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The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, students, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
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Our puppy Lola rescued this little munchkin, as it was caught in a net. Gosh, what a tiny tinsy mousie!
On 3 July 2018, participants of English PEN's Brave New Voices programme came together for a special celebration event. The evening marked the launch of latest anthology The Future House with readings from the book.
Brave New Voices is English PEN's ongoing creative writing outreach programme for young people from refugee and asylum-seeker backgrounds.
Photo: Suzi Corker
Natalie Diaz reading from her poetry.
The ASU Department of English celebrated our 2017-2018 graduates and award-winners! Our featured speaker was assistant professor Natalie Diaz, who performed a reading from her poetry.
Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press. She is a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as being awarded a US Artists Ford Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program. She splits her time between the east coast and Mohave Valley, Arizona, where she works to revitalize the Mojave language.
May 8th, 2018
ASU Tempe campus
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Uncanny Senior Symposium for Literature Majors was held in the Old Main Lincoln Room on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
The sea was soaking wet, a hard round board
Wrapped in crushed tinfoil, uneaten pie
Of yesterday’s big party. I stood on ward
Bearing the trampling thunder of the sky
While barring ears to sound, my flesh sandstone,
Clenching my chapped lips against the frost.
The surface than went mad. Lightning ozone
And coils of rippling scales climbed to the coast:
It was then I perceived the monster’s back
- Only a hint of spiky silver mane -
As if leaning its head over, to check
Who was around. It sailed for its domain.
The pewter coated surface fell down in metal plates
Roaring and spilling over the latch of the floodgates.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
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Knox College professors Nicholas Regiacorte and Monica Berlin leading students in the Senior Writing Portfolio course on a "pilgrimage" from the Carl Sandburg statue on the Public Square, to Old Main, and then to the Sandburg Birthplace historic site; walking from the square to campus. More on writing at Knox: www.knox.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/creative-writing
How many hues of green we saw today?
The silver foliage of the trembling asps,
The glossy leaves of a sweet scented bay
And flowered branches assaulted by the wasps.
On the hill, up, there is an island, black
Of green pine trees. Their colour tries to erase
All the spring shades. Walking up the track
I would have thought the sun’s hiding its face.
A few burnt orange twigs are here to enhance
The leaves so vibrant, floating in the breeze.
They sing a silent song, and fly and dance
And a few birds are playing the reprise.
If, when you dress in green, you think you’re at your best
Don’t challenge against the woods: the trees are fully dressed.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
The Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University presents the Stellar Alumni Reading Series, a mixed-genre reading of poetry and prose with Iliana Rocha (MFA 2008) and Vedran Husić (MFA 2013).
About the Authors
Iliana Rocha earned her PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. Her work has been featured in the Best New Poets 2014 anthology, as well as The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Blackbird, and West Branch. Karankawa, her debut collection, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and is available through the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Central Oklahoma and lives with her three chihuahuas Nilla, Beans, and Migo.
Vedran Husić was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and raised in Germany and the United States. His collection of stories, Basements and Other Museums, won the St. Lawrence Book Award and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2018. He has work published in The Gettysburg Review, The Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, Ecotone, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of fellowships from The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the National Endowment for the Arts.
ASU Tempe campus
Thursday, Mar. 14, 2019
The Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University presents the Stellar Alumni Reading Series, a mixed-genre reading of poetry and prose with Iliana Rocha (MFA 2008) and Vedran Husić (MFA 2013).
About the Authors
Iliana Rocha earned her PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. Her work has been featured in the Best New Poets 2014 anthology, as well as The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Blackbird, and West Branch. Karankawa, her debut collection, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and is available through the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Central Oklahoma and lives with her three chihuahuas Nilla, Beans, and Migo.
Vedran Husić was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and raised in Germany and the United States. His collection of stories, Basements and Other Museums, won the St. Lawrence Book Award and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2018. He has work published in The Gettysburg Review, The Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, Ecotone, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of fellowships from The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the National Endowment for the Arts.
ASU Tempe campus
Thursday, Mar. 14, 2019
Natalie Diaz reading from her poetry.
The ASU Department of English celebrated our 2017-2018 graduates and award-winners! Our featured speaker was assistant professor Natalie Diaz, who performed a reading from her poetry.
Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press. She is a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as being awarded a US Artists Ford Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program. She splits her time between the east coast and Mohave Valley, Arizona, where she works to revitalize the Mojave language.
May 8th, 2018
ASU Tempe campus
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Jie Yu, Holt, Bobby Fokidis, Biology, Education, Theater, Rachel Simmons, Art, Chemistry, Keenan Yoho, Business, Crummer, Sabrice Guerrier, Victoria Brown, Crew, English, Creative Writing, Outdoor Classroom, Innovation Hub, Rollins College, Photos: Scott Cook
Seeing in black and white, dreading the hue:
A handsome face must lead to a lovely mind,
That’s what I thought. And coming to know you
Now I know better; better things I find.
We must agree: an achromatic picture
Sometimes is more alive that one that blows
Colours and tints - a multicoloured feature -
Making you look at what the maker knows.
A fair display: a living coloured bowl
With speechless fishes hitting the glass flank.
One is a koi, its eyes are of a owl;
If it escapes, it finds another tank.
Colours are not the danger: sight is the endless flowing
Of dark and light and shadows. To us is left the roving.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
Jane Hamilton, visiting professor in the English department, taught a J-Term class on creative writing during the 2012-20-13 school year. January 24th, 2013. Photo by Aaron Lurth
Faculty Nicholas Regiacorte and Monica Berlin leading students in the Senior Writing Portfolio course on a mile-long "pilgrimage" from the Carl Sandburg statue on the Public Square, to Old Main, and then to the Sandburg Birthplace historic site; at the Sandburg site, students walking on stepping stones with Sandburg quotes. More on writing at Knox: www.knox.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/creative-writing
Wednesday, October 22
Kelly Writers House
Emi Gennis is a cartoonist and illustrator from the Midwest. Her often macabre historical and true crime comics have appeared in several online and print publications, including Irene, The Cartoon Picayune, Bitch Magazine, and The Hairpin. She has also produced comics journalism for The Nib and Symbolia. Gennis is the editor of Unknown Origins & Untimely Ends, an anthology of nonfiction mystery comics (Hic & Hoc Publications, 2013). Her work appeared in the 2013 documentary Oregon Experience: Portland Noir, produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting. She has a B.A. from the University of Chicago, and an M.F.A. in Sequential Art from the Savannah College of Art & Design. Gennis currently resides in southeastern Kansas where she teaches art at Pittsburg State University. Her work can be found at emigennis.com.
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The softest green of crenellated grass
Clings to the soil, reflecting light and dark
To stems so shiny, of burnt polished brass,
Bordered by the comminuted bark.
And in its wings a beard bears a green feather:
Almost a yellow one… not fairly so.
The green hues and the yellow blends together
Making the brightest green, almost aglow.
And green is the deep sea, on the seaweeds
On the hard rocks that keep the waves at bay.
As the tide grows, their mane downward recedes,
Living and leaving water every day.
Green is the liveliest colour, its pockets full of flowers.
We look outside the spring trees: they’re changing by the hours.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
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