Events
The Wolf x No Smoking Reading Series Presents: The Poems of Sylvia Plath with Amanda Golden
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News
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.
Alumna Carly Inghram '18 will have her first book of poetry, Sometimes the Blue Trees, published by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press on March 18, 2019. The collection is available for pre-order now.
Over the past couple of weeks, Writing students, faculty and alumni have been busy publishing new work. Read more in our weekly roundup.
Over the past couple of weeks, Writing students, faculty and alumni have been busy publishing new work. Read more in our weekly roundup.
Writing alumna, Tracy K. Smith '97, poet laureate of the United States, will receive the Harvard Arts Medal at the opening event of the University’s annual Arts First festival on May 2, 2019. Smith won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for her collection Life on Mars; she is known for her lyrical, meditative poems. Her most recent collection, Wade in the Water (2018), is her most political.
Sam Charles Ross '13 has his debut collection of poetry coming out this February, titled Company. Company was selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the Four Ways Books Levis Prize in Poetry.
PEN has announced its longlist for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards.