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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

Students from the Converse College MFA in Creative Writing Low Residency Program

Writing About Sound Workshop

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

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.

17/05/2024. London, United Kingdom. Akshata Murty, the Prime Ministers wife hosts Lessons at 10 focused on fantasy themed creative writing in partnership with the British Library with children St Josephs College in Stoke on Trent. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street

Students from the Converse College MFA in Creative Writing Low Residency Program

windy day. grade 6

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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.

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Out of Silence: Readings from the Afghan Women's Writing Project

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

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.

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A reader at the 2010 EMU Creative Writing Spring Showcase.

Students from the Converse College MFA in Creative Writing Low Residency Program

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

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

live performance poetry given by Birkbeck postgraduate students and staff

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live performance poetry given by Birkbeck postgraduate students and staff

The On Edge Reading Series with Phinder Dulai and Colin Browne @ Emily Carr University - Nov. 21, 2013

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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.

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German Pizza: Because no Italian would put corn on their pizza, yet it's so good! :)

The Toolbox comes with several kinds of sticks to get your writing going: First Sentence, Non Sequitir, and Las Resort.

An asteroid stays

In my right eye, dazzling me

As the July sun.

(Haiku by SiRiChandra)

theatre / performance art / poetry / installation / readings / documentary / creative writing / music

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grade 4

Stark contrast, set back in time, cultural exposure.

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!