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We received a record number of applications to the MFA program this year: 443 applications for 13 seats in fall 2010. Applications are now under review. Applicants will be notified in mid-March.
Issue number five is now available.
Please join us for the fifth First Books event, in which debut writers read and discuss the path to being published. The spring 2010 event will be held on Thursday, March 25, 7 pm and will feature MFA alums Michael Medrano, Michael Walsh, Laura Flynn and Lightsey Darst and fiction writer and visiting professor at Macalester College, Peter Bognanni.
Molly Sutton Kiefer's poem "Traver K Sutton Will Write Letters to His Wife" is in the current issue of Conte.
MFA candidate Brian Laidlaw received a 2010 SASE/Jerome Emerging Artist Grant to support his research and living costs while finishing his prose poem manuscript Whiskey With Goliath.
Amanda Beck has two poems in the new issue of Handsome, "False Pregnancy" and "Three Histories."
Lucas de Lima's poem "Handwriting" is in the new issue of Mudfish.
David LeGault's essay "The Weight of the Earth" is forthcoming in cold-drill.
Erin Hart's /False Mermaid/ will be in stores March 2. See webpage for updates and touring.
Kate Hopper's (MFA, 2005) piece "Becoming a Sanvicenteña: Five Stages," is in Brevity's latest issue, #32.
Luke Pingel (MFA, 2009) will have an excerpt from his poetry manuscript, A Stream, A Raincoat and a Tattooed Silhouette published by the North American Review.
Kate Hopper, Mike Rollin and Margaret Neman are finalists for 2010 SASE/Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowships.
Alex Lemon is featured in Esquire magazine’s “Best and the Brightest” issue, on newsstands now. He was also featured in the New York Times "Papercuts" blog Q and A.
Francine Marie Tolf’s full-length poetry manuscript, Rain, Lilies, Luck, has been accepted by Antrim House Books.
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.
Ray Gonzalez' book, Faith Run (University of Arizona Press) is a finalist for a 2010 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry. The winners will be announced on Saturday, April 17th. For more information, contact The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library. Ray Gonzalez' poem "Honking at the Cemetery" was featured as Poetry Daily's Poem of the Day on Saturday, January 23. The poem is from his recent book, Faith Run (University of Arizona Press). Poetry Daily's website is http://poems.com/today.php and daily poems can be found in their archives link.
Professor Michael Dennis Browne is retiring this fall after 39 years of teaching. A reception will be held on April 23, 2010 at the Weisman Art Museum, 7 pm. Contributions to the Michael Dennis Browne Fellowship in Poetry are now being accepted. For more information, please contact Coordinator Kathleen Glasgow at kglasgow (at) umn.edu.
Our fall 2010 Edelstein-Keller Visiting Writers Series will feature poets D.A. Powell and Josie Rawson and fiction writer Dan Chaon.
