MFAW-VT student Christine Kalafus has been participating in storytelling events, like The Moth, broadcast on NPR and The MOuTH through the Mark Twain House in Hartford. In part because of her participation in these activities, she was recently selected to be a...
SWALE
I groomed a Derby horse in 1984 named Swale and he won the race, too. And then years later I learned how to write prose through a book I stayed with called "Track Conditions" which was published in 1993, I think. Sometimes Swale comes back in poems. Here he is...
NEWS FROM MFAW STUDENT LUCY SNYDER!!
Lucy Snyder was a participating author at the Ohioana Book Festival last week and and was on two panel discussions: "In Brief: Essays, Poems, and Short Stories" and "Publishing: Everything You Wanted to Know". And her short story "Cthylla" was just published in the...
Quest Writer’s Conference 2015
The Quest Writer's Conference 2015 launches this June, founded by Goddard alum Jessamyn Smyth. Dates for the conference will be June 21-28 in Squamish, British Columbia (just north of Vancouver). They are rapidly approaching the application deadline of May 1st and...
Tyler Whidden Headlines Playwriting Festival
Playwright and Alum Tyler Whidden with a young actor... In an interview for the upcoming Festival, Whidden expounds on his newest play, ChocolateSexPuppyTacos (a Non-Denominational Play): Can you talk about the idea behind your play “ChocolateSex…” ? I think it’s a...
Art As a response to Planetary Emergency
Although both had been feminist writers and peace activists living in Brooklyn, NY for many years, playwright Karen Malpede and poet/novelist Jan Clausen didn’t know each other very well until they spent a night in jail together following a civil disobedience arrest...
Goddard College MFA in Writing Program Offers TV and Libretto Writing
Plainfield, Vt., and Port Townsend, Wash.—Goddard College announced that its low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFAW) program will offer two new areas of study, television writing and libretto writing, beginning in June of 2015, the start of its...
Rebecca Brown on Opera Diva Worship
Check out Faculty member Rebecca Brown's essay on opera diva Stephanie Blythe in The Stranger... "...The word "diva" is Italian for "goddess," and human culture is full of humans who, if they try to approach the divine too closely, get burned (though not always...
Chera Hammons: The Descent of the Germanwings
Congratulations to MFAW-VT alum Chera Hammons who just had the following poem published at Rattle.com.To mark National Poetry Month, here is the poem, in its entirety: THE DESCENT OF THE GERMANWINGS Musicians know how to write silence, how to lay lines and measures...
National Poetry Month – WeHo Lamppost Poetry Project and Reading
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...
