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I always keep my loneliness at hand
Balled in my pocket, a white handkerchief.
I let my fingers dig in the quicksand
Tossing away the grains leaf after leaf
In playing “love me, love me not, don’t fail”.
Crumbling another bit of silver sand,
Spilling it down, shaping the glossy trail,
I give the hints to track me in the end.
The lining of a handbag soiled with grit
Tobacco stained - an estuary of veins
Flowing towards the sea, its waves floodlit -
Is where I keep the odd remaining grains.
Touching my face with sandy hands I leave a silver track
Down to my cheeks and near my eyes: no way to wipe it back.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
Irene Tiemann-Boege, a postdoctoral researcher the laboratory of Norman Arnheim, conducts studies in human molecular genetics. Photo by: Philip Channing.
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Pauline Yu, a Ph.D. candidate in biological sciences, prepares gels for protein electrophoresis in professor Donal T. Manahan's marine biology laboratory. Photo by: Philip Channing
Even though their academic interests vary from biological sciences, creative writing and theatre, (l-r) Austin Wong, Andrea Krajisnik, Aly Owen, Josh Gonzalez and Sarah Suits developed new friendships while living in residential housing. They're shown walking beside the Arts and Humanities Residential College at Parkside (left) and Parkside Apartments (background). Photo by; Philip Channing.
Zane Claes (major: computer science, games; minor: creative writing) works on his laptop computer by McCarthy Quad.
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Adam Shahbaz takes his work outdoors by utilizing USC's wireless network. Adam received his B.A., English (Creative Writing) in 2006. Photo by: Philip Channing.
College House (CLH), located at 823 W. 34th St., is home to the East Asian Studies Center, the Office of Overseas Studies and the Center for Active Learning in International Affairs (CALIS) – an outreach program of the School of International Relations. Photo by: Philip Channing
The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU presents a reading and book signing by two of its star alumni: Renee Simms, who earned a Master of Fine Arts in 2007, and Dustin Pearson, who earned a Master of Fine Arts in 2017.
About the authors
Renee Simms received her MFA from Arizona State University, a JD from Wayne State University Law School, and a BA from University of Michigan. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, was a John Gardner Fiction Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and received fellowships from Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center. In addition to teaching in the Rainier Writing Workshop, Renee teaches at University of Puget Sound where she is an associate professor of African American Studies and contributing faculty to English. Renee’s debut story collection Meet Behind Mars was a Foreword Indies Finalist for Short Stories and listed by The Root as one of 28 brilliant books by black authors in 2018. Renee is currently at work on a novel and a collection of linked essays.
Dustin Pearson is the author of Millennial Roost (C&R Press, 2018) and A Family Is a House (C&R Press, 2019). He is a McKnight Doctoral Fellow in Creative Writing at Florida State University. The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Pearson has served as the editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review and a Director of the Clemson Literary Festival. He won the Academy of American Poets Katharine C. Turner Prize and John Mackay Graduate Award and holds an MFA from Arizona State University. His work appears in Blackbird, Vinyl Poetry, Bennington Review, TriQuarterly, [PANK], Fjords Review, and elsewhere.
The University of East Anglia is situated at Earlham on the western edge of Norwich. It was designed by the architect Denys Lasdun in the Brutalist (concrete monstrosity) style and constructed between 1962 and 1972. Its 'ziggurat' halls of residence are particularly distinctive and can be seen to best advantage from the university lake.
The university is also home to the Sainsbury Centre - a Norman Foster designed building which houses the private art collection of the Sainsbury family. There are three Henry Moore sculptures outside this building.
In 1970, Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson founded the famous MA in Creative Writing course at the university. It was the first course of its kind and has spawned many imitators. Its emphasis has traditionally been on fiction, but poets such as Andrew Motion (the Poet Laureate) and Michèle Roberts have been involved as tutors. Ian McEwan was the first ever graduate from the course but many other talented students have followed including: Rose Tremain, Angela Carter, Clive Sinclair, Adam Foulds, Simon Scarrow, Trezza Azzopardi, the poet Owen Shears and Kazuo Ishiguro (An Artist of the Floating World).
Malcolm Bradbury (1932-2000) was a critic, novelist and TV script writer. He is probably best known for The History Man (1975) - a campus novel set in the fictional university of Watermouth - which later became a TV play. Eating People is Wrong (1959) was an earlier campus novel with a similar satirical tone. Bradbury is buried in the churchyard of St. Mary the Virgin at Tasburgh.
Angus Wilson (1913-1991) was also a novelist and is particularly remembered for Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) and The Old Men at the Zoo (1961). Wilson lived for many years in a cottage at Felsham Woodside in Suffolk. He also edited East Anglia in Verse and Prose (1982) - a collection which has proved invaluable in constructing this website.
It has to be said that many of the writers associated with the UEA Creative Writing course have not been directly influenced by Norfolk - but have brought with them inspirations from other parts of the country.
W.G Sebald - although not linked to the writing course - was a German lecturer at the UEA from 1970-2001.
Students from College of DuPage composition courses showcases visual representations of their written works at the inaugural “See Writing Differently: A Celebration of Student Writing.” Presentations include websites, podcasts, PowerPoint presentations, posters, brochures, videos and art created in conjunction with written works.
The Creative Writing Program at ASU presents author Jess Row in a reading from his work followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Row is the author of White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination, as well as the novel Your Face in Mine and the story collections The Train to Lo Wu and Nobody Ever Gets Lost. White Flights is his first book of nonfiction. One of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists of 2007, he lives in New York and teaches at the College of New Jersey.
Book Summary
White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book, Jess Row ties “white flight”—the movement of white Americans into segregated communities, whether in suburbs or newly gentrified downtowns—to white writers setting their stories in isolated or emotionally insulated landscapes, from the mountains of Idaho in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping to the claustrophobic households in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections. Row uses brilliant close readings of work from well-known writers such as Don DeLillo, Annie Dillard, Richard Ford, and David Foster Wallace to examine the ways these and other writers have sought imaginative space for themselves at the expense of engaging with race.
White Flights aims to move fiction to a more inclusive place, and Row looks beyond criticism to consider writing as a reparative act. What would it mean, he asks, if writers used fiction “to approach each other again”? Row turns to the work of James Baldwin, Dorothy Allison, and James Alan McPherson to discuss interracial love in fiction, while also examining his own family heritage as a way to interrogate his position. A moving and provocative book that includes music, film, and literature in its arguments, White Flights is an essential work of cultural and literary criticism.
PRAISE
“Row has produced a thoughtful and timely meditation that serves as a call to white writers.”—Pop Matters
“This intelligent collection is often deeply engaged in realms of philosophy and literary theory. . . . There is something for every reader . . . in the message that fiction not only reflects but acts upon real life, and that each of us is obliged to act for justice, in reading and writing as in life.”—Shelf Awareness
“With these superb essays, Jess Row reveals himself to be an insightful critic of both literature and the American condition.”—Viet Thanh Nguyen
“Jess Row performs a much-needed analysis. . . . The landscape of the imagination, like the country itself, he argues with rich insight and brio, is neither equal nor free.”—John Keene
A Salford PhD student, whose doctoral research explored how creative writing might respond to the issue of climate change, is launching her first book of poetry this week.
Leaf Graffiti by Lucy Burnett will be officially launched at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester on Thursday 25 July. In the innovative collection, Lucy explores the interaction between nature and the human world and rural and urban environments.
Full story at bit.ly/141dvF8.
The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU presents a reading and book signing by two of its star alumni: Renee Simms, who earned a Master of Fine Arts in 2007, and Dustin Pearson, who earned a Master of Fine Arts in 2017.
About the authors
Renee Simms received her MFA from Arizona State University, a JD from Wayne State University Law School, and a BA from University of Michigan. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, was a John Gardner Fiction Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and received fellowships from Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center. In addition to teaching in the Rainier Writing Workshop, Renee teaches at University of Puget Sound where she is an associate professor of African American Studies and contributing faculty to English. Renee’s debut story collection Meet Behind Mars was a Foreword Indies Finalist for Short Stories and listed by The Root as one of 28 brilliant books by black authors in 2018. Renee is currently at work on a novel and a collection of linked essays.
Dustin Pearson is the author of Millennial Roost (C&R Press, 2018) and A Family Is a House (C&R Press, 2019). He is a McKnight Doctoral Fellow in Creative Writing at Florida State University. The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Pearson has served as the editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review and a Director of the Clemson Literary Festival. He won the Academy of American Poets Katharine C. Turner Prize and John Mackay Graduate Award and holds an MFA from Arizona State University. His work appears in Blackbird, Vinyl Poetry, Bennington Review, TriQuarterly, [PANK], Fjords Review, and elsewhere.
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.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page if you like: www.facebook.com/collageandautomaticwriting/
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.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page if you like: www.facebook.com/collageandautomaticwriting/
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.
Poet, memoirist, and translator Eleni Sikelianos opened the 10th annual Lake Forest Literary Festival on Monday night with a reading of her poetry. Also the former director of the creative writing program at the University of Denver, Sikelianos participated in a panel discussion on translation earlier in the day. The festival continues throughout the week. Photo by Hilary Wind ’14.
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.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page if you like: www.facebook.com/collageandautomaticwriting/
The headless bride stood downstage, in her dress
White, embroidered in scarlet petals at the hem.
She gave the impression of wanting to express
Her deeper thought, but she was only a stem.
When she began to speak, her voice came from
The flower at her waist, as in a cry.
Dear audience, to your eyes I may look dumb
But I am here to give you my reply.
I am a bride, and this I’ll be forever
Never a woman, a lady or a wife,
My pristine dress is telling my endeavour
And this belief I will pursue for life.
You say this rose is white, but rose is also a hue
My colours change with sunset, each dawn I’m white anew.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
Postdoctoral research fellow Douglas Pace (Ph.D., biology '02) studies environmental physiology and adaptation of marine animals under the direction of professor Donal T. Manahan. Dr. Pace began a postdoctoral research position at the University of Georgia in fall 2007. Photo by: Philip Channing
Mike Cahill, a visiting screenwriter, meets with creative writing student David Harrison to review his script. Photo by: Philip Channing.
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.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page if you like: www.facebook.com/collageandautomaticwriting/
KellyNovy Roo is a published author who teaches art and creative writing classes in RL. The Learning Hub in Second Life is delighted she will be running Creative Writing workshops in SL - starting in less than a week! The date and time for the first workshop in a six session program are shown in this image.
Register and find out more inworld here: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Alkaia%20Paramour/154/53/22
There's a 50% reduction in the per-session fee for the first Creative Writing workshop. Head over to The Learning Hub to obtain this discount.
If you have ever wanted to learn how to write a short story (or perhaps are looking for creative writing tips and ideas for something else you'd like to author) then this program is definitely for you
Steve Kay, incoming dean of USC Dornsife, is one of the world’s top experts on genes and circadian rhythms. He has published more than 200 papers and has been cited in Science magazine's “Breakthroughs of the Year” three times since 1997.
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Learning the hard way: Cement Burns are darn painful...
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The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU presents a reading and book signing by two of its star alumni: Renee Simms, who earned a Master of Fine Arts in 2007, and Dustin Pearson, who earned a Master of Fine Arts in 2017.
About the authors
Renee Simms received her MFA from Arizona State University, a JD from Wayne State University Law School, and a BA from University of Michigan. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, was a John Gardner Fiction Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and received fellowships from Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center. In addition to teaching in the Rainier Writing Workshop, Renee teaches at University of Puget Sound where she is an associate professor of African American Studies and contributing faculty to English. Renee’s debut story collection Meet Behind Mars was a Foreword Indies Finalist for Short Stories and listed by The Root as one of 28 brilliant books by black authors in 2018. Renee is currently at work on a novel and a collection of linked essays.
Dustin Pearson is the author of Millennial Roost (C&R Press, 2018) and A Family Is a House (C&R Press, 2019). He is a McKnight Doctoral Fellow in Creative Writing at Florida State University. The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Pearson has served as the editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review and a Director of the Clemson Literary Festival. He won the Academy of American Poets Katharine C. Turner Prize and John Mackay Graduate Award and holds an MFA from Arizona State University. His work appears in Blackbird, Vinyl Poetry, Bennington Review, TriQuarterly, [PANK], Fjords Review, and elsewhere.
Jaflong — where character and elegance meet collectively
Jaflong is among the most daring tourist places in Sylhet Division. It consists of awesome natural Throughout the rainy period torrents associated with water is visible gushing lower the hill forming little waterfalls. Visitors additionally see a massive beautiful waterfall in route of Sylhet in order to Jaflong. Jaflong is completely a hilly section of real pure beauty where hillsides are greenish using the forests. Plenty of wild pet lives with this forest, so you have to be careful to type in the woodland. You can easily see the way of life of Group “Khasia” within Jaflong. Zero stage of Jaflong is found in this river which is very a lot attractive. Tea backyard and “khasia palli” may also increase the value of the tourist place beauty.
Visitors that venture towards the far side from the river can easily see the small Khasia towns or “Punjees”. The actual Khasia, the local people from the hills, reside in total tranquility with Jafflong's idyllic elegance. The punjees contain cute homes on bamboo bedding stilts. A walk with the Khasia Punjees will require you via large plantations associated with Paan (betel leaf) as well as Supari (betel nut). The actual Khasia as soon as practiced the pagan faith, and aged records depict them like a fierce as well as warlike group. But these days the Khasia lead an easy and peaceful life developing paan-supari as well as fishing. Most of them have transformed into Christianty.
Its geographic location is really attractive. For its pure beauty it considered among the main visitor spot within Sylhet as well as largely within Bangladesh. It's regarding 60 km not even close to Sylhet city and requires two several hours drive to achieve there. Bus services will also be available through Shobani ghat from Sylhet city.
You should be stacked through watching the actual natural scenario from the whole trip. Jaflong can also be a panoramic spot close by amidst teas garden’s as well as rate elegance of moving stones through hills. It's situated form river Mari within the lap associated with Hill Khashia. The Mari water is from the great Himalayas associated with India, which getting million a lot of stone boulders using its tide. You can view the rock collection in the river within Jaflong in addition to you can benefit from the boating within the river Mari in which the boats tend to be special, less usual. You may also take bath within the river associated with Mari.
How you can go
Sylhet town is approximately 230 km in the capital which is a sleek 4-5 hr drive. First-rate freeway restaurants on the way mean you are able to stop for any breather as frequently as you prefer. Train trips take somewhat longer, but could be fun since the line passes with the Lawachara nationwide forest variety Sylhet Airport terminal is fifty percent an hour's soaring time through Dhaka, and the majority of the private airlines in addition to Biman provide several every day flights. Transports can be found form Syhlet city to Jaflong. Don’t forget to consider food. With regard to accommodation from Sylhet city, some fairly good hotels can be found.
Attractive visitor place from Sylhet Division : The Shrine associated with Hazrat Shah Jalal as well as Shah Paran, Lawachara Nationwide Park, Madhabkunda Waterfall, Srimongol, Hakaluki Haor.
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Elizabeth Nakasone (major: biological sciences) is a student worker in the computational and molecular biology lab. Photo by: Philip Channing.
In professor Michelle Arbeitman's lab, post-doctoral fellows Matt Lebo (right, Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics '08) and Saori Lobbia analyze DNA gel electrophoresis data with Thomas Goldman (left), a Ph.D. candidate in molecular biology. Photo by: Philip Channing
Tasburgh lies in the Tas valley, ten miles south of Norwich. Its name derives from 'Taesa's fort' and the earthworks of an iron age fort are still visible on the hilltop close to the church.
In the churchyard of St. Mary's lies the grave of the novelist Malcolm Bradbury who, together with Angus Wilson, founded of the MA Creative Writing course at the University of East Anglia in 1970.
Bradbury was an academic, a literary critic, a TV script writer and a novelist. He is probably best remembered for his novel The History Man (1975) - which featured Howard Kirk a hypocritical sociology professor who worked at the fictional University of Watermouth.
Although Bradbury lived in Norwich (close to the university) he also had a second home at Tasburgh. His headstone bears the epitaph: 'Warm and generous, Famous and friendly, Wise and witty'
Bradbury is often compared to David Lodge (another university English lecturer) - as they both wrote satirical, campus-based novels. Bradbury also adapted two works for TV by Tom Sharpe: Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape.
Down in the valley, next to the river stands Rainthorpe Hall which was built by Thomas Baxter who died in 1611. The hall is occasionally open to the public and, following a visit in spring of 1991, I wrote the following poem about the River Tas:
River
You flow endlessly.
Over you your lights are beautiful—luminous and dark, moving and still, broken and whole.
In summer, columns of light—mottled by leaves.
In winter, the bleak light over farmland, the frosted-grey depth.
Today, in spring, lights dancing in and out of shadow—concealing and revealing.
In your course you are infinitely changing—neither crooked nor straight.
You fit your banks.
Running you are beautiful—slow in the deep pools—vociferous and fast in the shallows.
In private land you are hidden.
In public land you are open.
Beneath bridges you reflect back the faces of watchers.
In winter, you fill with water and become clouded.
You race between alders, pound through sluices, tumble over fords.
You wear a sullen expression.
In summer, you slow up and become limpid.
You display your weed in long floating trails.
You glitter past grazing cattle.
Then after long concealment your fish appear—sparkling-sided, melting and merging, vanishing and visible.
In professor Michelle Arbeitman's lab, post-doctoral fellows Matt Lebo (right, Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics '08) and Saori Lobbia analyze DNA gel electrophoresis data with Thomas Goldman (left), a Ph.D. candidate in molecular biology. Photo by: Philip Channing
I must first preface this by saying that while this is a picture of my handwriting, this is from many moons ago - the 7th Grade to be more accurate - Ms. McDougal's 5th period English class to be precise.
This is probably the best example of my handwriting that I have. After that period in time, I switched to a typewriter (yes, remember those?) and then eventually to a word processor. I always had LOUSY handwriting - probably because of the strange way I write. Yep - little known fact about me - I hold my pen differently than 99% of the people I've ever met. I'm just that strange.
Anyway, I chose this picture specifically because of the HANDWRITING comment (see note!) and I'm mortified that you'll all actually be able to READ this but ehhh... it was so long ago, I can't really be THAT bashful about it, can I? Oh yes, I can!
Anyway, the "Double Wow!!!" comment was written by my English teacher at the time, a great inspiration in my life. Someone I'll never forget. I had her for that on year before my family moved and before she moved on to Nashville to pursue her dreams of becoming a country singer.
Yes, yes.... quite a lot of back story for a seemingly simple picture.
Anyway... a little bit more about me for anyone who happens to be interested.
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The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU presents a reading and book signing by two of its star alumni: Renee Simms, who earned a Master of Fine Arts in 2007, and Dustin Pearson, who earned a Master of Fine Arts in 2017.
About the authors
Renee Simms received her MFA from Arizona State University, a JD from Wayne State University Law School, and a BA from University of Michigan. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, was a John Gardner Fiction Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and received fellowships from Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center. In addition to teaching in the Rainier Writing Workshop, Renee teaches at University of Puget Sound where she is an associate professor of African American Studies and contributing faculty to English. Renee’s debut story collection Meet Behind Mars was a Foreword Indies Finalist for Short Stories and listed by The Root as one of 28 brilliant books by black authors in 2018. Renee is currently at work on a novel and a collection of linked essays.
Dustin Pearson is the author of Millennial Roost (C&R Press, 2018) and A Family Is a House (C&R Press, 2019). He is a McKnight Doctoral Fellow in Creative Writing at Florida State University. The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Pearson has served as the editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review and a Director of the Clemson Literary Festival. He won the Academy of American Poets Katharine C. Turner Prize and John Mackay Graduate Award and holds an MFA from Arizona State University. His work appears in Blackbird, Vinyl Poetry, Bennington Review, TriQuarterly, [PANK], Fjords Review, and elsewhere.
The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English hosts alumni Allegra Hyde (MFA 2015) and H. Lee Barnes (MFA 1992) for a reading from their work.
Allegra Hyde is the author of the 2016 John Simmons Short Fiction Award winning collection “Of this New World.”
H. Lee Barnes is the author of numerous books including “Dummy Up and Deal,” “When We Walked Above the Clouds,” and “Minimal Damage.”
USC's wireless network makes it possible for students like Adam Shahbaz (B.A. English, creative writing '06) to use laptop computers outdoors.
My hands hover
halfway in the air,
swelling the blood in my limbs.
I have attempted to sort through
signals and sounds scratching
in my head, crowding my conscious.
I have said I want Your will,
want to do Your will,
but on whose terms?
I claim to taste Your calling,
but I am warm in my bed
without a reason to release
myself from the comfort
wrapped over me.
You say to deny ourselves,
and I admit I cannot deny
this pulsing inside me,
steady, picking up speed.
You move in me,
twisting open doors
I’ve bolted in place.
For they are not my chambers
but Yours.
When You speak I want to listen.
Where You point I will follow.
My heart is hooked to the
back of Your caravan.
Here am I.
Send me.