MICHAEL KLEIN is one of 23 poets (W.S. Merwin, Marie Howe, Toi Derricotte, Mark Doty, Sharon Olds among them) who, for National Poetry Month, has their photo image (by MFAW student Shef Reynolds) and line from one of their poems as part of their own banner which...
Goddard Alum/Faculty Reception at AWP
Calling all Goddard College Faculty and Alums who will be attending AWP this year! As members of this elite squad, you are invited to our reception, to be held at the Conference. This is a great way to catch up with old friends, meet some new ones and generally feel...
The Graphic Novel with Susan Kim and Rachel Pollack
An Interview by Beatrix Gates Vermont Graphic Novel faculty Rachel Pollack and Susan Kim attended the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) Fest with MFA Graphic Novel grads Anne Bean and Ryan Wynns, '13, see pix below. ...
Susan Kim’s latest YA novel out today
GUARDIANS, the third and final book in the WASTELAND trilogy written by Susan Kim and her husband/occasional writing partner, Laurence Klavan, is out today from HarperTeen. (And two weeks ago, the second book, WANDERERS, came out in paperback) Blog tour is just...
Toklas, Stein and a literary Seance
I’m having some friends over tonight to plan a seance. Except it’s not really a seance; it’s just called it that to be silly and because it started with a ghost. The ghost of Alice B Toklas is rumored to haunt the Sorrento hotel in Seattle so the folks from APRIL...
Know Thy Characters – An LA workshop!
Attention LA writers! Goddard faculty member Aimee Liu is offering one of her most popular workshops at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA on Sunday, April 26. All are welcome -- especially those who might be interested in Goddard's Writing Programs. Please spread the word!...
Narrative Permission Slip
First week of March, still frigid in New York, where it feels like someone in the sky kitchen said, "There's hardly any winter left in the pot--you finish it," and dumped a double helping on our plate. Still the same ice ridges and filthy snow heaps, still the...
CLOSING NIGHT
I’m on a train on my way into the city. I’m leaving behind my daughter who is five months old and has a respiratory virus. My wife will be alone tonight to take care of her. What is about to happen will never happen again, so I leave them behind because I have little...
AAAAAA- Aimeeliu At Awp And Aroho in April
Goddard Port Townsend faculty member Aimee Liu will be at AWP with Acting Program Director Elena Georgiou in Minneapolis, April 8-11. Come say hello at Goddard's Booth -- #720. Aimee will also be reading at AROHO’s Night of "Glittering, Vocal Expansiveness" with Janet...
Rebecca Brown: Mysterious
From Rebecca Brown.... So, 2015 is already getting busy. My next event will be a reading at the Search For Meaning Book Festival at Seattle U campus on Feb 28. My event is at the fabulous time for a literary event, 10 AM at Pigott auditorium The Book Festival is...