Faculty News

Donald Hall publishes in The New Yorker Hall on Solitude

MFA Writer-in-Residence Donald Hall writes a moving essay in the New Yorker in which he meditates on the role the solitude has played throughout his life. Now living alone at age eight-seven, he recalls his wife, Jane, who passed away in 1995. He writes: "In the separation of our double solitude, we each wrote poetry in the morning."

Elena Ferrante, Alfano Ferrante Exposé

Barbara Alfano published an essay on Elena Ferrante’s La Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey, in Stanford’s Arcade in response to Claudio Gatti's exposé of Elena Ferrante’s identity.

Too Good To Be True Too Good To Be True

Benjamin Anastas' acclaimed memoir Too Good to Be True will be available in paperback on October 25. 

Badolo Wins Bessie Badolo Wins Bessie

Visiting faculty member Souleymane Badolo received a 2016 Bessie Award yesterday for Outstanding Production for his piece Yimbégré. 

Poets 'The Son I'll Never Have'

Mark Wunderlich published a new poem in the American Academy of Poets Poem-a-Day called "The Son I'll Never Have." It also appears in the Columbia Daily Tribune