Issue number five is now available.
Reading November 11: Dislocate Literary Journal celebrates the award-winning poetry and academic career of Michael Dennis Browne, and wishes him well on his retirement! Join us for a reading by Michael Dennis Browne and Creative Writing MFAs Colleen McCarthy, Josh Morsell and Swati Avasthi. Refreshments served. 7 p.m., Lind 150.
Josh Ostergaard has a chapter called “Toward a More Inclusive Approach to Participation: The Varieties of Art Experiences” (with Alaka Wali) In Lois Foreman-Wernet and Brenda Dervin (eds) /Audiences and the Arts: Communication Perspectives./ October 2009 by Hampton Press.
Priscilla Kinter’s piece “The Myth of the Prose Poem” will appear in issue 8 of Sentence, coming out some time in 2010.
Alex Lemon is featured in Esquire magazine’s “Best and the Brightest” issue, on newsstands now!
Francine Marie Tolf’s full-length poetry manuscript, Rain, Lilies, Luck, has been accepted by Antrim House Books, which should be out in a year.
Emily Freeman's story, "The Critic," appears in The Best New American Voices 2010 (edited by Dani Shapiro), just out from Mariner Books
Ethan Rutherford's story, "The Peripatetic Coffin," appears in The Best American Short Stories 2009 (edited by Alice Sebold), just out from Mariner Books.
MFA alum Cheri Johnson's novel excerpt, "In San Jacinto," has been published in the Fall / Winter 2009-10 issue of Cerise Press, along with two prose poems by Prof. Ray Gonzalez, and a review of Stanley Plumly by current MFA Molly Sutton Kiefer.
Madelon Sprengnether's chapbook of prose poems, Near Solstice, Mourning winner of the West Town Press Poetry Chapbook competition, has just been released.
Professor Dan Philippon edited a University of Minnesota Press collection of essays from the Minnesota Conservation Volunteer called Our Neck of the Woods: Exploring Minnesota's Wild Places. One of the essays is by MFA alumna Terri Sutton.
Nonfiction writer Adam Hochschild, Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 7:30 pm, Weisman Art Museum. 8:30 pm Reception and book-signing. Cosponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study and the Minnesota Center for Journalism.


