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Poetry Alumna Isabella DeSendi '17 was recently announced as a winner of the 2019 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowships. DeSendi won in the "under 30" category for her book, Through the New Body. Selected by the poet Evie Shockley, Through the New Body is a collection of poems excised from DeSendi’s thesis, Enter Spirit. “In retrospect, it makes sense that these poems started with the spirit and moved into a new body where they are still learning to heal and love and begin again. At the risk of being too transparent, this chapbook is about sexual…
“Fierce, sometimes chaotic” wrote Stephanie Burt of The New York Times about Slingshot, a poetry collection by alumnus Cyrèe Jarelle Johnson ’19, out from Nightboat Books. These poems that “present themselves as homemade weapons,” Burt wrote, “take aim against authority figures, racism, malign parents, deal with body degradation, violence and pellucid queer intimacies.” These poems have a such a strong energy force field, poets such as Dorothea Lasky called the book a “timeless lyric” with “language so deeply exquisite that it pierces through you.”
Although known primarily for her poetry, Associate Professor Dorothea Lasky will release two new prose works in October.
Poetry alumnus Adam O. Davis '06 is a 2019 winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, presented by Sarbande Books. As winner, Davis will release his first poetry collection, Index of Haunted Houses.
Current poetry student Nada Faris has a book out now through Daylight Books, titled Women of Kuwait. The collection features writing by Faris and photography by Maha Alasaker and has received favorable press from venues including Vogue Italy, Vogue Arabia, I-D Magazine, and Rolling Stone Magazine.
The 2019 Firecracker Award for fiction was awarded last week to alumna Casey Plett ‘12 for her novel Little Fish, published by Arsenal Pulp Press.
Alumna Gnaomi Siemens '18 was awarded The Poetry Society of New York Micro-Residency at The New York Public Library.
Alumna Carlie Hoffman ‘16 had her first collection of poems,This Alaska, picked up by Four Way Books, forthcoming in 2021.
Associate Professor Deborah Paredez was awarded a Humanities War & Peace Initiative Grant from Columbia's Division of the Humanities in the Arts and Sciences for her forthcoming poetry book, Year of the Dog.
English-language translations of The Bacchae by Euripides, by Poet and classicist Aaron Poochigian '16, produced in 2018 by SITI Company at the Getty Theater in Los Angeles and BAM in New York, and Four Plays by Aristophanes were sold in an exclusive two-book deal to Norton. Poochigian was also just named the winner of the 2020 Richard Wilbur Poetry Award for his book American Divine.