Poetry

VIDEO: Commencement Speaker 2010 - Mary Jo Bang ('98SOA)
Poetry Professor Timothy Donnelly Publishes New Book
  • The Cloud Corporation

Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Professor Timothy Donnelly's second book of poetry, The Cloud Corporation, was published October 1 by Wave Press.

VIDEO: On Obsession: Mary Jo Bang ('98SOA)

 

Writing Program poetry alumna Mary Jo Bang (’98SOA) delivered the address at the 2010 Celebration of Graduates May 18. Before her speech, she talked about her process and her craft.

On the Writing Program: Mary Jo Bang ('98SOA)
  • Elegy

"Of course it’s a contrivance to go back to any beginning and talk about what you thought then, how you felt, why you did as you did. Even what you did. Memory’s distorting jack-hammer makes remembrance, if not a false claim, at least somewhat a pretense. What can I say that’s undeniably true about that two-year period when I went to Columbia for my MFA in creative writing?

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