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Dear John McCain,

I think of your tap code late at night when I am lonely. You broken and spent in the Hanoi Hilton tapping out “Are you okay?” to the guy on the other side of the wall.

MFAW-WA Nita Sweeney is Short-Listed!

Alumni News, News Flash

MFAW alumna Nita Sweeney’s unpublished memoir, Twenty-Six Point Freaking Two: How a Sedentary, Middle-Aged Manic Depressive Became a Marathoner (with the help of her dog), was short-listed for the 2018 William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing...

MFAW-VT Faculty Member Jan Clausen’s Criticism Published

Faculty News, News Flash

MFAW-VT faculty member Jan Clausen’s review of new poetry and hybrid works appears in the July/August issue of the Women’s Review of Books. She addresses Ada Limón’s poetry collection The Carrying and Amy Fusselman’s lyric essay Idiophone....

MFAW-VT Alumna Gina Leigh Helms TV Show!

Alumni News, News Flash

MFAW-VT alumna Gina Leigh has just launched the pilot episode of Circus Town Circus Town is an original, all-puppet children’s television show that explains physics through the fun of circus stories. Meet Sally Spangles, her best friend Girard the Giraffe, and a...

MFAW-VT Alumna Claudette Webster Poems in Black Renaissance Noire

Alumni News, News Flash, Student News

MFAW-VT alumna Claudette Webster has three poems just published in Black Renaissance Noire (Vol 18, Issue 2, Summer 2018). This journal is put out by NYU Institute of African-American Affairs. You may purchase a copy via: https://www.nyubrn.org Black...

Dear John McCain,

MFAW-WA Nita Sweeney is Short-Listed!

MFAW-VT Faculty Member Jan Clausen’s Criticism Published

MFAW-VT Alumna Gina Leigh Helms TV Show!

MFAW-VT Alumna Claudette Webster Poems in Black Renaissance Noire

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