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Tag: Poetry
“And now, to delight my friends, I shall sing beautifully.”
Eros has informed, propelled, and guided my poems, my literary ambitions and my life up to this point. It has influenced the languages I’ve studied for the past five years, the poets I’ve read, the people I’ve pursued, and the MFA programs I applied to during my last year at Kenyon College. As writers, we… Continue reading “And now, to delight my friends, I shall sing beautifully.”
Roy G. Guzmán – Introduction (University of Minnesota ’17)
Five Songs to Put that MFA Dream into Overdrive Poets are lauded in Latino communities for their vision, but very few of our members embrace or understand the ramifications of pursuing this vocation. For instance, I grew up idolizing Rubén Darío, but it wasn’t until college that I studied his work; in Miami, José Martí’s… Continue reading Roy G. Guzmán – Introduction (University of Minnesota ’17)
Gillian Douple Introduction (Columbia College Chicago ’16)
The chronic bad dreams started when I was 17. They continued for the next seven years all the way to last night, where I had a dream that two of my family members died on the Fourth of July. During my years as an undergrad, I had much of what my father calls “exam dreams”—that… Continue reading Gillian Douple Introduction (Columbia College Chicago ’16)
An Inside Look with Sarah Crossland, University of Wisconsin-Madison ’13
Sarah Crossland received a BA in storytelling from the University of Virginia and an MFA in poetry from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The recipient of the 2012 Boston Review Poetry Prize, a 2013 AWP Intro Journals Award, and the 2013 Pablo Neruda Prize, she was invited to read her work at the Library of Congress… Continue reading An Inside Look with Sarah Crossland, University of Wisconsin-Madison ’13