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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.
The Writing Spotlight series highlights the work of alumni, faculty and current MFA students, asking them to share thoughts on their craft and practice through a question-and-answer interview.
Kao Kalia Yang '05 and Martin Pousson '99 were finalists of the PEN Center USA 2017 Literary Awards.