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The Yale University Library recently announced that alumna Mei-mei Berssenbrugge '73 is the winner of the 2021 Bollingen Prize for Poetry.
The Brooklyn Public Library recently announced that alumnus Cyrée Jarelle Johnson '19 will be the library's first ever Poet-in-Residence.
Alumnus Rafiq Kathwari '00 recently published his newest collection of poems, My Mother's Scribe, with Yoda Press.
Our Word recently hosted poet Tracy K. Smith '97 and fiction writer Paige Morris for a panel on translation, race, and gender called Translating Identity.
Alumnus Cyrée Jarelle Johnson '19 has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Split this Rock for their poem, "chewbacca was the blackest part of The Force Awakens."
The Poetry Concentration continued its Alumni Reading Series with readings from William Brewer '14, Adjunct Assistant Professor Monica Ferrell '02, Stefania Heim '04, and Mai Der Vang '14. 2020 marks the fifth anniversary of the annual reading series.
Alumna Abbigail N. Rosewood '17 recently collaborated with She Who Has No Master(s)—a collective of Vietnamese women who engage in a collaborative art and writing process—and her work is now viewable in an online gallery space powered by Matterport.
The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University recently featured Associate Professor Deborah Paredez in its New Books in the Arts & Sciences lecture series.
Last week, the Poetry Society of America announced that alumnus Nathan Xavier Osorio '16 won a 2020 30 & Under Chapbook Fellowship.
Poetry Alumna Elizabeth Metzger ’15 pays tribute to former undergraduate writing student, 2020 Nobel Prize recipient, Louise Glück through a meditation on her poetry of transformation and the power of reading it in a global pandemic.
Theatre Alumnus Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16, Writing Alumni Ricardo Alberto Maldonado ’08 and Ge Gao ’17, and Visual Arts Alumni Vivianne Chiu ’19, Alison Taylor ’05, Elif Uras ’03, and Writing Assistant Professor Shane McCrae were all named NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows for 2020.
Through the New Body, the chapbook with which Alumna Isabella DeSendi '17 won the 2019 Poetry Society of America 30 and Under Chapbook Fellowship has been published by the Poetry Society of America and is available for pre-order now.