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Beginning of spring-
-Issa
Of Interest: March 12, 2008
Greetings Everyone! During the January residency several faculty and alum offered to send haiku for the “Of Interest.” None have appeared. So, as reminder and invitation, and in honor of spring and poetry month, please send haiku! Continue to email your news, announcements, updated contact information, opportunities, recommended readings, inspirational quotes, favorite lines and sentences, sightings (natural and otherwise), strategies for surviving the post-Bennington literary life, and declarations of intentions or manifestos. When you send information, please let me know what variation of your name you would like used in print. Thanks. Please contact me at EMCFERRON@Bennington.edu. I look forward to hearing from you. With warm wishes, Elaine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ALUMNI NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS ISMAEL RICARDO ARCHBOLD’s (’05) band, Coma in Algiers (http://www.comainalgiers.com), self-released their debut album, This is Your Justice, in the autumn of 2007. You can listen at: http://www.last.fm/music/Coma+in+Algiers/This+Is+Your+Justice. They will be playing a non-label showcase at South by Southwest, 2008 at the Hideout Theatre on March 15, 10 PM. Recently, ish joined the Charles Potts Magic Windmill Band (“New York City style experimental country”): http://www.myspace.com/charlespottsmagicwindmillband. In addition, Ish recently had a poem published in the 2007 West Wind Review. Otherwise, he has been producing a local music (Austin, TX) compilation, reading sonnets and growing long hair. He maintains the Yahoo group, BenningtonMFA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/benningtonmfa. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ asha bandel ’99 sends the following: “The memoir I labored over for three years, was finally (after three complete rewrites), accepted by my publisher, Bloomsbury. Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mom's Story of Survival in Urban America will be published next February. Thanks to my incredible seven-year-old daughter, Nisa, who inspires nearly everything I do.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MARY JANE BEAUFORD’s (’98) novel for young adults, Primavera, was published on March 1, 2008. She will be reading at Newtonville Books in Massachusetts in June. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WENDY CALL ’07 was chosen as a 2008 “Jack Straw Writer,” part of a program that publishes and broadcasts the work of Seattle-area writers: http://www.jackstraw.org/programs/writers/WritersForum/index.html. Wendy will be a visiting faculty member at the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference in July 2008: http://www.centrum.org/writing/. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DIANE CAMERON ’99 sends the following: “I’m still writing. It always feels good to say that. I have been published recently in the Providence Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Albany Times Union every other week. I am teaching, as well: Writing for Caregivers, Writing Poetry with Grandchildren, and the Literature of Alcoholism.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ JOHN COATS ’06 sends the following: “The other day I opened my email to find a message from Philip Zeleski asking permission to publish my essay, ‘Who Am I?’ (Portland, Autumn, 2007) in the 2008 edition of Best American Spiritual Essays. ‘Who Am I?’ is my first (so far, only) published piece.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ANNA EVANS’s (’08) translation of Rimbaud's “Drunken Boat” was one of the 25 finalists for the Willis Barnstone Translation Award. She will also be a participant in the Edna St. Vincent Millay panel at the upcoming West Chester (PA) Formal Poetry Conference in June 2008. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ELLEN GRAF’s (’07) essay, “The Subsong of Birds,” is in the February issue of Vocabula, an online journal about language: http://www.vocabula.com/. Her memoir, The Middle Flowering, will be published by Shambhala/Trumpeter Press. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MARY ELIZABETH LANG ’07 sends the following: “My Bennington thesis and about thirty other poems are going to be published by Little Red Tree Publishers in September, probably under the title, Under Redcedars. I was approached by the publishers at a poetry reading and asked to send them a sample of the manuscript. Within a couple of weeks, they asked for the whole manuscript and made me an offer. So, go to readings and open mikes and give readings wherever you can. One never knows whom you might meet.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LAUREL SAVILLE ’04 sends the following: “The issue of Room magazine featuring my short story ‘The One’ is now out. In addition, my second book on ‘Outdoor Stonework’ is now available from all the usual online outlets like Amazon, et al. And I have recently had or have forthcoming feature articles in Step Inside Design, Dynamic Graphic and Adbusters.” http://www.roommagazine.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HAYDEN SAUNIER’s (’05) manuscript, Tips for Domestic Travel, was a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award and will be published by Black Lawrence Press in spring 2009. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ REBECCA SPEARS ’02 sends the following: “I've been fortunate to participate in several readings for the new anthology, The Weight of Addition (Mutabilis Press, 2007), which includes one of my poems. The venues include Denton, Houston, and Austin (TX). Also, in April, I will be participating in a reading on the University of Texas campus (Austin). Here's the official blurb: ‘The Blanton Museum's Ekphrastic Poetry Event on Sunday, April 6, will begin with a coffee reception at 1:00 PM, followed by the poetry reading at 2:00 PM. Finally, at 3:00 PM, the Blanton will offer a tour of the featured artworks. Poets will read in the museum atrium, and images of the artworks that inspired them will be projected onto a screen nearby. Given the quality and variety of the poems and artworks, this should be a spectacular program.’” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DAVID STEINHARDT’s (’03) piece, “An Open Letter to Shirley MacLaine from a Former 11-Year-Old Who Was Sent to Your Apartment by George McGovern's Presidential Campaign in 1972,” is being published by McSweeneys.net, in its section “Open Letters to Persons or Entities Unlikely to Respond”: http://mcsweeneys.net/. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FACULTY NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS TOM BISSELL’s review of Scott Spencer’s new novel, Willing, appeared in the March 9th issue of The New York Times Book Review: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ROBERT BLY was recently named Minnesota’s First Poet Laureate:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MARTHA COOLEY sends the following: “We are still looking for students in both fiction and poetry (w/Judy Baumel as the poetry teacher), at a weeklong workshop in Siena, Italy in August. For more information: www.sienaschool.org. And another friend, Jeff Allen, is looking for students interested in the first Pan-African Literary Forum's Writer's Conference in Ghana, this summer. The link for that is www.panafricanliteraryforum.org.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ E. ETHELBERT MILLER appears in a film, which can be found at: www.435psi.org. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ has been invited to University of Pennsylvania as a Writers House Fellow on March 24th and 25th. She will read on Monday, March 24th at the Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, in Philadelphia at 6:30 PM. She has a poem forthcoming in Ascent. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OPPORTUNITIES SALLY ASHTON ’03 sends the following: DMQ Review Winter 2008 Release The DMQ Review is pleased to announce the release of the Winter 2008 issue featuring the poetry of Kimberly Abruzzo, Carrie Conners, Rebecca Givens, Jill McDonough, Matt W. Miller, Nils Peterson, Roger Pfingston, Jordan Sanderson, Doug Ramspeck and Jeremy Voigt ’06 with artwork by Nick Patten. In collaboration with Peter Davis ’04, editor of Poet’s Bookshelf: Contemporary Poets On Books That Shaped Their Art, Volumes I & II, the DMQ Review is also pleased to feature the essay and new work of Shanna Compton, our Winter 2008 Featured Poet: www.dmqreview.com. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ANDREA JARRELL ’01 sends the following: “There's a new literary site called www.hitotoki.org that is looking for both writers and editors. Hitotoki is ‘an online literary project collecting stories of singular experiences tied to locations in cities worldwide.’ In other words, a narrative map of the world that lets readers experience cities through peoples' stories. (Part of each submission is a Google Map place mark.) Already in Tokyo, London, and New York, the D.C. launch is scheduled for March. Paris and Shanghai are next. I recently had one of my pieces accepted for the NYC site and thought others might be interested in submitting. They are also looking for city editors all over the world. Submissions should be ‘short narratives (between 200-500 words) describing pivotal moments of elation, confusion, absurdity, love or grief — or anything in between — inseparably tied to a specific place’ in Tokyo, London, NYC, and D.C. — especially D.C. because it's new! One of the things I particularly like about the site is that it's beautiful (writers love to be published — beautifully published is a very nice bonus.)” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ University of Central Florida The Department of English invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor in Creative Writing. Fiction is the preferred specialization, but other genres will be considered. The position requires an M.F.A. or Ph.D., and has a starting date of August 2008. They prefer candidates with significant publications, a commitment to teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in creative writing, and skills, interest, and energy in contributing to the newly developed M.F.A. in creative writing program. The department publishes two literary journals, The Florida Review and The Cypress Dome. UCF (http://www.english.ucf.edu) is an AA/EOE/ADA employer. As an agency of the state of Florida, UCF makes all selection procedures and application materials available for public review upon request. Please send letter of application, curriculum vitae, non-returnable writing sample (thirty pages maximum) and three letters of recommendation to Dr. Dawn Trouard, Chair, Department of English, University of Central Florida, P.O. Box 161346, Orlando, FL 32816-1346. Review of applications will begin on March 21, 2008 and will continue until the position is filled. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alden Jones ’01 sends the following: “I'm teaching Yoga for Writers on Saturday, March 22, from 3:00 pm-4:30 pm at the South Boston Yoga Studio (http://www.southbos tonyoga.net/events.html). Yoga for Writers is a vigorous yoga class designed to address practical concerns to writers (wrist, shoulder, low-back issues), combined with discussion of the mental benefits of yoga and how it enhances the creative process. The class is open to all levels. I especially encourage those new to yoga to come. South Boston Yoga is on the Red Line (Broadway stop). Cost is $15/$10 for students. For more information follow the link above.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Elaine McFerron
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