The New York Times has published a new essay by Goddard MFA faculty member Kenny Fries. "Before the 'Final Solution' There Was a 'Test Killing' commemorates the 80th anniversary of Aktion T4, the Nazi program that killed disabled people In the essay, Kenny writes,...
In honor of World AIDS Day, MFA faculty member Kenny Fries has a poem, "To the Poet Whose Lover Has Died of AIDS," and a short adapted excerpt from his memoir In the Province of the Gods in Day Without Art’s 30th anniversary issue. You can read the issue online...
The Spring 2020 issue of The Pitkin Review, the biannual literary journal published each semester by Goddard MFA students has arrived! The issue features work of 14 student contributors that have been peer-reviewed, copyedited, and produced by a staff of...
MFAW alum Dani Boss's essay "On the Back Burner" is featured in a newly-released anthology called Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger, edited by Lilly Dancyger and published by Seal Press. The anthology is getting great press,...
On November 8 and November 9, MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries was interviewed on stage by Perel as part of "Life (un)Worthy of Life: A Queer Dis/Crip Talkshow" at the No Limits Festival in Berlin. Both nights were sold out. Perel interviewed Kenny about his...
Craving conversation about writing, in the voice of your favorite Goddard advisor? Just want a quick infusion of the Goddard spirit, or to remind yourself, “yes, this is why you write and what you are writing”?
MFAW-VT faculty member Richard Panek's essay on Jim Peebles, this year's Nobel Prize in Physics appeared on ScientificAmerican.com. Also, Richard's latest book, The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet, was among Scientific American's...
MFAW-WA student Sassafras Lowrey's will have an essay in Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World, which will be published by Seal Press in January, 2020. Sassafras's essay looks at centering enthusiastic consent in queer BDSM worlds. The...
“For me, the land and the farming, it feeds my artistic practice so much I don’t even know how to describe how much it does,” Bouwsma says. ““The connection to physical work, the connection to landscape, the sort of constant conversation between body and landscape that develops through that kind of work is really important. It feeds probably everything I will ever write.”
In his essay "Why We (Don't) Remember: On the Anniversary of Aktion T4," published by The Believer, MFAW faculty member Kenny Fries asks, ""Most, even Germans, still do not know about Aktion T4. Why?" Kenny Fries at opening of the National T4 Memorial in Berlin, 2014...
