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The Wolf x No Smoking Reading Series Presents: The Poems of Sylvia Plath with Amanda Golden
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News
Graduate students from Columbia’s School of the Arts and literary students from Chile’s Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) met in April in a virtual format to read each other’s translated poetry.
Yesterday, the 2021 Guggenheim fellowships were announced, and several Columbia Faculty and Alumni are among the recipients.
In a virtual ceremony last night, PEN America announced the winners of their 2021 Literary Awards, conferring the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction to English and Comparative Literature Professor Saidiya Hartman for her book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments(W.W. Norton & Company, 2020).
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Alumna and Adjunct Professor Katrine Øgaard Jensen '17 recently published her latest translation of Ursula Andkjær Olsen's poetry, Outgoing Vessel, from the Danish through Action Books.
Fieldglass a debut poetry collection by alumna Catherine Pond '13, will be released this Friday by Southern Illinois University Press. The book is available for pre-order here.
Reign is Over, a debut chapbook by Poetry student Emily Simon, was published on February 14, 2021 by Choo Choo Press, a small Risograph press co-founded by student Taylor Zhang and NYC-based designer Emily Bluedorn.
The Writing Program welcomed Mei-mei Berssenbrugge '73 and Campbell McGrath '88 to their Fifth Annual Alumni Poetry Reading Series. This marked the Poetry Concentration’s third reading of the 2020-21 academic year and was again hosted by Professor and Poetry Concentration Head Timothy Donnelly.
Writing alumnus Lytton Smith ’07 has published two books: The Square, a chapbook of poems about protest movements (New Michigan Press) and On Time and Water, a translation of a groundbreaking Icelandic book about climate change (Open Letter).
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has commissioned a poem by Writing alumna Tracy K. Smith 97 for its COVID-19 memorial, which honors the more than 100 MTA employees who have lost their lives to the virus.
Recently the National Endowment for the Arts announced the recipients of its 2021 Creative Writing Fellowships, naming among them alumna Robin Beth Schaer '05.
The Alumni Spotlight is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.