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Dana Diehl
The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU presented a reading and book signing by two of its stellar alumni: Dorothy Chan (MFA 2015) and Dana Diehl (MFA 2015).
About the Authors
Dorothy Chan is the author of Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, Forthcoming March 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). She was a 2014 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Academy of American Poets, The Cincinnati Review, The Common, Diode Poetry Journal, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. Chan is the Editor of The Southeast Review. Visit her website at dorothypoetry.com
Dana Diehl is the author of Our Dreams Might Align (Splice UK, 2018) and TV Girls (New Delta Review, 2018). Her collaborative short story collection, The Classroom, is forthcoming from Gold Wake Press in early 2019. She earned her MFA in Fiction at Arizona State University and her BA in Creative Writing at the Susquehanna University Writers Institute. She has been an artist in residence at the Sundress Academy for the Arts, Signal Fire, and the Rutgers Camden Summer Writers' Conference. She lives and works in Tucson.
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018
ASU Tempe campus
This event was open to the public and free.
This event was presented with the support of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.
By Sylvia Plath -
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
What ever you see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful—-
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
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
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
Scholars K-8 fourth-graders worked with Young Audiences Hip Hop poet Bomani to write poetry about subjects they were covering in class, including science, the writing process, and math and finances.
A group of faculty and students "marched" from the steps of Old Main to the Sandburg Birthplace historical site, where the faculty shared readings as everyone gathered near Rememberance Rock on Thursday, April 27, 2023.
University of Salford English professor, Antony Rowland, has triumphed in a major poetry competition which attracted over 1,500 entries to snatch a £10,000 prize.
www.salford.ac.uk/home-page/news/2012/salford-lecturer-wi...
Heavy notes in heavy
boats of sound
Movement, both too much
and too little
too rocky too brittle
singing just a little
All trains no stops
just voices no boasting
Strange requests
too forceful
too exciting
too much shaking
I am jittery
Nothing more to
Say but “Ok let’s
do it”
Shaking in the past
Now settling slowly
and suddenly dropping
and drifting and
drifting through
sand and air
stuck without a stick
Now more now
more sullen oh
depth of perplexity
oh vast specters of
width and shrill
with painful contortion
who sings but the
singer and who
writes but him who
sounds the notes that
all sing together
and all alone
Why the sound
why the movement
yet stillness and
quiet inside and out
all around
Continuously producing
not products but value
I am the valuation
I am the sign and I
speak both too much
and too little and
the lines are short
because the pages
are narrow and beauty
beauty is hollow and
I rest inside of it
sitting leaning cleaning
myself as I watch
how it all happens
It all happens so
slowly but quick
nevertheless and I
am lost in the
sound of time
with the timeless
pulse of language
stringing words together
intimately words with
words and you with
me and others and
I with others deeply
but hollow sharing
sounds and kindness
Now fast and vast
the nasty chime of
broken worn-out strings
and worn-out and
warm hearts
May I sit there
or should I stand
and will you kneel
for me that is
the question is vast
and perturbing and
what I want as
I sway and shake
and tremble
trembling will you
tremble with me
or will I tremble for
you and you will
tremble for me
by yourself but not
for yourself and
why was that the
wrong response yet
it continues so loudly
and proudly how
do I partake
how do I participate
And why so much
more and more and
the tracks are being
rolled out further as
if they didn’t want to end
at all but had to
eventually like a note
that sounds but knows
it will come to rest
with the rest in the
heart why lover and
child can’t you hear
how sad this all is
sad and beautiful do you
want it would you
say “Let’s do it!”
Sing with me before
I die and we die
and I must sing and
cry because singing
is not enough
And the words flow
as the music unfolds
folds contracts and
folds into the contours
of your face the
face of God the
savior where we
wait and rest and
will you kneel for
me and do I want
you to do I really
really want it even
if it perturbs me
and makes me feel
ashamed
A group of faculty and students "marched" from the steps of Old Main to the Sandburg Birthplace historical site, where the faculty shared readings as everyone gathered near Rememberance Rock on Thursday, April 27, 2023.
The On Edge Reading Series with Phinder Dulai and Colin Browne @ Emily Carr University - Nov. 21, 2013
© Karen Hansen Photography
Wish You Were Here was an English PEN pilot project in partnership with Islington Word2012 festival. Letters were sent from students in a London school to young people of similar ages in a school in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We commissioned photographs of the letters once they’d arrived in the hands of their recipients. The project celebrated global citizenship through creative writing, encouraging an exchange of ideas through literature.
Photo: Bex Singleton
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A fake catapult!!! This thing was the coolest thing in the world. Too bad I had a short dress on, otherwise I would have totally climbed into it.
Knox College students in the Senior Writing Portfolio course went 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
Ferdia Mac Anna and creative writers from Ballymun, Cabra and Kevin Street at Cabra library during third and final class
on Friday 6 June as part of Dublin City Public Libraries' Bealtaine programme.
Feed-back mentioned how writers felt energised motivated and inspired by Ferdia and the chance to link in with other writers from the other libraries.
Knox College students in the Senior Writing Portfolio course went 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, walking past a bust of Sandburg by sculptor Lonnie Stewart. More on writing at Knox: www.knox.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/creative-writing
Andrew Chesham, the publisher of emerge 2013, thanks the Writer's Studio students who were involved in the project.
emerge is SFU Continuing Studies' annual creative writing anthology. This year's work launched on October 17 at our Vancouver campus.
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This made our day:
B.C. Bookworld called The Writer's Studio "the hotbed on the rise." They also said Janie Chang, one of our grads, is "making a splash" with her debut novel, Three Souls.
Congratulations, Janie!
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