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Rebel Satori Press recently published Sleeptalking by Alumnus Antonio Addressi '20. The collection of poems is available for purchase from the publisher.
Current Fiction student Jemimah Wei and Poetry student Madeleine Cravens have been awarded coveted Wallace Stegner Fellowships at Stanford University.
A Poet’s Life is a series where we talk with Columbia poets about everything from living as a poet to making a living as a poet.
Here, we talk with alumnus Baba Badji '15 about poetic resistance, recovering the archive, and how privacy holds a poem together.
Our beloved colleague—poet, translator, essayist and critic Richard Howard, who taught at Columbia (which he also attended as an undergraduate) for nearly 30 years, died on Thursday at the age of 92. The range of his work was prodigious and it garnered many awards—the Pulitzer prize (1970) for his collection, Untitled Subjects, the PEN Translation Prize (1976) for his translation of E.M. Cioran’s A Short History of Decay, and the National Book Award (1984) for his translation of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal.
Alumnus and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Undergraduate Creative Writing Joseph Fasano '08 recently embarked on a creative project through Twitter titled "Poem for My Son."
Eulalia Books recently published the long-awaited poetry debut, Cold, by Meg Matich '15. The collection is available for purchase at Eulalia Books.
Action Books recently published My Jewel Box, a collection of poems by Ursula Andkjær Olsen translated from the Danish by Adjunct Assistant Professor Katrine Øgaard Jensen '17. The book is now available for purchase.
2022 marks the 53rd annual NAACP Image Awards. Among the nominees are five projects from Columbia alumni. The NAACP is the home of grassroots activism for civil rights and social justice. The organization has more than 2,200 units across the nation, powered by well over 2 million activists.
A Poet's Life is a series where we talk with Columbia poets about everything from living as a poet to making a living as a poet.
Joel Sedano, a current Poetry and Literary Translation student, and JoAnne “Jo-Joe” Lee, a graduate student in the School of Social Work, recently received a 2022 Racial Justice Mini-Grant for their proposed project, a podcast titled Resilience Against Power and Privilege (RAPP).
Palm-Lined With Potience by Alumnus Basie Allen '19 will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse on March 15, 2022. The collection is now available for pre-order.
Refusenik by Assistant Professor Lynn Melnick '97 will be published on February 22, 2022, and is now available for pre-order from YesYes Books.