it tells spans seven decades and cuts across a wide swath of generations and perspectives, shedding light on the musical, political, and social aspects of the folk revival movement….”
Get the inside scoop on what it was like for Molly to work with UNM Professor David King Dunaway
A Tremendous Loss
March 10, 2010Many have heard the news, but I didn’t feel like I could go on blogging without making some mention of the recent tragic events in the English Department. Here’s the official statement:
The University of New Mexico community is saddened to learn that two of our members, English Department Professor Hector Torres and graduate student Stefania Gray, are victims of a double homicide, as confirmed by the Albuquerque Police Department.
President David Schmidly and Provost Suzanne Ortega released the following, “The UNM community has been diminished by the untimely deaths of two of our own. Professor Hector Torres will be remembered as a scholar of great passion, dedication and kindness. Graduate student Stefania Gray was a scholar of great promise. Both were wonderful individuals and we join their families and many friends in great sadness.”
Even though Professor Torres was not part of the Creative Writing program, because of the way our program is set up, MFA students take classes in all areas of the English Department, including literature and rhetoric and writing… and sometimes those lit and rhetoric and writing folks take courses in creative writing. Though technically Stefania was in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, she had taken some courses in English and was a former TA. Though I did not have the opportunity to study with either Dr. Torres or Stefania, many people in our department did. They will be missed.
You can read the Daily Lobo article here–>
–Jennifer Simpson
Lena Todd Award Winners
February 16, 2010Join us to celebrate the winners of the Lena M. Todd Endowed Memorial Award, an annual award to students (undergrads) doing the best work in creative writing.
Friday, February 19 at 7 PM
at RB Winnings (on Harvard just south of Central)
FICTION: 1st–Randi Beck, 2nd–Madeleine Coen
POETRY: 1st–Elizabeth Rapf; 2nd–Hunter Lazier
NONFICTION: 1st–Victoria Brooke Rodrigues; 2nd–Lauren Weber
I am constantly amazed by the quality of writing coming out of UNM’s undergrad program so I’m sure I will be amazed once again. Come on down to Winnings, and be amazed too!
Come early for coffee….
A Dime for Your Stories
February 16, 2010
The title is not original… I’ve used it before, but it is late and I am tired.
I will be co-hosting a monthly open mic for PROSE.
The event is Duke City DimeStories, a chapter of the DimeStories event that was started in San Diego by my friend, novelist Amy Wallen.
She asked me a long long time ago if I wanted to start a DimeStories even here in Albuquerque, and I’ve finally found the right mix of people (or better said, one person- Merimee Moffit, a poet and closet prose writer, and teacher at CNM- with connections) to make it happen.
The format is simple. Participants (writers) have three minutes, maximum. I’ve found it is a great way to edit your work, forcing you to think about every word. It’s also great for the audience… if the piece is not good, wait three minutes and it will be over!
Our premier event will be held:
7 pm February 18 (sign ups start at 6:45pm)
at The Source, 1111 Carlisle Ave SE (one mile south of Central)
Cost: by donation
We’ll have tea and coffee and water and munchies.
This event is partially sponsored by the English Graduate Student Association.
Best stories of the night will be posted on the website! and could be optioned for inclusion on the radio program that is in development.
Let your (prose) voice be heard! If you can’t make this first event, don’t worry– we’ll be hosting this monthly. Every third Thursday.
