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News
Spring 2023
Alexis Aceves Garcia
Alexis has been accepted into the 2023 Tin House Summer Workshop. They will be workshopping their manuscript in-progress with Vanessa Angélica Villarreal.
Kazim Ali
Kazim's Sukun: New and Selected Poems will be released by Wesleyan University Press in September.
Maya Beck
Maya has been selected for the 2023 Clarion Workshop and has been awarded a 2023 BSP Graduate Student Travel and Research Award in the amount of $2500.00.
Ben Doller
Selections from Ben's current project, THEND, are appearing in journals such as Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, and Action, Spectacle.
Matt Ford
Matt has been awarded a 2023 BSP Graduate Student Travel and Research Award again this year in the amount of $1000.00.
Adrienne Herr
Adrienne's works (sound installation + text-based sculpture) were exhibited at Scherben Scherben Gallery in Berlin, Germany. Excerpts from Adrienne's writing projects are forthcoming in Fence #41.
Jac Jemc
Jac is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction.
Jac Jemc
Jac's novel, Empty Theatre: A Novel; Or The Lives Of King Ludwig II Of Bavaria And Empress Sisi Of Austria, Queen Of Hungary, Cousins, In Their Pursuit Of Connection And Beauty Despite The Expectations Placed On Them Because Of The Exceptional Good Fortune Of Their Status As Beloved National Figures. With Speculation Into The Mysterious Nature Of Their Deaths, was released in February.
Aditi Kini
Aditi's "baby doll!" is available in an online preview of Hayden's Ferry Review's summer Issue 72: http://haydensferryreview.com/aditi-natasha-kini-baby-doll
Alaric López
Alaric's has translated, with Paula Cucurella, a book of Cucurella's poetry, Los últimos inanes días / The last inane days. The bilingual edition has been published by DobleAEditores in Chile: https://dobleaeditores.cl/2023/02/27/paula-cucurella-los-ultimos-inanes-dias-edicion-bilingue/
Olga Petrus
Olga has been accepted to the EcoPoetics workshop with the Topological Poetics Research Institute affiliated with U of Buffalo. Her chapbook has been published by Tilted House https://www.tiltedhouse.org/books.
Becca Rae Rose
Becca has a chapbook coming out, scheduled to be released this December, with PANK books. It’s called Tool, Shark, Teeth.
Brandon Som
Brandon's new book, Tripas, is out: https://ugapress.org/book/9780820363509/tripas/
Marco Wilkinson
Marco 's "How Do You Feel Today?" has been published in the anthology Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World.
Emily Yang
Emily was nominated for the Best New Poets anthology by Foglifter, the Pushcart Prize by Passages North, and also named a finalist for the 2023 Waasnode Short Fiction Prize at Passages North. Emily was also waitlisted from the Lambda Literary Retreat for Speculative Fiction.
Events
Upcoming!
Robin Coste Lewis
Wednesday, May 17, Reading, PEB 721 5-7 p.m.
Monday, May 22, Image, Text, Archive PEB 721 2-4 p.m.
RSVP by May 12 at bit.ly/sawresidency2023
The Black Studies Project and The New Writing Series present The Sherley Anne Williams Writing Residency featuring poet Robin Coste Lewis, winner of National Book Book Award for Poetry (2015).