EVENT: Rick Campbell Reading 3/4

Reading, Reception, and Book Signing
TUESDAY, MARCH 4 at 7:00 PM
Alice Peters Auditorium (PB 191)
(Free and open to the public. Parking is available in the UBC lot.)


The MFA Program is proud to host poet and publisher Rick Campbell of Anhinga Press, who will be reading from his latest book of poetry, Dixmont (Autumn House Press, 2007).

A little background on Rick from his website:


"Rick Campbell’s recent books include The Traveler’s Companion (Black Bay Books, 2004). His first full-length book, Setting The World In Order (Texas Tech 2001) won the Walt McDonald Prize. His poems and essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, The Tampa Review, Southern Poetry Review, Puerto Del Sol, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. Campbell has won an NEA Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and two fellowships from the Florida Arts Council. He is the director of Anhinga Press and the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and he teaches English at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida.

Rick holds a BA (1980) University of Florida, MA (1983) University of Wyoming, Ph.D. (1993) Florida State University.

He lives with his wife, daughter, and, possibly, too many dogs, in Gadsden County, Florida."

Please join us for a great evening of poetry!

CHECK OUT: David Anthony Durham's Wahington Post Article

Check out Fiction Professor David Anthony Durham's article "So Close to Freedom" in Sunday's (February 17, 2008) Washington Post.

EVENT: MFA Students Read to Promote Rogue Festival

MFA Students Promote the Rogue Festival at ArtHop



On Thursday, February 7, three MFA students read their work in front of
an ArtHop audience at Ashtree Studios. Readers were Marcus Chinn (pictured above), Stephanie Huebschle (pictured below), and Carol Claassen (too quick for pictures).



Their fifteen-minute sampler was one of many Rogue Festival performance groups’ previews of longer acts. The next promotional event is RogueHop, on Thursday, February 28, when SJLA readers will return to Ashtree from 7:20-7:35 p.m.

More MFA students will read in the three-night series of “Poetry and Prose from Fresno State” presented by the San Joaquin Literary Association, as the festival begins later this month.

Student readings are scheduled for February 29 (8:45 p.m.), March 1 (5:00 p.m.), and March 2 (7:30) at the new Spectrum Gallery, 608 E. Olive. For more information, please visit www.myspace.com/sjla or www.roguefestival.com.

EVENT: Lynn Chandhok Reading, 2/22

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND
7:00 p.m. Alice Peters Auditorium (PB 191)
Free and open to the public; Free parking in the UBC Lot

Lynn Chandhok, winner of the 2006 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry, will be reading from her book The View From Zero Bridge, recently published by Anhinga Press.

About The View From Zero Bridge, 2006 Judge Corrinne Clegg Hales, writes, “It's the rich physicality of these poems that draws me to them, and it's their large emotional reach that keeps me coming back. This is a poetry that embraces the problem of distance--geographical, chronological, religious, cultural--and the book gathers quiet force as it weaves between worlds as seemingly distant as Kashmir and Brooklyn, childhood and parenthood, sensuality and intellect, science and tradition. It's a delight to read a new book of poems that not only sings with a beautiful voice, but sings with remarkable wisdom, and sings to the heart."

KUDOS: Erin Cook, Janet Nichols Lynch

Congratulations to our good friend Erin Cook, whose story "Utopia" has
just been accepted by the Louisiana Review! That's her second of the year.

Congratulations to former student Janet Nichols Lynch, whose as-yet-untitled novel has been picked up for publication by Bridge Works. Janet took 263 in 200, and excerpts from the novel-in-progress, then called KEEP THE WHATEVER, made the rounds in workshop. Janet writes, among other things, "I have . . . the MFA program to thank." She has previously published a number of places, including the New Yorker, and her previous novel, PEACE IS A FOUR-LETTER WORD, came out from Heyday Books in 2005.