What happens when the projector doesn't work? The Haybarn Theater on the Plainfield campus has a beautiful new sound system, concert-worthy; state of the art lighting; a rich red velvet curtain; a podium that adjusts for height at the press of a button...but when the...
Goddard MFA Faculty member Aimee Liu's essay, inspired by the author Meredith Hall, has been published by the Los Angeles Review of Books. A version of this essay was Aimee's commencement address last summer in Port Townsend, Goddard's West Coast MFA campus. Here's...
Who's been where, and which writing retreats do you recommend? Aerogramme's new list of retreats for 2015 includes Hedgebrook, an oasis for women writers near and dear to my heart: hard to get into (with 1500 applications this year!) but worth reapplying for, since,...
Recently much of my writing has revolved around a very large question about the human predicament : Who are we, the beings who live with the thought that the manner of our living may be closing off the possibility of future life, yet who strive to keep that thought...
Jan Clausen's poem "The Wave That Is the Motion of the World" appears in Drunken Boat 20, just launched. Both print and a sound recording are available at: http://issues.drunkenboat.com/db20/poetry/jan-clausen
From The Last Word on Nothing, by Richard Panek: If you haven’t seen the movie Interstellar, you might not recognize the image above. It’s the black hole that figures prominently in the climax. But even if you have seen the movie, chances are excellent you still don’t...
Susan Kim’s graphic novel, Brain Camp, will be re-released as a mass market paperback by Square Fish in the spring of 2015.
Kenny Fries received a Toronto Arts Council grant for his new Germany-based book, Stumbling Over History. He also had a poem, “An Opening,” up at Good Men Project. He also presented "Different Bodies," at the University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany...
Paul Selig has just been offered a 3-book deal from Tarcher/Penguin for a new series on spiritual growth. He was also recently filmed for the new documentary film Widowsville. He also lead a 5-Part tele-seminar for Evolver Learning Labs in October. The seminar...
Darcey Steinke’s essay on southern high school boy fights is up at the website Killing the Buddha and she has an essay about her friend Barry Hannah up on The Millions.
